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Giant Drag - Kevin Is Gay Play Video

Giant Drag - Kevin Is Gay

Music video by Giant Drag performing Kevin Is Gay. (C) 2005 Interscope Records

Giant Drag "Stuff to Live For" official music video Play Video

Giant Drag "Stuff to Live For" official music video

From Giant Drag's Swan Song EP. Yes YouTube, I own this music. I'm official like that.

Giant Drag - Slayer Play Video

Giant Drag - Slayer

One of my favourite songs at the moment, "Slayer" from Giant Drag's album Hearts and Unicorns. TAGS Kevin Is Gay Cordial Invitation This Isn't It YFLMD Pretty Little Neighbor Blunt Picket Fence High Friends in Places...

Wicked Game by Giant Drag Play Video

Wicked Game by Giant Drag

Amazing Cover song by Amazing Band was featured in the promos for season 5 of nip tuck

This Isn't It by Giant Drag Play Video

This Isn't It by Giant Drag

A video for the song "This Isn't It" by Giant Drag. Directed by GJ Echternkamp.

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Giant Drag Biography

Giant Drag is an American Indie rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formerly a duo, the band was founded in 2003 by Annie Hardy who continues to be the band's sole singer and songwriter.

Giant Drag has released an EP, Lemona, in 2005 and their debut album, Hearts and Unicorns, which was released in the United States on September 13, 2005, and February 27, 2006 in the UK. Hardy released the Swan Song EP on February 16, 2010 on Red Distribution.

Giant Drag have played live shows supporting The Jesus and Mary Chain, Scissor Sisters, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Nine Black Alps, The Lemonheads and The Cribs, and were tipped by the NME for "big things in 2006". They also performed in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2006.

Annie Hardy can also be heard on the song "Pink Cellphone" from the 2006 Deftones album entitled "Saturday Night Wrist".

Celebrity fans include Daniel Radcliffe.

In December 2008, NME announced that she was suffering from muscle disorder fibromyalgia. According to College News, her condition was later referenced in Paul Avion's (song "Fibromyalgia".

On June 5, 2008, mixing and mastering for the Swan Song EP was completed, and a completed version of the song "Stuff To Live For" was uploaded to the band's MySpace page. Calabrese played drums on the EP.

In January 2010, fellow L.A. musician Paul Avion chose "Kevin is Gay" to kick off a series of articles about Africa for SPIN Earth.

The Swan Song EP was released on February 16, 2010.

As of December 2010, Hardy's Twitter mentioned a new full-length album had been completed, with no firm date set for release yet.

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Giant Drag Discography

Giant Drag albums.

  • Hearts and Unicorns - 13/09/2005 (Kickball Records/US)

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