RELEASE!

January 24, 2012

Mouthful of Lies is officially re-issued today, January 24, 2012!! Available exclusively from Bandcamp.

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Mouthful of Lies

January 9, 2012

remixed and remastered title track from our long out-of-print debut album. re-issued date: Jan 24, 2012. Pre-order now exclusively at Bandcamp

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pre-order Mouthful of Lies now!

December 22, 2011

Mouthful of Lies, our long out-of-print debut album from 1995, has been remixed and remastered and will be re-issued on Jan 24th, 2012. You can pre-order it NOW exclusively at Bandcamp, either as a download, or a CD with a digital download. We celebrate the re-release with a big show at Schubas on Jan 28th. [...]

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coming soon

November 30, 2011

                Re-issue of our debut album, “moutful of lies”. Re-mixed and remastered from the original 4-track cassette tapes! Re-release celebration concert Saturday, January 28th at Schubas, with Jason Narducy as special guest.

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SPACE Nov 23rd

November 19, 2011

Come see Dolly Varden and The Phil Angotti Band the night before Thanksgiving at SPACE in Evanston, 8pm

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The Tiniest Fly

October 31, 2011

Diane’s new paintings are currently on exhibition at Kasia Kay Art Projects in Chicago. The show runs through November 26. She also has this new animation, Animation # 4. It features a song written by our brilliant friend Tom Recht called “The Tiniest Fly”. I played and performed the music and Diane sang the song.

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Surrounded by the Sound

September 20, 2011

Jason Boton, who’s taken a lot of great photos of Dolly Varden  over the years, has put together this video featuring postcards, posters, handbills and his own photos from the past 16 years or so,  for our song “Surrounded By The Sound” (from Forgiven Now). Thanks, Jason!

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Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements 9-17-11

September 1, 2011

Dolly Varden is very happy to be part of this new and unique Chicago festival happening Sept 16 to 18 in Eckhart Park. We’ll play on Saturday, Sept 17th at 1:30pm on the outdoor stage. In addition to music there will be  carnival games, rides,  sideshows, and the renown Renegade Craft fair and a hand [...]

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A new album begins and “Mouthful of Lies” to be re-issued

July 19, 2011

We’re about 6 songs into a new Dolly Varden album and it’s going very well. We’re tracking at my studio in Chicago, Kernel Sound Emporium, which is also Diane’s art studio. Back in 1995 we recorded Mouthful of Lies here, and most of The Thrill of Gravity, too, in 1996 – 97. Plans are underway [...]

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April 20, 2010

photo by Jeremy Lawson Welcome to the new and improved home for Dolly Varden. The band is currently writing and arranging new songs and will begin recording a new album in May, to be released (hopefully) before the end of the year. Have a look around. We’ll be adding stuff to the website quite a [...]

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