The Dwarves "Way Out!" Picture Disk 7" Recess Records (US)

Vinyl is NM, Jacket is VG+

Out of Print!!

Track Listing:

AWay Out!B1How It's DoneB2There She Goes Again

Dwarves is an American  band formed in , as The Suburban Nightmare, in the mid-1980s. They are currently based in , . Formed as a  band, their career subsequently saw them move in a  direction before settling into an eclectic punk rock sound emphasizing intentionally shocking lyrics. They have been described as "one of the last true bastions of punk rock ideology in the contemporary musical age". The original members of the Dwarves began making music together in the mid-1980s as teenagers in the Chicago garage rock outfit, Suburban Nightmare, which was compared to , and which has been described as part of the  scene. This era of the Dwarves is captured on Lick It(the psychedelic years 83-86) a 34 track collection put out by Recess records in 1999.

The band became notorious for self-mutilation, on-stage sex, and taking hard drugs, and their live shows would often only last around fifteen minutes, occasionally cut short due to injury caused by spectators. The band's sound began to evolve beyond its early garage roots with their second (nine-minute long) LP, Toolin' For A Warm Teabag, which saw the band drifting towards a more truculent punk rock sound, influenced by . Recess records issued Free Cocaine 86-88 in 1999, a 39-song collection that shows the band's transition to the nihilistic style that took them to the sub pop era. The band released  on  in 1990. By this time the Dwarves had dropped their early  sensibilities and morphed into a hardcore punk band. The Blood Guts & Pussy LP was followed up by EP Lucifer's Crank released by , as well as another Sub Pop LP, the metal-punk Thank Heaven For Little Girls, both in 1991.

In 1993 the band issued a press release stating their guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in . Though this later turned out to be a hoax, the band even went as far as to attach a tribute to the "late" guitarist on their 1993 Sub Pop-released album . Sub Pop did not respond well to the hoax and summarily dropped the band from its label. The Dwarves reformed in 1997, releasing  (described by Adam Bregman of  as "the beginning of a new Dwarves...one that plays real songs, had a set list, and left the club unbloodied"), and its 2000 followup . In the film ,  is seen singing along to Dwarves "Motherfucker", which Dahlia later said he got "tens of thousands of dollars" for. In 2000, the band offered the track "River City Rapist" to  as his presidential campaign song.

In 2004 the band released , its first LP for the indie label , which featured guest appearances from Dexter Holland (), Nick Oliveri (), Nash Kato (), and voice actor . Dahlia was assaulted by  of QOTSA before a Dwarves show in Los Angeles in 2004, which saw Homme placed on summary probation for thirty-six months.

In 2009, Blag and HeWhoCannotBeNamed were immortalised as  by Aggronautix.

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