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Our initial estimate for going on-sale with I’ll Be Your Mirror New Jersey was early-mid January, and we’d like to thank you for your patience during the slightly longer than expected waiting period.

We can now confirm tickets will go on sale and the start of the line-up will be announced next week.

The festival will be curated by Greg Dulli and includes a performance by The Afghan Whigs.

Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli recorded this version of Leonard Cohen’s “Paper Thin Hotel” as part of Old Ideas with New Friends, a new series of Cohen covers.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/greg-dulli-sings-leonard-cohens-paper-thin-hotel-20120124#ixzz1kOgmqjBe

Here they are:
The Rapture In The Grace Of Your Love
Vetiver The Errant Charm
The Antlers Burst Apart
Trombone Shorty For True
Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest
Metronomy English Riviera
David Lynch Crazy Clown Time
A Winged Victory For The Sullen Winged Victory for the Sullen
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys Grand Isle
M83. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Top 11 indie albums of 2011

3. Twilight Singers, Dynamite Steps (Sub Pop) — Greg Dulli and company’s first studio LP since 2006 finds the common themes firmly in place—hedonism, lust, and the resentment and regret that come with the light of day. Dulli’s impressionistic lyrics exorcise his demons through all manner of late night fantasies while the bastardized concoction of rock, soul, and electronica provides a suitably noir atmosphere. The piano-led “Get Lucky” is Dulli at his most self-deprecating and honest, while “Waves” finds the group rocking out in an industrial din. The work’s theatricality and sense of connective themes cement prove Dulli doesn’t just write songs, he writes albums, each song fitting together like a chapter in a book. The title track (a warning to a former lover or a prophecy from the Devil to Jesus?) closes the record with a resolution lesser songwriters can’t help but envy.

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2. TWILIGHT SINGERS, “DYNAMITE STEPS” (Sub Pop)

Greg Dulli drops another stunning soundtrack to the dark, art-house thriller playing in his mind. “She Was Stolen” is a sweet-sounding lover’s lament/revenge fantasy. “On the Corner” conjures all sorts of seductive danger, while “Waves” is a return to his harder-edged, grungier days with the Afghan Whigs. It’s the most compelling rock album of the year.

December 6, 2011 by GLENN GAMBOA, Newsday

Greg Dulli might be older, but that doesn’t mean he’s getting soft; he’s harder than ever. (C’mon, like a Dulli review can open with anything but a double entendre.) And finally fans of his Twilight Singers have a document of the collective’s frenetic live shows to convert those criminally uninformed of their greatness.

Live in New York was shot on location at Webster Hall on Friday, May 13, 2011, as the band toured in support of fifth LP Dynamite Steps, released in February on Sub Pop. As evidenced on the remarkably crisp recording, the band doesn’t waste time with simmering build-up; opener “Last Night in Town” tears out of the gate with bludgeoning immediacy.

The group’s hybrid of noir rock, R&B and electronica barely lets up from there with just a few respites from the storm. The album isn’t lacking any of the improvisation defining Singers shows, with portions of classic rock or soul tunes tagged onto originals, reinterpreted and seamlessly merged into medleys to sound as if penned by Dulli himself. Notably, a tag of Smokey Robinson’s “Cruisin’ Together” takes on an indefinably sinister veneer.

The 21 songs are culled from each album of the Singers’ career. The surging “I’m Ready” is the sound of a sex drive urgently in need of release, while rave-up “Teenage Wristband” finds the band (and audience) at their most rapturous, the group seemingly determined to bring the hall down to its very foundation. Three tracks from their oft-overlooked trip-hoppy debut have changed the most in their live renditions. “Annie Mae” has grown from a sultry come-on to a floor-crawling plea for accompaniment into the abyss, while in “King Only” Dulli evokes a desultory Lucifer mourning the lost chance of a forfeited kingdom. Therein is Dulli’s greatest feat — he gets you to empathize with the devil.

Dulli’s serrated vocals are in top form throughout, from smoky crooning to howling with the rage of a wolf snared in a steel trap. How he doesn’t blow out his voice with every show is one of rock’s great mysteries. He overstretches the limits a bit, but hasn’t that always been part of his charm? Charismatic and braggadocios, Dulli’s Lotharian swagger suitably comes across as he bullshits with the crowd, his congregation clearly enthralled. “You know how to make a boy feel like Neil Diamond,” Dulli jokes amid the cheers.

Guitarist Dave Rosser, bassist Scott Ford, drummer Greg Wieczorek and violinist Rick Nelson are likewise at their peak, providing the perfect accompaniment for Dulli’s tales of hedonism and guilt. Nelson’s violin is of particular importance, running through the record like a humming electrical wire. In the apocalyptic “Bonnie Brae,” the violin sounds like tears running down a pane of glass, conjuring the sentiment of a person reaching out to a loved one shrugging the aid away.

All in all, the recording is just the latest proof that the Twilight Singers provide the perfect soundtrack for debauchery and the next morning’s aching regret.

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From the Cincinnati.com article:

“Speaking as someone who plays and enjoys original music, it’s going to be felt,” said former Afghan Whigs bassist and Ultrasuede Studios owner John Curley, who now plays in a band called Fists of Love with Schadler. Curley even had his wedding reception there in 1993, when he and the Afghan Whigs played some of the songs from their breakthrough album “Gentlemen” live for the first time.

“It’s not like we can lose a venue and it won’t have an impact. What impact that’s going to have is hard to say,” Curley said. “The emotional impact will be great among a lot of people who go to see shows there and have been playing there a long time.”