Dead Girls Ruin Everything

If you're keeping score at home, music researchers have added a third item to their list of peculiar facts about deceased women. As was previously discovered, pretty girls do, indeed, make graves. And, of course, there really is a death cab for cutie. But thanks to some top-notch investigation by four Lawrence music makers, we can now confirm that dead girls do, in fact, ruin everything. Formed from the ashes of local powerhouses Podstar and Ultimate Fakebook, Dead Girls Ruin Everything takes unabashed guitar rock and wears it like a freakin' badge. The Replacements might be a distant memory, but DGRE singers and guitarists JoJo Longbottom and Cameron Hawk have channeled everything that made Paul Westerberg an underground superhero into their own modern-day classic. The band's first LP, What a Perfect Ending, hit local shelves in February.