The Dresden Dolls Releasing YES VIRGINIA…(TAILOR’S VERSION) Album

The Dresden Dolls Releasing YES VIRGINIA…(TAILOR’S VERSION) Album…PIONEERING PUNK CABARET DUO AMANDA PALMER AND BRIAN VIGLIONE HERALD NEWLY RE-RECORDED 20TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
OF LANDMARK 2006 SECOND STUDIO LP, YES VIRGINIA…(TAILOR’S VERSION), WITH BRAND-NEW RENDITION OF RIAA PLATINUM-CERTIFIED FAN FAVORITE.

INTERNATIONAL HEADLINE TOUR BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1 IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA

Yes, Virginia…(Tailor’s Version) – the newly fashioned title, of course, a nod to Taylor Swift’s reclamation of her early master recordings, follows the recent conclusion of The Dresden Dolls’ 20-year contract with Roadrunner Records, allowing them the right to re-record the albums originally issued on the label. Recorded over several weeks in late 2025 at Boston, MA’s Mad Oak Studios, the album was tracked almost entirely live with longtime collaborator Benny Grotto and mixed by Paul Kolderie, co-founder of Boston’s iconic Fort Apache Studios (and sound engineer on the original 2006 Yes, Virginia…). The new recording sees The Dresden Dolls joined by guest vocalists Veronica Swift, who received a French knighthood and worldwide acclaim for her 2021 recording of the album’s “Sing,” and 2x RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon, an ardent supporter of the band who performed the album’s “Me and the Minibar” with a full orchestra at her Carnegie Hall debut in 2025. The album also includes new front- and back-cover artwork by South African surrealist painter Niki McQueen.

Hailed upon its original release for Viglione’s orchestral, emotionally expressive drumming and Palmer’s percussive piano work and unflinching songwriting, Yes, Virginia…(Tailor’s Version) sees the Dresden Dolls exploring sexuality, identity, addiction, capitalism, Holocaust denial, and social isolation against a backdrop of defiant joy. The tracklist remains unchanged – save for a bonus track on the new physical releases – but the performances reflect two decades of Palmer and Viglione’s artistic and personal evolution, adding renewed depth, nuance, and intensity to such treasured songs as “Sex Changes,” “Mrs. O,” “Sing,” “Delilah,” “Me and the Minibar” and “Backstabber,” the latter of which is joined by a “Tailor’s Version” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. Having earned global applause for their blazingly visceral live performances over the past 20 years, Palmer and Viglione approached the material with a deeper musical connection and a more expansive emotional range. Their performances do not attempt to perfectly replicate the original recordings. Rather, Yes, Virginia… (Tailor’s Version) reflects a mature interplay – subtler, elastic, and more attuned to space and restraint – while preserving the raw theatricality that defined the Dresden Dolls’ early work.

“It feels like we’re both far more sophisticated and nuanced musicians now,” says Palmer. “We have more grace as collaborators; we leave more sonic space for one another. We’ve been a live band for 25 years and clocked our 10,000 hours on stage; now we can get out of the way of the songs themselves and let them breathe more deeply. Re-recording these songs 20 years later proved to be a really surreal trip down memory lane.

“The challenge in the studio,” Palmer adds, “was to capture something that’s always moving – these songs have always been played in conversation with an audience. The recording didn’t need to be perfect, quite the contrary: it had to feel alive and urgent. Some of the songs were recorded in a single take, vocal and all. It was almost unsettling how relevant these lyrics still are in 2026, especially the themes of turmoil, powerlessness, the subtle creep of fascism, abortion rights; there’s even a song imagining the corporate takeover of outer space in ‘Modern Moonlight.’ It’s like, wow, look how far we haven’t come.”

TRACKLIST:

Sex Changes (Tailor’s Version)

Backstabber (Tailor’s Version)

Modern Moonlight (Tailor’s Version)

My Alcoholic Friends (Tailor’s Version)

Delilah (Tailor’s Version)

Dirty Business (Tailor’s Version)

First Orgasm (Tailor’s Version)

Mrs. O. (Tailor’s Version)

Shores Of California (Tailor’s Version)

Necessary Evil (Tailor’s Version)

Mandy Goes To Med School (Tailor’s Version)