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"Why Does Your Site Suck?" Since I got 3 emails asking this exact question this week (in the exact words), I will quickly address it. In the past, I have kept the site very up-to-date, but a plethora of "real life" problems made me 1) fall behind and 2) lose intrest, and frankly, that intrest hasn't come back yet. I haven't given up on the site totally yet, but it's close. In the past I had messageboards and a more interactive news content system, but that got hacked and I haven't fixed those problems yet. So, keep checking in, but... we'll see. To those reading this, thanks for your patience. |
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June 18, 2010 - Bumbershoot Announced |
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On September 5, The Dandy Warhols will return to the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, Washington. |
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June 9, 2010 - Australian Concert Dates |
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The official site, as well as other places, make mention that the Warhols will be playing at the Parklife Festival this August/September in Australia. Here are the currently announced dates: August 25 - Gold Coast, Australila August 26 - Perth, Australia September 2 - Melbourne, Australia September 3 - Sydney, Australia September 4 - Adelaide, Australia With that gap between shows 2 and 3, some non-festival shows wouldn't surprise me. |
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May 25, 2010 - Greatest Hits Release Coming |
| Heard this a few weeks ago but never got around to mentioning it. The long awaited greatest hits release will be coming out this summer and will be called "The Capitol Years 1995-2007." It will be a 15-track disk with one previously unreleased track included (This Is The Tide). Complete track listing: 1. BOYS BETTER 2. EVERY DAY SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY (TONY LASH MIX) 3. NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKIE ON EARTH 4. GOOD MORNING 5. GODLESS 6. GET OFF 7. BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU 8. WE USED TO BE FRIENDS 9. SCIENTIST (ARE SOUND VERSION) 10. THE LAST HIGH 11. PLAN A (ARE SOUND VERSION) 12. HOLDING ME UP 13. ALL THE MONEY OR THE SIMPLE LIFE HONEY 14. SMOKE IT 15. THIS IS THE TIDE (BONUS TRACK) Album cover, taken from the official site:  Mostly a predictable line-up, but a couple odd choices mixed in there. The Tony Lash mix of Holiday has not had a major release, showing up only on the CD2 single for Last High and the Australian split single for Last High and Used To Be Friends. The official site also mentions that a lot more tour dates will be announced around the world in support of the release. |
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April 27, 2010 - New Concert Date |
| The official site is listing the band as playing at the Paredes de Coura festival in Portugal, on July 31st. Tickets are on sale |
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April 20, 2010 - Brent DeBoers Solo Debut |
| Brent has released his first solo album, which he has been working on for years now. It is called The Farmer and can be bought at http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/BrentDeBoer. Along with the album, Brent has made a video for the song You Win. On May 30th, the band will be playing in Portland at You Who Children's Rock Variety Show at the Kennedy School. Matilda, Zia and Travis' daughter will be chosing the setlist for the second half of the show. Tickets on sale now. On a personal note, if anyone else is going to go, I will be at the dinner with the warhols. Yeah, they'll love that. Say hi if you feel like it there. |
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April 9, 2010 - Upcoming Euro Trek - More Dates |
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OK, that is just borderline funny. I didn't notice that the official site actually had more than just the one new show listed, as I didn't bother scrolling down the page to the Russian singer. More shows: August 4 - Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Tickets on sale April 17th August 5 - Lokerse Festival, Lokeren, Belgium. Buy tickets now Blue Balls tickets are On sale now |
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April 8, 2010 - Upcoming Euro Trek - First Date |
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See that clout? I say they are going to be announcing new concert dates soon and 3 days later, they do! I'm so powerful! Just kidding. Well, not about the date being announced According to the official site, they are playing at the Blue Balls Festival in Luzern, Switzerland on July 28th. Tickets are supposed to be available now, but they aren't listed as playing on the festivals site yet, nor on the ticket purchase page. In fact, tickets for the 28th aren't available at all. Keep looking. |
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April 5, 2010 - Dinner With The Warhols; Upcoming Euro Trek |
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For those in the Portland area, there is an event coming up on May 4th called the Rock And Roll Supper Club. For $85 ($150 for 2 tickets), you get "an evening of conversation, acoustic performance and delicious dining with the Dandy Warhols." Proceeds go to the Urban Opportunities Program. purchase tickets, go to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106273. If you go to it, don't tell them I mentioned it. As for me, not sure yet if I will be trying to go or not. On the official site, multiple posts have hinted that the band is finalizing tour dates for this summer in Europe. More info to come. |
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March 13, 2010 - 2 New Releases Coming |
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Another update based on information from the official site: Greatest Hits (probably not the name) - the "retrospective" of the bands time with Capitol. This is being released by Capitol and is set to contain 2 previously unreleased tracks, along with never before seen photos. Release date is in May. Album 8 (probably not the name) - Or maybe Album 9 or 10, depending on how you count The Dandy Warhols Are Sound and The Instruction And Incidentals Of Automobile Handling In Four. The band is currently working on their follow-up album to Earth To The Dandy Warhols. No other news at this time. |
