New Dresden Dolls!

There's a big ole smiley face here in the Plastic Bag - those delightful punk cabaret ragamuffins, The Dresden Dolls will release a new record in the spring (and 'spring' is almost here already).

Amanda writes in the latest Dolls newsletter:

Brian and I are proud to announce that we've just spent the last week together in the studio (with the esteemed producer of Yes, Virginia, Sean Slade) recording a bunch of older Dolls? songs that never got put to tape. We're maniacally happy with the way things turned out. Our current plan is to package these new songs with the unreleased material we kept from the Yes, Virginia sessions and give y'all a whole new happy CD. We'll keep you posted on release.

Sheri Hausey came by to take some photos and whipped out a video camera - and then the illustrious Bill T. Miller edited it - and voila! We had a wonderful, unplanned but AWESOME documentary of our recent studio exploits! Check it out HERE.

We're currently looking at putting out the new Dolls' album sometime this spring. Yes, ma'am, BEFORE the solo record. So don't ask, it just worked out that way. We won't be touring on the record but we will hopefully do a handful of shows and maybe even make a ridiculous video involving lawn ornaments (and we might ask for help, so get ready).

O happy day!

And here's the video so you get it from the horses mouth (in a nice way, of course):