Sound check is over for The Dandy Warhols. The band has dispersed to the grassy courtyard next to the bar where they’ll be playing tonight and Zia McCabe — keyboardist, percussionist and organizational brains for the Dandy Warhols — takes a bag of rough-hewn tobacco out of her purse and rolls a cigarette as her 5-year-old daughter Matilda runs by in pigtails and a black dress. McCabe shakes her head and takes a sip of her beer as she wishes aloud that her daughter will steer clear of the bartenders who work at the venue; she’s heard the women in question cursing violently while discussing their reveling ways and wants Matilda nowhere near them.
The Dandys will be playing a the new L.A. 101 music event on November 3rd with Silversun Pickups and Matt & Kim. Because of the nature of this special event, the Dandys cannot offer advance tickets to our fans. In fact, tickets are on sale now and are going fast, so please get yours as soon as possible.
Oh hey. A reminder that we will be on tour next in the good ol’ USA starting next week. In case you forgot or have put off buying tickets because you were broke or just came out of a coma and this is the first you are hearing of it, here are the dates again along with links to buy tickets.
Hey. Since the tragic news of Mr. Jackson’s passing yesterday, we here at The Odditorium have been besieged with requests of the status of The Dandys’ cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird”, as foretold, and some would say, fore-promised (that’s probably not a word), in the title track of our 2003 album Welcome To The Monkey House. Please note that this was not an anticipated event and we had no cover of “Blackbird” all rearin’ to go. I mean, how could we? With both Courtney and Fathead currently out of town we cannot say when we will be able to get to this cover of “Blackbird”, but we will, as soon as we are all together and able, since we have come to find that it means so much to a lot of you.
We thank you for your continued love and patience. Much love back, on behalf of The Dandy Warhols and all of us here at the Odditorium in Portland.
This is an annual deal with these cats who do so much to help change the ridiculous policies our government has regarding marijuana, and we’re totally stoked to have been asked to take part in this year’s shindig. This year’s party is hosted by actress Fairuza Balk, and will also feature DJs from Honeypot, and our friend David J from Bauhaus/Love and Rockets. Also, there will probably be girls there, because, you know, it’s the Playboy Mansion.
Now tickets for this party are pretty spendy, but if you’ve got the dough, they are available [HERE] . If you can’t make it to the Mansion, join us the following night in Pomona at The Glass House for an old-fashioned all-ages Dandy Warhol whoop-ti-doo. Tickets are still available for Pomona [HERE] .
Show announcement, you guys. This is an all-ages show on Friday, June 5th in Pomona, CA. Tickets go on sale Saturday May 9th at 12n and are expected to go fast. Super stoked, we’ll see you there.
You know, July14th is Bastille Day. All I know about Bastille Day is: I live above a creperie, and on Bastille Day that place is bonkers busy with sexy people eating crepes on the sidewalk. So I like to think Bastille Day is about hot girls and guys eating crepes with one hand and smoking a cigarette with the other hand while drinking sooo much wine with the third hand.
So with that in mind I think it’s fitting that we have selected The Dandy Warhols Are Sound for release on July 14th, 2009.
We have been whispering to you about The Dandy Warhols Are Sound for quite some time. Long story short, or if you just got to our party, late 2001 and into 2002 we recorded an album’s worth of tracks here in Portland and took those tracks to New York’s Electric Lady Studios to mix with famed mixing engineer Russell Elavedo, and the result of those mixing sessions was The Dandy Warhols Are Sound. We absolutely loved this record. However, Capitol, our label a the time, did not. They opted out of using our preferred mixes and remixed the record on their own to create Welcome To The Monkey House, a great album that we, and most of you, also love.
Meanwhile, The Dandy Warhols Are Sound just sat there. Oh, it got played. It was a staple at Odditorium parties from the start. But there are just so many people who are at any given Odditorium party. We had always intended to release this unheard gem on our own, but life and other records and tours and babies and crepes and red wine got in the way. Now finally, after almost seven years, on July 14, 2009 The Dandy Warhols will be proud to present to you The Dandy Warhols Are Sound.
Our second remix collection entitled Earth To The Remix Vol 2 is now available. Like our first effort, Earth To The Remix Vol 1, we have taken songs from Earth To The Dandy Warhols and turned them around into something different and cool, new and strange, uncanny and refreshing, and other adjectives.
If you fancy record stores, you can find Earth To The Remix Vol 2 exclusively at recordstoreday.com retail outlets in the United States and HMV locations in Canada on Saturday, April 18th. If you prefer iTunes, Amazon, or other digital retailers, the record will be available Tuesday, April 21.
Or, you can download the record from us RIGHT NOW for just $3.49 for lossless (FLAC) digital download. Go ahead and listen below, we think you will agree that you won’t find anything better you can spend $3.49 on.
Here’s the LINK to listen to Courtney and Fathead live on WRFF in Philadelpia. Looks like you can download an App for iPhones and Blackberrys that gives you streaming radio from 150 radio stations at this link as well as just listen live.
This afternoon Courtney and Brent are doing a station takeover on WXPN. They’ll be spinning their favorite tracks for an hour. Here’s the LINK on that one.
Don’t forget Zia at 11AM PDT on W+K radio.
We’ll be twittering live from the studio with Zia and all day long so be sure to let us know you’re alive.
