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May 9, 2012 - Reviews; Streaming Acoustic Show |
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Been distracted by other things, so backlogged. What I can recall: June 5th, Flavorpill will be livestreaming an acoustic set and interview with the Dandy Warhols. Video, not just audio. It starts at 2pm Eastern Standard Time (New York). It will be on Livestream and if you go sign up at the website, you can get an email or SMS (text) reminder the day of. Added 11 more reviews and 2 more interviews to the This Machine press page. Up to 80 reviews and 13 interviews. Still haven't gotten around to the articles yet, but got half a dozen sitting waiting. |
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April 28, 2012 - Reviews; Interviews; Live On French Radio |
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Following some computer problems, which lead to much frustration, computer downtime and file recovery, I got the next batch of reviews and interviews up. Not going to bother posting each individual one (there are too many), but they are, as usual, on the This Machine press page, where there are now 68 album reviews and 11 interviews. Additional non-review/non-interview articles might be added later. Anymore, I am not even sure how good or bad the reviews are. Dirty confession: Even I haven't read any of the reviews since maybe the first dozen. When Courtney and Brent were in Paris last week (when they had the unannounced show at Cafe Carmen), they also recorded for a local radio station, FIP: Live On FIP Radio - April 17, 2012. This actually now makes it the earliest acoustic performance of any of the new tracks. Thanks to Bertrand for sending this to me. |
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April 26, 2012 - More Reviews; 1776 Opening For U.S. Tour; New Athens Show; EP Has "Unreleased" Song |
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More reviews. Bored of them yet? I am. Consequence Of Sound/Time College Times Calgary Herald All Music Pop Matters 1776 will be the opening band for the Dandy Warhols U.S. tour dates. The Official Site mentioned that the band will be playing in Athens, Greece on July 12th. For or Greek visitors, or those wanting to be a tourist for a day/weekend, tickets on sale May 4th. Add this to the "oops, forgot to mention for a while" file: Some placed handed out a sampler CD with sales of This Machine. It contains the radio edit of Sad Vacation, Cherry Bomb and a track called "Let The Hard." While this is the first time that the Warhols have released it, last year it snuck through on a Portland compilation given out at a Google concert, but under the name "Let The Hard Rain Come." It's quite synth-y, and sounds like the chorus of Madonna's Vogue. |
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April 25, 2012 - More Reviews; CTT Ill |
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More reviews. Also added to the This Machine press page. The Lantern SSG Music The Owl Mag The Valley Advocate Washington Times Bellingham Herald The band had to almost cancel the London show after Courtney came down with an ear infection. All is better now. Completely healed and over it? Not sure. Better? Yes. Additionally, they cut the show in Manchester short the day before due to him beginning to lose his voice. Something to keep an eye on this tour... ? |
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April 24, 2012 - Release Day Is Here; Reviews; Interviews |
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Reviews A/V Club Absolute Punk Anti Music The Boston Pheonix The Burg Counteract Magazine Daily Texan Diamondback Online Hot Press The Nervous Breakdown Musicfeeds Pitchfork Pop Renegade Pure Grain Audio Purple Revolver Quick Critic Music Slug Magazine Sputnik Music Interviews Anti Music - Pete Bombshell Zine - Courtney Consequence Of Sound - Courtney Examiner - Pete On Milwaukee - Courtney McGill Tribune - Courtney Talk Rock To Me - Courtney Additional updates will probably be announced here and will be gathered on the This Machine press page |
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April 20, 2012 - Online-Only Merchadise Now Avilable; CTT interview; Rock And Folk review. |
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The tsshirts and picture vinyl discussed a bit ago is now onsale, at http://thismachine.dandywarhols.com/. U.S. only until Monday. Don't ask me why. None of the t-shirts or the picture vinyl will be available anyplace but online. So, these aren't actually tour shirts. The prices might be a bit high for the t-shirts, at $25 each, but to be honest, I am not quite sure. I don't buy clothes too often. That being said, you can get all 4 for $85, which doesn't seem too bad. Luckily you aren't paying Ed Hardy prices (are they still popular? Are they still in business? Oh well, guess it doesn't matter. They were always crap.). Thanks to multiple people, here is an interview with Courtney, at http://www.talkrocktome.com/courtney-taylor-taylor-43-minutes-with-one-singular-dandy-warhol/. Good interview, with some nice candid talk of the bands past. Check it out. Marie gave a quick mention that This Machine got a 3 star (out of I think 5) review. Purple Revolver has a mainly-negative review, but what do you expect from someone who says "we can only name one of their tunes Bohemian Like You, but our memory veers back to the banned video which featured full-frontal male nudity, rather than their lyrics." More later, more than likely. Things are busy today. |
