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Can someone educate me about these guys?

I just heard a few tracks on a Narnack comp and was floored.

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link

go buy that box set! cheap as shit!

($14 for 4 cds at my local)

el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

yes! a total steal! everything the band ever released i think + a dvd of all kinds of crazy footage.

ilx bunnybrains connections to thread!
m.

msp (msp), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

(see: box set thank you list.)
m.

msp (msp), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

i met one of those bunnybrains dudes at a party once. he and his friends were pretty fun to talk to, if i remember correctly. maybe it was new year's eve? In any case, there were lots of scrabblers there.

Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Dey R Mi Brudder's band!! Buy the set for cheap!! Heeze gotta kid to feed. i'm on da dvd, try to spot me!!!!! they R grate!!

scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I hope your not soaping up

brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Just adding to the bunnybrains love, here.

Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i must add the soaping up scene was ... quite unique in rock dvds that i've seen, and maybe it's cause i haven't seen many yet, but...
m.

msp (msp), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link

no, dat wasn't me. dat was mi brudder. hesze funny like that. i dance onstage at a philly show in pigtails and there is a bit where i talk about eating people. (i was younger then. i don't wanna eat no people no more.)

scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:30 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
or just check out my webbbbbley site.....http://www.thebunnybrains.com...we r doin a 3 cd live series w belgium label Freaks End Future shortly and some shows in th east coast this spring..stay bunny!!!!

dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean http://www.thebunnybrains.com

dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I first heard them in 1993 in the city of Oakland, CA at the home of a young man named "S. Derr" (near MLK/14th). We were all intoxicated and we had a good old time. I haven't heard them in years but have very fond memories.

gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...
ATTENTION COLLEGE RADIO REPORTING
> > WNYU CHART FOR JANUARY 17, 2005
> >
> > Compiled By Music Director Brad LaBonte
> >
> > 1. The Bunnybrains - Box The Bunny (Narnack)
> > 2. Low - The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop)
> > 3. Can - Ege Bamyasi (Mute)
> > 4. V/A - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Hollywood)
> > 5. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn (A & M)
> > 6. Wasteland - October (Transparent)
> > 7. The Fiery Furnaces - EP (Rough Trade)
> > 8. Ministry - Early Trax (Rykodisc)
> > 9. Klang - No Sound Is Heard (Blast First Petite)
> > 10. The Coke Dares - Here We Go With... (Essay)
> > 11. V/A - Sunday Nights: The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum)
> > 12. Tussle - Kling Klang (Troubleman Unlimited)
> > 13. The Nightingales - Pigs On Purpose (Cherry Red)
> > 14. Arthur Russell - World Of Echo (Audika)
> > 15. Bassholes - Broke Chamber Music (Secret Keeper)
> > 16. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - No More Workhorse Blues (Palace/Drag
City)
> > 17. L - Holy Letters (VHF)
> > 18. Cline/Parkins/Rainey - Out Trios Vol. 3 (Atavistic)
> > 19. Stronen/Storlokken - Humcrush (Rune Grammofon)
> > 20. The Telescopes - # Untitled Second (Rev-Ola)
> > 21. Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream (Toytronic)
> > 22. V/A - An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music: Third A-Chronology
> > 1952-2004 Vol. 3 (Sub Rosa)
> > 23. Antena - Camino Del Soul (Numero)
> > 24. V/A - Meet Me In The Time Tunnel (Wizzard In Vinyl)
> > 25. Sightings - Arrived In Gold (Load)
> > 26. Dave Cloud - All My Best (Thee Swan)
> > 27. Circle - Forest (Ektro)
> > 28. V/A - A Fist-First Sampler Of New Music (Narnack)
> > 29. Beans - Shock City Maverick (Warp)
> > 30. V/A - Unclassics (Environ)
>

scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

nyu nose how 2 rok!

scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
The University Of Chicago nose wut's up. Brookfield, Connecticut reprazentin' in the top two slots with my brudder dan bunny and my homegirl Liz B. in Electric Wizard. Hollahhhhh!


