A few weeks ago, Annie Hardy, of the long-running LA-based indie rock project Giant Drag, faked her own death as a dark online hoax. At the time, she wrote, "I thought if only for a second we could all shift dimensional realities together and maybe find new appreciation for one another." Earlier this week, Hardy, who is still alive, released a new Giant Drag single that's naturally called "Song For My Funeral."
Hardy says that she wrote "Song For My Funeral" several years ago, "after finally skimming the lengthy DM’s one of my schizophrenic stalkers had sent me seeing it end with 'I’m a father and a husband which makes it even more upsetting I should have to die. Well, leaving Monday. See you soon'." She wrote the song as a way to cope with how freaked-out that DM left her, and her original idea was to record the song with an orchestra.…