Brand new VARSITY DRAG studio album, Night Owls, now available!
"...a darkly melodic, moodier older sibling to their 2006 debut album for crying out loud, the nine songs of night owls sketch a relationship's trajectory through joy, desolation and loss...tracing
a poignant arc of bruising love--and life--celebrated and survived with wry tenderness, compassion, and ruthless candor."
LISTEN TO ANY AND ALL OF "NIGHT OWLS" (AND MORE)--AND DOWNLOAD IT--FROM OUR BANDCAMP SITE: RIGHT HERE!
MORE BLURBS:
"...[Night Owls] reveals musical ambitions
that fans were likely unaware that the punk statesman harbored...and while he selected former LEMONHEADS producer Tom
Hamilton to mind the faders and the knobs, Night Owls is a significant
sonic step forward for Deily...
[G]enius...entirely gratifying."
--Jay Breitling, Clicky Clicky Music Blog
"'Night Owls' is a nervy, brisk bolt through a set of tunes
whose crisp sound and bittersweet temperament pre-dates the alternative rock that would morph into 'grunge'--but thankfully
post-dates it, too."
--The Boston Globe
"['Night Owls'], their second studio record, has matured
vastly from the first, whilst still as melodically charming...each chorus delivers mountainous, foot-stomping melody, catchier than the clap...It does ring true with early Lemonheads sound, which
has been distilled, maturing for a couple of decades, and it’s
Ben’s progression as a songwriter which sets 'Night Owls' aside from his days in the Lemonheads...By right, it is pop
punk for grown ups."
--Joe Callaghan, Collective Zine
Rock & Roll Is Such a Hassle: VARSITY DRAG live in Europe, now available!
"...Hassle
is a career-spanning retrospective of surprising coherence covering 20 years and Deily is still full of a nervous energy that
continues to manifest itself in sharp, driving songs and vibrant live sets...an exceptional, consistent, sweaty, bier-soaked, raw-as-the-day-it-was-made,
warts-and-all you-are-there document."
BREAKING NEWS:
Local Man Selects Reading Material For the Benefit
of Other Subway Riders
CAMBRIDGE, MA--With an apparently ludicrous level of
self-consciousness, local man Ben Deily is carefully choosing books for his subway commute with an eye to fellow commuters,
an interview revealed today.
"Well, jeez, yeah," admitted Deily, former C-list rock star and current "advertising executive." "I admit it, I can get
a bit preoccupied with what people might think when they see what I'm reading on the train.
"So, obviously, I have to devote a lot of thought to making sure it doesn't look like I put a lot of thought into this..."
