Events . A Giant Dog, Dumplings, Memory Front at Cattivo

A Giant Dog, Dumplings, Memory Front at Cattivo

Fri Aug 12 8 pm 21+ $12 adv/$15 door
Cattivo 146 44th St. Lawrenceville

tickets: https://agiantdogpittsburgh.brownpapertickets.com or from the members of Dumplings and Memory Front

Austin TX indie/punk quintet on Merge Records
A GIANT DOG
https://agiantdog.bandcamp.com/

with special guests
Dumplings https://dumplings.bandcamp.com/
and Memory Front
https://memoryfront.bandcamp.com/

This summer, ahead of the band’s tour dates, Merge will reissue A Giant Dog’s first two full-lengths—2012’s Fight and 2013’s Bone—worldwide on limited-edition colored vinyl, reintroducing the world to the quintet Spoon’s Britt Daniel calls “the greatest American rock and
roll / punk band since I don’t know when.”

Celebrating its tenth birthday is A Giant Dog. Fight, the Texas group’s hard-to-find debut album, remixed by Stuart Sikes, remastered by Dan Coutant, and pressed on green vinyl just for the
occasion. All the trademark tenets of AGD lore are on display at the jump: monstrously adorable album art and punny title, whip-smart songwriting dolled up in denim and leather, boiled down to the sweetest moments and blown out to the masses with bravado to spare.

Upon Fight’s original release, the Austin Chronicle raved: “The raucous, low-rent squall quakes with affirmative abandon, while a just-right dose of pop girds the buzz and yowl. As such, these 15 songs on vinyl resonate well beyond the group’s chosen genre lines.”

Recording for the first time with a proper producer (Mike McCarthy) in a proper environment, Bone, on pink vinyl for the reissue, still manages to Kool-Aid Man its way through the speakers with the immediacy of the band’s live shows, a hit parade for the party people.

Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen add another baker’s dozen tunes to the band’s repertoire just a year following their debut, with songs like “All I Wanted,” “Dammit Pomegranate,” and “Another World” cementing them as a conspicuous songwriting duo.

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Tags: Indie Post-punk Rock