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February 11, 2010 - New Album Being Recorded |
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On the official site, there was a new post put up, which talks about a few things going on around the band, and tacked on to the end is the nugget of information saying that a new album is being recorded. |
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February 5, 2010 - Logan Lynn covers Last High |
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Just a note to say I'm living, that I'm not among the dead... yet. Since I haven't had anything to comment on in Dandyville, I figure I will hit the fringes of noteworthy pieces and mention that Beat The World Record artist Logan Lynn has record a cover of The Last High. It addionally has a b-side remix of the track by Y-Tron. If you want to buy it, check out Logans online store, though to be honest, I couldn't figure out how to actually buy it (who woulda thunk that clicking "buy now" would do nothing!). Regardless of purchasing it, you can at last listen to the regular version of the cover in the embedded media player at the same address. By my count, which is 99% assured of being wrong, this is the first ever commercially released cover of a Warhols song (not counting mash-up or whatever you want to quantify Mousse T vs. The Dandy Warhols as). |
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November 29, 2009 - Little Drummer Boy on Official Site |
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On the official website, the band has put up a free download of Little Drummer Boy, along with the video from 1994. There are a few curiousities that I want to look into with this track. Most notably what version it is, or if it's a previously unrelesased version. The current free version runs 3:19. The 1994 version (which would match up with the music video) runs 4:41, so it can't be that one. The 1997 version comes in at 3:12, which is much closer, but still a sizeable difference in track lengths. If I think about it later, I will listen to all 4 sources and see if I can come down to any conclusions. My guess: It's just the 1997 version. |
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November 19, 2009 - Beat The World compilation. |
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Beat The World records is having a contest, with the winner getting an acoustic guitar. 10 second-prize winners will get digital copies of all Beat The Worlds bands albums. Of interest to those who don't care about the contest, the band is giving all entries a copy of a Beat The World compilation EP, which contains one track each by the bands on the label: The Dandy Warhols - Welcome To The Third World The Upsidedown - Number Twenty Nine Logan Lynn - Write It On My Left Arm Spindrift - New West (Vocal Version) 1776 - Main Run Some tracks for Petes "upcoming" album, "Pete International Airport," are available on iTunes. Here is the cover:  November 14, Courtney and Brent will be appearing as the Dutch Masters, playing at a benefit for the Artist Mentorship Program and Urban Opprotunities. Get more information at http://www.pdxydc.org/. I passed it up before, but Courtney helped mix a song that he is calling "Marilyn Monroe." The project is called The Wolfman and features two members of Adam and the Ants, Massive Attack and Sinead O'Conner, all in various capacities. The album is due out in March by Sony. |
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November 9, 2009 - A few new items from the official site. |
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Now I am sure that if you are reading this, you also go to the official site and therefore have already seen all this already. But just in case: Some tracks for Petes "upcoming" album, "Pete International Airport," are available on iTunes. Here is the cover: November 14, Courtney and Brent will be appearing as the Dutch Masters, playing at a benefit for the Artist Mentorship Program and Urban Opprotunities. Get more information at http://www.pdxydc.org/. I passed it up before, but Courtney helped mix a song that he is calling "Marilyn Monroe." The project is called The Wolfman and features two members of Adam and the Ants, Massive Attack and Sinead O'Conner, all in various capacities. The album is due out in March by Sony. |
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November 4, 2009 - PNW Holiday Shows Coming Up |
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The Dandy Warhols just announced 3 new shows in the Pacific Northwest for mid-December (reprising the usually-annual holiday shows), which they are calling "Italian Christmas": December 11 - Seattle, Washington - Neumos December 12 - Portland, Oregon - Wonder Ballroom (21+ only) December 13 - Portland, Oregon - Wonder Ballroom (all ages) Tickets are on sale now, at https://tixx1.artistarena.com/thedandywarhols/. Login: thedandywarhols Password: aresound |
| September 24, 2009 - LA Show Added For November; Article On ESPN.com about band |
| Preparing for the Autumn, the Dandy Warhols have announced a show in L.A. this fall, playing at an event for radio station LA 101. The event is headlined by Silversun Pickups. Meant to mention this a few weeks ago, but was reminded of it when it was posted on the official site. There is an Article on ESPN.com about an athlete who was into the Dandy Warhols while he was trying to be a pro athlete in Europe. A bit of a fun read. |
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August 20, 2009 - Warhols Record Track for Love And Rockets Tribute Album |
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Well, the Dandys have recorded a cover of Love And Rockets' "Inside The Outside." I haven't heard it myself yet, but you can get it either through normal online store (shuch as Amazon.com) or download it through iTunes, which appears to come with 9 extra tracks. I'll correct this later if I'm wrong. |
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August 13, 2009 - The Doors opening for Dandy Warhols |
