Dresden Dolls
10.06.2008
NEW SITE CHANGES!
You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.
A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!
Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).
The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?
Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.
Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!
We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.
Please feel free to leave comments here below!
Cheers!
Jeremy Rosen
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06.16.2008
GET IN AMANDA PALMER'S BEDROOM
Amanda Palmer's Who Killed Amanda Palmer will be out this fall and to offer you a little clue on the album, Spinner.com tells you a little more about Amanda, producer Ben Folds, and future plans. Read about Amanda Palmer.
Don't forget to give some RR blog love to Chad Sugg, who points out a great Dresden Dolls photo at his site.
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06.11.2008
AMANDA PALMER TO PLAY WITH THE BOSTON POPS
The Dresden Dolls' songwriter/vocalist/keyboardist Amanda Palmer is set to play two very special, once-in-a-lifetime shows with the legendary Boston Pops on June 19th and June 20th as part of the BSO's Edgefest series, which continues to redefine the boundaries of rock and tradition. The shows will take place at Symphony Hall in Boston.
2008 has been an unbelievable year for Amanda Palmer thus far, and shows no signs of slowing down: in addition to starting an innovative fan-generated merchandise company called Post-War Trade, the Dolls released a new record entitled No, Virginia this May, full of new songs, b-sides and previously unreleased material from the last two years. Amanda and drummer Brian Viglione hit the road soon after the album's release for a string of phenomenal shows across the West Coast, and now Amanda is back in her hometown of Boston, preparing for one of the biggest, most prestigious musical undertakings of her career. As a lifelong resident of the city, constantly contributing to its ongoing aural history, Amanda is the perfect fit for this amazing opportunity.
Each of the shows with The Boston Pops will feature fan favorites from The Dresden Dolls' impressive catalogue, in addition to previews of new songs from Amanda's forthcoming solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, due for release this September. The mixture of Amanda's incredible songwriting, her dynamic live performance and the 123 year-old institution that is The Boston Pops will certainly make for a show that is not to be missed!
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06.09.2008
DRESDEN DOLLS - INTERVIEW ON ARTISTDIRECT.COM
Our favorite recently-hit-by-a-car writer Rick Florino of ARTISTdirect.com conducted a fantastic insightful interview with Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls. Brian discusses Boston, song writing and much more with Flo-Rino "The Gimp," as Amy Sciarretto. calls him.
Check it out here!
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05.29.2008
DRESDEN DOLLS REVIEW ON ARTISTDIRECT.COM
Up now on Artistdirect.com is splendid 4 star review of The Dresden Dolls' latest album by Rick Florino.
"There's something seductively evil about Dresden Dolls' latest album No Virginia. It's not some kind of ode to Satan or anything like that, rather, it's a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides so good that holding out on them was a sinister move on the band's part.
Read more here
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Regards, The Dresden Dolls Biography.
A few facts about the history of The Dresden Dolls:
-Vocalist/keyboardist Amanda Palmer met drummer/vocalist Brian
Viglione at a Halloween party in 2000.Both were from the Boston area. Both were sick of genre classifications,determined to create music that would pave its own ferocious, exciting path as a result of their own diverse, intriguing influences. Upon meeting, they both knew were made for each other.
-The band released one album on their own in 2003, a self-titled release, which was eventually picked up and re-released by Roadrunner Records. The band signed with Roadrunner in 2004, and subsequently put out a live DVD of a hometown show in 2005.
-Around that time, the band was hand-picked by Trent Reznor to open for Nine Inch Nails, an event that would prove serendipitous as time went on.
-The Dresden Dolls released their sophomore album, Yes Virginia, in 2006. Produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Hole) and recorded over several weeks at Allaire Studios (a converted turn-of-the-century mansion in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York), Yes, Virginia was a rich tapestry that showcased the bands road-sharpened musical chemistry and their ability to rip open uncharted emotional seams; no topic was ever seen as taboo. It immediately won the attention of most of music's critical establishment, in addition to stealing the hearts of music fans the world over.