> # ARTIST Recording
> 1 BUNNY BRAINS Box The Bunny
> 2 ELECTRIC WIZARD We Live
> 3 SLAPP HAPPY/HENRY COW Desperate Straights
> 4 HALF JAPANESE Loud And Horrible
> 5 ONEIDA Nice./Splittin'
> Peaches
> 6 JOSEPHINE FOSTER AND THE SUPPOSED All The Leaves
> Are Gone
> 7 VERTONEN Return Of The
> Interrobang
> 8 CIRCLE Guillotine
> 9 STEREO TOTAL Do The Bambi
> 10 JAN DUKES DE GREY Mice And Rats In
> The Loft
> 11 ISIS Panopticon
> 12 BEAKERS Four Steps Toward A
> Cultural
> Revolution
> 13 COACHWHIPS Peanut Butter And
> Jelly Live At The
> Ginger Minge
> 14 HALA STRANA Fielding
> 15 THE EX Turn
> 16 SWEET AND HONEY Live At Your Cosmic
> Mind
> 17 ORGAN Grab That Gun
> 18 LOST SOUNDS Lost Sounds
> 19 SHOWDOWN AT THE EQUATOR Character Study
> 20 TYRADES On Your Video
> [7-inch]
> 21 MOB STEREO Too Young To Go
> Steady
> 22 CARLA BOZULICH Red Headed Stranger
> 23 TURING MACHINE Zwei
> 24 DEAD TEXAN The Dead Texan
> 25 KRUNCHIES Interrobang
> 26 PREFECTS Amateur Wankers
> 27 VIRGIN PRUNES Heresie
> 28 WOLF EYES Burned Mind
> 29 HOLLY GOLIGHTLY Slowly But Surely
> 30 FUR CUPS FOR TEETH Allergic To Fur
> [EP]
>


scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

ARTIST RECORDING
1 TV ON THE RADIO New Health Rock [single]
2 NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Abbattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
3 DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
4 MUSIC Welcome to the North
5 GOD LIVES UNDERWATER Up Off the Floor
6 DIZZEE RASCAL Showtime
7 ZUTONS Who Killed... The Zutons
8 HOPE OF THE STATES The Lost Riots
9 PIEBALD All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time
10 ATOMIC 7 En Hillbilly Caliente
11 TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS Shake the Sheets
12 CAKE Pressure Chief
13 DECEMBERISTS Billy Liar [EP]
14 ELLIOTT SMITH From a Basement on the Hill
15 INTERPOL Antics
16 DONNAS Gold Medal
17 SUN Sun
18 UNKLE Never, Never, Land
19 MOUSE ON MARS Radical Connector
20 HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL White People
21 PINBACK Summer in Abaddon
22 DITTY BOPS Ditty Bops
23 ELLEEVEN Rolling Stone
24 MOVING UNITS Dangerous Dreams
25 A PERFECT CIRCLE eMOTIVe
26 BLOODTHIRSTY LOVERS The Delicate Seam
27 MOONEY SUZUKI Alive and Amplified
28 CHIN UP CHIN UP We Should Have Never Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers
29 FUTUREHEADS The Futureheads
30 AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD

he does guitar with his mouth lmao mint (ex machina), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
Bunnybrains killed Philadelphia last night. Philadelphia still hasn't found out. Dan promised not to play here again for another five years.

blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
got the triple live set in the mail today.
my only complaint is that it's really hard to read the writing inside the sleeves. other than that it's pretty schweet.

Christopher Costello (CGC), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

for yur calendars
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/493128/

danbunny, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 12:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Sweet! I'll try to go to that, if I'm not working. I've wanted to see you guys live.

jonathan - stl, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

thats supposedly a good theatre space too

danbunny, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link

my friend said that the show dan played in bushwick a couple of weeks ago was party of the month.

t. weiss, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link

it was great to play w ryan trecartin and lizzie fitch an th experimental people crew..we want to do some more w them soon.

danbunny, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link

yah, those xppl/bobo kids rule.

t. weiss, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link

bump

may 9th st marks church show
Friday, May 9, 2008
8:00 PM

St Marks Church
2nd Avenue at 10th St
New York City, New York
40.7298, -73.9868
Category
Performing/Visual Arts
Description
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m.

Ontological Theater
St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th St.
Manhattan, NY

Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the "Incubator" program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art. The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists. Each evening opens with a Radio 4x4 as the audience enters the theater. Radio 4x4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening.
Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing "Fucked for Real")
Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe
Saturday, May 10
Opens with Radio 4x4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins
Curated by Damian Catera

danbunny, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link

footage from th other nite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv7mOZRools

danbunny, Monday, 19 May 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link

heres th full audiokxs from th ny show..hpoorayhhhsssxxx?

danbunny, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link

playin june 6th W Gary Wilson
http://www.knittingfactory.com/show.php?event_id=114445

danbunny, Friday, 23 May 2008 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link

not playing june 6th w grry wilsun
why?
no sweat

danbunny, Thursday, 5 June 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/2548897887_b02fc78c59.jpg

W i l l, Thursday, 5 June 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link

"Rain . . . spain . . . bunnybrains!"

