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	Tall Dwarfs- Carrot Top Records
		Back then, the Tall Dwarfs represented the D.I.Y. & home taping ethic and aesthetic at their purest songs were all recorded at home (performed in bedrooms, hallways and the like) and the band produced all of their own videos and promotional materials.
		The new Tall Dwarfs album is licensed from the very good people at Flying Nun Records in New Zealand.
		And while you are at it, absorb this Tall Dwarfs Interview from the kind people at 1340mag.com.
	www.carrottoprecords.com /artists/dwarfs (507 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Tall Dwarfs
		New Zealand's Tall Dwarfs not only whistle, they jingle, jangle, gurgle, grumble, grunt, sputter, bang on tables and guitars, play crumhorn, clarinet, clavinet, spoons and shake an angry bee-colony's worth of tambourine.
		The inspiration for Tall Dwarfs comes from somewhere between the alienated dementia of the Beatles' "Blue Jay Way" and comic horror movies on late-night TV.
		It's got the Dwarfs' highly imaginative percussion and the same delightfully fuzzed-under sense of noise.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=tall_dwarfs (721 words)

	Tall Dwarfs: Weeville / Fork Songs: Pitchfork Record Review
		By the time the Dwarfs-- Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate-- hit these two albums, their recording had cleared up into intelligibility, leaving behind the pure lo-fi ethos: all the raw personality, rough charm, and weird personal quirk of music rigged together in solitude, somewhere over by the closet.
		Add the Dwarfs' tendency toward psychedelic sound, and you can probably guess why these reissues are brought to you in part by members of Olivia Tremor Control.
		These days there's plenty of interest in those woodshed psychedelics, and while the Dwarfs' version of it is anything but spaced-out or transcendent, it packs plenty of the same claustrophobic strangeness-- and plenty of the same bad-idea experiments-- that run from Jad Fair to modern-day Brooklyn.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/t/tall-dwarfs/weeville-fork-songs.shtml (797 words)

	KiLLeR DWaRfS \| The Band
		With the "classic" Dwarf line up now in place, the boys kept touring and writing songs for what would be compiled into the Dwarfs' second album, "Stand Tall" - a gem in the world of indie rock.
		The band recruited guitarist Gerry "Dwarf" Finn and continued recording their 1992 album "Method to the Madness" with Andy Johns back at the helm.
		The brisk sales of their re-released albums, "Killer Dwarfs," "Big Deal," "Dirty Weapons," and "Method to the Madness," steeled their resolve to deliver on the live album fans have been demanding for years.
	www.killerdwarfs.com /killerdwarfs (957 words)

	* Dusted Reviews - Tall Dwarfs *
		The long and the short of it is that they're still the same Tall Dwarfs, recording at home with an 8-track machine; the only difference is the use of Pro Tools software in the mixing and editing process.
		Tall Dwarfs make no secret of it and many of these songs have a feeling of homage about them.
		Tall Dwarfs records are very much a labor of love, the materiality of the recording process itself seeming to be as important to Knox and Bathgate as the final product.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/723 (789 words)

	Tall Dwarfs - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		In 1982, Bathgate relocated from Dunedin to Christchurch; with the distance between him and Knox now totalling some 750 kilometers, Tall Dwarfs was relegated to a side project, with both men meeting once or twice annually to record and perform the occasional live date.
		With 1984's SlugBucketHairyBreathMonster, Tall Dwarfs scored their most successful record to date; the track "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" was a cult hit across New Zealand, and with its inclusion on the Flying Nun compilation Tuatara, it received significant international exposure as well.
		The long out-of-print first four Tall Dwarfs EPs were mined for the subsequent Hello Cruel World best-of collection; the first of their records to earn proper worldwide release, it won them considerable global media coverage.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,499798,00.html (490 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Tall Dwarfs: biography, discography, reviews, links
		The repertory of the Tall Dwarfs, almost entirely recorded at vocalist Chris Knox's house, excels at skewed, drum-less melodies.
		Privi di un batterista, i Tall Dwarfs eseguivano geniali e gioviali paradossi armonici baricentrati su un ritornello appena fuori misura e caratterizzati da arrangiamenti tanto spartani quanto complessi e insoliti.
		In parallelo continuano a uscire anche dischi dei Tall Dwarfs.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol4/talldwar.html (1412 words)

