Billboard - Dulli, Lanegan Wrap Gutter Twins Album
Dulli, Lanegan Wrap Gutter Twins Album
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan have wrapped the debut album from their long-in-the-works Gutter Twins project. Due March 4 via Sub Pop, “Saturnalia” features guest appearances by Joseph Arthur, Martina Topley-Bird, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen and the touring band from Dulli’s Twilight Singers.
The Gutter Twins concept has been alive since late 2003, and the first two songs the group wrote, “All Misery” and “The Body,” are present on “Saturnalia.” But the majority of the material was finished this year, often with Dulli in New Orleans and Lanegan in Los Angeles.
“I’d send them to him and he’d mess around with them,” Dulli tells Billboard.com of working with longtime friend Lanegan. “But whenever we were in the same room, that’s when the lion’s share of the material was realized, because we actually could work it out.” Lanegan contributed two of his own songs to the project, “Who Will Lead Us” and “Bette Noir.”
Hooking up with Sub Pop was an easy decision for the artists, who were both signed to the label earlier in their careers (Lanegan with Screaming Trees, Dulli with Afghan Whigs). “It was the perfect situation,” Dulli says. “The way it presented itself, it was sort of the classic offer you couldn’t refuse.”
The Gutter Twins have lined up five shows for next year, beginning Feb. 14 in New York and including a March 1 set in San Francisco as part of the Noise Pop festival.
“We’ll see how the first round goes and that will dictate what we do from there on out,” Dulli says. “I think we have an exciting show. We certainly have a lot of material that we could cull from and stretch the set. We’re also very fond of interpretations.”
Gutter Twins Announce Release Date, Shows
Pitchfork: Gutter Twins Announce Release Date, Shows
Valentine’s Day: a time for flowers, candy, snuggles, kisses, hugs, and all that gooey stuff. Who better to spend it with than Greg Dulli, the Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers master of the depraved psycho-sexual mindfuck?
On February 14, 2008, the Gutter Twins, Dulli’s collaboration with Screaming Trees/QOTSA/Soulsavers dude Mark Lanegan, will hit the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. How romantic!
The date is the first of five for the Twins, who will be celebrating the March 4 Sub Pop release of their debut album Saturnalia. In a press release, Dulli says, “I couldn’t tell you what Saturnalia’s theme is, but there’s a seeking of transcendence that’s new. I have never written songs like this before. It’s a different temple I’m visiting.”
Lanegan is on tour with Soulsavers right now.
Gutter Twins:
02-14 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
02-19 Paris, France - Maroquinerie
02-21 London, England - Koko
02-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
03-01 San Francisco, CA - Noise Pop
Gutter Twins London Tix On Sale Now
SHOCKWAVES NME AWARDS SHOW - THE GUTTER TWINS
Where: Koko, London
When: THURSDAY, 21/02/2008, doors at 19:00, starts at 19:30
thx Dave
More Texar/McCollum Dates
TEXAR will be joined by Rick McCollum performing on Tuesday November 27 at EMPTY BOTTLE in Chicago at 11 PM & Wednesday November 28 at HOT CAKES GALLERY in Milwaukee at 8 PM.
Scott Ford’s Personal Radio Stream
From Scott:
Due to the generosity of one of our listeners, Tim Walker, we now have a radio stream that accommodates 25 listeners at CD quality sound. Yes, this opens a whole new world of possibilities. The stream is broadcast from my house to the server, so I’ll need to take it down from time to time to use my laptop, however I will make a regular home show schedule.
Just type http://s5.viastreaming.net/cgi-bin/listen.pls?7190 in your music player, such as iTunes.
Thank you so much to Tim, and for at least a month we have a cool radio stream. Feel free to Paypal to fordradio@gmail.com to support the station. The private stream is entirely listener supported and I thank you for your generosity.
I’ve been listening for the last few minutes, and it’s been all Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers so far, including a few live tracks. Check it out.
Gutter Twins at Noise Pop
NME.COM is reporting that The Gutter Twins will be performing at Noise Pop ‘08 in San Francisco.
Magnetic Fields, Cursive, The Mountain Goats and The Gutter Twins are among the bands set to play the week-long festival running February 26 to March 2.
And, from the Noise Pop website:
Another exciting addition to Noise Pop 2008 is The Gutter Twins, the anticipated collaboration between Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. Dulli and Lanegan have been working together periodically since 2000. In July 2007, Pitchforkmedia.com announced that “two of the alt-rock era’s greatest frontmen,” had signed to Seattle label Sub Pop. The Gutter Twins will perform for Noise Pop in support of their debut album “Saturnalia,” currently set for an early 2008 release.
Thanks Andy
Dulli Remembers Joe Nuxhall
From The Post’s Cincinnati Reds Blog
I grew up in Hamilton, OH during the rise of Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine. My grandmother and I used to sit outside on her patio in Lindenwald listening to Marty and Joe call the game. I loved them both but had never heard a voice as deep and warm as Joe Nuxhall’s. When she told me he was from Hamilton it made me feel special, like I was somehow famous too. A few years later when I had started playing Knothole, she or my parents would take me to Joe’s Batting Range in Joyce Park. I was in the cage once in 1975 hacking at pitches when I heard that voice behind me say “You’re dropping your shoulder, boy”. I turned around and it was the great man himself smiling that big smile of his. When I got out of the cage, I went over to the table where he was sitting and started asking him questions about the Reds, batting tips and how to throw a knuckleball. He answered every question I asked and signed a ball for me, which I still have. He told me that this year’s team was going to win it all and when they took Boston in Game 7, I smiled remembering our conversation. As I traveled around the country and got to listen to Jack Buck, Ernie Harwell, Harry Caray and the great Vin Scully, among others, I never once forgot that I got to grow up listening to the two best I ever heard. Joe Nuxhall was a great announcer and a kind man. I will never forget him.
Greg Dulli
New Orleans, LA
11/16/07
Down the Line - The Singles File
The Singles File - washingtonpost.com
Twilight Singers: “Down the Line (Live)”
Anyone who’s heard Jose Gonzalez strip Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” down to a gorgeous skeleton of a song should appreciate the inverse switcheroo Greg Dulli pulls off here. Adding strings, pianos and a rumbling drumbeat, the former Afghan Whigs yowler inflates Gonz¿lez’s nimble tune into something beautifully bloated.
Gutter Twins - March 4
According to their Myspace site, the Gutter Twins album will be released March 4 on Sub Pop.
Whigs on Brothers & Sisters
The Afghan Whigs song “66″ was featured on Episode 206 (”Two Places”) of ABC’s Brothers & Sisters last week.
thx Vultures
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
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