What Would Johnny Thunders Say?

Evidently the New York Dolls are absolutely a-okay with John Varvatos. Read the following press release & weep.

NEW YORK DOLLS CELEBRATE NEW ALBUM MAY 5 WITH RELEASE PARTY AT JOHN VARVATOS 315 BOWERY

LOS ANGELES -- The New York Dolls will christen the band's fourth studio album, 'Cause I Sez So, with an invite-only release party Tuesday, May 5th at John Varvatos 315 Bowery, the space that formerly housed the seminal underground music club CBGB's in New York City. The quintet will perform the new album, and the world's of music & fashion will fuse together to celebrate the occasion. Following the show, The New York Dolls will begin a tour that will include performances in major U.S. cities.

'Cause I Sez So marks the second record of the Second Coming of the Dolls. With it, they have come full circle, re-enlisting the talents of Todd Rundgren, the same knob-twirling wizard who produced the original line-up's first LP in 1973. Recorded at Utopia Sound Studio in Kauai, Hawaii with David Johansen (vocals); Sylvain Sylvain (guitar); Steve Conte (guitar); Brian Delaney (drums); and Sami Yaffa (bass), the new album features 11 original compositions and a new version of "Trash," a song that originally appeared on The New York Dolls' debut. 'Cause I Sez So comes roaring out of the gate, opening with a classic Dolls riff that is sharp and jagged enough to open up a tin of soup, ending twelve tracks later with "Exorcism of Despair," a song that sounds an awful lot like a rock 'n' roll apocalypse.

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.