	Rights Group Helps Dwarfs Walk Tall
		Dwarfs overcome discrimination and ridicule with support from pragmatic association.
		Finding marriage partners for its members is just one of the ways the Dwarfs’ Association, which has six branch offices in Iraqi Kurdistan, helps midgets who face discrimination and ridicule in their daily lives.
		In 2000, the association played football against dwarfs from Erbil as a way of helping to relieve the tension between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the two main political parties in Kurdistan.
	www.iwpr.net /?apc_state=hkuiicr2005&l=en&s=f&o=254305 (773 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Tall Dwarfs: The Sky Above The Mud Below
		They've been Tall Dwarfs for more than twenty years -- and while, like many other iconic New Zealand acts, the elapsed time between their albums is often longer than most Stateside bands' careers, the quality of their output always puts paid to complaints about its quantity and frequency.
		Yes, a new Tall Dwarfs record is cause for celebration, but such is the looseness of Knox and Bathgate's association that fans can never be entirely certain that the band still exists until they emerge, locust-like, from their extended hibernation and drop another record on an unsuspecting world.
		Listen to "You Want Me Shimmy" to hear the Tall Dwarfs at their most self-indulgent; it's ninety-odd seconds of sub-JSBX dirty blues silliness that jolts the album off its rails, then dovetails into the equally incongruous -- but conceptually superior -- quasi-Aerosmith romp "How the West Was Won".
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=3251642967529370 (891 words)

	Chris Knox, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Tall Dwarfs (whose activities are detailed in a separate entry) were instrumental in developing the quirky aesthetic picked up by most artists on the Flying Nun label, the top New Zealand indie that counted Tall Dwarfs as one of its first signees.
		Although Knox has worked with Bathgate on Tall Dwarfs records since the early '80s, he has also maintained a less active, but ongoing, solo career in which he writes, performs, and records without Bathgate's assistance.
		Consequently, Tall Dwarfs fans will undoubtedly find Knox's records worth checking out, though on the whole the best of Tall Dwarfs is a better place to start investigating Knox's music.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11590/11590573.html (518 words)

	YouTube - Tall Dwarfs : 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die' - music video
		The Tall Dwarfs hail from New Zealand and consi...
		The Tall Dwarfs hail from New Zealand and consist of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate.
		Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, Alec Bathgate & Toy Love CDs are available from: http://www.smokecds.com/
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=SS077O8MA6g (338 words)

	BEAT THE INDIE DRUM DOT COM
		Tall Dwarfs - gluey, gluey and the ear friend
		Tall Dwarfs - the sky above, the mud below
		They Might Be Giants - long tall weekend
	beattheindiedrum.com /collectionTtoV.htm (3265 words)

	\|\| Flying Nun Records New Zealand - Tall Dwarfs \|\|
		Below, the Tall Dwarfs explain the whys and wherefores of their new album, Stumpy in an imaginary interview.
		We also have Chris Knox's song by song analysis of his own record.
		Well, Jennifer, in the packaging of our last [wonderful and underrated] release, "3 E.P.s" we asked people to send us their fragments of music/sound/noise on cassette so's we could build songs over the top of 'em.
	www.flyingnun.co.nz /archive_site/bands/talldwarfs/talldwarfs_stumpyalbum.html (576 words)

	Stumpy - Tall Dwarfs - Song Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Establishing the post-punk and independent scenes in New Zealand, Tall Dwarfs were arguably the first of indie rock's pioneers to take part in the home taping phenomenon.
		The record, released almost 20 years after their basement rock beginnings, was based on the idea that home tapers from around the globe would record bits and pieces of songs, send them to Knox and Bathgate, and the Dwarfs would then make songs from the basic structures of what they received.
		The result is an astoundingly fluid document of lo-fi weirdness, with its hand in every imaginable genre of music from folk to blues to punk to quirky out-rock to chamber pop.
	www.mp3.com /albums/196562/summary.html (733 words)

	Club Bizarre - Tall Dwarfs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Tall Dwarfs was meant to be an occasional thing.
		Two of the tracks were laid down in the Auckland Play Centre, as they had a piano and the Tall Dwarfs didn't.
		In the 1990's the Tall Dwarfs have gone from strength to strength.
	www.clubbizarre.co.nz /display.php?band=1158&sec=13 (1315 words)

	Amazon.com: Sky Above the Mud Below: Music: Tall Dwarfs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This is the first Tall Dwarfs release I heard, even though I had known of them for decades.
		Tall Dwarfs and Knox's records are notoriously hard to distinguish, given their remarkably consistent quality, but this one does show weariness.
		The band takes the International Tall Dwarfs concept from the CD "Stumpy" and expands it with "all-star" American indie critical faves, mainly from the Merge label.
	www.amazon.com /Sky-Above-Below-Tall-Dwarfs/dp/B00008BLFX (2032 words)

	There Is No Cat - Tall Dwarfs are coming! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tall Dwarfs are coming to America for the first time in 13 years!
		I can't say that I have based my opinion on knowing all the Tall Dwarfs songs, but that song is so good, there is no way there could be a better one.
		and speaking of "best" tall dwarfs songs, picking a single one would be impossible, but if there was a gun to my head, i'd go for "nothing's going to happen." or "burning blue." or or or...
	www.thereisnocat.com /showme742.html (570 words)

	Tall Dwarfs Biography - Music Artist Band Biographies - Artists Bands Bio - FREE MP3 Downloads
		Using tape loops to sustain rhythm, Knox's compositions varied from avant garde, Captain Beefheart-inspired textures to sweet pop influenced by his discovery of the Beatles in boyhood.
		Featuring 17 musicians including strings and brass in homage to Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, this was something of a diversion from his previous dependence on a home Teac recorder with cheap microphones and no EQ.
		During the remainder of the decade, Knox and Bathgate continued to split their time between the Tall Dwarfs and solo and production work.
	www.music.us /biography/artist/25676/tall_dwarfs.html (311 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hello Cruel World - Tall Dwarfs at Epinions.com
		I bought the Tall Dwarfs' Hello Cruel World in 1990, my first year of music collecting, based only on the Trouser Press Music Guide's claim that it was full of clever ways to never ever use drums.
		It's that I remember taking many many years to develop my tastes to where the margins would go that far, to where this first Tall Dwarfs album should even make sense to me as music.
		Maybe that one link between the Tall Dwarfs’ universe and ours was enough for the rest of the matter to spill in.
	www.epinions.com /content_107762716292 (880 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Chris Knox tickets, dates
		Tall Dwarfs (whose activities are detailed in a separate entry) were instrumental in developing the quirky aesthetic picked up by most artists on the Flying Nun label, the top New Zealand indie that counted Tall Dwarfs as one of its first signees.
		Although Knox has worked with Bathgate on Tall Dwarfs records since the early '80s, he has also maintained a less active, but ongoing, solo career in which he writes, performs, and records without Bathgate's assistance.
		Consequently, Tall Dwarfs fans will undoubtedly find Knox's records worth checking out, though on the whole the best of Tall Dwarfs is a better place to start investigating Knox's music.
	www.ticketmaster.com.au /artist/775300?brand=none (575 words)

	Tall Dwarfs cds, vinyl records and music albums
		View Most Recent TALL DWARFS Added to MusicStack
		nice copy of 6 track dwarfs 12" ep from '87; lurlene bayliss, waltz of the good husband, the slide, cant, dog, missed again.
		to this tall dwarfs CDs and records page.
	www.musicstack.com /search/tall_dwarfs (207 words)

	Tall Dwarfs: The Sky Above the Mud Below Aversion.com Review
		For a band that’s been credited with launching an ethos as widespread in the indie world as home recording and the lo-fi aesthetic, The Tall Dwarfs maintain a remarkably low profile, even in the usually plugged-in world of underground music.
		Swallowed by the revolution they started, The Tall Dwarfs don’t shine as pioneers, luminaries or anything out of the ordinary.
		The Dwarfs go a bit too far on this record (which is augmented by eight tracks that originally appeared on the International Tall Dwarfs EP), mostly due to the avalanche of material that makes the final cut on this record.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1034 (444 words)

