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Career

Music

Dahlia is best known as the frontman of Dwarves, a punk rock band, which he founded while attending Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago in the mid-1980s. With the Dwarves, he has written and produced nearly a dozen studio records over a span of over 30 years. He has produced albums by Mondo Generator, Dwarves,

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. He also released solo material as Blag Dahlia and under one of his other aliases, Earl Lee Grace. '' Blackgrass'' (1995), a 13-song LP of bluegrass songs, was released on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label using a backing band of real bluegrass musicians. He started an acoustic duo with Nick Oliveri, The Uncontrollable. He narrated the opening score on ''Last Day of School'' by Autopsy Boys. In 1999, he sang "Doing the Sponge" in the '' SpongeBob SquarePants'' episode " The Chaperone".

Films

Two songs recorded by Dahlia were on the soundtrack to A.W. Feidler's short film ''The Job'' (1997). In 2001, Dahlia performed "Zine-O-Phobia Music" for the '' Ghost World'' soundtrack. Dahlia appears in a mock snuff film entitled ''Misogynist: The Movie'' (2003). The Dwarves song "Massacre", which Dahlia wrote, was on the soundtrack to the 2006 film ''

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Writing

Dahlia has authored three novels, ''Armed to the Teeth with Lipstick'' (1998), ''Nina'' (2006), and ''Highland Falls'' (2022).

Controversy

In 2004, Dahlia was involved in an altercation with

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at a Los Angeles club, after which Homme was arrested for assault. Upon pleading no contest, Homme was ordered to remain at least 100 yards (91.44 meters) away from Dahlia and the club, was sentenced to three years' probation with community service, and was forced to enter a rehab program for 60 days.

Solo discography

*"Let's Take a Ride" / "Lord of the Road" 7" (1994), Sympathy for the Record Industry *"Doing the Sponge" (1999), '' SpongeBob SquarePants'' *''Venus With Arms'' CD (1995), Atavistic *''Blackgrass'' CD album (1995), Sympathy for the Record Industry – released under the name Earl Lee Grace *"Haunt Me" / "Let's Take a Ride" 7" (1996), Man's RuinStrong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 312

References

External links

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