Skirt
indie rock, weezer, skirt, foo fighters, pearl jam, MxPx, stp, silverchair, toadies
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We are, and will always be SKIRTBand/artist history
The group got together in 1995 while Jeremy Digby, Dustin Bartholomew and two pals were still in high school. They basically learned to play their instruments while performing at coffeehouses and parties. Inspired originally by “the whole Seattle thing,” according to Dustin, they saved up some money and did some recording. One of the friends dropped out and Dustin jumped behind the kit.The naiveté of youth coupled with self-confidence in their burgeoning songwriting ability, had the band sending unsolicited tapes to labels in 1998. Somehow the tape made its way up the chain at Sire Records to president Seymour Stein. He flew out to Arkansas to see the then trio. “That was great. It was pretty much our first club show when he came down to see us play. It was almost overwhelming,” Dustin says.Next thing you know, Skirt has a record deal and is in the studio recording their debut album, Faith Loves You, after picking up Tim and Matthew. Released in April on Egg Records in conjunction with Sire and last year online via Emusic.com, the album is the sound of young men questioning the ways of the world. Opening with the squealing guitars and thudding rhythms of “Lazy,” the band seems powered by youth, but the piano-based ballads that crop of towards the end of the album (“Fisher” and “Perfect”) show that these four know the power of dynamics. “Belt,” from which the album’s title comes, combines an almost-funky bass line with crunching guitars and a wide-open hook. Then there’s the near emo-core tension of “Daddy,” where chiming chords counterpoint chopping guitars and Jeremy sounds world-weary and sad beyond his years. Consistently, Jeremy’s lyrics are deeply personal, but connect to the larger world with universal truths and themes. The power of Faith is a testament to the power of the group.“We recorded it pretty much live, we had to overdub some guitars and the vocals, but the basic tracks were done live,” says Dustin. “For as young as we arewerewe’ve done quite a bit of recording. For the album we were in the studio for 20 days or something.”The obvious question though is what’s there to do in Arkansas?“Not much,” Dustin laughs. “There’s not much else to do, know what I mean? There’s not a whole lot going on.”Why stay then? “We’re pretty centrally located for touring actually. We’re five hours from Dallas, five hours to Memphis, four hours to Kansas City, five hours to St. Louis and close to a lot of big cities, so it works out really well. Driving is really easy.”The band is friends with artists, musicians and poetsas well as artists of the digital age. Friends of the band designed and did the artwork for the enhanced portion of the CD, for free of course. Of course, Fayetteville’s arts community is centered around the university. “This is the biggest one in Arkansas. (Laughs) It’s not huge though,” says Dustin. “Still, this is the cultural center of Arkansas.”At first, being a non-mainstream sounding band in that town was “pretty weird,” Dustin admits. “Everyone thought we were pretty weird.” But they’ve come around, making the quartet the kings of Fayetteville, thanks in no small part because of the charismatic passion of Jeremy as a front person. He breathes life and fire into his lyrics, igniting songs onstage. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the guys are kind of cute. Maybe that’s why they draw nearly as many females as males to their concerts or maybe it’s simply the strength of the songs. Either way, Skirt is in it for the long haul. Skirt has performed with bands such as ECONOLINE CRUSH, FROGPOND, RADISH, THE GRAND ST. CRYERS and many more. Their song “Counting” was recently featured on the original soundtrack to the New Line Cinema film “Drop Dead Gorgeous”.Have you performed in front of an audience?we're currently on tour. check our tour dates at www.eggrecords.com
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weezer, Mxpx, wilco, elvis costello, pearl jamContact
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what happened to you guys?
yo wut up homie its the kingpin im in brooklyn right now im chillen wit my uncle im staying over in queens on 93rd street n sutter yo if anything u should meet me up next to ctown on the corner of 93rd street we kan record or something im only gonna be here till like next week or something sooo yo make sure u hit me up give me ur number and adress and sh*** i am on my uncles pc i dont have the internet back in florida kuz my peeps didnt pay the bill but yo give me ur number and adress n ill come n see u i got my rap books and my beats and sh*** ITS THE KING PIN
ill see ya
try to meet me up at the corner store CTOWN at the corner of 93rd street in queens ill probably be smoking newports all day on that corner from like 5 clock till like 8 sooo ill seeyya manz one luv
Microphone bitches aint sh***. They sware they the hardest niggaz eva. They don't do nothin but diss traks. Who da f*** could respect dat. Ya'll neva make it in da game wit jus battles. These niggaz is pussy. All of em garbage. Especially Contraversal. He da wackest one and da Pussy Nigga General. They got a new nigga suckin thier dicks like every other week. f*** Microphone BItches!!! You keep doin ya thang cuz, and let me kno when you get some traks on this bitch. Holla at cha Boi!!!! ~respect~
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Nice riffs, good songwriting
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