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Dr. Powerful

About Me

Dr. Powerful been rockin' for a while. Dr. Powerful big fast loud. Dr. Powerful kinda sound like someone put Brian Eno, Drive Like Jehu, the Soft Boys, and some other loudsters in a room together and made 'em rock out. Dr. Powerful got a Polvo member. You oughta come out and watch. Lotsa fun.

Daydipsnake, our debut record on Murfreesboro's Grand Palace Records, is now available. You can buy it from us if you like.

"Daydipsnake" CD - $10 + s&h.

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Live video March 2006. Early versions of "Tirade at Ray's" and "I Gotta Get That Fixed." Shot by Kellette Wade:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/08/2005
Band Website: http://drpowerful.googlepages.com
Band Members:

Influences: Rock.
Sounds Like: Someone said "squirrelly time sigs and straight guitar play; half math, half dissonant ballads."
Anyway, we've shared stages with these bands and it made a nice happy mix of rock sounds:
Fist Fight
The Citizen
Cinemechanica
Thunderlip
Manamid
The Art of Shooting
Harmless PA
Print
Villa Vina
Aleuchatistas
Jews and Catholics
The Terminal Lovers
The Jai Alai Savant
Tiger Bear Wolf
New Radiant Storm King
Places to Live
Grasshopper
White Tiger and the Bed of Roses
Shaking Hands with Danger
White Rook
Fighting Poseidon
Them, Roaringtwenties
Chest Pains
We Versus The Shark
The Mitchells
Tommygun
Tooth
Hazerai
Arma Secreta
The Sleep Study
New Brutalism
The Drayton Sawyer Gang
Cinemasophia
French Kiss Coma
Co-Ed Cokehead
Americans in France
Worn in Red
Record Label: Grand Palace
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Not very Cuil yet.

The new seach engine Cuil claims to have three times more pages indexed than Google and to show search results based on the relvancy of the content in a page as opposed to the number of pages tha...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:41:00 GMT

Dr. Powerful loses IndyWeek battle for Saturday rock.

Our pals at the Independent Weekly (or dare I say Pitchfork south?) have predicted our demise in tomorrow's epic boxing match with Transportation.  Oh well.  Hope yo...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:20:00 GMT

TTWD Festival Adds eastern hearts head north along w/ Tooth, New Brutalism, and The Plaintiffs

Sanford, NC USA, June 26, 2008 - This Thing We Did (TTWD) 2008, a Lee County, NC music festival curated by Dr. Powerful, has added eastern hearts head north (Nashville, TN) to an already impressi...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:40:00 GMT

This Thing We Did 2008

This Thing We Did is a music festival that will be held in Lee County, North Carolina on August 9, 2008. It is being put on completely as a reason for Dr. Powerful to invite some of its favorite bands...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:52:00 GMT

Dr. Powerful gives back to the community

Dr. Powerful gives back to the community Sponsors Sanford Area Soccer League youth soccer team Sanford, NC USA, April 25, 2008  Dr. Powerful, the industry leader in creating angular, undanceable, and...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:57:00 GMT

R.I.Print

Dr. Powerful got some really awful news this weekend:Jared McGuinness, the singer and guitar player for one of our friend bands, Print, died on Jan. 24.We had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Pr...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:10:00 GMT

show list

Because I'm a completist, and also because I'm bored at work, I'm putting up a list of all our previous shows, you know, for posterity. I'll be updating as we add to it, I guess. Whatev.  Maybe Daniel...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:29:00 GMT

daydipsnake reviews

More to come soon:DR. POWERFUL This week, Murfreesboro’s Grand Palace Records issues one of the most solid releases available thus far on the small imprint: Daydripsnake, the full-length debut f...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:25:00 GMT

DAYDIPSNAKE release shows + other news

Howdy folks!Dr. G. Murray Blanderson-Powerful here. Dr. Powerful news abounds.It's about that time. What time? That time, I says. Anyway, what I mean to say, what I really, really mean to say, is that...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:25:00 GMT

More ink for the powerfuls

Dr. Powerful has been the subject of some talented writers recently and we wanted to share with you their work, both to showcase their awesomeness and to allow you to be able to read something about u...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:50:00 GMT