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April 20, 2012 - Sad Vacation Video On Official Site; Well You're Gone Acoustic At Secret Paris Show |
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(Once again, forgot to hit the "upload" button.) Fresh on the heels of 1) people reporting that the Vevo link for the Sad Vacation video was not viewable by everyone in the world, then 2) reports that the solution, it appearing on Dailymotion.com was not viewable by eveyone in the world, the Dandy Warhols have put the video on the official site and Youtube. On April 17th, Courtney And Brent played an unannounced acoustic show at the Cafe Carmen. While it was a great-sounding set filled with all the normal titles they play acoustically, the standout was a performance of Well They're Gone: Well They're Gone - Acoustic I love it. A big thanks to Oli for sharing this show. |
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April 18, 2012 - Sad Vacation Video |
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Sad Vacation video. The building that the video is shot in is a Rapture Delivery Craft on a beach at Sauvies Island near Portland, just down the way from a nude beach. Enjoy seeing Courtney play bass guitar. |
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April 17, 2012 - Hear Full Album Free & Legally; Oslo Setlist |
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Remember the days when bands and labels freaked out about new albums leaking before release? Well, now they just put the whole album online before it even comes out. Thanks to Rolling Stone magazine, here it is: The Machine Here is the setlist for Oslo. The main signficance is that it gives an idea as to what to expect, though Zia does make the setlist each night before the show, so it won't be exact. Be-In We Used To Be Friends Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth I Love You Rest Your Head Unknown Instrumental The Last High Enjoy Yourself SETI vs. The WOW! Signal All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey You Come In Burned Well They're Gone Every Day Should Be A Holiday The Autumn Carnival The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers aka The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty Bohemian Like You Get Off Godless Pete International Airport/Boys Better Country Leaver That "Unknown Instrumental" is the same one that was being played in Portland in December after Good Morning and reportedly, but unconfirmed, has been played as long ago as 2007 (I have doubts). |
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April 14, 2012 - Send In Tour Information |
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While in recent years, I fell behind with tour coverage, this time I'm trying to keep up. That being said, with any upcoming shows, I would love to get anything and everything you can send. Posters, photos, reviews (yours or other websites), setlists (even partial), previews, anything. Either use that "contact slabtow.net" link in the left menu, or Email me. (Please note that this mailing address isn't my slabtown.net one. I recently noticed that I missed TONS of emails in the past because of bad email forwarding. I'll talk more on that later.) For the time being, please don't use the submission@slabtown.net address. Let's try to keep this thing going. Thanks |
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April 13, 2012 - New Shirt Designs; Vinyl Info |
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Whoops. Forgot to post this earlier. For the new album, each band member designed their own shirt. Am totally loving Zia's, but not a fan of the color: Courtney  Zia  Brent  Peter  The vinyl release of This Machine will be designed to look like a crossview of a tree cut down, so you can see it's rings. 500 will be made.  |
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April 12, 2012 - U.S. Tour Presale Update: Second layer of Pre-Sales available?; 3 new reviews |
