“We always existed in a netherworld of punk rock that’s just different than anyone else,” Dahlia says. (The stunt prompted their dismissal from their label, Sub Pop.) As in: Wasn’t that the band that had a masked, sometimes naked guitarist called HeWhoCannotBeNamed? The guy who faked his own death and conned their record label into putting out a solemn announcement to that effect? The Dwarves have been making albums for 31 years, starting with “Horror Stories,” and continuing through the 2013 album, “The Dwarves Are Younger & Even Better Looking,” and the 2014 album “The Dwarves Invented Rock & Roll.”īut the band - which plays Somerville’s Thunder Road club with the Upper Crust and two other groups on Sunday, June 11 - remain on the outer edges of most fans’ consciousnesses. The woman, Elizabeth Short, was dubbed the Black Dahlia by a sensationalistic press. 'We don’t make any sense commercially and we don’t make any sense at all except on our own terms.'ĭahlia - born Paul Cafaro 50 years ago - took his all-too-fitting punk moniker from a victim of a gruesome murder in the '40s.
'The Dwarves are a band out of time,' muses Blag Dahlia, the punk group's singer. (Courtesy Stefan Müller) This article is more than 5 years old. The Dwarves play a show in Berlin in 2016.
