AllHeadlineNews.com – Mary K. Brunskill – All Headline News Contributor
(AHN) — 1970s proto-punk gender-benders the New York Dolls are reuniting to record a new album – their first studio record in thirty-two years.
The New York Dolls were highly influencial in the ensuing punk era and their over-the-top crossdressing and celebration of camp and kitsch also influenced 1970s glam rockers.
“It was so weird and was great,” says singer David Johansen about recording the new album at the Shed, a Manhattan recording studio.
The title of the album is so far unnamed. Two song titles off the new album are “Beauty School” and “Plenty of Music.”
Johansen and guitarist Sylvain Sylvain are the only remaining members of the original line-up. Guitarist Johnny Thunders died in 1991, drummer Jerry Nolan in 1992, and bassist Arthur Kane in 2004.
“Rolling Stone” describes the album as a “Delta juke-box romp with drunken-parade snare calls and rusted screech slide guitar,” noting that it differs slightly from the “mascara-and-fuzz fury of the Dolls’ glitter classics, 1973’s ‘New York Dolls’ and ’74’s ‘Too Much Too Soon.'”