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I mentioned this in an earlier update below, but wanted to point out to those that didn't notice it: For those that have missed out on pre-sale tickets, normal tickets for a lot of shows, as well as a second layer of pre-sales through mobile apps, has now become active. While you need to go to a third site to actually buy them, I suggest you just continue to use the old link (http://tixx1.artistarena.com/thedandywarhols/, since it will link to the most current option. I hae no clue on any other access password, such as for the Live Nation app. Arthur once again came through with album reviews. Three more, all positive: Hot Press Slug Magazine Anti Music |
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April 12, 2012 - New Austria Show Added - August 18; U.S. Tour Presale Update |
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A new show has been added for the European festival circuit in August. This time on August 18th, at the FM4 Frequency Festival in St. Pölten, Austria. Tickets are on sale This is the bands third appearance at the Frequency Festival. More announcements coming soon. In a new quote, the band said that 42 shows are so far on the schedule. Unless my math got all fubar'ed, only 38 have been announced. And the 42 don't include Australia yet, and isn't done with Euro festivals. Quick U.S. Tour update: The San Francisco show is once again listed as being for sale, but through an external site. L.A. as well, but never saw if this Pre-Sale sold out ever. A lot more Pre-Sells have sold out, but regular tickets on sale tomorrow for most shows, so no big deal at this point. |
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April 10, 2012 - U.S. Tour;Ticket Pre-Sale Now Live (Arizona Sells Out); Update: Portland Pre-Sale Sells Out In 20 Minutes; Courtney Slums on Twitter |
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Official site announced the U.S. tour dates: 5/16 San Francisco, CA - The Filmore Pre-Sold Sold Out 5/17 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern 5/19 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up 5/20 Scottsdale, AX - The Roxy Lounge Pre-Sold Sold Out 5/22 Austin, TX - Emo's East 5/23 Dallas, TX - House of Blues Pre-Sold Sold Out 5/25 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Heaven) 5/26 Charlotte, NC - The Filmore Charlotte Pre-Sold Sold Out 5/27 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel 5/29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club. Show starts early, 7:00pm 5/30 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero 6/1 Boston, MA - Royal Nightclub; Show starts early, 7:00pm 6/2 Montreal, QU, Canada - Corona Theatre. Show starts early, 7:00pm 6/3 Toronto, ON, Canada - Phoenix Concert Theatre Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/5 New York, NY - Irving PLaza Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/6 Brooklyn, NY - Bell House; Show starts early, 7:30pm Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/8 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre 6/9 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/10 Chicago, IL - Metro. - Show starts early, 7:00pm 6/12 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre 6/13 Aspen, CO - Belly Up Aspen 6/15 Vancouver, BC, Canada - Commodore Ballroom Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/16 Portland, OR- Doug Fir Pre-Sold Sold Out 6/17 Seattle, WA- Showbox at the Market. Show starts early, 7:30pm Ticket prices are $15 to $31.50 Note that these are Pre-Sales. More tickets go on sale Friday, April 13th. To purchase tickets as part of the Pre-Sale (currently active), go to http://tixx1.artistarena.com/thedandywarhols/. Enter: username: warhols password: machine As I type this, Arizona is already sold out (Pre-Sale only. Real tickets to come later). For fun, I'll list if/when other shows sell out. Almost-Interesting facts about the tour: Beware early start times. I listed the earlier ones in the upper list (anything before 8pm). Especially Boston, at 6pm. First shows ever in: Scottsdale, Arizona; Charlotte, North Carolina; Royal Oak, Michigan. No idea of opening bands yet, but haven't looked, either. "Upcoming Concert" listing to be updated later. Outside touring news. today (before you even read this, I'm sure), Courtney is doing a "live event" on twitter for Verizon, at 12:30pm, local time. The account is @vcastmusic and can be read later at http://twitter.com/#!/VCASTMUSIC. I do hope you avoid it, as Twitter is one of the biggest pieces of shit out there. Don't bother with that crap. Update: The Portland Pre-Sale is sold out, happening in 20 minutes. Update 2 (6:46pm): Just for fun, keeping track: San Francisco Pre-Sale sold out. Cleveland, Ohio Pre-Sale sold out. (Semi-Update: Am bored of that now. Will just keep track above when a sell-out happens, rather than make an update.) An additional thing I noticed when filling out the new concert information for the website is that for the Atlanta, Georgia show, the band is playing at Masquerade the same time as William Becket. Apparently the venue has two separate locations, allowing for simultaneous shows. The Warhols are in Heaven and Becket is in Purgatory. |
