"Billy & Dolly" is the new musical venture of Bill Rousseau and Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, the singing and songwriting duo of San Francisco band The Monolith. After five years with The Monolith, Billy & Dolly traded in the Moogs and elaborate orchestrations for an acoustic guitar and a piano, and went into two years of song-writing hibernation in Dolly's basement. They wrote songs about love and loss, old friends, Gene Clark, the Garden of Eden... Now they are ready to rock again, backed by The Tell-Tale Hearts:

Alex DeCarville (of The Monolith, The Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice)
Nils Erickson (of 20 Minute Loop)
Adam Cunha (of 20 Minute Loop)

They released their first album, In the Beginning, on Nov. 17, 2009. In addition to The Tell-Tale Hearts, they were joined in the studio by the supremely talented engineer Jay Pellici (Deerhoof, Erase Errata, Cody Chesnutt).

- Press