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.
Court and Brent are out supporting The Legend of The Last of The Outlaw Truckers. They’ll be performing on a few radio stations live this week. For up to the minute info follow us on Twitter
Denver April 6, 9 am- On-air at KTNI – 2 song performance
Denver April 6, 5:15 pm – Pre-record at KTCL – Courtney and Fathead perform for “Garage Sessions” LIVE LINK
Philly April 8, 1pm – On-air at WRFF- 3 song performance
Boston April 9, 9 am On-air WFNX – 3 song performance
Boston April 9, 1:45 pm On-air WBOS – 3 song performance
They guys will also be visiting KTCL in Denver, WRXP in NYC, WXPN in Philly, Spinner.com at AOL in NYC, and WBRU in Providence. These visits won’t be live to air so we’ll inform you when the taped sessions are gonna be broadcast!
Where and when we can we’ll post these performances here.