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April 8, 2012 - Reviews; Interviews |
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Arthur has mentioned the following 5 album reviews and an interview. Reviews: The Nervous Breakdown (includes short Courtney interview as well) - Verdict: Positive review. Musicfeeds (Australia) - Verdict: Very positive review. Hell, it starts out "Can The Dandy Warhols ever go wrong, really." Quick Critic Music - Verdict: Passive non-commital opinion. Got a mostly-negative vibe hidden in being polite. Pop Renegade - Verdict: Negative. Definitely not a fan. Pure Grain Audio - Verdict: Band newbie who loved parts of it, but ultimately is a "decent disc." Interview: Anti Music - Interview with Pete. Very good. Discusses This Machine (of course), including more eclectic topics, such as This Machines' name, 16 Tons, PIA, 13 Tales 13th anniversary/bands 20th anniversary. Added all to the This Machine info page, along with a few other entries. Keep track of there for the complete list. I will be filling in past blanks sitting around when I think about it. Odds are I will end up making a dedicated Machine articles/reviews/interviews page soon, though. And howabout this as a site update: I deleted all from this front page except new album info. All the old entriest are at Index Archive page. So, if you want to relive April 6, 2007 (starting/early updates for Earth To The Dandy Warhols information) through April 17, 2011 ("Oldest known Warhols recording surfaces" at the time), including all tour information, other updates, Capitol Years coverage, ...Are Sound coverage, check it out. Pre-April 2007 can still be seen in the archive links on the left menu column. |
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April 4, 2012 - Official Site News Retreads |
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Both of these news items are from the official page, and probably could have been added to my last update if I had even gone to the official site to see if anything updated. The band is playing the Rock En Seine Festival at the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud outside Paris on Sunday, August 26th (English link). Other bands playing is pretty impressive. To be honest, for me, the day the Warhols are playing would be an absolute gem. Green Day headlining, Social Distortion on the same day. Then, Granddaddy sandwiched between Green Day & the Warhols, so as of a bit of a buffer for the different fans for Green Day and Warhols not to mingle (there are sure to be some dicks impatient for Green Day. Reminds me of an old story I was told about a line-up posting the wrong time and the Warhols getting a not-great reaction because they were playing when a very different type of band was supposed to be playing based by the schedule). Friends playing too, and I actually like them a lot, but we'll see what happens with them. Anyway, other bands on that day include Foster The People, Stuck In The Sound and Little Dragon - none of which I care about. And the other days, for me, aren't too good, but have semi-big names. Placebo, those damn Sigur Rós cheaters who stole the Shortlist prize from the Warhols in 2001, Black Keys (I am officially the only person on the planet who does not like them that much at all.), Noel Gallagher (for a Warhols connection, Brents Australia band, Immigrant Union, whose debut album comes out June 4 of this year, opened for Noel Gallagher a few months ago down there in, I think, Adelaide, but I am not looking it up), The Shins, and a bunch of bands I don't feel like typing out, since this has gone on long enough as it is. For those not in Paris in August, there is one notable piece of information from this for everyone else: If the band is going to be playing a festival in France in August, odds are they will be playing other festivals in Europe around the same time. Time to start looking out for them. Additionally, the release of Immigrant Union in June might point to the band playing down there around that time, but not a sure thing. Would be nice if he could be there to support it's release, but we'll see. I updated the "upcoming concerts" list, though I had planned on ignoring it this tour, due to a project I'm working on, but I figured I had 10 free minutes, so I filled it out. I didn't include links to anything except the tickets for the Rock En Seine Festival, since I am betting you have your tickets to the other events by now Hot on the heels of Hotel Eden - well, really, about 12 years later - Pete has written the score for another one of his sisters theater pieces with the Begat Theater troupe, based in France. This time, it's based on "Histoires Cachées [Hidden Stories]," and will be performed in Sydney, Australia at the Hoopla Festival on April 6-9 at Darling Harbor, with the exact location a secret. To get a passsword and secret location, send a preferred performance time to begat@darlingharbour.com. Available times are April 6, 7 and 8th at 11am, 3pm and 7pm each day and April 9th at 11am and 3pm each day. If anyone has forgotten, Hotel Eden was a group of six songs (Panic, Open E, Don't Panic, Nalda, George, Tambora) that Pete wrote for his sisters production of Hotel Eden, a play based on "Nalda Said," a book by Stuart David from Belle & Sebastian and Looper. While it has circulated, it has never been for sale. Guess that is more than enough, huh? |
