There Is No Dana
Angry Gladiator Shakes Tiny People
"This Song Is A Douche" has nearly 200,000 plays on Spotify alone after just three months of digital streaming as well
as millions of plays on TikTok after being used in thousands of organic user-generated videos!
Following the 2001 breakup of the well-regarded Chicago emo band NYMB, lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Elaine Bradley
(later of NEON TREES) assembled a short-lived side project called THERE IS NO DANA with former NYMB drummer Ben Kane
and EIFFEL TOWER bassist Pete Wulff. In the winter of 2002, the group self-recorded a six-song EP titled Angry Gladiator
Shakes
Tiny People on Bradley's digital 8-track in their practice space, an industrial sheet metal fabrication shop, after just
a handful of rehearsals and two late-night recording sessions.
THERE IS NO DANA played just a single, ham-fisted show at the now-demolished Black Rock Bar in Roscoe Village, a
neighborhood watering hole where some of the band members used to hang out. Only a few CD copies were made, and digital
distribution was limited to Bradley's solo music website before the album - and the site itself - vanished from the
early internet entirely. That is, until fall 2024, when a leaked copy began circulating
and the track "This Song Is A Douche" blew up on TikTok, becoming a viral sensation among a new generation of emo fans.
The EP was mastered by Carl Saff and is now being reissued on vinyl for the first time with liner notes and slightly
re-worked art featuring a drawing of the original CD
cover by Emiliano Gonzalez (@nosoychapucero).
Price
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Format
LP · 1 disc
Release
18-07-2025
Label
Item-nr
1183366
EAN
0608275543941
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
THIS SONG IS A DOUCHE
2
DON'T TELL ME THAT I'M FAT
3
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED
4
LOOSE FILES
5
THE CAUSE
6
SLIPPED, YES SLIPPED