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About Me

Formed informally September 2001, the whips played their first show opening for dc alt-country favs Canyon at a benefit where the P.A. literally caught on fire in the middle of the whips set, unable to contain the rock that was coming forth. Since that auspicious moment, the whips have slowly, and steadily plotted the take-over of the dc " hot-rock" community by playing as infrequently as possible, recording very little in the studio(to date only three songs, produced by brian baker and steve hansgan, and engineered by don z. at dc landmark inner ear studios), and offering no merchandise. It's all about the rock, baby. Many of these things may change soon, so get on the train before it leaves your town!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/26/2005
Band Website: n/a... love to build one someday...
Band Members: Arika Casebolt- drums and glamour.
The Enigma- guitars, vocals and aristocracy.
James Brady- bass, vocals and friction.
Matt Burger- vocals, percussion and sweat.

Influences: bands that we've played with (in no particular order): canyon, wooly mammoth, the fall, el-vez, the raveonettes, drive-by truckers, eagles of death metal, people chasing people, jet, the [international] noise conspiracy, nightmare of you, danko jones, the vines, the living end, washington social club, thee snuff project, joan jett,cry baby cry, the blackjacks, the clicks, olympia, jucifer, milemarker, thievery corporation,bad wizard, the spores, five four, owls and crows, edie sedgewick,dance party, rose, her daily obsession, army of me, the bonapartes,death by sexy, adam west, the hard tomorrows, the phobes, the points, the sentiment, the sick sick birds, fascist fascist, and others that slip my memory right now. ..
Sounds Like: "hot-rock"

Record Label: drop us a line, we're available
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Dec. 30th show and update

so, for everyone who was there and for everyone who may have heard, arika got very, very ill during our set and had to vacate the stage mid-song, mid-set to avert a public display of this. she i...
Posted by the whips on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:36:00 PST

hmmmm studio part deux

so far.. so good... so what... well the what is that it IS going GREAT so far, bringing in a guest all star rocker on sunday to throw some nasty licks down and add some extra flavor to the a...
Posted by the whips on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:36:00 PST

Tonight Makes Love to All Your Kind

Hello Valentines, If you were a pill, we'd take a handful at our will, And we'd knock you back with something sweet and strong. Lots of love and kisses from The Whips this bloody valentine's da...
Posted by the whips on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:46:00 PST

hmmm studio

so we go into the studio today to begin recording what will eventually be the bulk of our long player. who knows who will put it out, us at first to be sure, but hopefully we can be relieved of ...
Posted by the whips on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:35:00 PST

Santa Baby

Hey Friends, Usually Matt, our singer (and recent fancy book-learnin' graduate) is at the helm of this clambake, but not tonight. No, tonight it is Christmas and I am intoxicated by several hundred gl...
Posted by the whips on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:14:00 PST

say whaaa?

as many you may or may not have noticed, our website is down right now, not that it was ever too up to date anyway. well, very soon, our new site will be up and operational and should be ready t...
Posted by the whips on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:56:00 PST

welcome

hey everybody, welcome to the page, hopefully this will keep everyone and everything up to date on everthing "the whips"! right now, we are preparing to go into the studio again (finally) to record th...
Posted by the whips on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST