New Moon Maan!
Rick McCollum and Moon Maan have posted a new track to their Myspace page. The song, “Stand Up”, will be included on an upcoming EP from the band.
Dulli in “Passenger Side”
Slated for a 2009 release, Matt Bissonnette’s Passenger Side is summarized as:
Michael Brown’s birthday begins with a telephone call from his estranged, drug addicted bother Tobey. Tobey is totally unaware that it is his older brother’s birthday, but he is very aware that his car is broken, and he begs Michael to drive him on various apparently legitimate, vital errands. As the day wears on, it becomes clear that this drive will lead them to some very unexpected destinations.
The film stars Greg Dulli in the role of Porn Director. Awesome.
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Dulli on Sahm Tribute
Via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog | The Tripwire
…on March 24 of 2009, Vanguard Records will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm to celebrate the Texas Tornado’s unique career and influential legacy. This collection will include new renditions of Doug’s most indelible songs from his days as “Little Doug” through his time with the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados, performed by artists such as Levon Helm, Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Dave Alvin, Augie Meyers, Jimmie Vaughan, Alejandro Escovedo and Doug’s son, Shawn Sahm. As a first look of what we can expect from Keep Your Soul, here is Greg Dulli’s (Afghan Whigs, Gutter Twins) take on “You Was For Real”
Click the link above to access the audio stream.
Curley and King
Citybeat.com - The King Of Them All
Cincinnati is looking to assert itself as a center for musical talent by recognizing its past. One of the first steps is a historical marker for King Records and hopefully a new King studio. Click the link above for the full story.
While still in preliminary planning and fundraising stages and perhaps years away, already signed on to operate the proposed King studio is John Curley, the former Afghan Whigs member and owner of Ultrasuede Studio in Northside. Curley and other backers of the project see the new King Center as a music and arts cultural touchstone for the area, not to mention an effort to literally reconnect Cincinnati with its musical soul.
“What we’d want to do with the recording studio is provide opportunities for internships and workshops and do more community outreach to get kids interested in learning about recording, performance and all aspects of the music business,” Curley says.
“Sunday at Devil Dirt” Gets US Release
Mark Lanegan’s latest set of duets with Isobel Campbell, Sunday at Devil Dirt, is finally released in the US today, November 18th. The album was originally released in May in Europe and Australia to widespread acclaim. The US release includes five bonus tracks.
Sunday at Devil Dirt Track List
1. “Seafaring Song”
2. “The Raven”
3. “Salvation”
4. “Who Built the Road”
5. “Come on Over (Turn Me On)”
6. “Back burner”
7. “The Flame That Burns”
8. “Shot Gun Blues”
9. “Keep Me in Mind Sweetheart”
10. “Something to Believe”
11. “Trouble”
12. “Sally Don’t You Cry”
Bonus tracks:
13. “Fight Fire With Fire”
14. “Asleep On A Sixpence”
15. “Violin Tango”
16. “Rambling Rose, Clinging Vine”
17. “Hang On”
MOKB on Jerusalem
My Old Kentucky Blog: Slouching Toward Jerusalem
Stylistically, this Jerusalem plays in many sandboxes, but their self-described melodramatic-psychedelic-gospel-indie-rock is sure to please all you self-loathing fans of modern music who like your rooms dark, your drinks strong and your pleasure just a little painful.
Click through the link to stream “Sweet Chariots.”
Dulli and Lanegan Return to Europe with “Stripped” Shows
“An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan”
Goes On Sale This Friday November 14th
Sub Pop veterans Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan will return to Europe beginning January 15th 2009 for sixteen special intimate performances. Dulli and Lanegan along with guitarist Dave Rosser will perform a ‘Stripped Down In The Gutter’ set. By sheer virtue of the intimacy of the show, it will be unique, as neither Dulli nor Lanegan have toured in this capacity before.
“Since our instrumentation for this tour is going to be radically different, the shows will include many songs neither of us have performed in quite sometime or ever,” Dulli commented.
“An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan” will kick off on January 15th in Glasgow at the Oran Mor and will run through February 2nd in Athens, Greece at Gagarin 205. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (November 14th) for all sixteen shows.
The Gutter Twins have had a massively successful year with the release of their debut album Saturnalia, and their follow up EP Adorata for Sub Pop Records. It’s been a welcome homecoming to Sub Pop for both artists.
Mark Lanegan rose to fame as singer for the much-loved Seattle band Screaming Trees and Greg Dulli as the magnetic leader of the Afghan Whigs. Following the break up of both groups, Lanegan and Dulli went on to achieve significant notice on their own. Lanegan continued to release successful solo albums, as well as create vivid partnerships with the likes of Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell and Queens of the Stone Age. Dulli, meanwhile, innovatively fused indie, soul and electronic sounds in his post-Whigs ensemble the Twilight Singers, who released their first album, Twilight As Played By The Twilight Singers, in 2000; the most recent Twilight effort, 2006’s Powder Burns. Saturnalia is sure to make many ‘Best Of 2008′ lists.
Following the conclusion of this tour, Dulli will begin work on a new Twilight Singers album; while Mark Lanegan has an upcoming project with Soulsavers and will begin work on his first solo album in five years.
‘AN EVENING WITH GREG DULLI & MARK LANEGAN’
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009 TOUR DATES
1/15 UK Glasgow Oran Mor
1/16 IRELAND Dublin Academy
1/17 IRELAND Galway Roisin Dubh
1/19 UK London Union Chapel
1/20 BELGIUM Hasselt Muziekodroom
1/21 BELGIUM Brussels Ancienne Belgique
1/22 HOLLAND Haarlem Patronaat
1/24 GERMANY Berlin Babylon
1/25 AUSTRIA Vienna WuK
1/26 ITALY Milan La Salumeria Della Musica
1/27 ITALY Rome Auditorium Parco Della Musica
1/28 ITALY Florence Auditorium Flog
1/30 SPAIN Barcelona Apolo
1/31 SPAIN Bilbao Kafe Antzokia
2/2 SPAIN Madrid Joy Eslava
2/4 GREECE Athens Gagarin 205
Saturnalia on Amazon Music’s Best of 2008
The Gutter Twins’ Saturnalia comes in at number 84 on Amazon.com’s Best of 2008 list.
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Live at Triple Door - Pitchfork
Pitchfork
Rating: 7.0
Idle hands are the devil’s playthings, goes the saying. Considering all his demons, is it any wonder that Greg Dulli keeps himself busy? Four albums with the Twilight Singers in six years, his ongoing collaboration with Mark Lanegan as the Gutter Twins, long days spent on the road and long nights spent on stage: post-Whigs, Dulli’s been a pretty busy guy.
The Gutter Twins Darken Brooklyn for a Night
Twins in the Lemmon and Matthau sense, The Gutter Twins are longtime buddies Mark Lanegan (of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age fame) and Greg Dulli (of Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers). ‘90s rock fans will eat this stuff up: an indie act with purebred Seattle grunge pedigree and an unlikely pairing that works because it operates in stark contrasts, rocking out with hard-hitting fuzz one moment, hushing down to ethereal shimmer the next.
Lanegan possesses the voice of God, if God chain smoked and had a penchant for single malts, and his gravelly, rumbling baritone—capable of dipping so low you can feel it in your chest—is The Gutter Twins’ single best asset. But Dulli’s melancholic, chameleon-like vocals complicate the texture, frequently layering over his partner’s voice in thick harmony. This complex sound—like a slab of dangerously black marble with a beautiful sheen—is what transforms this band’s otherwise pretty generic grunge rock songs into something special.
Their Thursday show at Greenpoint’s Warsaw mostly showcased the band’s darker side, roaring out the gates with the crunchy triple-guitar attack of their debut album Saturnalia and rarely letting up until some light piano balladry toward the end. Songs from previous lives, including updated cuts from Screaming Trees, The Twilight Singers and Lanegan’s prolific solo career, mixed well with the Twins’ bluesy, mid-paced, minor-key anthems of failed love, loneliness and desperation.
The many fans packed into Warsaw’s small theater seemed not to mind the sameness that sometimes crept into the long set, jumping and flailing limbs with each heavy groove, egged on by Dulli’s sarcastic bravado and Lanegan’s quiet brooding. The Twins are all about atmosphere, and their music approaches a gothic bleakness that seems more profound than their lyrics of longing and lost loves suggest. That inky, irresistible blackness, as they sang in unison during a cut from their recent Adorata EP, “comes creeping, comes swallowing everything in its wake.”
The Gutter Twins: Adorata The iTunes-exclusive EP of covers and two original songs from The Gutter Twins
Gentlemen The new book on the classic Afghan Whigs album written by Bob Gendron on the 33 1/3 imprint
Order Book at Amazon.com
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia The long awaited debut from Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan
Order CD at Amazon.com
