MoonMaan on Stage
Thanks to Darren for sending in this shot of Rick McCollum onstage with MoonMaan from April 27, 2006 at 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.
Greg and Scott at Toazted
Toazted.com has an MP3 interview with Greg Dulli and Scott Ford from the Twilight Singers on their website for download.
We spoke to bass player Scott Ford and singer Greg Dulli (formerly know of Afghan Whigs),now from the group The Twilight Singers. Their new album “Powder Burns”, written and record in New Orleans, had just been released. We asked Dulli and Ford about the problems while writing, about the deeper meanings behind the lyrics and more.
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Whigs on YouTube
Some people have been very busy uploading Afghan Whigs content to YouTube. You can find videos, live clips, and TV performances by searching for keywords like Dulli, Afghan Whigs, or Twilight Singers.
Click on the video below to see the 8-piece Black Love-era Whigs performing “Blame, Etc” on 120 Minutes.
Powder Burns - Montreal Mirror
Montreal Mirror
8.5/10 - Johnson Cummins
Long after the Afghan Whigs called it a day, head honcho Greg Dulli makes up for lost time, and proves he can still croon out a perfect line. His previous band’s foray into mutant R&B is now galvanized on “Forty Dollars,” with a grand piano leading the charge. On “Candy Cane Crawl,” he dyes the grey around his temples and spills his guts while attempting to hold demons at bay. Once again, Dulli knows how to work his fairly limited vocal range with skill, but it’s his trademark acidic lyrics that really burrow beneath the skin. If you liked the brutal honesty on the Whigs’ classic break-up album Gentleman, you’re going to be all over this like white on rice. Trainspotters may also want to know that Ani DiFranco and former Whigs bassist John Curley figure prominently here.
Bobby’s Miami Projects
Miami New Times has an article on Bobby Macintyre’s new projects Studio 71 and Composers’ Cabaret:
Dulli’s rabid fan base ensured that the band remained on the road for most of 2002 through 2004, and at the end, Macintyre was exhausted. While they recorded their fourth album, Powder Burns, to be released May 16, he re-examined his hometown. This past August, he found the building that now houses Studio 71, in an area that alternates between desolate and gentrified, where he could work on his growing number of production projects, and made Miami his permanent residence again.
miaminewtimes.com | Music | Let’s Put on a Show
Powder Burns Makes iTunes Top 10
Powder Burns debuted at #9 on the iTunes alternative albums chart.
Take that, Fall Out Boy.
Powder Burns - RIFTrock
RIFTrock - Ben Thompson
7.5/10
I’ve believed for quite some time that Greg Dulli is one of the most underrated songwriters of this era. His work with the Afghan Whigs is unquestionably influential in most of the indie rock scene today. The first two Twilight Singers discs jumped right out and showed a more melodic side of Dulli (much like the Whigs’ 1965).
Well, Dulli is back again. This time it’s Powder Burns. It’s not as immediately effective as Twilight or Blackberry Belle in that it doesn’t have that gripping desire tweaked from Dulli’s self-imposed lyrics.
Powder Burns is much more the bassett hound of the collection. It’s not as pretty to listen to right away, but given enough time, it becomes a member of the family.
Dulli has a certain magic within his tortured soul that makes you want to understand what he does. Although it can be nearly impossible to fully equate Dulli’s morose tone to everyday life, it is within his self-inflicted pain that you find the solution to any of a number of lifes little problems.
Powder Burns is primarily Dulli’s effort, as he only brought on a few guests for this round. Former Whig John Curley makes an appearance, as does Ani Difranco, Joseph Arthur and Scott Bennett.
What makes Powder Burns better than many other records that are released any given week is the author. Dulli’s past will always give him the benefit of the doubt. Anybody who has ever given him a chance in the past will do so here and wind up finding some sense of enjoyment in his Powder Burns.
The Band:
Greg Dulli
For fans of:
Afghan Whigs
Mark Lanegan
Howlin Maggie
Outstanding Tracks:
Toward the Waves
Forty Dollars
Candy Cane Crawl
Powder Burns - Rock City
Rock-City.co.uk
4 Stars
Why oh why is Greg Dulli not a household name? He should be; Afghan Whigs are one of the most underrated bands in modern times; and Dulli is a charismatic frontman with a powerful soulful vocal delivery; on the fourth Twilight Singers album, a whole heap of guest vocalists and performers have been roped in to help out. Of particular note is cult folkie Ani DiFranco whose vocals perfectly compliment Dulli on ‘Bonnie Brae’ and the albums title track ‘Powder Burns’. Elsewhere Dulli reunites with former Afghan bass player John Curley on ‘Candy Cane Crawl’ where their former bandmates recapture their magic delivering a smoky slow burning melancholy rocker; which is sheer perfection. Joseph Arthur joins the procession of rotating artists on the grandiose ‘There’s Been An Accident’ the acoustically driven ‘The Conversation’ and ’Forty Dollars’ which swells and builds up to a full musical head of steam as the track progresses. For all the help he receives it’s when Dulli doesn’t have to share the limelight that he really comes to life. ‘Underneath The Waves’ and ‘My Time (Has Come)’ are jurassic stompers; Dulli relaxes and there’s no one else to cramp his style; allowing him to carry the songs perfectly; his voice sounding both sweetly seductive yet savage and strident at the same time. Musically Dulli is maturing with age, so here’s hoping for a minimum of 23 more years of Greg Dulli entertaining us in the world of music.
Greg Thomas
Greg Dulli salutes New Orleans on ‘Powder Burns’
Monsters and Critics - By John Benson
CLEVELAND _ Returning to his home in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Greg Dulli soldiered on last fall to finish recording a new Twilight Singers album, ‘Powder Burns.’ As previously reported, the set is due May 16 via One Little Indian.
The former Afghan Whigs frontman says ‘Powder Burns’ is an album based around his own personal struggles with addiction combined with the external conditions of the Big Easy.
‘There is probably a conscious and subconscious influence based on just what I saw and the way we all had to live down there after all of that happened,’ he tells Billboard.com. ‘Recording under a martial law curfew situation is probably not the ideal circumstance but I do have a deep abiding love of New Orleans and a loyalty to that city, which has given me so much. What that city needed more than anything was life; people living in it. And that was a small gesture on my part to a place that has given me so much.’
Recorded over a two-year period, during which Dulli released the 2004 Twilight Singers covers album ‘She Loves You,’ the new album features singer/songwriters Joseph Arthur and Ani DiFranco on three tracks each. Dulli says one of the DiFranco songs, ‘Bonnie Brae,’ epitomizes his intentions with ‘Powder Burns.’
‘I`ll tell you, I love the wall-of-sound,’ he says. ‘I really do. I love layering and I love the discovery of new parts to go with other parts. That song in particular sonically came alive when I added the mellotron to it. And then when Ani did her harmony vocals at the end, it sonically blows my mind. So, that song in particular, it`s one of my favorites I`ve done in the last couple of years’
Dulli is so pleased with ‘Powder Burns’ that he says at some point during the band`s upcoming tour, which is slated to begin in late May and will run through the fall, every album track will get stage time. The artist is also mulling which, if any, songs from the Afghan Whigs` catalog to perform.
‘I have not decided what to do there,’ he admits. ‘My honest answer is if I`m feeling it, I`ll do it. I will not do it out of any sense of obligation.’
Free Download: “My Time Has Come”
CMJ.com is offering a free download of the Twilight Singers track "My Time Has Come."
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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