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On their second album, YES, VIRGINIA, gothic-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls move further toward a more accessible pop middle ground, but still retain touches of their manic, punkish roots. It's a deliciously bitter pill to swallow, like the theme to the TV show "Dawson's Creek" spiked with Drano. Keyboardist and vocalist Amanda Palmer croons in a molasses-rich alto, enunciating each word with the determination of Billy Joel on speed and with the verbal dexterity of an auctioneer. YES, VIRGINIA is the type of music one should listen to before quitting a job, just for the affirmation.
Audio Mixer: Paul Q. Kolderie.
Recording information: Allaire Studios, Shokan, NY; Camp Street Studios, Cambridge, MA.
Author: Francis P. Church.
Photographers: Nicholas Vargelis; Scott Irvine .
The Dresden Dolls: Brian Viglione (bass guitar); Holly Brewer (background vocals); Amanda Palmer.
Personnel: Brian Viglione (vocals, guitar, drums, percussion); Amanda Palmer (vocals, piano, organ, Mellotron).
Rolling Stone (p.99) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "If you have a warm spot for RENT, you'll eat up Amanda Palmer's cobwebby piano stylings..."
Entertainment Weekly - "This duo does a pretty credible job of blurring the ideological and stylistic lines between rock and cabaret." -- Grade: B Yes, Virginia... Music | List Price | $17.98 (You save $3.09) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Cabaret | | Label | Roadrunner | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank |  20249  | | CD Universe Part number | 7034538 | | Catalog number | 618081 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 18, 2006 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie; Sean Slade; Paul Q. Kolderie; The Dresden Dolls | | Engineer | Adam Taylor; Paul Q. Kolderie; Adam Taylor; Paul Q. Kolderie | | Personnel | Brian Viglione - bass guitar
Amanda Palmer - vocals, piano, organ, Mellotron
Holly Brewer - background vocals
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully ...
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Inevitably, music will have leaders as well as followers, and both have their place. It's unrealistic and foolish to think that every artist who comes along should be a trendsetter; people who shake things up as intensely as Charlie Parker, the Sex Pistols, John Coltrane, the Beatles, or Nirvana are the exception instead of the rule. But when someone does come up with something that is truly fresh, he/she deserves applause -- and there is plenty of freshness on this self-titled CD by the Dresden Dolls, a Boston-based duo that successfully blends alternative pop/rock with German cabaret. Lead singer Amanda Palmer brings an unlikely combination of influences to this release, and they range from Kurt Weill and Marlene Dietrich to goth rock, punk, and the riot grrrl movement. Palmer has been greatly affected by the emotional catharsis of PJ Harvey, Courtney Love, and Tori Amos -- her performances ...
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Drunk Horse's third album, Adult Situations, is another mixed bag from a band that's way more artistically ambitious than just about every other band in the retro '70s hard rock sub-genre. They're also way smarter than most bands mining this same territory, and, as an unfortunate side effect of that, seemingly more ironic -- and less committed to letting their music stand on its own -- than most of those bands. Throughout this album, their bluesy, riff-based rock tunes draw on a range of familiar influences -- the James Gang's "Funk #49," Humble Pie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and early Allman Brothers -- as well as slightly less-commonplace ones such as Santana (see the Latin-tinged "Company Man") and even the jazz-rock of mid-period Steely Dan. They do a great job of taking these influences and twisting them around into songs that are, for the most part, quite a bit more involving and complex than you'd expect from such a band: for example, check out the convoluted instrumental breakdowns on "Wildlife" or the stuttering odd-time riff on "Ascension Strut," which is probably the standout track. The production, courtesy of fellow analog purist Tim ...
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