NEW YORK DOLLS: New Music Posted Online

Two brand new NEW YORK DOLLS tracks — "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks" and "Dance like a Monkey" — have been posted online at this location. The songs come off the seminal band's eagerly anticipated new album, "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This", due on July 25 via Roadrunner Records.

The new album — featuring 13 new tracks, including the first single "Dance Like a Monkey", "Take a Good Look at My Good Looks", "Maimed Happiness", and "Runnin' Around" — was produced by Jack Douglas, who made his bones engineering the first eponymously titled NEW YORK DOLLS record, and has since produced everyone from JOHN LENNON to YOKO ONO, and a few other big ones along the way.

"Jack's always been good to us, so we thought we'd throw him a bone," says frontman David Johansen. "One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This" includes guest appearances by Michael Stipe on "Dancing on the Lip of A Volcano", Iggy Pop on "Gimme Love and Turn On the Light", Tom Gabel (AGAINST ME!) on "Punishing World", and the DOLLS' own hero, Bo Diddley, on "Seventeen".

"There's so much negative bullshit being forced down people's throats in the marketplace, we really wanted to create a thing of beauty that will stand the test of time, and hopefully add something positive to people's lives," says Johansen.

"I don't care if this record is a hit," guitarist Sylvain Sylvain declares, "just as long as every man, woman, and child buys it." Producer Jack Douglas adds, "This is the band that gave the world 'Personality Crisis', 'Jet Boy', 'Looking for a Kiss', 'Puss 'n' Boots' and 'Trash'. Maybe we can't forgive them for that, but they swing harder than anyone around, and this album is a fuckin' masterpiece."

The DOLLS are planning a world tour in support of the new release, starting summer 2006.

"Playing music is the best thing in the world," says Johansen. "It makes show business almost bearable."