Who Killed The Dresden Dolls?

The music world actually hates me, like personally.



Aside from all the artists who are touring Aus in the next few months with no all-ages shows (The Mountain Goats, Adam Green, Final Fantasy, Stars...), The Dresden Dolls are officially on an indefinite hiatus which usually means unofficially sorta broken up which is sad. I only just realised basically, but there was this sensationalist, carefully edited sort of video put on YouTube last month...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PMsBQWXQQ90 (For some reason the embed code isn't working, no matter how carefully I select the whole code it only copies the section first visible in the box, not the whole scrollable thing. Anyone else having this problem? Anyway, thar be the URL.)

And then Amanda wrote on her blog earlier this month saying that there was a fair bit of personal conflict but they love playing together so they haven't actually broken up, and Brian says it's "open-ended" so hmm, that's basically where it's at right now. When you have loved a band since you were 13 years old, as I have The Dresden Dolls, it's all like "awhh" to see them not making music anymore...


BUT Amanda's new solo project is aymayzing, she has an incredible new album produced by Ben Folds and featuring all sorts of mad people, if you're into that thing and haven't heard it already check out http://www.myspace.com/whokilledamandapalmer. Brian has joined gypsy punk/cabaret collective The World/Inferno Friendship Society, who are alright I suppose but nothing on The Dolls. They remind me most of a slightly less feral Gogol Bordello: http://www.myspace.com/worldinferno. Dear Dressies, I am thinking of you in this difficult time! Here is the very silly and not particularly appropriate Backstabber video from 2006 to relive the good times, great classic hits... Thank you for the music!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zMizbLHYk