Blag Dahlia Releases New Retro Classic: Candy Now!

Dwarves Frontman Switches Gears, Recruits Russian Songstress and Indie Rock Royalty for debut CD

MVD Audio and Blag Dahlia are pleased to announce the release of Candy Now! for worldwide distribution.

This retro lounge recording will delight and confound anyone who loves good music played with style and tongue held firmly in cheek. Creepy atmospheric tunes meet straight up power pop and all stops in between including country, swing, garage and novelty songs.

Featuring the vocals of Blag and Angelina Moysov (Persephone's Bees), these light and funny duets bring a whole new flavor to the smorgasbord of sounds you love from Dahlia and fellow producers Bradley Cook and Tom Ayres. Look for cameos by Nash Kato (Urge Overkill) and Bart Davenport (Honeycut).

“The Dwarves have been the nastiest band on earth for so long I wanted to do a real 360 and try to make something completely different," said Dahlia. "The idea was to make an old school American record with all those retro styles and introduce Angelina’s kind of smoldering international flavor into it. We’re like Sonny and Cher, the girl can actually sing and I’m the other one!”

Hear some Candy Now! here and check out their website here

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TRACKLISTING:
* Everloving You
* Alice
* Bachelorette
* Take Me To Your Leader (Greedy Bros Remix)
* Waiting Here For You
* On Your Side
* Revolving
* When You Were Mine
* I Think Your Boyfriend's Dead and I Love You
* Do What You Wanna
* He Who Laughs Last
* Bitch I Love You

TV Smith & The Bored Teenagers Perform Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts At The 100 Club

DVD Set For June 16, US Dates with Jay Reatard Announced

On April 5th 2007, singer-songwriter TV Smith - former frontman of iconic '70s punk band The Adverts - performed a special set in front of a sell-out crowd at London's historic 100 Club. The gig was to commemorate 30 years since The Adverts played their first gigs at the Roxy and released their classic first single One Chord Wonders.

Backed by Spanish punks Los Quattro (re-named 'The Bored Teenagers' for the occasion), Smith performed the Adverts' cult debut album Crossing the Red Sea electric andin its entirety for the first time since 1977.

That night's blistering performance, featuring some of the strongest songwriting to have come out of the British New Wave, is presented on this DVD in full.

"If you want to know what punk was really like and you want a proper document of quintessential British punk rock 1977-78, then 'Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts' is it" - John Robb, author Punk Rock; an Oral History

"All killer, no filler songs...'Crossing the Red Sea' is a genius album and should be regarded as a classic" - Henry Rollins

TRACKLIST:
Live at 100 Club, London 5/4/2007-
One Chord Wonders, Bored Teenagers, New Church, On The Roof, Newboys, Bombsite Boy, No Time To Be 21, Safety in Numbers, Drowning Men, On Wheels, Great British Mistake, New Day Dawning, We Who Wait, Gary Gilmore's Eyes, The Adverts, Good Times Are Back
Live at The Bull & Gate 10/08/2006-
Not In My Name, Weak Glue, New Church, On Wheels, Runaway Train Driver

Upcoming dates with Jay Reatard
Thu 02 Jul - BROOKLYN, NY - Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Fri 03 Jul - ALLSTON, MA - Harper's Ferry
Sat 04 Jul - PHILADELPHIA, PA - Johnny Brendas
Sun 05 Jul - WASHINGTON, DC - Black Cat
Tue 07 Jul - ASHEVILLE, NC - Orange Peel
Wed 08 Jul - KNOXVILLE, TN - Pilot Light
Thu 09 Jul - NASHVILLE, TN - The End
Fri 10 Jul - MEMPHIS, TN - Hi-Tone Café
Sat 11 Jul - OXFORD, MS - Proud Larrys

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