	METAL DREAMS MAGAZINE: Review of KILLER DWARFS - Stand Tall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But back in the 80s concepts were still to be had, and the Killer Dwarfs popped up with one of the most amusing and original ideas in ages.
		Each taking the surname of Dwarf (just like the Ramones did years before), the band played up the idea of being vertically challenged, especially singer Russ Dwarf, who drove a tricycle in the band's videos, as well as arriving on stage in a small crate.
		The slamming skinsmanship of Darrell Dwarf just jumps right off the disc and makes one realize that the double bass drumming of today is completely unnecessary.
	www.hometown.aol.com /mtldreams/killerdwarfs-standtall.html (368 words)

	Chris Knox & The Tall Dwarfs Discography - Slipcue E-Zine
		Quirky oddball 4-track pioneers who have mixed disjointed lo-fi ditties with sustained moments of pure pop brilliance, New Zealand's Tall Dwarfs have been around the kiwi scene since the late '70s, when they were in the legendary punk bands Enemy and Toy Love.
		Leveling a scathing and jaundiced glance at the fetishistic materialism of the workaday world, Chris and Alec Bathgate ask, "is 9-to-5 really your idea of fun?" A catchy, clever critique of yuppie culture, with a strikingly prescient jab at folks with cell phones, a full decade or so before the fad hit crisis proportions.
		Naturally, this will feel familiar to Tall Dwarfs fans, but Bathgate tempers the quirkiness with a bit more melody and less aggro, less pessimistic feel than Knox has on his solo albums.
	www.slipcue.com /music/pop/newzealand/talldwarfs.html (1427 words)

	mergerecords.com :: View topic - Tall Dwarfs/ Oliva Tremor Control shows!
		Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: Tall Dwarfs/ Oliva Tremor Control shows!
		I think its the only show that OTC is not playing on the tour.
		But it's gonna be 3 shows in 3 months from bands that I had missed and never thought I would get to see - Dinosaur Jr original line up, The Go Betweens, and now Tall Dwarfs.
	www.mergerecords.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=2454&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (325 words)

	Excite España - Búsqueda De Mp3 - Resultados con: Dwarfs
		Weeville and Fork Songs are being released tomorrow, October 25, on Cloud Recordings The Tall Dwarfs - Pirouette (Highly Rec'd!)The Tall Dwarfs - Hallelujah Boy
		Tall Dwarfs Crush (live on WFMU 1992) (MP3)One of the more exciting bits of live music news in New York for the summer is the return of the mighty Tall Dwarfs from New Zealand, slated to
		THE SEVEN DWARFS PLUS ONE for guitar (I SETTE NANI PIU' UNO) The Seven Dwarfs plus One (10.48 MB) (MP3 128kbps) 1- Speaking introduction in russian: The musical fairy tale The Seven Dwarfs Plus One consists of seven musical motifs.
	www.excite.es /search/mp3/results?q=Dwarfs (190 words)

	PunkStop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Remastered reissue of the 1990 masterpiece by legendary New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs.
		In 1981 Chris and Alec returned as the Tall Dwarfs.Chris Knox purchased a TEAC 4 track and from there The Tall Dwarfs became pioneers of lo-fi recording.
		In 1981 Chris andAlec returned as the Tall Dwarfs.
	www.punkstop.com /browse_artist_detail.php?band=Tall+Dwarfs (261 words)

	Midheaven Mailorder \| Browse by Artist: TALL DWARFS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Having recently adopted some digital technology, the duo delivers a fanciful collection of experimental, cut'n'paste pop, full of cutting guitars and unlikely samples.
		*A remastered reissue of the 1990 masterpiece by seminal New Zealand group the TALL** DWARFS--CHRIS KNOX and ALEC BATHGATE.
		The songs sound better than ever and resonate with pure joy, with lyrics that put the listener into that “perfect moment.” Includes the classic 1987 Dogma EP as a bonus.
	www.midheaven.com /artists/tall.dwarfs.html (183 words)

	Tall Dwarfs - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Craig Latham's Tall Dwarfs site Craig Latham's Tall Dwarfs site...
		Pioneers of the lo-fi aesthetic the Tall Dwarfs spluttered into life during 1979 by...
		Watch or listen to Tall Dwarfs music videos, songs, live performances, concerts and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/tall-dwarfs/5595/main (155 words)

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