Dresden Dolls, winners of last year's Boston Battle of the Bands, are a Brechtian Punk Cabaret-style duo. Think "mimes-on-acid" and you're close...

They are currently touring like mad and gearing up for the full-scale release of their debut self-titled album.

Their videos are directed by director Michael Pope and can be found HERE.

Remember the guy who injected some real fire into the 1998 Grammies by doing an insane dance in front of Bob Dylan with the words "SOY BOMB" on his chest? Well, it looks like Michael Portnoy, or XAR as he is now known, has been up to quite a lot in the meantime.

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Dance, music, taking over city streets in Poland (!), and teaching us how to laugh, to the beat. "Laughing with Gudnut" is a hilarious "Haharobics Instructional", which is only truly experienced by trying to do what "Gudnut" tells you. (Click on the link in the "ART" section of the site).

And be sure to check out XAR's carnival-prog anthem "Run Through The Wind With Your Hands On My Timmy Tim Tim!" in the MUSIC section.

SMUGGLER -music videos and commercials, especially nice to see the work of Ivan Zacharias but they have an excellent crew all the way around. in particular check out HONDA "taken for granted". www.smugglersite.com

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