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 6 June 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"Because you, our friends, are our primary audience here at voreblog, we want to give you a primer of sorts on the kinds of terms you might hear us toss around when we stop by unannounced to watch something on your hi-def TV or play your Wii or borrow some of your mulch for our flower beds. Because nobody likes to feel out of the loop when it comes to knowing the lingo, and the last thing we want is to alienate you, our friends. You can also amuse us by sprinkling these catchphrases into conversation with us. We’ll smile and nod and exchange that appreciative look that says, “We’re not just friends, we’re blog friends!”

“Bunny Brains.” To be obliviously unhinged. As in, “She’s gone completely Bunny Brains.” Refers, not favorably, to the Hudson, New York-based band that we had the misfortune of seeing before a Devendra Banhart show at Exit/In in Nashville. While the band’s MySpace page would like you to believe its music is best categorized as “Experimental/Rock/Other,” this is presumably because MySpace didn’t have a category for “Contemptible/Nauseating/Migraine-Inducing.” A prerequisite for forming a band, much less one that opens for Devendra Banhart, is that you can produce music. As in, notes that form melodies that create something loosely called a song. Bunny Brains failed at this on every level. And yet, when we watched them, we noticed a particular independent record store employee — hipster of hipsters in Nashville — in the crowd, eyes closed, nodding her head in a manner that suggested she was hearing the sound on some higher wavelength than the rest of us music plebeians, and that she alone in that venue did not want to kill herself at that very moment, but might in fact even be enjoying the show. Sometimes the cool kids are just too cool."

danbunny, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link

I've never understood the term "too cool for the room" - just come out an say you're intolerant of other people's taste.

On another note, I passed on the bunny brains box yesterday in the village because it was unfamiliar to me. However, it did hold my attention until I noticed Africa Scream Contest and put it down. Should I go back for it this afternoon. Danbunny, I know what you're gonna say, so, anyone else?

Kublakhan61, Thursday, 3 July 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link

i dont own it myself,and have communication problems with those that released it,i usually buy my stuff back on ebay and give it away to friends..

danbunny, Thursday, 3 July 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

Is it the Bunny Brains or the Bunnybrains? A question that's been nagging me for a while now.

Reatards Unite, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Obv Dan can answer this properly, but the record I've got has a space in the band name, i.e. Bunny Brains.

Colonel Poo, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link

I actually wrote about an old Bunny Brains 45 here, just a couple weeks ago!:

http://www.blurt-online.com/blogs/view/90/

xhuxk, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link

"Is it the Bunny Brains or the Bunnybrains? A question that's been nagging me for a while now.

-- Reatards Unite, Thursday, July 3, 2008 3:26 PM (3 hours ago)"

its bunnybrains or the bunnybrains or bunny brains..we released alot of stuff w a space and stuff w no space..on lastfm for instance there are 3 entries.which if i had time i would moderate or sumthin.as long as u say it with flair...our old guitarist gave away bXnnybrains.com,unwisely,,so i took thebunxybrains.com as a consolation..thnxx for th words chuck i love yur blog

danbunny, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Please don't destroy me for being so non ITK.

I downloaded some Bunnybrains stuff the other day- possibly illegally -and it's been cracking me up since.

'Art Carlson' is the song. It cracks me up.It's fucking hilarious. The 'singer' sounds Limey? Is this the 'correct' BB?

Maybe Scott on here can elucidate and possibly point me in the right direction of more?

Fer Ark, Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link

elucidation is yurs
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/bunnybrains_wri.html

danbunny, Friday, 1 August 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

heres some footage from last sunday afternoon
http://thebunnybrains.blogspot.com/2008/09/south-sweet-skreeport.html

and on a side note gmail me yur address if u write and ill send th new cd to you for reviewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
pooooooooooooooooo

thebunnybrains @ g mail.com

danbunny, Friday, 12 September 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE_IN STORES OCT 1 2008..BUNNYBRAINS-WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF(FROM YOURSELF)
PRESS/PROMO INQUIRIES 518 632 4273 OR THEBUNNYBRAINS @ GMAIL.COM

Yarn Nubbins in Sunny Barb: Why My Precious Unborn Child's Rapist Father Prefers

Connecticut Ganglia

"I suspect that I've come to an end of a way of working with this record," Mr. Bunny told

the late Oriana Fallaci in a 2005 interview published in Corriere della Sera. "Death by

Blowjob is like space travel in the sense of mirrored exploration ("grammes chinois"),

whereas Holiday Massacre '98 is sea travel in the sense of putting oneself into a tea

ceremony and allowing oneself to cover one's ass."