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April 3, 2012 - First album review; HuffPost Puts Up Full Version of Sad VayKay; French Sad Vacation single B-side retread |
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Not feeling good, which is why the delay in some of this, but it isn't anything overly major. For the record, all of this is sent in through readers & people at the Dandysrule2 mailing list, but I already closed them, without adding the credit. I apologize for that, and for being lazy enough to spend more time on this paragraph than just opening the mails would take. The "first" review of This Machine hit the wild the other day. I say that it's the first, but I don't know if that is true or not. I haven't checked to see if there are any older, or if there are any others at all. Anyway, Absolutepunk.net has A This Machine review for your pleasure. Insert obvious entendre here... The Huffington Post had a piece about Sad Vacation, including a clearer listen to the track. Oh, and rather than the 1 minute version from before, this one is extended to 4:28. They also put up "Well They're Gone" a few days ago, but by then, it had been on enough other sites that I didn't bother posting it. So, I convinced the Huffington Post to please post this full version of a brand new, not-fully-leaked track from the bands next album, and.... they said OK. Well, that last part was a lie. Sorry. Also, there are sites all over the web that have it now, anyway (including those who had it before HuffPost did), so I'm sure you have found it by now. Last and in my opinion, least, is the French single for Sad Vacation. Nothing wrong with it being released as a single. Nothing wrong with it being released as a single in France. Nothing even wrong with the Radio edit of the song being 3:36 in length (I haven't compared the actual versions yet, myself). So, what is the problem? The B-Side is Cherry Bomb. Yes, assuming they didn't record multiple versions of the song, the B-side is a re-release of a cover they did for a tribute album to another band. But, if you want to buy it, it is at http://www.qobuz.com/album/sad-vacation-the-dandy-warhols/3298499020884. And, I actually did still have this open, so thanks for the info, Andy. And the cover art is reportedly floating around out there in cyberville, but I can't find it. Oh, and sorry for being grumpy. Been a very bad week. Edit: Wow. Just re-read this. I went way overboard. I'll leave it up, but I didn't mean to be as harsh as I was about this stuff. Whoops. But as punishment to myself, I'll leave it there, since it makes me look pretty bad. |
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March 29, 2012 - Kiss Off; Sad Vacation; More, Longer Samples. |
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The version of This Machine that you get from iTunes contains a bonus track called "Kiss Off," the cover of a Violent Femmes song. No word on any other exclusives for other sites as of yet. But, this time I won't be putting the B-Sides online. Bored of getting yelled at. Sad Vacation can be heard in it's entirety at Minnesota Public Radio, at around the 59 minute mark. While Amazon was first out of the box with song parts, they have been upstaged by French website Qobuz. If you don't speak French, or don't want to track down a translation, "Ecouter" is French for "listen," so just click that word to the right each song to listen. Let me know if any of those links don't work. I'm too tired to verify them. |
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March 22, 2012 - Portland Show Comments; Well They're Gone/Autumn Carnival Uploaded. |
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Sorry for the delay in this. It doesn't help if I update a website, but forget to actually upload it. First off, here are copies of Well They're Gone and Autumn Carnival live, from the Portland show on the 19th. Be warned that the quality isn't as good as could be. But it's better than nothing, I suppose. Well They're Gone Autumn Carnival Also, you can get them at http://www.slabtown.net/audio/gonecarnival.html or at the bottom of the This Machine info page. Some brief thoughts on the album as a whole: I like it quite a bit, actually, but I really feel that there is going to be a segment of fans that are hoping for something different. Most notably the DROK and Come Down devotees. Although, Don't Shoot She Cried very much harkens back to their earliest stuff. Humorously, it's one of the only tracks that Courtney