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The official site has announced another new show in September, this one being the Clean Air, Clean Stars festival, where they will be headlining the penultimate day. The rest of the Beats The World Records galaxy of stars will all also be playing the same day. Concert is free, but if you go, make a donation. It's worth it. Of almost-interesting note, on the same day, Robbie Kreiger will be playing with a band called Tree House. Kreiger is known as the guitarist for The Doors, as well as being the writer of "Light My Fire". note: There is the chance that this is just someone with the same name, but I couldn't find any information either way on the subject. And it is much less dramatic saying "Maybe a member of the former band The Doors is playing the same festival as the Dandy Warhols," huh? |
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August 11, 2009 - "Dreamt Of Yes" video |
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The Warhols have made a great video for And Then I Dreamt Of Yes, which pleases me to no end. As anyone who has been around knows, I've loved the hell out of it for years (in fact, one of the first times I got in trouble with the band was when I posted guitar tabs for the song about 6 or so years ago.), and am glad to see the style they took on in order to make it. Zia describes it as influenced by "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari". See the video Read Zia's opinion of the video on the official site Read a brief interview with the director of the video, Mark Helfrich (directed Good Luck Chuck also). |
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August 6, 2009 - Official Website; ...Are Sound; Capitol/EMI promoting ...Are Sound |
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Insignificant post from Slabtown: Well, I have done some research as to what has been happening with the band in the past 4-6 months, and I have overwhelmingly positive feelings (with a few minor exceptions). First and most importantly, the official website seriously kicks ass anymore. I can't recommend it enough to anyone. In the past, whether it be by lack of true intrest or Capitol holding the band back, it always seemed to be a bit short on the information side. These days, that is definitely not the case. Lots of original content, whether it be photos, sound, video, whatever. Keep up the great work, Gothman. A negative? Even with that, the first year of the subscription service didn't really come together as well as it could have. By my estimation, if you subscribed to the service when it first came available, there was a grand total of 9 tracks that you couldn't get anyplace else (or at the least, were not in wide circulation), and all of those came in one single release. Beyond that, they released Remixes 1 and 2 and the cover songs that were bonus tracks for ordering the album through commercial websites. And I could be wrong, but I think that the original subscription ran out before ...Are Sound was released. Again, I could be wrong, but the dates just don't seem to add up. Anyway, hopefully more will come out, but we will see. I still have faith in them. Someone questioned my opinion on ...Are Sound, and I have to be honest and say that I haven't listened to the official release and probably won't. This album has been in circulation long enough (though not officially) that I have no incentive to listen again. Unless to check to see if there was any more mixing that happened before it came out. I am not putting it down, mind you. I just have no new thoughts on it. For the record, I think it is great and am glad that others get to see this version of the album. Humorous side-note about the release of ...Are Sound, which is that apparently the bond between the Warhols and Capitol/EMI have not fully been severed, or the band just had some final contractual obligations with them, since Capitol/EMI has put up a promotional website for the album. On a site update note. it is really hot where I have my computer, so I can't stand being at it too long. The result of this: updates are going to be delayed until global warming stops. |
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July 27, 2009 - Site Update |
| Wanted to mention the reason that there has been no update for the past decade or so is due to both myself and my computer being sick. Computer is fixed now. Finally. I'm not. Will try to update at least the archives to include ...Are Sound. |
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November 22, 2008 - New Years Show; More Subscriber Content. |
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Happy 45th anniversary of John Kennedy being assassinated. First, as you have noticed, if you bother coming around, updates are fewer and farther in between. Events happened that... well, events happened. And continue to. The band has announced they will be playing a show in Chicago for New years Eve at the Metro. Subscribers will have first stab at these outrageously overpriced tickets (Guess I'm just too jaded, but $42 to see the band is crazy. Yet I might pay it). Since the presale is for subscribers, I'll just say that you should get an email with more directions. One interesting thing is that they are having a VIP table section. For $500, you get a 4 person table, 4 tickets, 4 custom posters and 16 drink tickets. Sadly, while I think that $42 is too much for tickets, I have no problem with the $500 for a table. Too bad I'm a loser without 3 friends. 3 more tracks have also apparently been made available for subscribers (I haven't actually checked to see if they are there), so Lay, Lady, Lay, Sister Golden Hair and Acoustic Mis Amigos (incorrectly called an Australian release) have been taken off the download page. Off to re-read The Minutemen again. spiffy comic book, and the movie looks good. |
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September 18, 2008 - Still More European Vacation info. |
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Added 4 more UK shows: December 10: Liverpool - Carling Academy December 11: Bournemouth - Bournemouth Firestation December 13: Wolverhampton - Wulfrun Hall December 14: London - Astoria Tickets for all on sale now. Interesting to note that the London show is bookended by two other shows, so they can't add another date if it sells out, unless they leave London and come back again. |
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September 15, 2008 - Back To Europe, Pt. 2 |
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Two more European shows have slipped out, these on the continent proper: December 6th - Cologne, Germany December 7th - Paris, Frace - Bataclan Holding out hope of hopes that since these shows are a week before the UK shows, then they will fit in a Portland Christmas show. Yeah, yeah, I can dream. Let me have that. |
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September 14, 2008 - Back To Europe |
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Well, the probable bad news for Portland fans is good news for European fans. Two European shows have been announced, for mid-December. This probably excludes a Portland Christmas show this year, for the first time in years: December 15: Glasgow, Scotland - ABC Club December 17: Dublin, Ireland - Dublin Tripod |
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September 13, 2008 - New Melbourne, Australia show; Band Casting People In LA For New Video |
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Following the November 6th show in Mewlbourne selling out, the band added a second show on November 7th. Official site mentions that they are looking for people to be in their next music video, which will be filming in L.A. If you can be around town on September 20th, send 3 pictures and an email to lauren@frameworkla.com |
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September 9, 2008 - Rumor Has It... |
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...the kids are already in the middle of recording another album, expected to be done recorded in ~4 months (not to be confused with "released"). True? Not true? No idea yet. If anyone has any information, would love to hear it. On or off the record. The person who said this is quite reliable, so while this could be 100% bullshit and/or confusion, I don't doubt them. And, as one person already asked, no I don't think they are confusing it with Dandy Warhols Are Sound either. I must say that this doesn't surprise me, as it does help connect the dots with some things I had heard about some "new tracks" but that didn't show up on ETDW. I just figured they were talking about the band making a concentrated effort to have a bulk of B-Sides ready. More info when I get anything I can share. UPDATE: I got this information but sat on it a bit, hoping to get a little more info. That didn't come through so I'll go with this... The "New New" Album is basically going to be "Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols 2," as it will be b-sides and cover songs. Unless there was a breakdown in communication, Courtney has said it is looking like late spring/early summer of 2009. And, no, "Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols 2" is not the name of it. I just use that as a point of reference. One thing that caught my attention immediately is that we might be looking at anoter 2 CD set. Just like it was The Black Album/Come On Feel, this next release could be The Dandy Warhols Are Sound/Come On Feel, Vol. 2. But that is probably too much to hope for. |
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September 8, 2008 - U.S. Chart Debut (updated); Another New Cover |
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Update: I hadn't checked my mail in too long and the charts I posted earlier (see below) are one week old. In the newest charts, the new album has dropped out of every chart. ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... U.S. chart debuts (September 6, 2008): #128 in the top album charts. #24 in the digital download charts. #15 in the Tastemakers charts. This chart is basically the sales from 350 select independent record stores. Pretty good, considering how it was released. With the band starting their U.S. tour tomorrow, next week is very much up in the air. The promotion for the tour might draw some people to buy it, but it also might have already been bought by the diehard fans, with the casual fans not bothering. The band has recorded a cover of the Cult song Rain. A pretty good one, too. |
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September 6, 2008 - Couple Live Tracks; Charlatans Cancel, But Show Goes On. |
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I uploaded two new tracks to the ETDW tracks page, at http://www.slabtown.net/audio/EarthTracks/EF.html. They are Mission Control and Wasp In The Lotus performed with the Oregon Cello Project. One of the biggest, if not THE biggest shows on the upcoming U.S. tour was the band playing in San Francisco with the Charlatans. The Charlatans have cancelled, but they have been replaced with the Portland band Helio Sequence. |
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August 30, 2008 - First Subscription Content Released. |
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So, they got around to releasing one track for content subscribers - Monster Mish, which is Courtneys remix of Mission Control. If you are a subscriber, you should get an email directing you to a website, where it can be downloaded. You do need to fill in your subscription name and email address to get to the download. This looks like it will be the site for all the downloads over the year. Note: I removed the track as being available for download. |
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August 27, 2008 - More New Tracks;Trucker Video |
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Remember all the joy-joy feelings about the subscription service for the new album being a great way to assure yourself of getting "B-Side and previously unreleased" songs? Yeah, that feeling was a nice 32 seconds, huh? This is the cynical way of saying that 4 more tracks have been released, but are unavailable to subscribers. We're now up to 8 tracks, when including the "Earth To The Remix" tracks. So, the breakdown is this:
