The Poison Dart
"Get Hot"
Newsworthy
YouTube / 28 August 2007
The Poison Dart has finally entered the realm of “Web 2.0” and “user generated content”. YouTube user Clean Your Ears posted a video of us playing at What The Heck Fest 2007!
Intermingling Cleverly / 18 June 2007
New review at Pop Matters: “Get Hot, the debut offering from Vancouver area outfit The Poison Dart, displays the band’s ability to cleverly intermingle elements of folk, lo-fi, and retro pop (several of the more richly orchestrated tracks put a modern spin on the majesty of a bygone era where the Spectors and Bacharachs of the world saw the arrangement as king) while centering their songs around first-rate vocals and laid-back but focused instrumental support.” Read the whole thing
BRACING FOR A MUDSLIDE / 5 April 2007
Urban Pollution’s Tyler Womack writes a nice review of Get Hot. The first paragraph is especially awesome: ”...a bevy of awkward jokes…Could the Poison Dart be this ridiculous?...One plays Get Hot bracing for a mudslide.”
HI! / 7 March 2007
CHECK OUT THE POISON DART ON VIRB: HTTP://WWW.VIRB.COM/THEPOISONDART, it is totally the new MYSPACE, LOL!
FUDDRUCKERS / 5 January 2007
Great news! Due to our exclusive performance contract with Fuddruckers Restaurants International, www.thepoisondart.com is now 8th in the results when you perform a Google search for Fuddruckers Vancouver. These are indeed exciting times for the band and our fans.
Upcoming Shows
Biography
We are not THIS GUY, but it would be awesome if we were.
Here is a tiny picture, but you can click it to see a bigger version:
Ando PR, the most famous public relations firm in the music industry, wrote a biography of the band:
“Formed near Seattle in late-2006, Poisoned Dart is one of the less original bands to come out of the city’s suburban chain bar rock scene. Originally called KPP (an acronym for the simply dreadful Kevin’s Poizoned Peniz), and under bizarre contract to gig exclusively in Fuddruckers restaurants and foyers, the group features Alex McMahon on guitar, Megan McMahon (no relation) on lead vocals, Devon White (Alex’s son-in-law) on bass, and L. James Arner on drums. As famous for their heavy-handed onstage proselytizing as for their oddly arrhythmic “sucka boogie oogie,” P-Dizzy-Izzy—as fans insist on calling them—awkwardly mix hip hop, heterosexist rants, and far-right-wing politics that are sixty percent Insane Clown Posse and fifty-five percent George H.W. Bush. Centered around Arner’s self-absorbed, almost arrogant tom fills and White’s “play-as-many-notes-as-possible-as-sloppily-and-
weirdly-as-possible” bass mindset, what the music lacks in tunefulness, rhythm, and practical listenability is ardently steamrolled by an almost nihilistic outpouring of puerile—and at times, yes, uncomfortable—early-teenage apathy. This would be deliciously cathartic—if not outright compelling—save for the distressing fact that the Dart’s median age is thirty-two. For better or worse, Olympia’s Marriage Records has picked PD up for a four-album deal, promising nationwide distribution and what the one sheet describes as, God help us, “phat-lickey VIDZ!!!” What?”
Listenables
"Get Hot" Out Now!
Our debut album "Get Hot" is now available for purchase! Featuring awesome benefits like a 100% recycled cardboard jacket (lovingly hand-letterpressed by The Poison Dart and glued by many), an 11x17 poster with artwork by Kirsten Johnson, and 14 songs. If you are interested in picking one up, please contact us using one of the methods listed in the "contact" section below. Click the image to make it big, internet user!
Here are some MP3s from the album for your listening pleasure: Lay Low (Lay Low) / Rise 'N Shine / Lady, I've Been Hoping Long
Contact Information
Address:
6918 232nd St.
Langley, BC V2Z 2Z9
(604) 888-2352
Email:
Friends
Digital Hearth
Alex has a blog.
International Falls
Our sister band.
Marriage Records
Our label in Portland. Thanks, Curtis and company!
Norfolk & Western
Adam and Rachel and co. create lovely songs in Portland, Oregon.
PW Elverum and Sun
Home to Mt. Eerie, Thanksgiving, Woelv, D+, etc. "Behold My Pregnant Night Mountain"
Velella Velella
Velella Velella will bring a dance party to you and they will bring the dope iPod beatz.
Yukon
Liam, Theo and Jack play our favorite music right now. You will be able to hear them singing on some of our new recordings.