The choice wasn't a difficult one; the Bunnies had long considered covering Gregorio

Allegri's classic 1620's motet Miserere mei, Deus, having always preferred the Roman

School to the obtrusive madrigals of Monteverdi and his dung-eating ilk.

With a title seemingly cannibalized from the antithetical repertoires of Dave Walker and

Haruli Murakami (Walker: "Hello My Big Big Honey!" Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and

Their Revealing Interviews, Murakami: Sputnik Sweetheart), "Hello Sweetheart" would prove

to be an echo of Side Two of the Bunny Magick LP, rendering rumors of dissolution otiose.

"They drank in the darkness and the wind," recalled La Persona. If the alien flash and

indifferent filigree of the Bunnybrains' stage presentation had been a stumbling block

for them in Chemnitz, the group certainly weren't about to alter it.

What Makes You Think You Can Save Yourself (From Yourself) was created over ten days in

March 2008 at a cost of 40,645 South African rand. Frank Farian was again in place as

producer, this time overseeing the entire album. Reflecting on the marathon recording

sessions at Johannesburg's Play Play studio complex, Farian was philosophical: Obviously,

these things happen. It's nothing rare. It happens in every band... Ross was so upset

when we did "Don't Fuck the Tiger," about Mikey's nap treatments, that there was a

tension bewteen Ross and Dan. Worse, Wolfman was telling me this ("Suprematist paintings,

discovered barbarians") and Dan was telling me that ("Cock Displacement wore ordinary

clothes") and I was always in the middle, a drugged potion through sill-like eyes." Joe's

instincts, meanwhile, were exclusively heuristic. He penned "Speeds Freak" whilst

pursiung a pulsing organic rhythm in freer form. Dan's green leaf had stuck to his front

teeth.

The album's executive producer, Lou Pearlman, pointed out, in any case, that Bunny's

relationship with Maya Hayuk - begun on the night after her hunger strike in response to

the artwork of the Squirrel Attack picture disc - had since become "a prison ship,

undressed on a meadow" and was likely to haunt fevers sooner than later. He conceded,

however, that the atmosphere in Northcliff "was so depressing that I flew back to have

Christmas Day in Orlando. But Eg refused to leave and had "Kersfees Dag" all by himself,

playing up the tragedy. I remember we drove to a New Year's party at Sandton - the usual

sort of teen-boys-and-ketamine party of those days - through swarms of locusts and no

conversation."

The critical response to "Pressed for Time" was instantaneous and incandescent. Malcolm

Tent's old chum Gowri Ramnarayanan, writing in Malayala Manorama, was typical: "This is

it, folks: Prima Pratica Time," he began, subsequently comparing the song to Dylan's

"Belle Isle" and Max Ernst's Self-Constructed Small Machine. Another review nominated it

- somewhat prematurely, given that 2009 was not yet out - as the greatest song of the

decade. Across the Indian, Oman's Al Shabiba was more keenly alive to the sepulchral

undertow in even a melody as beautiful as this. "Added to the thick mix is the unique

voice of Jilian Jamie Bunny," wrote V. Rajagopal in Nizwa, "who sounds... [as if she's]

about to sink her teeth into your fingertapes [on] "Pressed for Time." Ken Barnes of

Westport Magazine was more skittish, noting that the track's opening phrase sounds "like

a modern-style followup from Giovanni Nanino & His Libro d'Oro Five (in some strange

sense one of the Bunnybrains' spiritual ancestors)."

By this time, "Tea and Coffee" was shouldering its way up the singles chart - indeed, it

would reach its high point of number two the following Tuesday - so the band's dignity,

its vestige of intoxication, was intact as far as record sales were concerned, a hyphen

of prior and past moments. Rather than facing indifference from the record-buying public,

however, the Bunnybrains found themselves faced instead with the dismissive attitude of a

music press utterly transformed by the emergence of shed, a music press for whom the

phrase "tweaking and geeking" was just as bitterly talsimanic as "the urn of my despair"

had been to the Bunnies' compas antagonists in 1988...

-- Tom Smith

danbunny, Friday, 12 September 2008 12:44 (fifteen years ago) link

http://thebunnybrains.blogspot.com/2008/09/bunnybrains-in-new-cookbook.html

danbunny, Friday, 19 September 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link

how many fucking indie rock cookbooks are there?!

jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link

Someone make the Bunnytart and report back!

jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 September 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link

A Stone for Adam Nodelman
Florence VFW - 18 Meadow Street (route 9), Florence, MA
$7 - All Ages
Music starts at 6:30pm SHARP!

