DQE, or Dairy Queen Empire, is a band formed by singer/songwriter Grace Braun, New York photographer Chris Verene

Chris Verene

Chris Verene is an American fine arts and documentary photographer and performance artist.- Biography :Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He spent his teens and twenties in Atlanta, Georgia and studied art at Georgia State University. Verene moved to Brooklyn in 1999...

 and former Fat Day

Fat Day

Fat Day is a Boston-based noisecore band. Formed in Cambridge, MA in 1992 , they were associated with bands like Swirlies, Kudgel, and Trollin Withdrawal who formed the core of the Boston chimp rock scene. Fat Day released three LPs and several EPs on their own 100% Breakfast! label, as well as an...

 drummer Zak Sitter in 1986 in Atlanta. The band later evolved into one built around the core of Grace Braun (renamed Anna Trodglen) and her husband/drummer, music writer Dugan Trodglen. Past contributors include Justin Hughes, and a present member of the band is John Armstrong.

Discography

• Masturbation Made A Mess Out Of Me, 1993 7 inch single, on Feel Good All Over
• But Me I Fell Down, 1994 album, on Feel Good All Over
• Tell Me Why The Ivy Twines 1995 7 inch single, on Colossal
• Jump On In 1995 album, on Making Of Americans
• DQE & Jad Fair
  Jad Fair
  Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
  
  , self-titled collaboration, on Dark Beloved Cloud, DBC205
• The Queen of Mean on Dark Beloved Cloud, DBC229
• I'm Your Girl, DQE and Grace Braun double CD (disk 1 Grace Braun, disk 2 DQE) on Dark Beloved Cloud, DBC237

As Grace Braun:

• It Won't Hurt 1997, on Slow River Records, #26
• The Gabrielle Tapes 2005, self-released CD of Nick Drake
  Nick Drake
  Nicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
  
  and Jackson C. Frank covers.

On Cassette

• Pictures of Cliffs
• Old Gold
• Ride This Ride (released on Certron cassettes)
• N is for Knowledge (sold for $1.89)

Compilations

• Low Life 7 inch containing one DQE song, "In One Ear Out The Other" released in conjunction with Low Life Magazine (Publisher: Glen Thrasher)
• Low Life 12 inch containing two DQE songs, "Burning From The Inside Out" & "Carnival"

External links

• I'm Your Girl at www.amazon.com
• Dark Beloved Cloud catalogue
• Review by Andrew Magilow http://www.splendidezine.com/reviews/apr-16-01/dqe.html
• Review by Piero Scaruffi http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/dqe.html#title
• Review by Spin Magazine 1994—no link current--
• Article by Mike Appelstein in Writer's Block #7 http://www.appelstein.com/cif/dqe.html