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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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03.12.2007

NEW YORK DOLLS ANNOUNCE AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES

If you're from Down Under, you're getting your chance to see The New York Dolls real soon.

3/24/2007 AUCKLAND ST JAMES THEATRE
3/26/2007 MELBOURNE HI FI BAR
3/28/2007 SYDNEY THE METRO THEATRE
3/29/2007 BRISBANE TIVOLI
3/31/2007 SYDNEY V FESTIVAL
4/01/2007 GOLD COAST V FESTIVAL
4/03/2007 ADELAIDE MEMORIAL DRIVE
4/04/2007 MELBOURNE MYER MUSIC BOWL

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02.28.2007

DOLLS BOUND DOWN UNDER

Hot off their once-in-a-lifetime performance on PBS Soundstage, and last year's participation in Little Steven's Underground Garage Tour, the legendary New York Dolls will be heading Down Under next for a slew of dates in support of their latest album, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, which was hailed by Rolling Stone Magazine as 2006's 12th best album!

Here is a full list of their upcoming shows in Australia and New Zealand during March/April:
Mar. 24 - Auckland, NZ @ St James
Mar. 26 - Melbourne, AUS @ Hi Fi Bar
Mar. 28 - Sydney, AUS @ The Metro
Mar. 29 - Brisbane, AUS @ Tivoli
Mar. 31 - Sydney, AUS @ V Festival
Apr. 01 - Gold Coast, AUS @ V Festival
Apr. 03 - Adelaide, AUS @ Memorial Drive
Apr. 04 - Melbourne, AUS @ Myer Music Bowl

For more New York Dolls please visit www.nydolls.org and be sure to join their official MySpace page at: www.myspace.com/newyorkdolls

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01.31.2007

Much Better Than American Idol!

The legendary New York Dolls were recently asked to perform an exclusive show for PBS' acclaimed Soundstage show, and the thrilling results will be premiered TOMORROW, February 1st, 2007 (check local listings).

Widely hailed as the sonic god-fathers of punk rock and fashion plates for most every American glam rock bands that followed (yes, we're looking at you, Aerosmith), the Dolls rocked Soundstage with a mix of established classics like "Personality Crisis" and "Jet Boy," from their '70s origins, revved-up new tunes like "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks" and "Gimme Luv & Turn on the Light," from last year's One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This album, and even a cover of Bo Diddley's "Pills."

In other words, this is a can't-miss television event - so click HERE for complete details, and don't forget to check out the VIDEO for "Dance Like a Monkey."

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01.08.2007

New York Dolls Rank High On Rolling Stone's Top Albums Of 2006

To Rolling Stone, the New York Dolls' Roadrunner debut, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This is an album that will surely be remembered forever. It ranked at number 12 on their list of the top 50 albums of 2006 (even higher than Johnny Cash!). Here's what Rolling Stone had to say:

"David Johansen is no longer twenty-four, so this reunion album surprises by revealing the dirty little secret beneath the Seventies Dolls' playful pansexuality: religious emotion. "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" is explicitly pagan; "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks" begins, "Spirit slumbers in nature and awakens in mind" before asking, "So what if this old world is just artifice?" Everywhere Johansen mourns mortality and celebrates contingency in the most searching lyrics of the year -- lyrics deepened by how much fun the band is having."

For Rolling Stone's entire list, click HERE.

Find out for yourself what so many others already have. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This is an album that will be long remembered, right from the first listen.

New York Dolls ECARD

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"Mick Jagger stole everything from David Johansen!"

Morrissey recently exclaimed this with a fervor that somehow made his chronologically impossible claims seem plausible. Watching footage of the New York Dolls onstage two years ago at the behest of one of their biggest fans (who was curating the prestigious Meltdown Festival in London) one realized just how vast - and heretofore unsung - their influence truly was. Everyone knows the famous logo: chrome lipstick, scrawling that name across an unseen mirror, but it's more than the great brand. It's not about the androgyny either. Skinny boys were wearing make up long before them. Little Richard. Elvis. It's not even about the music, as the Dolls themselves were always quick to credit 50's R&B numbers or early 60's girl group productions as their own influences. Really, what makes the Dolls so eternal is the attitude - it got into rock's water supply and never left. Kiss, Aerosmith, The Ramones, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Motley Crue, Guns 'N' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, The Strokes, The Libertines and just about any gang of strutting rockers who are convinced that their band could take your band and possibly your whole town in a pretty for pretty, ugly for ugly throwdown. New York Dolls and their disciples win, not just with brawn but with what guitarist Sylvain Sylvain calls "plenty of intellect and plenty of sex."

The New York Dolls are, simply, the Beatles of attitude. Thirty five years into their existence (thirty one since they disbanded down in Florida in a haze of smack withdrawal and managerial anarchy), with three men down, they can still take your band, pretty for pretty, ugly for ugly, onstage, and now, with the long (long) awaited follow up to 1974's awesome Too Much, Too Soon, on CD too.

"You know how England is," David Johansen quips in his Staten Island drawl, thick as South Ferry sludge, "We made a big noise over there, and we were having so much fun, we decided to keep going." "The phone didn't stop ringing," Sylvain adds, "The kids wanted this. Kids of all ages." An album's worth of brand new New York Dolls compositions, as unlikely as it may have seemed in 2003, was a foregone conclusion after wildly successful festival and live dates that spanned the past two years. They were a reunion when they re-started. Now, with replacement members feeling comfortable stepping into the stack heels of departed legends like Johnny Thunders, Jerry Nolan, and most recently Arthur "Killer" Kane, they're a gang once more. "It won't be very long that we'll be together longer than the original band was," Johansen laughs.

