DOLF [punk] Interview
If you’re a music-face like myself, you kick a fucking boner when you find a band you love and see they aren’t even “there” yet. What do I mean by “there” you ask? Well… many things! On a label, with a management company, or even in your country yet!
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I was interning at Vagrant Records in Santa Monica. Part of our daily crap was to sort through the demos sent in and give them a whirl, blah blah. Sorry to out Vagrant and all, but by “whirl” I mean throw them away and send a generic email back saying we weren’t signing any new bands at the time. Well good ol’ Denny pants over here felt a little repentant about all that so if they grabbed my attention enough to make me think Literally, I never liked ANYTHING. However, one sunny day, I opened up a package that had a total DIY-looking album cover with some punk dudes on it, and I was like “Okay… I’m already into it.”
DOLF
Dan-E: Drums
B-Dawg: Bass, Vocals
Tuc: Guitar, Vocals
Coon: Guitar, Vocals
How could you NOT wanna listen to this album?
DOLF is sort of a mix between a 90’s Fat Wreck Chord’s band and garage punk band full of boys that don’t speak fluent English. It’s endearing. Honestly, I listen to their debut album more often than a lot of other records I own. It’s catchy and unique, but has a familiarity to it that makes you feel at ease. I LOVE YOU, DOLF. xo.
Moving along... Christian Kuhn (aka, Coon, vocals) was nice enough to do a little interview with me so I could get the answers to come questions that my little heart was just exploding to know. Check it out!
PWV: When the fuck are you coming to the US?
Next summer hopefully! We were always looking forward to do so but
could´nt manage to make it to the U.S.
PWV: I saw some footage from an unplugged session. Was it weird playing punk music in that setting? Is it something you look forward to doing again?
No, actually it was fun doing our music in different styles. There
was and still is a lot of space for creativity in doing our music unplugged. We´re actually doing it quite a few times a year.
PWV: Are all of you life-long friends or did you just meet up from forming the band?
Yes, we are kind of life-long friends. Our friendships were influenced and inspired by our common love to punk rock music when we were like 15 or something.
PWV: Did you play in other bands before Dolf?
Some of us did and still do but DOLF has always been our No.1.
PWV: Is there somewhere online to buy Dolf merch?
Bad question. We used to have some merch stuff but we´ve been a bit lazy about it recently.
PWV: What broken-up/retired punk band would you most like to see reunite and play?
Good Riddance and Terrorgruppe (german band, you might know ’em from the punk’o’rama samplers)
PWV: You’ve been telling us via the wonderful world wide web that you’re releasing a new album this year. Is that still accurate?
It hopefully is! We´re planing to release our album this december.
PWV: Does your writing/recording process involve a lot of alcohol consumption?
Not only alcohol…
PWV: How is everyone’s English? Obviously your album is recorded in English
but is the entire band pretty fluent?
Kind of…Everyone is able to speak at least some english, even though there´s some differences.
PWV: What else are you into besides music? Avid sports fan or anything?
We´re kind of focused on the music but we´re also are into skate-, snow- and longboarding, having long nights and sleeping long afterwards, playing poker and stuff like that.
PWV: What were some of the first punk bands you were into?
Obviously bands we got to recognize on MTV or the radio like The Offspring and Green Day. But then german bands like Slime, Terrorgruppe, WIZO, Die Ärzte and other bands like NOFX, Good Riddance, Rancid, Sublime, Frenzal Rhomb and stuff like that.
PWV: What’s your day job? (assuming you have one)
We´re all doing pretty different stuff. Like delivering furniture, working as a sound engineer, working in a retirement home…
PWV: If you had to give up your job to tour the world tomorrow, would you?
Of Course!
PWV: What’s coming up next? Are you focusing on writing, touring, or taking a break?
We’re always doing all of that. At the moment we´re trying to finish our new album, we´re touring a bit and we´re always taking a break at the same time.
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I’M NOT FUCKING KIDDING, PEOPLE. I know you hear this a lot, but this is more important: If you haven’t checked these guys out yet, do it now. Head over to their facebook to keep up with them!
About the Author
Denise Borders 39, Los Angeles. Denise founded PWV in 2008 and remains the primary manager and photographer/videographer. She is not secretly obsessed with Joey Cape.
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