Oh well. Hopefully sometime, they will get their act together. P.S.: Sister Golden Hair kicks serious ass, but I am a bit biased, due to having a major mancrush on the original. The band has made a pretty cool video for Trucker. Check it out. Easily one of my top 3 fave videos they have ever done (possibly #1. I have never given any thought to how I would rank them). |
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August 7, 2008 - Australian Tour |
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Fresh on the heels of.... well, nothing.... the band has announced it's Australian plans. Oct 28 - Perth, WA; Metro City Oct 31 - Sydney, NSW; Enmore Theater Nov 1 - Canberra, ACT; Stonefest Nov 2 - Newcastle, NSW; Fat As Butter Festival Nov 5 - Brisbane, Queensland; Tivoli Nov 6 - Melbourne, VIC; Palace Theater Often, the band will leave some dates open around the bigger shows, in case they add more dates for a city, but the schedule looks pretty solid right now, so this might be it. |
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August 4, 2008 - Reunited And It Feels So Good; Australian Charts |
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Legendary Portland band Swoon 23, who teamed up with the Warhols for many, many shows early in their careers, has reunited for the first time in 10+ years, and will be playing at the Portland Dandy Warhols show. They also have scheduled a couple other shows (one in California and opening for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in Seattle), so keep an eye out for more as well. This is great news, and I wish them the best of luck. As a frame of refernce, this is the band that is referred to in the song Nothin' To Do, when they sing "Here we are baby, with the cats from Swoon". Earth To The Dandy Warhols has dropped to #46 in Australia (#48 if you take out digital downloads). But then again, they also have 3 ABBA albums in the top 50... |
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July 30, 2008 - Australians Like 24 Other Albums More. |
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Earth To The Dandy Warhols debuted at #25 on the Australian charts. Courtney claimed during the London show that Mission Control is the most added song to radio in the U.S., but I haven't found this to the be the case. Nothing from the new album has made any appearance in the U.S. charts, whether it be radio airplay, digital downloads, indy charts, etc. |
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July 27, 2008 - Earth To The Remixes; New Zealand Show |
Well, the Remixes are floating around cyberspace, so track them down if you want to. Sorry, but I won't be saying where at this point, or giving them out. But, here is the cover: The band is (co-)headlining the Southern Amp Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand on November 9th, so you can also assume other Australian/New Zealand shows will be around that time frame (I was told a few months ago it would be late Oct/early November, so if that holds true, this should be one of the later shows on the trip). |
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July 17, 2008 - Request Trucker;Those Subscriber Remixes? Not so Exclusive. |
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The band is asking people in the U.S. to call in to radio stations and request Trucker gets played. So, the musical chair of singles contiues. Now onto a topic that really has me pissed: The band remixes. About 3 weeks ago the band sent out an email saying that at the end of August, 4 remixes would be released (one by each band member). So, it appeared that we had our first subsciption exclusive content. And now? Apparently a free CD is going to be given out in selected record stores. What is on this exclusive CD, named Earth TO The Remixes Vol. 1? Remixes by the band. One by each member. So, there is a first assumption to get out of the way: they are 2 different set of remixes. If that is the case, then that's cool. BUT... It is probably more likely that this is the exact same content being given out to subscribers, which would make it not-exclusive to anyone. It really is quite the pisser to have hopes for the service to actually have some added benefit, but not really a surprise to find out that it isn't what the band originally said was happening. So, first there was reports of people being charged multiple times for the album (though, that is a bit expected when starting a new system out. And easy to straighten out), then there is the free poster, which was supposed to, at least for me, have shipped a month ago but still hasn't arrived. And now, the first chance to let subscribers know they are appreciated and they fuck it up. Hopefully there is just some confusion in the description of what is going on and that these problems aren't all as they seem to be. For what it's worth, here are the 4 remix songs: 1. Come the Fuck On - A Peter Holmstrom/ Jeremy Sherrer Remix 2. THE MONSTER MISH - A Taylor-Taylor / Jacob Portrait Remix 3. Welcome to the Skin-up Remix - Fathead / Jeremy Sherrer 4. Dub In The Lotus - A Zia McCabe / Jeremy Sherrer Remix Paul Brainard - Pedal Steel Total running time for the 4 tracks is a hefty 38 minutes. Here is the content of the actual message describing the remixes going out to stores" In conjunction with Music Monitor Network, the Alliance of Independent Music Stores, and the Coalition of Independent Music stores, World's Fair Label Group, on behalf of the Dandy Warhols, will be giving away an exclusive EP, Earth to the Remix EP Vol. 1. With remixes by each of the Dandy Warhols themselves, the EP not only introduces material from the their upcoming album, ?Earth To The Dandy Warhols? (out August 19th on the band's very own Beat The World Records), it also shows off their musical versatility. The remixes move from spacey dub to edgy electronica but are never forced or insincere: the spirit and energy of the original song is always maintained, it's only the immediate presentation that's changed. Starting on July 19th and running through street date, fans can go to one of 400 stores nationwide -- including Amoeba, Virgin Megastore and Newbury Comics -- and pick up the EP themselves at absolutely no cost. For a complete list of participating stores, please go to www.recordstoreday.com. |
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July 2, 2008 - Songs Getting Radio play in the South. Very far south. |
