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Pretty Girls Make Graves bassist Derek Fudesco and companions Peter Quirk (Hint Hint) and Marty Lund (Cobra High) are moving on up, literally. The basement practices of their trio, the Cave Singers, have led to a series of above-ground shows on the West Coast.

As previously reported, the band recently recorded with Colin Stewart (PGMG, Black Mountain), and plans to go label shopping upon its debut's completion. If the Cave Singers' hunt proves unsuccessful, they will release the work themselves.

The Cave Singers are currently streaming four tracks on their MySpace, assumably culled from the Stewart sessions. Cuts include "Helen", with its spacey effects that keep listeners waiting for a hair band chorus that never comes, the stomping, percussive "Dancing on Our Graves", and "Free the Bee", which taps along like a block of toy troops marching across a dinner table. The definite star of the bunch is "Seeds of Night", a moonlit campfire song (save a 25-second turn for the dark and twisted toward the end).

Pretty Girls Make Graves' Jason Clark is, as you already know, featured (as J. Clark) on the forthcoming Minus the Bear remix disc, Interpretaciones del Oso, which is due February 20 via Suicide Squeeze.

PGMG currently have two shows scheduled: one tonight (December 7) at Western Washington University's Viking Union Room in Bellingham, Washington, and one on December 16 at Seattle's Chop Suey club.

The Cave Singers dates:

12-14 Seattle, WA - Crocodile
12-18 San Francisco, CA - 12 Galaxies
12-20 Fresno, CA - Tokyo Gardens
12-21 Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
12-22 Los Angeles, CA - Mint
01-19 Seattle, WA - Comet Tavern