Pitchfork

While pretty girls make graves, Cave Singers make their own brand of gentle, country-tinged Pacific Northwestern folk, citing their primary influence as "current life." Yep, the side project of Pretty Girls Make Graves bassist Derek Fudesco-- also featuring Peter Quirk (Hint Hint) and Marty Lund (Cobra High)-- is a pretty subdued affair.

The three-piece (which shares a name with Fudesco's blog) formed this year in a basement and anticipate recording an album this fall.

"Pete and I have been playing for about nine or 10 months," Fudesco told Pitchfork, "We live together and would go in the basement and play and record songs we made up. We really liked the stuff we were writing, so we decided to make it a band. About two months ago, we got Marty to help us play better."

The Cave Singers are recording with Colin Stewart (PGMG, Black Mountain) this October, but they don't have a label yet. "It would be awesome if someone wanted to put [the album] out," said Fudesco. "If not, then we will release it."

While the band hope to make Cave Singers "an ongoing thing." Fudesco has also kept busy writing songs for a film-- Analog Days, directed by his friend Mike Ott, which recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and will appear at the Vienna Film Festival in October.

"It was a really cool experience, writing to fit scene clips and creating a vibe and not just writing songs the same way I'm used too," said Fudesco, "It's something that I would like to try and do more of."

Meanwhile, Pretty Girls Make Graves recently recorded an exclusive live iTunes session which includes versions of "Pyrite Pedestal", "The Number", "Pictures of a Night Scene", and "Domino", all from the band's latest record, Élan Vital. The latter track appears as a seven-and-a-half-minute-long "dub mix".

PGMG head out on a massive North American tour this fall.

PGMG dates:

10-24 Calgary, British Columbia - Warehouse
10-25 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite
10-26 Regina, Saskatchewan - Exchange
10-27 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Royal Albert Arms
10-29 Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet *
10-30 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock *
10-31 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom #
11-01 Des Moines, IA - Val Air Ballroom #
11-03 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
11-04 Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo *
11-05 Montreal, Quebec - Club Lambi *
11-07 Brooklyn, NY - Northsix *
11-08 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
11-09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #$
11-10 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom #$
11-11 North Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues #$
11-13 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone #$
11-14 Atlanta, GA - Earthlink Live #$
11-15 Baton Rouge, LA - Varsity Theatre #$
11-16 Houston, TX - Meridian #$
11-17 Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ #$
11-18 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom #$
11-20 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre #$
11-21 San Diego, CA - House of Blues #$
11-22 Anaheim, CA - Grove of Anaheim #$
11-25 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues #$

* with A Gun Called Tension
# with She Wants Revenge
$ with Monsters Are Waiting