{"id":243590,"date":"2010-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/gundred-returns-for-casbah-show-with-dum-dum-girls-blissed-out-buzz-saw\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T07:00:00","slug":"gundred-returns-for-casbah-show-with-dum-dum-girls-blissed-out-buzz-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/gundred-returns-for-casbah-show-with-dum-dum-girls-blissed-out-buzz-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"Gundred returns for Casbah show with Dum Dum Girls’ ‘blissed-out buzz saw’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Erin Goss
\nReportero SDUN
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Kristen Gundred<\/figcaption><\/figure>Everything happens for a reason. Or so seems to be the case with Kristen Gundred, who now answers to her new stage name, Dee Dee.<\/p>\n

It was a sad day for San Diegans when rumors began to leak despite refutations that the local punk band Grand Ole Party, fronted by Gundred, was no more. Yet as the San Diego music scene mourned, Gundred began a solo project that was comprised mostly of messing around with music in her own home, and like many bands\u2019 beginnings, Dum Dum Girls was born unintentionally. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just me finally writing and recording songs exactly how I wanted,\u201d Gundred said. \u201cAfter putting out a few 7-inches and EPs, and then signing with Sub Pop, it was time to make Dum Dum Girls a real band. I recruited some of the best girls out there, and we’ve been touring since the record came out.\u201d <\/p>\n

While Dum Dum Girls\u2019 sound is a far cry away from its predecessor, Grand Ole Party, the result is spectacular and unique nonetheless \u2013 what Dee Dee refers to as a \u201cblissed-out buzz saw,\u201d a description that could either bring to mind unmelodious bangings of a younger sibling learning to play an instrument or completely unrestrained aural nirvana. Thankfully, Dum Dum Girls is the latter.<\/p>\n

When asked to elaborate on her description, Dee Dee responded point blank \u2013 \u201cBasically, it’s about contrasting loud, fuzzed-out music with more heavily reverbed, multi-layered vocals.\u201d<\/p>\n

When put that way, it sounds simple enough. <\/p>\n

The ideas behind the music, though, are a bit more complicated, as Gundred\u2019s life thus far has been the inspiration. Having worked as everything from secretary to library assistant to vintage clothes clerk, the singer has a myriad of life experience from which to pull. <\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve had many jobs over the last eight or nine years of trying to make something out of music,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dum Dum Girls\u2019 songs touch on everything, including recreational substances. \u201cBhang, Bhang, I\u2019m a Burnout\u201d alludes to a slang term for marijuana. The track is everything one might guess \u2013 hazy and enveloping while Dee Dee croons in a misleadingly innocent voice, \u201cIn your head, are you dead? Bang bang!\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the cheeky titled \u201cCatholicked\u201d is, simply put, an energetic, guitar-heavy anthem about \u201cgrowing up Catholic.\u201d It is a song whose grittiness and off-the-cuff confessions such as \u201cJesus died for somebody\u2019s sins, but not mine \u2026 mine are my own\u201d can only lead us to believe that this was likely the catalyst for the explorations that later resulted in \u201cBhang, Bhang, I\u2019m a Burnout.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Gundred, Dum Dum Girls\u2019 first album, \u201cI Will Be,\u201d is clearly a reflection of her past. Even the CD cover, an old picture of Gundred\u2019s mother taken when her mom was in college and caught off guard with an angelic doe-eyed expression, is evidence of the singer\u2019s roots. <\/p>\n

So while Grand Ole Party fans may be disappointed that Gundred\u2019s new band is almost indistinguishable from its ancestor, Dum Dum Girls is neither better nor worse, just the next step on the singer\u2019s journey.<\/p>\n

For Gundred, her sights are set on the future. When asked what the former San Diegan, now living in Los Angeles, looks forward to most about coming back to play a show at The Casbah on July 2, she responded enthusiastically, \u201cWatching planes from the roof.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cleary for Gundred, the sky is the limit.<\/p>\n

For more information about Gundred\u2019s band, go to wearedumdumgirls.com<\/a>. The Casbah is at 2501 Kettner Blvd. at Laurel Street.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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