Rating: 8.0
Pitchfork.com | Stuart Berman
If men are indeed pigs, then Greg Dulli’s body of work amounts to a veritable slaughterhouse. And yet, his talent lies not only in his unwavering ability to deconstruct the male ego, but also translating all that psychological tumult and turmoil into rapturous, crowd-pleasing live entertainment. Debuting in 2000 with an album produced by UK downtempo dons Fila Brazillia, the Twilight Singers were initially conceived as a low-key counterpoint to Dulli’s more frenetic previous band, the Afghan Whigs. But over the past decade, thanks to an ever-expanding and rotating cast of collaborators, Dulli has effectively built up the Twilight Singers into a more elaborate rendering of the Afghan Whigs’ rock-noir vision, enhancing the cinematic quality of the Whigs’ mid-1990s catalog and honoring their reputation for breathless, soul-revue style performances that go on for hours. By feeding Dulli’s unsavory songbook through all manner of medleys, impromptu covers, and crowd-participation gambits, the Twilight Singers have essentially become the Bad Seeds by way of Prince– emotional devastation you can dance to.
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The Twilight Singers’ first-ever live album is now available for digital purchase from Amazon.com and iTunes. Grab it at the links below:
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Download the track and read an interview with Mighty Fine frontman Steve Myers at The Village Voice
Italian rock band Afterhours will be joined by special guests Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan at their November 4th show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles.
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More posts about Afterhours at SK
Steve Myers and his band Mighty Fine have a new album out today. Titled Get Up to Get Down, it features a full set of garage-soul rave-ups.
Buy LP/CD or Digital at Drug Front Records
Click here to pre-order the new Twilight Singers album Live in New York. After your purchase, you’ll receive a link to download “Teenage Wristband” from the CD. The CD is limited edition and will contain two bonus tracks.
The full press release follows:
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS TO RELEASE FIRST EVER LIVE ALBUM
Live In New York Available Digitally Worldwide November 15th
Limited Edition CD Available For Pre Order Now
October 25, 2011 – As countless can attest to, a live Twilight Singers show is truly an epic experience. For the first time ever, there will now be recorded proof. The Twilight Singers will release their first ever live album Live In New York on November 15th.
Recorded at Webster Hall in New York City this past May, the show was easily one of the highlights from the band’s world tour in support of their latest release Dynamite Steps. Live In New York features 21 songs from the band’s entire career including: “Teenage Wristband,” “I’m Ready,” “Annie Mae,” “On The Corner” and many others.
Live In New York will be released digitally worldwide. However, a limited edition deluxe double CD will be made available directly thru the band’s website beginning today: www.thetwilightsingers.com.
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Finnish band Damn Seagulls will be performing a set of Afghan Whigs covers on October 28th in Helsinki.
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Last week, American Gun performed an Afghan Whigs cover set in Columbia South Carolina. If you’d like the band to perform additional Whigs tribute shows in your town, let them know on Facebook.
American Gun’s setlist:
If I Were Going
Be Sweet
Something Hot
Debonaire
John the Baptist
My Enemy
Crazy
Fountain and Fairfax
Going To Town
Get The Wheel
Cigarettes
Miles is Ded
via Blogs.SFWeekly.com
Dulli sits at the piano and introduces the band. “I’m the luckiest man in the room,” he tells us – whether it’s because he’s having such a good time or because he’s in the best band in the world isn’t clear.
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via thetwilightsingers.com
Petra Haden and Dave Catching (Eagles Of Death Metal, Queens Of The Stone Age) will join The Twilight Singers as special guests for their SOLD OUT show in San Francisco this Saturday evening, September 17th at the Great American Music Hall.
This promises to be a great show. Be sure to follow @summerskiss on Twitter for live show play-by-play.
Fantastic interview with The National by Michael Christopher:
“Greg Dulli was somebody from Cincinnati when I was in high school and college, and seeing how they became big international rock stars . . . I think the idea that a guy from the west side of Cincinnati can be a rock star definitely put the seed in my head, ‘Why not give it a shot?’ Even as delusional and far fetched as I knew that was.”
Berninger says that one of his “greatest wishes” is for the Afghan Whigs to get back together, and it’s not hard to see how the influence of the ’90s soul-rock foursome has woven its way through the National material, most evident when the band lifts the chorus from the Whigs’ “Milez iz Ded” for the fade out of “Slipping Husband.” And a direct connection can certainly be drawn between Berninger’s “Can I get a moment of not being nervous/and not thinking of my dick” (“Slow Show”) and Dulli’s infamous, “Ladies let me tell you about myself/I got a dick for a brain” (“Be Sweet”).
“Dulli just had a way of being so dark and almost brutal in some of his observations of himself and his dark side of romance, but he was able to articulate it in unbelievably powerful ways,” Berninger says.
Read more: http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/126296-national-carry-indie-rocks-aging-flag/
