Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan Land in the Gutter
Fans who’ve attended Twilight Singers shows over the past couple of years have frequently seen Greg Dulli’s close friend Mark Lanegan make guest appearances. The two have been working for some time on an album under the moniker of the Gutter Twins. Dulls tells Spinner the album is moving along. “We’ve actually been in the same town for a couple of weeks now,” he says from New Orleans where they’re recording. “We’re going to record through June. This thing ain’t gonna come out until January but we’re on it.”
Dulli admits that doing a record with another vocalist is quite a new endeavor. “We’re trying to write most of the songs where we both sing them,” he says. “I’ve only really written for myself, so it’s challenging. We’re [also] collaborating on the music and the lyrics. We’re trying to make something that sounds totally different from either one of us.”
As for what that new sound is, Dulli can’t answer specifically. “It’s kind of all over the place,” he says. “We’re pretty schizophrenic fellas. There’s a song with a six-piece string section and timpani, a stripped-down rock ‘n’ roll song and everything in between.”
Moon Maan Preview
Pluginmusic.com has an overview of the debut Moon Maan record.
Moon Maan is set to unleash their debut CD on June 5 on Catlick Records. The brainchild of former Afghan Whigs guitarist Rick McCollum, Moon Maan, is a ghostly, groovy, grisly, and bluesy sound that emerged along city streets and in the shadows of skyscrapers, where darkness and loneliness linger and cracks of hope appear like broken glass in the asphalt below.
For frontman McCollum, who contributes vocals, guitars and Theremin to the four-piece band’s Zeppelin- and Whigs-inspired debut, that kind of layering of experiences to create an entire world—and an entire sound–makes sense. “I love things that require a lot of tracks to make one sound,” he says. “I like to think of myself as a Maximalist Purist. I’m inspired by artists like Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. I like using all these little things, all these voices, all these sounds, to try to make something else.”
PlugInMusic.com : News : Afghan Whigs Guitarist Rick McCollum Set To Release Moon Maan’s Debut
eBay: SALT SHAKER VHS
From the eBay files: SALT SHAKER VHS
Salt Shaker is a short tale of the simplicty and absurdity of death.Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli plays a hopeless romantic-a failure of a poet who, along with his wife [Kathy Hendrickson} , attends a self-imposed last meal-all the while isolated from a boistrous patron {David Runeborg} holding court on art, life and death and the very plot of the film itself.Part Hitchcock, part Film Noir, part Parody, part whatever..An Andy Grund film, Red Line Motion Picture, running time 25 minutes, 1994….Used video with case in good condition.
Thanks to RJ for posting this to the Congregation list
Afghan Whigs Return ‘Unbreakable’
Spinner.com
The Afghan Whigs will get a well-deserved retrospective, ‘Unbreakable,’ due May 1, but former Whigs frontman Greg Dulli is quick to point out that the collection is not a greatest hits. “We didn’t have any hits. We were an album band,” he told Spinner. “I felt very strange picking songs out of their context just as a primer for someone who may have heard of us [or] never heard us. We put together an overview of the 13, 14 years we spent together.”
Given that the Whigs — who started on Sub Pop just before the grunge explosion — were flirting with stardom with the stunning ‘Gentlemen,’ yet never had any “hits,” is Dulli surprised by the attention the band still commands? “Not at all,” he says. “I think we were a great rock ‘n’ roll band that turned a lot of people on, put on great shows and were incredibly loyal to our audience as they were to us. I think it’s rather apropos.”
In fact, Dulli says the band still gets offers to reunite. And while they did so for two new songs on this collection — ‘I’m a Soldier’ and ‘Magazine’ — that’s the extent of their reformation. “We’re not going to do any shows,” he says. “We knew that going in. We knew it the day we broke up.”
But that doesn’t mean he didn’t enjoy going back one more time. “I will say, almost without a fault, I had incredibly great memories. Anything that was ever negative about being in that band fell to the wayside.”
Express: Afterhours Interview
There’s a great interview with Manuel from Afterhours at ReadExpress.com
The other reason Afterhours wrote in English is because Agnelli’s American soul brother, Twilight Singers/Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli, decided the band was too good to be heard by Italians alone. “He was pushing really hard to get us out of Italy,” Agnelli said. “He said we weren’t sounding like anyone else and we had to try and do something outside of our country.”
Afterhours Tonight in Cinci
Just a reminder that Afterhours will be at the Gypsy Hut in Cincinnati tonight. Their special guests will be Roc Records artists The Trojan Rabbit and Patient Zero.
33 1/3: Gentlemen
The 33 1/3 book series accepted proposals list includes a book on Gentlemen by the Afghan Whigs to be written by Bob Gendron.
As an avid reader of the 33 1/3 series, I’m very excited. If you’re looking for a place to get started with the collection, I can recommend the books on REM’s Murmur and Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.
Steel and Glass
Afterhours has posted a video of the band performing “Steel and Glass” by John Lennon with Greg Dulli on vocals.
MySpace Videos: steel and glass by Afterhours
Mighty Fine Party Friday
One of our favorites, Mighty Fine, is performing this Friday Mar 23 at Sputnik in Brooklyn.
Add it to your Myspace calendar and put on your dancin’ shoes.
Afterhours in Austin
Afterhours has been regularly updating their Myspace blog with text and photos from the road. The most recent entry has two great videos to give you a feel for what the streets of Austin are like at SXSW. There is a Twilight Singers mention in the text - but I ‘C’d my intro Italian course and am not going to be much help in translating.
The band performs tonight at 8PM at Whisky Bar.
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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