-After Yes, Virginia's release, the band toured extensively. They opened for Panic! at the Disco, and were invited by Cyndi Lauper to play on the True Colors Tour alongside The Gossip and Blondie's Deborah Harry.
-Never ones to confine their artistic vision to just their own band, Amanda and Brian created their own original musical which was performed for forty nights at the American Repertory Theatre, and won major critical acclaim.
-The Dresden Dolls recently announced their newest endeavor, a new-school merchandising enterprise entitled Post-War Trade. A hands-on collaboration between the band and their fans, Post-War Trade makes limited edition artwork and merchandise created by the fans themselves available to other fans of the Dolls. As a band who has always opened up their visual art endeavors to their fanbase, Post-War Trade is the ultimate expression of gratitude from the Dolls to their supporters, allowing them to interact with the band like never before and create something that resonates within their own community.
-The Dolls newest album, No,
Virginia, a companion album to Yes, Virginia in some ways (and very much its own album in other ways), will be released in spring of 2008 on Roadrunner Records. Featuring songs from farwithin The Dresden Dolls catalog, in addition to never-recorded-before live favorites and more, No, Virginia is a startling collection from two very brilliant, unique artists.
-Brian recently contributed drums to two songs on the newest Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV.
-Amanda will be playing her first solo shows with the legendary
Boston Pops in June 2008. She recently underwent surgery to remove vocal nodes, so it's likely these shows will feature some of her best vocal performances yet.
-Amanda will release a solo album this coming fall. Entitled Who Killed Amanda Palmer?, the album is just as exciting, dynamic and exceptional as you would expect from our piano-pounding heroine.
All upcoming tour dates
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Roadrunner Discography
Format: CD Release Date: 05.20.2008
No, Virginia
The Dresden Dolls' release, No, Virginia features demos and outtakes from the band's 2006 album, Yes, Virginia and includes new songs to fatten the package. The album is out now in a store near you.
Tracks:
1. Dear Jenny2. Night Reconnaissance [ listen/comment ]
3. MouseAndTheModel
4. Ultima Esperanza
5. Gardener
6. Lonesome Organist Rapes Page Turner
7. Sorry Bunch
8. Pretty in Pink [ listen/comment ]
9. The Kill
10. The Sheep Song
11. Boston
Format: CD Release Date: 04.18.2006
Yes, Virginia
The Dresden Dolls' second album, Yes, Virginia, arrives in stores on April 18th, and it's safe to say that its updated spin on the Boston duo's Brechtian Punk Cabaret will likely shatter all expectations of those who know them, and elicit entirely different responses, adjectives, and superlatives from first-time listeners who attempt to describe them. Have a look for yourself in their ECARD. Which is to say that there IS no way to easily summarize or categorize the Dresden Dolls - sometimes you just have to close your eyes and believe in Santa Claus.
Tracks:
1. Sex Changes2. Backstabber
3. Modern Moonlight
4. My Alcoholic Friends
5. Delilah
6. Dirty Business
7. First Orgasm
8. Mrs. O
9. Shores Of California
10. Necessary Evil
11. Mandy Goes To Med School
12. Me & The Minibar
13. Sing
Format: CD Release Date: 05.27.2004
The Dresden Dolls
Tracks:
1. Good Day2. Girl Anachronism
3. Missed Me
4. Half Jack
5. 672
6. Coin-Operated Boy
7. Gravity
8. Bad Habit
9. The Perfect Fit
10. The Jeep Song
11. Slide
12. Truce
All current galleries
No, Virginia Photos
New Photo Shoot Inspired By The Upcoming Album
Yes, Virginia N.Y. In-store 2006
Dresden Signs Cds at Virgin NewYork
Yes, Virginia L.A. In-Store 2006
Dresden Dolls sign CDs and meet fans at Virgin Hollywood
Alternative Press Feature PREVIEW
A PREVIEW OF AP'S CURRENT DRESDEN DOLLS FEATURE
Yes, Virginia Photos & Artwork
1. MANUEL SAID...
The Dolls Rock, yeah!!!
April 15, 3:22 PM
Manuel
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