A Giant Dog - Sex & Drugs

 

 

1.   Who is this motley crew?

A Giant Dog are a rock’n’roll band from Austin, Texas. They met in high school and have been grooving together since 2008. The band have three big ones and Sex & Drugs pops off the third Pile (May'16).

2. What flavor are they peddling?

Sex & Drugs is a quirky little ditty that bustles with sporadic bursts of big guitar and lashings of wild piano.

3. Who do A Giant Dog sound like?

British indie. Like Felix Hagan & The Misfits on valium. Yes, valium. Quite sure actually. Add Supergrass' Alright on the side.

4. What have those denizens of the fine guides to music got to say about Sex & Drugs?
 
“Here to rock your sweaty, tattered, yellowed socks off.” – Independent Music News.
 
“Springy guitar strums, bright vaudeville-esque piano, and shimmer galore.” – Stereogum.

 

“A full-fisted swipe of A Giant Dog’s drama rock.” – CMJ.

 

 

5. Who do A Giant Dog get their flare from?

A Giant Dog are influenced by The Velvet Underground, Bo Diddley, The Seeds, The Kinks, David Bowie, The New York Dolls, Black Flag, The Coasters, The Four Tops, Sam Cooke and Big Pup.

6. Why should I give Sex & Drugs a moment of my precious time?

If a snotty English indie band covered a Rocky Horror Picture show tune that was about imbecilic American existential angst, but it was fun, then you'd have Sex & Drugs. Go on, you know you want to.

7. Do A Giant Dog have any more big swingers?

Two big swingers to be precise. Teasin' Ass Bitch sounds like Joan Jett and the Heartbreakers with a sense of purpose and Another World rolls sweet with a pinch, a proper pinch, of ska punk.

8. Any more good words about these hard working souls?

Mike McCarthy’s is on controls. He recorded A Giant Dog's second album and has gone to bat for bands like Spoon, White Denim and Trail of Dead.

“Let our friends all die,

But I know,

Cos I’m too, old to die, young”

Stirring the porridge is the indie rock band The Holidays. From Sydney, Australia, The Holidays have been on a roll since 2006 and have two long players under the bed. Tongue Talk (2014) slides off the second album Feel (2014) and is a tune Adam Not Eve felt “has all the makings of becoming a festival anthem.”

 “Going through all these limp gymnasts”