No Neck Blues Band (playing very early - not last
Sunburned Hand of the Man
Dredd Foole & the Din (featuring J Mascis, John Moloney & Justin Pizzoferrato)
Fat Worm of Error
Northampton Wools (Bill Nace & Thurston Moore)
Tarp (Joshua Burkett & Conrad Capistran
Noise Nomads
Bunny Brains
Matt Krefting Band
Franklin's Mint
Jow Jow
maybe one more act if they can make it

the band order hasn't been set yet but No Neck and Northampton Wools are on early so come early to have your head checked.
This is a benefit show for Adam's family so any donations beyond the entry fee will be beautiful.

please pass this around to anyone / post this to your site, and feel free to email e with any questions.

thanks

John Moloney
Yod

danbunny, Sunday, 21 September 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

oh well....http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bunny%20brains&defid=3290448

danbunny, Friday, 17 October 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

weirdo records blurb..thnxx weirdos,,"
Loose as a goose rock bashouts. The Bunnies never get any "better" or "smarter". They never stop thinking that unshaven men in dresses holding grimy stuffed animals is good comedy. They also never decide that synth-goth or 60s hippie folk is worth a serious re-appraisal. They're surprisingly skilled songwriters, if you're into Electric Eels-type tension. And even after 20 odd years, they can't sell records to save their lives. A high point on this one arrives when a toy xylophone mimics a phone (badly) and the singer takes it as a cue to launch into a cover of 'Chantilly Lace'!"

danbunny, Saturday, 1 November 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

from the Connecticut newspapr th Hour today..slow news day?...." Basement Rock
Posted on 12/05/2008
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Some stupid ideas work in the art world. Though he failed to conjure the level of art he desired to, Ed Wood's "Plan 9 from Outer Space" has remained in the cult cannon precisely because it is so bad that it's good. The Shaggs -- a three-piece featuring three sisters who lacked any notion of how to play their instruments -- created innocent, mildly dim-witted, wildly creative pop tunes.

Then there's Connecticut's own Bunny Brains. Birthed in Danbury, the band is simultaneously the best and worst thing to come out of the nutmeg state -- a fusion of high concept punk rock and the lowest of low sleaze. Imagine the sound of the Butthole Surfers' brown acid punk mating with Hawkwind's hard-edged space rock, Killdozer's stern, weird narratives and Corey from "Life Goes On" and you have a small idea of the band's sound. Bobby Bunny described the band's sound best in the singles collection "Sin Gulls," calling it "mind numbing utter crap and noise."

Bunny Brains' storied history features a one record deal with Matador (then home to Pavement, Liz Phair and Helium), earning a photo spread in a feature on style in the New York Times Magazine and a tour with new age yodeling beard-o Devendra Banhart (wherein Dan Bunny shaved his legs and flicked the dirty cream at the audience). Most of the bands' songs showcase Dan Bunny screaming strange notes while a rotating cast of a rhythm section cranks noisy sludge rock that sounds. Many times swirls of distortion pair with a chaotic "anything goes" exterior and wrap around a bouncy beat for a somewhat catchy Bunny Brains tune. The rest of the time, the band loops ridiculous sections of tapes, records nonsensical ramblings and ridiculous mumblings.

But the signature of the band's existence was (is, depending on who you ask) their live show. The typical Bunny Brains show centered around Dan Bunny, who sometimes threw assorted foodstuffs at the audience, ran around naked and violently attacked audience members. The last Bunny Brains spectacle I witnessed featured general acts of sexual deviancy, fake blood, a stained wedding dress and some skronk rock guitar solos.

Since their heyday, the band dissolved into two factions. Ultrabunny carry the band's torch musically, with original Bunny Brains members Malcolm Tent (owner of Danbury's now defunct Trash American Style record store) and Bobby Bunny. They're the Velvet Revolver that sprouted from the ashes of the Bunny Brains. Meanwhile, Dan Bunny commandeered the Bunny Brains title and the band's spirit, spreading the chaotic atmosphere throughout the underground. Through anarchistic tendencies and gonzo performances, Dan has gained gallery exhibits and performance from elite New York art hounds. Guess stupid is as stupid does

Steve Kobak is a staff writer at The Hour. He can be reached at sko✧✧✧@theh✧✧✧.c✧✧"

danbunny, Friday, 5 December 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link

two months pass...

danny, if this ain't the cover of yer new solo album then yoo r crazy:

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1772/38/48/903755297/n903755297_5388124_2944.jpg

scott seward, Sunday, 15 February 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link

inter galactic touring band - robot salesman

kamerad, Sunday, 15 February 2009 06:54 (fifteen years ago) link

someone needs to write a cogent history of this band and its zillion offshoots. so confused.

Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link

hint, hint, 33 1/3 book pitchers

Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 16 February 2009 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link

im 45
like a record

danbunny, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link

harpy birthday, danny! i woulda baked yoo a kake but i forgot. i should call you. i remember when yoo where yung dum and fulla spumoni.

scott seward, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link

im 45
like a record

45, for the record, 's YOUNG! - congrats!

t**t, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link

new record is on itunes rhapsody napster and emusic if they r yur cup of poisnzx,,,,,,,,,,i use mainly vinyl so cant vouxch for the beautifulneess of th experiucewnn..but lemme know how it goes

danbunny, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link

,i suppose i may accuratleeeee see th size of th vacuum i make this music for now

danbunny, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

peter aaron from chrome cranks did a nice piece in this months chronogram http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/4/Music/Basketful-of-Noise

danbunny, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Besides Banhart, another of the Bunnybrains’ famous fans is acclaimed pop singer and bassist Me’Shell Ndegeocello, who as of late has been collaborating with Seward on a soundscape project.

!!!!

I think no pants is sexy. (Matt P), Wednesday, 1 April 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

heres Hisham making us better.

danbunny, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

bubbybrains 2nite in providence ri stairwell gallery 504 broadway nine o'clock........................

scott seward, Sunday, 3 May 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

haha thx

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

from sunypurchases campus newspaper............."
CAMPUS BRICK AWARDS
Remembering the people & events you’d rather forget
(Formerly known as The Tommy Awards)
Best Public Display of a
Personal Music Collection:
“Monster Truck Weekend”
Ever wanted to set up a big sound system in the mid-
dle of the Admissions lawn and play your favorite tracks?
What about having the bands come and perform live?
Well, Alaina Stamatis lived out this dream at Culture
Shock, while everyone else wondered what happened to
the rides.
Forget about the lack of culture,“Monster Truck Week-
end” will be known as the Culture Shock without enjoy-
able music. Here’s an idea.Promote Mos Def for a semes-
ter and then attribute it to being a rumor. Book a noise
band called Bunny Brains and watch the lead stumble and
bumble across the stage while saying something about
acid. And above all,maintain a smug attitude.
If people didn’t enjoy the location so much, we’d be
willing to call the whole thing a wash,but people did have
a good time—even, ironically enough, if it wasn’t due to
Culture Shock"

danbunny, Monday, 22 June 2009 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link

and..."Bunnybrains
Date/Time:Mon., June 22, 7:00pm
Price: $10
HERE, BUNNY, BUNNY
Get dirty with some lo-fi savages
BY STACEY ANDERSON
HERE, BUNNY, BUNNY

Noise punk comes out of Connecticut? After two decades of Bunnybrains, the idea is almost fathomable. The revolving mass of yelping misfits, who glued together in Danbury in 1988, have outlasted their notable freak-squall alter egos Eg the Poet and Beme Seed—a victory accountable to more than 50 folks who've been on the payroll at one point or another—and still deliver the madness and fluids of a younger, saner troupe. This is acerbic and nonsensical, skippy and frantic, and pretty damn disturbing at the core—and pity to any"

danbunny, Monday, 22 June 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link

oops..its at santos party house on lafayette..first 2 ilxors who find me get a free beer.

danbunny, Monday, 22 June 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link

Bunnybrains - What Makes You Think You Can Save Yourself (From Yourself)
Posted by Joe On June - 26 - 2009

Genre: Indie Rock, Noise, Lo-Fi.

I like my albums to contain music. Maybe I’m backwards in my thinking, but it’s the truth. And if they don’t contain music, I want what’s on there to sound good. What Makes is borderline music, borderline “let’s record whatever we want.”

bunnybrains-what-makes-you-think-album-cover

There are very few tracks on the album that are actual “music.” There’s a lot of noise/people playing around, but not a lot of music.

Instrumentally, the album is all over the place. It’s obvious they’re going for some sort of “new age hippie” thing, but I feel like the original hippies had a purpose in mind, and these blokes don’t. Actually I’m pretty sure the group is made up of a bro and a chick. As you can hear from the above track, Bunnybrains thought it acceptable to leave instrumental mistakes in their music. In fact, the album is riddled with them. Mind you, “Love Tree In The Yard” is one of the more structured pieces on the release. Breaking free from conventional time signatures is all well and good, but there has to be some order to the song. There’s a thunderstorm going on right now outside of my house, and I can’t tell if the rumbling is coming from my headphones or the thunder. Did I mention that this album is decently lo-fi?

