Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan are playing Webster Hall in NYC on Wednesday, May 27th. Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 2nd at noon.

Their last album together, Sunday at Devil Dirt, was released in May 2008. Mark last played Webster Hall in March of 2008 with the Gutter Twins. Also last year, Belle & Sebastian's BBC Sessions double-album was released - a collection that features Campbell singing, and pictured on the disc's cover.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan interview and live video below...

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The Gutter Twins @ Sled Island 2008 (more by Rae Holtsabum)

The Gutter Twins cancelled their show scheduled at Warsaw in Brooklyn over the summer and I just realized that the new date at the same venue is tonight (Nov 6). A few other dates below...

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DOWNLOAD: Mogwai - Folk Death 95 (MP3)

photos by Rae Holtsabum

Mogwai

I'm still trying to properly wrap my mind around (and recover from) the amazing performances (and blazing sun) I was able to experience at Sled Island. It's hard to believe both the amount and range of wonderful music that was up for consumption over the course of four days, and last night's set from mainstage headliners Mogwai, shredding guitars with grace like only they can, followed by a flawless late-night club show by underrated Canadian folk rockers Rock Plaza Central, was the perfect send-off to a festival that defined itself on eclecticism and near unmitigated musical quality. [Beyond Robson]

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DOWNLOAD: Ed Harcourt - Revolution in the Heart (MP3)

Due to some scheduling conflicts, The Gutter Twins will be postponing and/or cancelling some of their upcoming U.S. dates in July. The seven shows from July 24th (Baltimore) to August 1 (Detroit) will not be taking place at this time. Unfortunately, this means that Ed Harcourt will not be playing any of those previously mentioned dates on the tour EXCEPT for the July 10th show at The Roxy in Los Angeles. For us lucky New Yorkers, Ed's added a show at Rehab (formerly Club Midway).

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The Gutter Twins @ Noise Pop 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

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Mars Volta tickets are on presale. Nokia Ticket Rush password = concert. All tour dates HERE.

Tickets are now on sale for a show by the The Gutter Twins at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park on July 25th. Tickets are still on sale for their show in Brooklyn too.

Tickets are on sale for both Okkervil River shows at Webster Hall.

You can also get tickets for Wolf Parade's 2nd show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are still on sale for the Mudhoney show at Highline Ballroom on Saturday.

No tickets are necessary for the Lionel Loueke show that is happening at Metrotech as we speak.

A video of a girl stuffing her mouth with cupcakes while listening to the Counting Crows. (thx Jeff)

Other shows that don't require tickets at all are listed HERE.

the Gutter Twins @ Noise Pop 2008 (more by Ryan Muir)

Dates have started to pop up for a pre-Lollapalooza Gutter Twins tour. That includes a show at Warsaw in Brooklyn on July 29th with Ed Harcourt. Tickets go on presale today (@ noon) (password=band). All dates below...

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photos by Ryan Muir, words by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Monotonix - Summers & Autumns (MP3 from the upcoming Body Language EP out April 22.)

Take Eugene Hutz (almost literally... a similar manic energy, voice, even looks to some degree, but with a more impressive 'stache) and dial him up a few notches, put him in front of an insane-o heavy garage punk two-piece with a blues bent, and you have Israeli madmen Monotonix. Comin' straight outta Tel Aviv, Monotonix have a new EP on the way (Apr.22 on Drag City) recorded by Tim Green (ex-Nation of Ulysses, current member of The Fucking Champs). And if "Summers & Autumns" (download above) & "Body Language" (streaming at their myspace) are any indication, Body Language is probably a killer.

For now though, I'll stick with what I know: there is alot of buzz about their live show. Flaming drum heads, hanging from the rafters, beer baths.... check out the mayhem for yourself in videos (below). Check out the pics Ryan took at their March Noise Pop show with The Gutter Twins (in this post).

Monotonix and their much talked about live show will swing into Union Hall tonight (April 7) with the colorful recent VICE-signees Dark Meat, as well at Cake Shop (again with Dark Meat) on the 20th, and Death By Audio on the 25th (a Todd P show). More pictures, the videos and full tour dates, below.......

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photos by Ryan Muir

The Gutter Twins' new "All Misery/Flowers" video, and more photos from their March 1st Noise Pop performance at Bimbo's in San Francisco (better late than never), below....

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Mark Lanegan @ Webster Hall, NYC - March 19, 2008 (Ryan Dombal)

After a pretty lame applause from the crowd, Greg Dulli emerged to the stage. Smoking his hundredth cigarette of the night, the Gutter Twins co-frontman quickly confronted the crowd as to why the rest of the band remained hidden in the shadows on the side of the stage. Saying something like "We walk off stage, 5 people clap, and we're supposed to come back out and play more songs," he criticized the crowd for their incredibly weak call for an encore. [NY press]

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Campbell and Lanegan's follow-up to 2006's Ballad of the Broken Seas is called Sunday at Devil Dirt, and it will come out May 5 in the UK on V2/Cooperative Music. Like Ballad, the new album features Lanegan tackling lead vocals while Campbell handles the writing, production, and arrangements. [P4K]

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The Gutter Twins @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC - Feb 14, 2008 (Caryn Rose)

My odd thought about tonight was that this show was just - grown up. I haven't seen the lyrics and haven't lived with the songs enough, but this is not about Are you here to make par-tay or even the themes of loss and, well, loss that have hung over acres of Twilight Singers material. Don't get me wrong, this is still a collaboration between Dulli and Lanegan and it's not rainbows and puppies and roses, and it's plenty fuckin dark. But it was just at another level, and maybe because Mark's ass is also on that line, but I have never seen the band this whip-smart and sharp and just totally together, like Greg can put up one hand and conduct the band and they turn on a dime. [jukeboxgraduate]

The March Gutter Twins show at Webster Hall is part of a much larger tour....

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The Gutter Twins' February show at Bowery Ballroom is sold out, and tickets are on sale now for a March 19th show at Webster Hall. There's a song streaming at MySpace.

Screaming Trees + The Afghan Whigs =

– Sub Pop veterans Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan return to the label in its 20th year under the moniker The Gutter Twins for the March 4th, 2008 worldwide release of Saturnalia, their highly anticipated first album. In addition, the band has announced a handful of very special US and European show dates to preview the complex and carefully crafted songs in advance of the official record release.

“I couldn’t tell you what Saturnalia’s theme is, but there’s a seeking of transcendence that’s new.” Greg Dulli explains. “I have never written songs like this before” it’s a different temple I’m visiting.”

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