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Contact


Label

Mazarine Records

 

U.S. Publicity:

Jeffrey Smith
Crash Avenue
jeffrey [at] crash-avenue [dot com]
502.384.3107

 

European Publicity:

Peter Holmstedt
Hemifrån
peter.holmstedt [at] telia [dot com]
+46 (0)33.26.0210

 

Booking

Dare likes to play any place where people want to hear him—living rooms, stadiums, art galleries, derelict strip malls, glitzy music venues filled with trend-setting starlets, fire-gutted churches with free enchiladas. Write STS Booking, and together we will find a way:

Bright Elephant
bright.elephant.booking [at] gmail [dot com]

 

Dare Dukes

dd [at] daredukes [dot com]

Thugs Tour: Crackers

 

Our nice hosts in Nashville had an African Gray parrot, just like Jim Eggers. His name is Crackers, and he is a ham.

 

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Thugs Tour: Banjo Fix in Nashville

 

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Thugs Tour: TN Lunch

 

Moonpie and Doritos.

 

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Thugs Tour: No Requests in Bloomington

 

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Thugs Tour: NJ Turnpike Delights

 

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Thugs Tour: $1 Dumplings

 

Six dumplings for a measely dollar in New York City’s Chinatown.

 

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Thugs Tour: Blake and Jessie

 

Blake is contemplative. Jessie is a badass.

 

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Review: Alphabet Bands

 

Webzine Alphabet Bands reviews Thugs and China Dolls and gets all gushy on us:

Dukes’ blend of wry, observational humour and poetry reminds us in part of John Grant and his sublime album, The Queen of Denmark. But while Grant’s focus was more internal, more autobiographical, Dukes’ head is up and he is looking out, his attention on the “the weirdness, the anomalies, the resistance” of the American suburbs. These eccentricities may be ripe for lampooning but Dukes treats his subjects with affection; jauntily bouncing along in celebration or shuffling, dejected, as appropriate.

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