Vocally, I’ll share the following. Hippies in the 60s had a couple purposes in mind. Love, the war, drugs, and a couple extras here and there. Hippie music tends to talk about those things. In general, hippie music was kind of understandable, even though a lot of it was hidden behind drug metaphors. I can’t understand what the crap Bunnybrains is talking about. 60s hippies could still generally sing in tune. Bunnybrains’ male and female vocalists sound terrible. They’re all over the place. Which leads me to conclude the following: 1) LSD is a lot more potent nowadays, and screws you up so much that it’s impossible to sing close to the right notes, whereas weaker LSD in the 60s allowed for correct tuning, or 2)Bunnybrains’ vocalists can’t sing. Whichever one it is, make the necessary change, ya know? Where’s the good stuff?

Overall, I can’t give this album a good rating in clear conscience. I would be doing a disservice to all of the musicians out there who try to make art, instead of recording unstructured “jams” with a bunch of hollering overtop the instruments. Thus, my rating.

My Rating: 1.9/10

P.S. - I gave it 1.9 because there’s probably a thousand people out of the 6 billion on this earth that would disagree with me. I can’t see it being more than that. Goodnight, and good luck.

danbunny, Friday, 26 June 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link

two months pass...

first song on new album would make my top ten singles list if i had one. for real!

http://www.divshare.com/download/6230688-e93

scott seward, Friday, 4 September 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

this has to be new album cover:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2730/4278065434_ffa704e458_b.jpg

scott seward, Saturday, 16 January 2010 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

sunday aug 29th i get to have a show with th people i like Bunnybrains
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=12957
Bunnybrains
P.G. Six
Zaimph (Feat. Marcia Bassett From Double Leopards)
Diane Cluck
The Hat City Intuitive,
Nonhorse (G Lucas Crane Of Woods)

danbunny, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link

That sounds very rock.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Besides Banhart, another of the Bunnybrains’ famous fans is acclaimed pop singer and bassist Me’Shell Ndegeocello, who as of late has been collaborating with Seward on a soundscape project.

Wait, what happened with this?

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link

itsz all happening ned...itsx happening in minds and thoughts soon to go to fingers and buttons..u have lost a sock in th dark at least once in yur life?

danbunny, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link

Come out this Sunday in NYC

danbunny, Thursday, 26 August 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meganmossfreeman/sets/72157624719483837/

danbunny, Saturday, 11 September 2010 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link

Wow. That looks like an insanely entertaining performance. I haven't been exposed to BB music here in Belgium, but that makes me want to check them out even more now.

StanM, Sunday, 12 September 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Friday May 4th
10:00pm until 11:00pm
16 Avenue C New York NY 10009
bunnybrains
the stone
may 4th
10pm
10$
avenue C and 2nd street
thestonenyc.com
thebunnybrains.com

danbunny, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

Man, used to live 3 blocks from this place, but not any more. Sorry to miss this! Give it to 'em d-bunny.

grandavis, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

SCOTTI BRAINS
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN BOY
Limited and numbered to 250 copies on Speedy Wunderground (The label has previously released singles by Steve Mason and Emiliana Torrini, The Archie Bronson Outfit and Toy and Natasha Khan). Scotti Brains is label chief and producer Dan Carey, best friend and fellow producer / recording artist Oli Bayston and Beth Buxton. Taking their name from a shared love of San Franciscan psych band Bunny Brains and Dan's cat Scotti (who coincidentally is prone to close his eyes and 'dance' upon hearing Bunny Brains), Scotti Brains was initially a project born out of early morning recording sessions following parties at Dan's South London studio.

scott seward, Friday, 16 August 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link

still love this one. 1993! i barely remember that year. i do remember playing this 45 in my store in philly a lot though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk6iy6S_txM

scott seward, Saturday, 17 August 2013 00:12 (ten years ago) link

a few weeks back I reactivated the long dormant email address I use for ILX and had a look through its 3000+ unread messages to find that eight years ago Dan sent me a PM answering a couple of questions I asked him. Thanks, Dan!

SKYLER FFS SKYLER SKYLER SKYLER (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 17 August 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

no problem skyler merydueux

danbunny, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link

six months pass...

i wont bore yu

http://www.thebunnybrains.com/
++++++++++++++++++++
**still adding**still bunny******
====================
16 April==Hudson NY The Half Moon
w special guests

17 April==Brooklyn, NY @ Trans Pecos
with Hamish Kilgour (The Clean), Pyramid Dawg (NYMPH), Weyes Blood
915 Wyckoff
8 PM I $10
https://www.facebook.com/events/510833375693208/

18 April==Philadelphia, PA @ Pageant Soloeev
with Alumbrados (members of Bardo Pond)
607 Bainbridge St

19 April==Pittsburgh, PA @ The Shop (S.A.D. Fest)
with Gangwish, Brian DiSanto, Satyr/Elfheim and Radon Chong
4312 Main St.

