Diving into some nostalgia this Thursday afternoon with a set by Dum Dum Girls, recorded live at Primavera Sound in Barcelona on May 29, 2010 and preserved for posterity by WFMU in New Jersey in association with RNE Radio 3 in Madrid.

In case you don’t already know (since the band did break up almost 10 years ago) . . .

They formed in 2008. It began as the bedroom recording project of singer and songwriter Dee Dee (née Kristin Gundred). She is currently based in Los Angeles. The name is a double homage to the Vaselines’ album Dum Dum and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys”.

The first release under the Dum Dum Girls moniker was a five-song CDR on her own label, Zoo Music, in late 2008. It was followed by an EP on Captured Tracks and a 7-inch on HoZac Records She quickly gained attention with these releases and signed to Sub Pop in July 2009.

Their debut album, I Will Be, was released in March 2010 and was well received by critics. Pitchfork described the songs as “genuine earworms, both unfailingly hip and often wonderfully associative”. Dee Dee produced the record with Richard Gottehrer, who had previously worked with Richard Hell, Blondie, the Go-Gos and the Raveonettes. Gottehrer also co-wrote the early 1960s hit songs “My Boyfriend’s Back” and “I Want Candy”. The record included guest guitarists Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs on “Yours Alone”; Dee Dee’s ex-husband, Brandon Welchez of Crocodiles, on “Blank Girl”; and Andrew Miller on multiple tracks. The cover of the album featured a college snapshot of Dee Dee’s mother, who died from cancer in 2010. After its release, Dee Dee assembled a touring band, and their first shows were in support of Girls.

In 2011, the EP He Gets Me High was released, which included a cover of “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” by the Smiths. This record marked the addition of Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes to the production team.

Second album Only in Dreams was released in September 2011, featuring the singles “Coming Down” and “Bedroom Eyes”. This album is the only Dum Dum Girls recording to feature the full band. On December 1, 2011, they performed “Bedroom Eyes” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

The group never issued a formal “we’re breaking up” announcement, but after the release of their last EP End of Daze (2012) and album Too True (2014), Dee Dee gradually shifted focus to her solo career. In 2016 she officially debuted her new project under the name Kristin Kontrol, effectively bringing Dum Dum Girls to a close.

And the rest, as they say, is history.

Here they are they were in 2010 – sadly, a short set but a memorable one.

Crank it up and enjoy lunch!