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To add credence to Welcome To The Third World being the first single, it has been playing on the radio down in Australia. On the other hand, Mission Control and the video for it have been getting play in New Zealand. |
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June 28, 2008 - Info On First Content For Subscribers |
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Well, the band sent out an email last night discussing a few things (mostly related to getting your copies of the limited edition poster), including general details on the first subscription tracks. In late August, they will be relesing 4 remixes of tracks from the new albums, with each track being mastered by one of the band members. Later in the year, they will be releasing some cover songs they recorded. I was told long ago what at least 2 of them are (one of which I am excited about), but just to keep it suspenseful, I will not mention them yet. |
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June 19, 2008 - Tour Dates;Physical Album Release Dates |
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First off, the Portland show this weekend is cancelled. Tickets can be refunded or used for an October 5th show in Portland. Which leads to the U.S. tour: Sep 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue Sep 10 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore Sep 12 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater Sep 13 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus Sep 14 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda Sep 16 - Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theatre Sep 17 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 Sep 20 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA Sep 22 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club Sep 23 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage Sep 26 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall Sep 27 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater Sep 28 - Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Oct 03 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Oct 05 - PDX @ The Roseland Theater. The Upsidedown open all the shows except L.A. (A Place To Bury Strangers) and San Fran (The Charlatans). Tickets are on sale now for all shows except for Portland, which won't have a pre-order. The pre-order site is at https://tixx1.artistarena.com/thedandywarhols/. It has a generic type of login, but since you seemingly have to register for it, I won't tell you what it is, just in case it isn't as generic as it seemed to be to me. The album goes on sale in the U.S. on August 19th. You can pre-order it now through Amazon.com by text messaging earth2dandys to 262966, but you need a special amazon account set up with your cell phone. The better choice is just through amazon.com directly, at http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Dandy-Warhols/dp/B001ATO9KC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1213925618&sr=8-4, where you can also buy something else and get free shipping. The album costs $14.98 either way you buy it, but can add $2.98 for shipping if bought on the phone. The Australian release of the album is listed in Europe as being July 14th. |
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May 23, 2008 - Tour Dates |
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Well, the album is out, and it sounds like, at least from what I've been hearing from people, half of the people have been having problems with the downloads. Not sure if I am just only hearing negative, people aren't reporting it, or if the band is playing coy, but the official site has been saying it went fabulously. Based on the number of unhappy emails I've heard, I guess we have a difference criteria for that. Those who have heard the album are pretty happy about it, though. It is good, I agree, but my only problem is, there isn't a single. There isn't the so-called "Radio-Friendly Unit-Shifter" on the album. So, them going with Welcome To The Third World is an odd choice, but not really good or bad, I guess. Maybe something will grow on me. Hell, I've only listened to the album 2 times since it's release... Here is a quick snapshot on upcoming tour dates: June 17: Sugar - Victoria, BC, Canada June 18: Vogue - Vancouver, BC, Canada June 20: Showbox - Seattle, Washington June 21: Roseland - Portland, Oregon July 04: BBK Live Festival - Bilbao, Spain July 05: Lien de Musiques en Stock - Cluses, France July 06: Abart Music Club - Zurich, Switzerland July 11: Colours of Ostrava - Ostrava,CZ July 13: Les Ardentes Festival - Liege, Belgium July 14: Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands July 16: Rockefeller Music Hall - Oslo, Norway July 19: Lanhydrock National Trust - Bodmin, Cornwall, UK July 20: Lovebox Weekender - London, England, UK July 23: Shepherds Bush Empire- London, UK July 25: Galway Arts Festival Galway, Ireland |
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May 19, 2008 - New Album Out; Semi-Apology By Me |
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Oh, the lengths I go to just for the 3 1/2 readers who still show up here.... The new album is out now, for download, on the official site. The price is $39.95, which includes a download of the album, a physical copy of the album (to be mailed this fall) and 1 year of exclusive downloads through dandywarhols.com. If they get around to it. Additionally, with your initial subscription, you get an exclusive poster for the band, made by the Christopher Twins, who did the artwork for the Magedala (greatest hits) CD case. Last, and least (since there is only 1), one subscriber will get a special "Mission Control" effects pedal. No word on buying/downloading the album only, as right now, you have to subscribe in order to get it. Australia has a different gig going. There, you can buy the album for $18.99, but no mention of any subscription service. I am guessing that the album situation is the same, where you buy the album and can download it, and a physical copy will be sent out this fall. As a special gift in Australia, if you buy now, you will get a Dandy Warhols iron-on transfer. Note - when I say that there is no subscription service offer for Aussies, keep in mind that anyone can subscribe to the website. I do know someone in Australia who had no problem doing the whole full subscription thing. So, Australian users aren't locked out of the subscription part of the deal. In a slabtown-related piece of info, I am not sure yet what I am going to do in regards to the new album and the site. I don't know if/when I will get around to adding the new info, since I still haven't even added Odditorium, I think. We'll see. More information later. Maybe. As for the semi-apology.... I was just looking through my websites email program and I found literally hundreds of legitimate messages that got filtered into the spam folder mistakenly, going back 3 to 4 years in some cases. So, if anyone still reading wrote but never got a reply, this is the reason, and I apologize. |
