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Today's Song: Bumble Bee by the Casual Dots

It seems that The Casual Dots were a side-project band that produced only one cd, 2004's The Casual Dots All members were in other bands -- Christina Billotte is from Slant 6 and Quix*o*tic, Kathi Wilcox is from Bikini Kill and Fumples, and Steve Dore is from Deep Lust. The cd was released by the Kill Rock Stars label.

This is a band that, like label mates Sleater-Kinney, consists of drums and two guitarists with no bass. It works quite well.

eddvick included the song Bumble Bee on the compilation he handed me at Norwescon, and it's a very fun song. My only problem is that I can't link you to a video of it, and they don't have it up on their myspace account (which is a fan-created site in any case). It's a great song though, with a kind of old-rock meets modern-rock feel.

The good news is that you can find their cd on both iTunes and eMusic. I reccomend Bumble Bee in particular. You can hear a short clip of it at Last.FM at this link.

You can download an mp3 of their song Clocks for free at the Kill Rock Stars web site at this link.

They have one video on Youtube:

Casual Dots - Hooded

And their myspace page:

Casual Dots @ Myspace (fan site)