20 April==Columbus, OH @ Cafe Bourbon St.
with Microwaves, Hyrrokken, Blood Noize
2216 summit st
10 PM I $5

21 April==Cincinnati, OH @ Rake's End
with Public Housing
2141 Central Ave

22 April==Louisville, KY @ Dreamland
MA Turner (Warmer Milks), Three Legged Race (Hair Police)
810 E. Market St.

25 April==Lawrence, KS for Whatever Forever @ Seedco Studios

26 April==Lincoln, NE @ The Bourbon Theater
EARLY SHOW
with Thundersandwich
1415 'O' St.
6 PM I $5
https://www.facebook.com/events/241657922688079/

27 April==Omaha, NE @ Sweatshop Gallery
with RAKE KASH
2727 N. 62nd

28 April==Minneapolis, MN @ Madame of The Arts
with Forced into Femininity, Boob Dylan

29 April==La Crosse, WI @ The Cavalier Theater
with Zobin, Voodo Sunshine
114 5th Ave N

30 April==Madison, WI @ TBA

1 May==Milwaukee, WI @ Borg Ward
with Lucky Bone, WC Tank, Irrelevant Mouth
823 W. National Ave.
8 PM I $6
https://www.facebook.com/events/1467387273479522/

2 May==Chicago @ Connie's Plank House
collab with Plastic Crimewave Syndicate
With Ono, US Tribes, Toupee
ask a pal where
++++++++++++++++++++
====================
BUNNYBLURB
******************************************
http://www.thebunnybrains.com/

NOW
"Basket Full of Noise" article by Peter Aaron (Chronogram)
http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2009/4/Music/Basketful-of-Noise
says Dan: "Years later, I learned that a lot of the kids secretly respected me for being different, but when I was on these bills with [hardcore crew] Youth of Today or whoever, most of the audience just wanted to kill me.”

THEN
"Acid-gobbling psychedelia, performance-art mayhem and an obscure album Matador supposedly released on a dare. These are the planks that build record geeks' wet dreams, and they are all part of the story of Connecticut's Bunny Brains. The band slithered around on its stomach through the '90s.....The Brains picked the ugliest scabs off the Butthole Surfers and ate them with a smile." -Pat Wensink

4EVA
“The last of the jazz musicians.....Being around Dan is experiential and insightful.The Bunnybrains are a mind-child that opened the door to my courage.” -Meshell Ndegeocello

"This raving maniac is Dan Bunny, the only omnipresent member of a constantly shifting lineup of drinking buddies.The BunnyBrains are worth checking out if you've never heard them."
–Edward McElvain, The Independent Mind

"You probably can't handle this. Hell, we can't really handle this, but somehow we still love the Bunny Brains to death." -Aquarius Records San Francisco

Video:
Bunnybrains 20th anniversary at the Knitting Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvL1sqqvMw8

###

danbunny, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...
one year passes...

https://soundcloud.com/bunnybrains is where u can hurt yurself

danbunny, Sunday, 12 July 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

Here's a new thing we recorded on Th spring 2014 tour in Lincoln Nebraska w sum stoner jam band kids. They were very polite
https://bunnybrains.bandcamp.com/

danbunny, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link

four years pass...

So UK engineer producer Dan Carey who has a tribute band called Scottibrains when hes not busy producing Kylie Minogue.. Has put out a track that we worked on the other day for 2 seconds turn it up loud

Listen to QUARANTINE SERIES 11 // SG Ft. Bunnybrains - Let The Light Out (To Blind Everything That Kills) by speedywunderground on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/speedywunderground/quarantine-series-11-bunnybrains

danbunny, Friday, 24 April 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link

Also been so blessed to work w sic alps wizard Mike Donovan..he the koolest..we did an accidental Fall tributstrium right over here...

http://bunnybrains.bandcamp.com/track/spring-back-fall-forward

danbunny, Monday, 27 April 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link

The Fall forever.
Recorded on Jan 24 2020

Was thinking The Fall, and then read that

curmudgeon, Monday, 27 April 2020 05:29 (three years ago) link

It was not planned that way..but it coincided murkily mystically..so I asked Elenis approval..and everyone went home full of cake.

danbunny, Monday, 27 April 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Long live Sir Tom Smith!!

danbunny, Friday, 21 January 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link

<3

aegis philbin (crüt), Friday, 21 January 2022 02:22 (two years ago) link


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