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Premiere: The Hook’s totally unsanctioned Marco & Luca theme song, courtesy of The Armchairs

by Vijith Assar

dumplings

In addition to being part of an intriguing bill at the Tea Bazaar this Saturday, entrepreneurial Philly band The Armchairs are running a nifty little racket whereby they’ll write a song about any topic of your choosing and play it at the show for $10, and send you an mp3 of the same for $20.

Being the high rollers we are, we asked for the latter. It took a flurry of emails and reportedly some impromptu living-room recording sessions facilitated by several kind hosts in Pennsylvania to bring you this, but here’s our ode to Charlottesville’s definitive pork treasure trove, the Marco & Luca dumpling shop. (Hey, high rollers can love cheap dumplings too.)

The Armchairs - Best Of Dumplings

This will probably remain at best an unofficial theme song, due in equal parts to the vague porn-funk flavors (barely resisting a pork joke here) and words which alternate between indecipherable and grammatically compromised (e.g. “Best Of Dumplings”), but all the same, consider this your new headphone soundtrack for those $3 lunch hours.

And now that we’ve done our part, please remember that you too can order a custom song of your own, so please don’t hesitate to take over Saturday’s set list and/or start your Christmas shopping early.

  • [...] Noisy Boston-based piano, bass, and drums trio. Also featuring C-ville staples The Invisible Hand and Philly psychedelic pop nuts The Armchairs, the latter bearing the song we commissioned in honor of the Marco & Luca dumpling shop. [...]

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