DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS, the band featuring SLIPKNOT percussionist M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan, will release a new EP, "Simon", on January 20 via The End Records. The CD was tracked at Sound Farm Studios, which is the same place SLIPKNOT recorded its latest album, "All Hope is Gone".
Johnston, Iowa’s Dirty Little Rabbits have been hard at work preparing their debut EP, ‘Simon’, which will be released January 20th via The End Records. “We’ve been up at Sound Farm Studios," says band mastermind M. Shawn 'Clown' Crahan, best known as one of Slipknot's two unconventional percussionists. "We did the whole record onto tape-- anything that we could record to two-inch, we did. And it’s amazing. So we’re gonna be employing old techniques to bring back rock n’ roll.”
With a live show that has been described as ‘oddly compelling, spastic in nature, and finely executed,’ Dirty Little Rabbits have made quite a name for themselves on the road. In the summer of 2007, with Slipknot on hiatus, they ventured out with Stone Sour. Then, in the summer of 2008, they scored an opening slot with future labelmates Mindless Self Indulgence.
"Simon" track listing:
01. Poor Poor Woman with Her Head in the Oven
02. You Say
03. Hello
04. I'm So Beautiful
05. Happy
06. Same Mistakes
"DIRTY LITTLE RABBITS is my new SLIPKNOT," Crahan recently told HeadbangersBlog.com. "I'm playin' drums, and I'm a songwriter and this is the band I've been waiting to be in my whole life. And it's more of an alternative band than a metal band. It's everything I've ever been into. And it's a thought process, it's a mindset. And this will be the band I end my life with.
"A lot of people don't know I'm more or less an alternative person in art and music. I didn't grow up obsessed with metal. But that's most of the beauty behind SLIPKNOT. You've got guys that are completely dedicated to the metal, and then you've got guys who never even listen to it, like me. And you come together and make this thing called SLIPKNOT that happens to be a metal band, and that's awesome because I always believed when I got together with my brothers that they were writing music that I never heard or felt and that's why I went with it."
hmmm...
