NEW YORK DOLLS: New Album 'Listening Party' Available

May 7, 2009

A six-song listening party for "Cause I Sez So", the new album from legendary rockers NEW YORK DOLLS, is available by following the links below.

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The listening party consists of the following tracks:

01. 'Cause I Sez So
02. Muddy Bones
03. Better Than
04. Lonely So Long
05. My World
06. This Is Ridiculous

"Cause I Sez So" was released on May 5 via the Atco label (which has been specially re-launched) through Warner Brothers.

Check out the album artwork below.

After working together on the NEW YORK DOLLS' influential debut in 1973, the group reunited this winter with producer Todd Rundgren to record the new LP at Rundgren's studio on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

"Cause I Sez So" features 11 original compositions and a new version of "Trash", which was on the band's 1973 debut album. "It was amazing working with Todd again, and I think we were able to evoke the special sound of our first album and drag it by the hair into the present," says frontman David Johansen.

The NEW YORK DOLLS swaggered onto the New York music scene in the early '70s, influencing a generation with its subversive mix of high-decibel rock and high-heeled androgyny. The original band recorded a pair of milestone records — "New York Dolls" (1973) and "Too Much Too Soon" (1974) — before breaking up in 1977. The surviving members reformed the group in 2004 to much acclaim, but soon lost bassist Arthur Kane to leukemia. Two years later, Johansen and Sylvain reunited again to record the NEW YORK DOLLS' third studio album, "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This".

"Cause I Sez So" track listing:

01. Cause I Sez So
02. Muddy Bones
03. Better Than
04. Lonely So Long
05. My World
06. Ridiculous
07. Temptation To Exist
08. Making Rain
09. Drowning
10. Nobody Got No Bizness
11. Trash
12. Exorcism Of Despair

NEW YORK DOLLS will perform songs from "Cause I Sez So" on the popular British music TV show "Later with Jools Holland". The program will be aired live on Tuesday, May 12 at 10:00 p.m. on BBC2 television, followed by a pre-recorded edition of the show aired on Friday, May 15 at 11:35 p.m.

While in London, the DOLLS will attend an album signing at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 14 at HMV Oxford Circus. One lucky person who attends the HMV signing will be eligible to win a pair of tickets to see the DOLLS perform a sold out show at the legendary 100 Club later that night.

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