Mighty Fine’s new album is due on ‘09 and features guest appearances from Greg Dulli, Mick Collins and The Slackers horn section.

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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…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”

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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.

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.

Buy the CD at Amazon.com

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”

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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.”

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

The Gutter Twins’ Saturnalia comes in at number 84 on Amazon.com’s Best of 2008 list.

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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.

Still, there are lulls, and those lulls must be filled. Last year, between a Twilight Singers tour and the Gutter Twins’ debut, Dulli appeared at two benefit shows for the Vera Project, a Seattle music and arts center, performing mostly stipped-down versions of Twilight Singers songs. Of course, there’s only so far down you can strip a personality as outsized as Dulli’s, but the experiment did alter his usual context. Clearly Dulli thought something of the two nights as well, as now about a year later he’s distilled the tapes to a solid digital-only live disc– surprisingly, his first live record– which captures him at a transitional but no less compelling stage.

Right off the bat, “The Killer” shows off Dulli’s formidable presence– the performer’s intense vocals alone nearly matching the song’s studio bombast. The same goes for Dulli’s rendition of “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair”, which is less dense than the version found on the Twilight Singers’ She Loves You but no less powerful for it– especially once you factor in the creeping violin of guest Petra Haden. “Candy Cane Crawl”, from Power Burn, is Dulli at his dark best, while “King Only” is presented with a radically different arrangement that (by necessity) jettisons the skittering drums, horns and other atmospherics and (more impulsively) tags on a nod to Led Zeppelin’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”.

Dulli being Dulli, that’s not the extent of the covers included here. Live at the Triple Door includes Dulli’s first stab at Jóse González’ “Down the Line”– now a live Dulli staple– as well as a fusion of George Harrison’s “Isn’t It a Pity” with Donovan’s “Atlantis”. It also includes versions of “Tonight”, from the Afghan Whigs’ 1992 breakthrough Congregation, and “Front Street”, subsequently recorded with the Gutter Twins. The addition of songs such as these lends the disc a truly archival quality, with Dulli straddling past and present while confidently peering ahead to the near future.
- Joshua Klein, November 12, 2008