didn't have a writing credit for, and is co-written by someone who wasn't even in the band when those albums came out. The best bit of news, and one that has been shown to be the case already with the live shows, is that quite a bit of the album has a lot of room for great live performances. Much like The Last High, which to me, while really good on the album, it becomes an epic masterpiece when played live. It does also seem that, at least live, Courtney has changed Rest Your Head a little bit, which I like. The opening of the song, isn't as bass-heavy, Lou Weedish as it used to be. Again, in my opinion. Makes the song an amazing live track. Also, while it isn't too much in my opinion, I also feel that some of the tracks will be thought of as being over-produced, similar to some of ...Earth... Obviously, that points right back to my comment about live versions being really good. Without a doubt, the most polarizing track is 16 Tons, which is the cover of a 1940's folk song. I had high hopes for this track, especially if it comes off sounding like an off-shoot of Trucker, but it doesn't quite succeed at first. With more listens, though, it turns into being a lot of fun. My guess, though, is that many will say that "it would be good for a B-Side, but not as a full album track" but we'll see. Again, I like the album quite a bit, and is in fact my favorite start-to-finish album since Monkeyhouse (There are still a few singular tracks from Odditorium and ...Earth... that I prefer over anything from this album, but that is an unfair assessment when judging a full album against other full albums). As a final analysis, I am looking forward to seeing the reception this gets, and am really happy overall with how it turned out. |
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March 20, 2012 - Portland Show Setlist |
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Be-In Used To Be Friends Junkie Holding Me Up Rest Your Head The Last High Enjoy Yourself (second single. Video filmed Sunday night) Wow! Signal All The Money You Come In Burned Well They're Gone Autumn Carnival I Am Free Boho Get Off PIA>Boys Better Might add more details later. Maybe not. We'll see. |
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March 19, 2012 - Amazon Preview |
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Amazon UK has posted 30 second clips of This Machine. Check them out. |
| March 11, 2012 - Minor Update: Track Length; Vinyl Info |
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We are starting to get into the fun mode of info for This Machine, where small things are leaking on a regular basis (except the album/promo). The track times have been disclosed: Sad Vacation - 4:28 Autumn Festival - 4:00 Enjoy Yourself - 3:01 Alternative Power To The People - 2:47 Well They're Gone - 4:15 Rest Your Head - 4:14 16 Tons - 2:08 I Am Free - 4:07 SETI Vs. The Wow! Signal - 3:18 Don't Shoot She Cried - 5:53 Slide 4:59 I'll save you the math and just tell you that, yes, this is the shortest album the band ever released, at 43:10, slightly behind Monkey House. The vinyl will also be released by The End, and there are no real surprises. No word on variations of vinyl color or printing numbers. The split between side A and side B is between Rest Your Head and 16 Tons. |
| March 1, 2012 - New Album Update (Finally); First Single = "Well They're Gone" available. |
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OK, I have been lazy a lot on getting around to this update, but with the latest news, I figure I will take the time to finally update it. The first single is announced as being "Well They're Gone." I'm really loving it, as it is miles away from what I personally consider their over-produced recent albums. With it, Enjoy Yourself and Rest Your Head, I'm getting pretty happy about it. "Well They're Gone" is available for free at both the official site and at Rolling Stone magazine. The official site version is a higher quality one, but you have to sign up for the bands promo list to be able to download it. Not saying that's good or bad. Just is. So, here is the updated information I didn't get to before this. Most can also be found on the This Machine info page, and if you've been following along, it's all been posted elsewhere as well: Release date is announced as being April 24th, but in the graphic for downloading Well They're Gone from the official site, it says April 23rd. More than likely this is just a graphical error, but it might mean that it will be released digitally one day early. Track listing (songwriting credit): Sad Vacation (DeBoer/Taylor-Taylor) The Autumn Carnival (Taylor-Taylor/Haskins) Enjoy Yourself (Taylor-Taylor) Alternative Power To The People (Taylor-Taylor/DeBoer) Well They're Gone (Taylor-Taylor) Rest Your Head (Taylor-Taylor/Zuniga) 16 Tons (Travis) I Am Free (Taylor-Taylor) SETI Vs. The Wow! Signal (Taylor-Taylor/Zuniga) Don't Shoot She Cried (McCabe/DeBoer) