Unnatural Helpers Sign to Hardly Art
First Talbot Tagora, now Unnatural Helpers (pictured courtesy, um, Charlie Homo. I swear that's what it says on the site.) It's obvious that Hardly Art, like Sub Pop, is bent on world dominance. Or at least Seattle dominance. 
Anyway, Unnatural Helpers are a pretty righteous Seattle punk band with two former members of The Catheters, an ex-Sub Pop band of which I was especially fond and whose presence on the musical scene I miss dearly. Unnatural Helpers is ex-Catheters guitarists Brian Standeford (also of Idle Times and Tall Birds) and Leo Gephardt (Tall Birds), The Dutchess and the Duke's Kimberley Morrison on bass, though the band is the brain child of Dean Whitmore, who drums and sings. Now that's not something you see every day. Sometimes, but not every day. Unnatural Helpers' next album will come out on Hardly Art. What have those crazy kids got up their sleeve next, I wonder?
3 comment(s)
andrewmatson says:
these two signings are way better ideas than both pretty & nice and pica beats, IMHO.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 23 2009 @ 11:51AM
D. Miller says:
I agree. Pretty & Nice and Pica Beats are very sucky.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 23 2009 @ 4:10PM
sara says:
i am not a pica beats fan, either, but i do really like pretty & nice. the thing is, you need to see them live before you decide because in my humble opinion pretty & nice had pretty shit production on their last album. it really did not do them justice at all. or it may not be your thing. but yeah, these last two signings have been quite the achievement. i can't wait to hear those next talbot tagora/unnatural helpers albums.
Posted On: Thursday, Apr. 23 2009 @ 4:17PM