And so we have official studio release #3, ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US TO REMEMBER EVEN THIS, where the New York Dolls' hallmarks: perfectly mean riffs, deceptively sweet choruses and miles of that infamous attitude meet the 21st Century. What's the same? "I think it's still an up kind of thing," Johansen says describing that quality that makes the Dolls, whatever, whomever and whenever, unmistakably "the Dolls." "It's got a non-defeatist philosophy and attitude. It says We can do anything."

What's different? Well, listen to a track like the harmonica driven mid-tempo ballad "I Ain't Got Nothing," and it's clear that you're also dealing with real survivors. "We are older," Sylvain acknowledges. "But we share the same spirit as when we were fucking 18." They wear it well too. The world-weariness isn't depressive, but rather philosophical - glamorous even. Think mid-period Sinatra (if he'd hailed from the Bronx and not Hoboken) or Leonard Cohen (if he were less Canadian). "It's a statement of where we're at in life," Johansen says, "Life gets better as it goes along and you're more aware of the totality of the thing. When you're a kid, you can - at least I could - block out the not so happy happy, party party aspects of it. Do I feel like a survivor? Yeah."

The New York Dolls don't stare into their whiskey glasses too long. The up-tempo, Motown-flavored single "Dance Like A Monkey" would likely inspire heated debate on intelligent design vs. evolution if its tribal rhythm didn't unite believers and pagans out on the dance floor. It should quickly enter the pantheon of great simian songs in rock history. Tracks like "Gimme Love and Turn On the Light," all blues and garage rock horniness serve to remind (if anyone's forgotten) the "sex" that is brought to the fore, nudging the "intellect" back a bit. Iggy Pop's backing vocals punctuate the statement. "There's an attitude we have towards rock n' roll that's kind of fierce," Johansen explains, "There's something in this band where we really want to swing and swing hard."

Radio never really 'got' the 'Dolls in their first time 'round, and although they were made for MTV, their own timing was off with that phenomenon. Their first two records are in every cool kid's collection today (as they must be) and from "Lonely Planet Boy" off the first record to Too Much Too Soon's "Human Being" (not to mention Johnny Thunders' indelible "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory," which the Dolls still play live), the guys always had a way with a timeless pop melody. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This continues this tradition. "Take A Good Look At My Good Looks," is perfectly realized retro-romantic pop. "Our producer heard it and said, 'Syl you still have one foot in the Brill Building'," Sylvain laughs.

"Dancing on the Lip of A Volcano," featuring backing vocals from Michael Stipe and a shimmering hook, is easily as catchy as any new pop written by Swedes and not recorded by rock legends. "We thought, 'Michael Stipe would be great on this," Sylvain explains. "And so we called him. I live in Georgia and met him at a Patti Smith show. He said to me that he had seen David and I perform and that I handed him a bottle of Perrier. We heard his voice on the track and it was like 'man this belonged on there all the time." Stipe is one of only a few guests, whose impact on the tracks are subtle. "We got good stuff," Johansen says, "We're a good band. We can do what we gotta do for better or for worse. I didn't feel like we need this, or we need that."

Although recorded, mostly live, with producer Jack Douglas (who was an engineer on their self-titled debut, and produced classic albums for Aerosmith, Cheap Trick and John Lennon), this is a cleaner sounding Dolls. The rawness is there in the aforementioned attitude, but nobody is pretending Nixon is still in office either. "You can never be amateurish again," Johansen explains, "Those two Dolls albums are like folk art. Urban folk art. Alan Lomax could have made them. They captured some Grandma Moses thing. We were so young and new at playing. When I was considering how to go about writing, I was saying, as you go through life and get more skilled at your craft, you can never go back."

And so we move forward. "This is phase two," Johansen says. "It's a new band. A whole new thing." Purist fans may scoff that it's not the New York Dolls without Johnny, Jerry and Arthur, but both Johansen and Sylvain insist that bassist Sammi Yaffa, guitarist Steve Conte, keyboardist Brian Koonin and drummer Brian Delaney are indeed Dolls now. "We didn't set out to replace anyone," Sylvain reminds us. We're talking about the deceased here, not the dismissed, after all. "They're great guys," Johansen assures those who may be in doubt, "They're part of every aspect of everything. That's what being in a band is all about. I've got them all psychoanalyzed. Very interesting subjects."

Is the world really ready for the New York Dolls? "I don't care if this record is a hit," Sylvain assures, "Just as long as every man, woman and child buys it."

- Marc Spitz

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Release Date: 07.25.2006

One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

The New York Dolls are back! On July 25th, the seminal rockers release One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, their first studio album in 30 years. Featuring 13 brand new tracks, the CD will also be available in a Special Edition featuring a bonus 14th track entitled "17," and a special 45-minute "making-of" documentary.

Tracks:

Disc One (CD):
1. We're All in Love
2. Runnin' Around
3. Plenty of Music
4. Dance Like a Monkey
5. Punishing World
6. Maimed Happiness
7. Fishnets and Cigarettes
8. Gotta Get Away from Tommy
9. Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano
10. I Ain't Got Nothin [ listen/comment ]'
11. Rainbow Store
12. Gimme Luv and Turn on the Light
13. Take a Good Look at my Good Looks
14. 17 *

Disc Two (DVD)
* DVD shot and compiled by Walker Lamond contains candid and insightful studio moments with founding members David Johansen, Sylvain Sylvain and the rest of the band, as well as footage of guest artists and legendary producer Jack Douglas (John Lennon, Aerosmith).
* Available Only on Special Edition CD/DVD