DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter
Grace Braun, New York photographer
Chris Verene and former
Fat Day
Fat Day was a Boston-based noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1992, they released a handful of LPs and several EPs on their own 100% Breakfast! label as well as many others.
History
The four members of Fat Day met in the ea ...
drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in
Atlanta
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. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun (renamed
Anna Trodglen
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654)
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th c ...
) and her husband/drummer, music writer
Dugan Trodglen. Past contributors include Justin Hughes, and a present member of the band is John Armstrong.
Discography
Source:
''DQE'' on Discogs.com
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;Singles
* ''Hot Dog'' (1991 - Old Gold Records)
* ''Masturbation Made a Mess Out of Me'' (1992 - Feel Good All Over Records)
* ''Tell Me Why The Ivy Twines'' (1994 - Colossal Records)
;LPs
* ''But Me, I Fell Down'' (1994 - Feel Good All Over Records)
* ''Jump On In'' (1995 - Making Of Americans Records)
* ''DQE & Jad Fair
Jadwin B. Fair (born June 9, 1954) is an American singer, guitarist, graphic artist, and founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.
Biography
Fair was born in Coldwater, Michigan. In 1974, he and his brother David formed the ...
'', self-titled collaboration (1996 - Dark Beloved Cloud Records, DBC205)
* ''The Queen of Mean'' (2000 Dark Beloved Cloud Records, DBC229)
* ''I'm Your Girl'' (2002 - DQE and Grace Braun double CD (disk 1 Grace Braun, disk 2 DQE) on Dark Beloved Cloud Records, DBC237)
;Cassettes
* ''N Is For Knowledge'' (1990 - Self-released)
* ''Hershymouth'' (1990 - Old Gold Records)
* ''Pictures of Cliffs''
* ''Old Gold''
* ''Ride This Ride'' (released on Certron cassettes)
;As Grace Braun:
* ''It Won't Hurt'' (1996 - Slow River Records
Slow River Records was a Marblehead, Massachusetts-based independent record label.
History
Slow River Records was established by producer and musician George Howard in 1993. He operated it along with Anna Johansson. It obtained enough income and ...
)
* ''The Gabrielle Tapes'' 2005, self-released CD of Nick Drake
Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. An accomplished acoustic guitarist, Drake signed to Island Records at the age of twenty while still a student at the University of Cambridg ...
and Jackson C. Frank covers.
Compilations
* Low Life 7 inch containing one DQE song, "In One Ear Out The Other" released in conjunction with Low Life Magazine (Publisher: Glen Thrasher)
* Low Life 12 inch containing two DQE songs, "Burning From The Inside Out" & "Carnival"
References
External links
I'm Your Girl at www.amazon.com
Dark Beloved Cloud catalogue
* Review by Andrew Magilo
* Review by Spin Magazine 1994—no link current--
* Article by Mike Appelstein in Writer's Block #
Rock music groups from Georgia (U.S. state)
Musical groups from Atlanta
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