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May 7, 2008 - Fine |
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I really have no intrest in updating right now, but there has been some stuff in the past few days that I suppose should be said. Of course, any real fan has already been to dandywarhols.com and seen this stuff, but whatever... (Aren't I fun when I'm grumpy? Been this way for almost a year now. Not fun. Hopefully soon I will get back into actually updating this and getting involved in a couple other projects I'm supposed to be helping with. But you didn't come here to hear about me. I hope....) The album is titled ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... and on May 5th, it was released in 10,000 jukeboxes. Not sure if it is just in the U.S. or global. I do know that some kid with no life did go into a bar and record it, so it is out there. On May 19th, the album will be downloadable/purchaseable by the band through their website as part of a new subscription service thingie. Over the course of the 1 year subscription, you will get access to exclusive tracks (live and studio)... like "The Dandy Warhols 10th Anniversary DVD," "The Dandy Warhols Are Sound," The full Massive Attack sessions, the rest of the Black Dog remixes and the myriad of other stuff the band has said they will be releasing in the past, but have never gotten around to doing. Oh wait, they didn't say that they would be offering any of those either. Hmm... not sure if they will ever offer anything with this subscription, then. Later, probably July 28th in the U.K. and July 22nd in the U.S., a real release might happen. The tracks: The World The People Together (Come On) - Free download available Mission Control Welcome To The Third World - First single Wasp In The Lotus And Then I Dreamt Of Yes - Formerly "House Of Yes" Talk Radio Love Song Now You Love Me - At times, formerly called "You Love Me" Mis Amigos The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty - Formerly called "Last Of The Outlaw Truckers" or just "Truckers" Beast Of All Saints - Formerly "The Beast" Valerie Yum Musee D'Nougat I have a couple other details of the new songs, but guess what? I'm too lazy to bother with right now. Wanna see the album cover? Go to dandywarhols.com. I'm too lazy to post it. Tour info? Go to dandywarhols.com. I'm too lazy to post it. Short version: PNW tour in July, Europe in August, U.S. in September. Oz in November. Give or take. none of that official or even unofficial, really. ~fin~ |
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Feb. 17, 2008 - Odds And Ends |
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Some stuff to mention: The initial video was taken down but was later combined with video 2 (so the first two teaser videos were merged into one). So, there is a "new" video: Earh To Dandy Warhols - Pimp 1 SO, this track has Talk Radio and a previously not-known song, that is all instrumental. 2 days later, a second Pimp arrived: The two songs i nthis clip are Wasp In A Lotus and Now You Love Me. |
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Jan 23, 2008 - MySpace Video - Second Tralier |
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Following on the heels of the "discovery" of yetserdays video clip, with the album title and release date in it, another video was found on the MySpace website for a video company called Razor Tree Films, which is ran by a (a member of the) band called Spindrift. Based on his comment about the release of the first video, that was linked yesterday, he will be doing multiple releases of these, as he said, regarding the first video, "My first assignment for The Dandy Warhols - promo for new album" The new video is at http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=26406739 and is pretty standard. It has the song Talk Radio playing over part of it, and is Courtney sitting and smoking a cigarette, along with someone in the background who appears to be whittling or something. I only watched it once, so didn't pay attention. It ends with the same ending as the last video: "Earth To The Dandy Warhols 05/05/08". Since the song is not the same as the last one, and the words at the end of the clip are the same, it is safe to assume that, yes, "Earth To The Dandy Warhols" is probably the album name. |
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Jan 22, 2008 - Youtube Video Gives Release Date |
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A couple days ago, a video popped up on Youtube called "Earth To The Dandy Warhols". which is a short musical clip and secenes of the mixing of the new album being done at CasaOddy. Nothing notable about it, except the music, until the very end, when the screen shows the message "Earth To The Dandy Warhols 5/5/08". So, looks like we have a release date. As for the "Earth TO The Dandy Warhols" part, that is still up in the air. It could just be a phrase, it could be a sign they are putting that song on the new album (it was on the black album before) - either as-is or reworked. the song in the clip doesn't sound like it - or it could be the album title. I am comfortable with the album still being called Rockmaker, but nothing else has really showed up yet to prove or disprove it any more since November, and things could have changed since then. Doing some follow-up, I did get confirmation that the vid is for the new album. The reply was short and left a lot of questions and guesswork, but thats fine. It either only confirmed the vid was real, or it confirmed that the song is indeed from the new album. Also confirmed (I think) is that the album will be on the bands Beat The World record label and not Capitol. No word if this is going to be totally exclusive this way and no major labels involved at all, or if the band might use the clout of a major just for distribution purposes only. As for the name Rockmaker, whick I mentioned last time, the name might change, but that is just the name I was hearing from 3 different sources. Again, I have been lied to before, so that isn't out of the realm of possibility, either. |
