summarily dropped the band from its label

In 1993 the band issued a press release stating their guitarist HeWhoCannotBeNamed had been stabbed to death in Philadelphia . Though this later turned out to be a hoax, the band even went as far as to attach a tribute to the “late” guitarist on their 1993 Sub Pop-released album Sugarfix . Sub Pop did not respond well to the hoax and summarily dropped the band from its label. The Dwarves reformed in 1997, releasing The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking (described by Adam Bregman of AllMusic as “the beginning of a new Dwarves…one that plays real songs, had a set list, and left the club unbloodied”), and its 2000 follow-up The Dwarves Come Clean .