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Washington DC's Poor But Sexy (PBS) is the latest project from five veterans of the DC post-punk scene. Singer David Brown and bassist Brandon Kalber met playing in the punk-funk band Travis Morrison Hellfighters. Guitarist and producer Jason Caddell brought the noise for 10 years as the guitarist in the Dismemberment Plan, a DC group that earned an international cult following for incorporating samples and dance grooves into punk rock long before it was de rigueur for indie bands. Keyboardist David Durst composes for the punk-chamber music collective Anti-Social Music when he's not working out his Stevie Wonder licks in PBS. Like a lot of DC bands, PBS also includes an investigative journalist, drummer Bruce Falconer.

In a 2008 interview with Washington Post Express, David Brown tries to explain the band's sound by saying "I was obsessed with R. Kelly. I tried to make some R. Kelly songs, basically. I literally tried to make what I thought sounded like R&B radio hits. But it didn't really turn out that way. People say it sounds like Steely Dan. There's a lot of '70s radio rock in there."

The band released and toured behind an EP in 2009 (which included a show at Brooklyn Bowl) and the standout track from this disc is "The Only Good Thing", where David Brown channels a R. Kelly vibe. (He is quoted in another interview as saying "The original concept was ‘The only good thing about saying goodbye is looking at your ass when you walk away’").



Poor But Sexy now have their debut full-length Let's Move In Together coming out on Feb. 15th and the band is playing some shows over the next few weeks in support of this new release. The local show with Dismemberment Plan on Jan. 29th (at Webster Hall) is sold out but you can catch the band at Union Pool with Franz Nicolay and David Dondero on Feb. 25th.

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