Woxy.com - I Miss You Already
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Barring something exceptional happening in the next two weeks, we will silence our broadcasts on Friday, September 15th.
Sometimes no matter how hard you try and how special the thing you do, it simply isn’t enough to beat the odds. It’s the cold reality of business that not even we could escape. When September 15th comes, we’ll meet it proudly with heads held high and celebrate the past two years of woxy.com and the spirit of 97X.
A standout station, friend of The Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Staggering Statistics and countless others (not to mention a Cincinnati institution), WOXY.com will be shutting down after a honorable attempt at being listener-financed. I wish Barb and the whole team all the best as they move forward to new opportunities. Be sure to listen up over the next two weeks and participate in the farewell party. WOXY.com will be missed.
Carling Weekend 2006
Drowned in Sound - Features - Editorial - Carling Weekend 2006 - Friday
The Twilight Singers found rain to accompany them, not that it was needed with the soaked and stirred missives of an unsurprisingly Afghan Whigs flavour, duly aided by Mark Lanegan’s liquor gold vocals on ‘Where Did You Sleep Last Night’. Poised, ripened, covered in hope, this is the tang of time honoured blues men at their peak - a truly refreshing spectacle near the end of a very average day of music.
Twilight Singers Hit Tel Aviv
The Twilight Singers are currently taking the stage for the first of two sold out nights at Tel Aviv’s The Barby Club.
Following a brief hiatus, the Singers will hit the road again with dates in the US and Europe through November.
Afghan Whigs Hit Studio!
Following the current leg of The Twilight Singers 2006 world tour, the band will take a short break while Greg Dulli, John Curley, Rick McCollum and a to-be-named drummer convene to work on four Afghan Whigs tracks for the upcoming Rhino retrospective. An updated release date for that album has not been publicized.
These recordings will be the first new tracks from the band in 8 years, since The Afghan Whigs’ swan song, 1965.
Earlier this year, the band’s previously unreleased cover of Nightime appeared on the Big Star Tribute Album.
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London 06 Review - This is London
This is London
4/5 Stars
A bark and a growl
By David Smyth, Evening Standard 23.08.06
For a man with seemingly the charm and outgoing nature of a boulder, Mark Lanegan is very popular. Since leaving Seattle grunge pioneers the Screaming Trees, the 41-year-old has been seen glowering and impassive on stage with rockers Queens of the Stone Age, and recently picked up a Mercury nomination for his dark duets with impish ingenue Isobel Campbell.
Now he’s touring with fellow early-Nineties survivor Greg Dulli, also 41, whose Afghan Whigs were cult favourites while Nirvana were selling all the records. Here Lanegan simply popped up three times - his mountainous growl making Dulli’s bark sound like a puppy’s - closed his eyes, nodded occasionally, and left like a ghost at the party.
Dulli, in contrast, seems to be having a ball with his current band. Now somewhat portly after years of heroin addiction, he bounded from guitar to keyboards, racing from song to song with few pauses for breath.
Ever fond of the quirky cover, he threw in songs by the Clash, Leadbelly and Primal Scream and made an epic groove out of Martina Topley Bird’s Too Tough to Die. Standout original track Forty Dollars was even bold enough to steal lines from two different Beatles songs.
At the end of a fast-moving two-hour set Lanegan vanished quickly, but after two encores, Dulli was still shouting: “One more!” The crowd could only agree.
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“Sideways in Reverse” Goteborg Video
Powder Burns - Lunapark6
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Rating : 7.0
The Twilight Singers returns with a vengeance in the blistering album titled “Powder Burns.” Supposedly Greg Dulli’s come clean from his drug addictions and if the music is reflective of any of that, it definitely shows signs of a reborn Twilight Singers. No more half hearted attempts at dabbling in other musical genres, Powder Burns is focused clearly on a return to his rock roots, with the addition of an impressively produced wall of sound that backs most of the tracks on the album. The record was being recorded in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina came across the city and the album was finished a few months after all the devastation. Hard to say how much that may have effected the album, but whether it was Katrina or Dulli giving up the drugs, Powder Burns smokes with an urgency that has been missing in the Twilight Singers for years. Some highlights from the album would be the title track “Powder Burns” a slow rock ballad type of song with Ani Difranco dropping backup vocals, “There’s Been An Accident” (best track on th album) epic rock track with strings….works out great, “Forty Dollars” has pianos, funky vocals, and the “She Loves You..Yeah Yeah Yeah” chorus, and “Candy Cane Crawl.” Nice to see the Twilight Singers return to form and make their strongest album to date. This one is recommended, especially if you have any interest in his past work.
Powder Burns - Columbus Alive
Columbus Alive
Twilight Singers has always been kind of a misnomer. Since the days of the Afghan Whigs, Greg Dulli’s music has been better suited for after midnight, the perfect soundtrack for the culmination of intense flirtation or dirty deeds done dirt-cheap.
On Powder Burns, out this week, Dulli continues to mine his formula with surprising success.
As ever, the simple, powerful chord progressions begin in the gutter and shoot to the stars. Somewhere, they turn a corner from brooding to blistering, and by each song’s climactic end, a seeming battalion of musicians locks into a trance, striking their instruments with the weight of guilt and elation.
Orchestral strings and backup singers soar atop the swell as Dulli flails in and out of love, succumbing finally to a grand release. You can imagine him lighting a cigarette in the hazy aftermath.
Sure, this collection of songs may be indistinguishable from any other Twilight Singers album, but that should make for seamless incorporation into the legendary live show. The band is known to perform two rave-up sets a night, plowing through Dulli’s extensive catalog and an impressive array of soulful covers, from old Motown hits to “Hey Ya.”
—Chris DeVille
Katherine McPhee vs. the Afghan Whigs
Katherine McPhee vs. the Afghan Whigs
First Garfield, and now this.
Twilight Singers Concert Streams
You can catch recent Twilight Singers shows online at the links below.
8.20 Lowlands Festival *Audio
8.18 Pukkelpop *Video
8.11 Oya Festival *Video
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The Lowlands set is available for purchase at TuneTribe.
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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