Crib Notes

For today’s installment of Roll Call we call out NOBUNNY. The rabbit-masked and Ramones-esque crooner plays the Atlanta Mess-Around this Sat, Nov. 15th.

Who are you?
I’m nothing special. A dirt dog. Mr. Hyde. Primal screams and refried beans. A boxcar and a jug of wine. A 40 and a skateboard. The American dream. He who talks loud, saying nothing. I am nobody. I am NOBUNNY.

Describe yourself in three words.
Cuddly and Sadistic

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
I already met Hasil Adkins, so I’ll say Alive: Michael Jackson. Dead: Joey Ramone.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
My little sister Megan. She’s a baaaad girl. Yes she is.

What song do you wish you had written?
“I Want You Back” by the Jackson 5ive. Not only do I wish I wrote it, I wish I sang it, recorded it, performed everything on it. Every time I hear it I imagine that it’s the opening track off my new record and just how damn satisfying that would be.

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
PRESLEY!!! Anyone who answers Costello just doesn’t get it man. Wake up and LIVE people! You have the right to breath fresh air and fuck beautiful women! C’mon!

LP, CD or MP3?
dogshit

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
Compassion. Be kind to fast food workers. For a duck may be somebody’s mother.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
While it’s petty, I can’t handle those bluetooth ear phone things. Whenever I see someone wearing one, I always want to take a hammer and whack ‘em real good in the ear.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
17 year old Rosanna Arquette.

Mess me up MP3

I am a girlfriend MP3

NOBUNNY w/ the Wax Museums play The Earl as part of the Atlanta Mess-Around fest. on Sat., Nov. 15th. Two day passes are available for $20. Tickets are $12 at the door.

(Photo courtesy of NOBUNNY)

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Months after moving back to New York, former ATL part-timers Baby Shakes have unveiled their first full-length CD/LP, aptly titled The First One, on Douche Master Records.

The 10-songs on the album show the women in black drawing from a palette of lovie dovie bubble gum anthems, infused with power pop and glam rock tendencies.

“Hello Hello,” “Now I know” and “Ooh La Love” are fast and undeniably catchy, but they don’t throw any surprise punches. The record delivers the lite pop sound one expects from Baby Shakes; which is captured on this recording with fascist-like precision and clarity that comes courtesy of drummer/producer Dave Rahn (Carbonas, Gentleman Jesse).

Other songs on the record show off stabs at songwriting that expands their boundaries while staying true to form. “Love Machine” is a stylistic and ramped-up homage to T. Rex circa The Slider.  Closing number “Just Another” winds through a three-chord chug that rocks pretty hard, but maintains the group’s amicable and high-energy pop sensibilities.

Execution of everything from three-part chants and harmonic coos, to simple, mechanical shifts in rhythm are flawless from beginning to end. And with every song clocking in at less than three minutes, the album is over before you know it, which leaves you instinctively wanting a whole lot more.

The First One is a clean and simple album, and though it will inevitably draw comparisons to the Runaways, Nikki and the Corvettes, the Ramones and the first couple of Blondie records, Baby Shakes sound is nowhere nearly as raw as these forerunners, nor is it as dangerous or potentially offensive. Kids and grandparents can dance to these songs just as easily as hipsters with Thunder Cats haircuts, and that’s not a bad thing at all.

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