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November something - The worst-kept secret in Dandyville |
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Yep, it's Rockmaker. |
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August 7, 2007 - Non-Dandy, Website Related News. |
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"Slow down, you crazy child, Take the phone off the hook and disappaer for a while." |
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August 1, 2007 - A6 Cover? Greatest Hits Art? |
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UPDATE (August 6, 2007): *BZZZZZZT* Content gone, actually due to having a conscience about them. If you were here before today, you saw pictures of what is possibly the cover to the new album, and to the slipcase for the greatest hits CD. These were gotten legitimately by me, but it is apparent that they weren't meant to get out. And, I actually feel really, really bad for how they did come out. Someone inadvertantly had them as part of another file and didn't know it was going to be available for the world to find. So, posting them just seems too hurtful. Sorry, S.A. The pictures, if authentic, will surely leak again sometime. And when they do, I'll probably repost them. So, keep an eye out. |
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July 30, 2007 - Truckin', Got My Chips Cashed In |
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The Portland show was reportedly very good. Why "reportedly?" Read on to find out. What you don't need to read on to find out? A new track was played. Called Trucker. Look for it to leak soon, probably, in the normal haunts. |
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July 20, 2007 - Warhols Opening for Mick And Trent |
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More dates are being announced, this time by the Official Site. And they are some pretty big names they're playing with. August 8th, the band is opening for the Rolling Stones in Oslo, Norway. August 11th, the band is opening for the Rolling Stones in Lausanne, Switzerland August 13th, the band is opening for Nine Inch Nails in Prague, Czech Republic Also, the official site has confirmed all the other dates I've already mentioned here, while pinpointing the date of the bands performance at Frequency as being August 15th. |
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July 19, 2007 - Frequency Festival |
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The Dandy Warhols will be playing at the Frequency Festival, in Salzburg, Austria. The lineup hasn't been announced yet, but the festival runs August 15-17. |
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July 18, 2007 - The Kids Play PDX |
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Tickets just went on sale for a Dandy Warhols show in Portland on July 28th.
Opening for them are the bands current fave openers, The Upsidedown. |
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July 17, 2007 - More Stufstock Details |
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As mentioned before, the Warhols are playing the Stufstock festival in Romania. A couple more details have come out. They will be playing on the morning of August 19th at 1am. Dear god.... 1am??? Tickets are on sale now if you just happen to be in Romania in Mid-August. Interestingly, they are one of only a few english-speaking bands playing. |
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July 16, 2007 - Possible Album Title |
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Grass-Scratch Fever. OK, so chalk this up to either being a working a title, a final title or just another prank on Slabtown, since it's known there is little I won't post. The source is an unknown, but the description of how they got the name fits. And, as always, remember that until the official site says it is true, it's only rumor and conjecture. |
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July 11, 2007 - Upcoming Show, part 2 |
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Some website is reporting that the Warhols are playing October 19th in Mexico City at the SoFest, with The Killers and Louis XIV. Tickets go on sale July 20th. Man, the band goes 12 years without playing Mexico once and now thay are playing their second show in 14 months. That is a good thing, though. Never too late to break in a new market to the Dandy Warhols. |
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July 5, 2007 - Upcoming Show |
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Some band we've all heard of and don't hate are apprently playing the Stufstock Festival in Romania, which happens on August 16-19. While this is great for the Romania contingent, the bigger picture means that we now know the band is set to be in Europe in August, and are sure to have more appearances. Hope for more leaks/official announcements soon. |
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Sasquatch Stuff |
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Sasquatch Setlist And Photos |
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April 6, 2007 - Album 6 |
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Album Six Info Song Titles: Mission Control Talk Radio House Of Yes - NOTE: There is evidence that this song was renamed for the album. Have A Kickass Summer The Beast You Love Me Wasp In A Lotus Website Info Well, I broke something on it, so the other format I had before is currently uneditable, unti I figure out the backups. 6_6 |
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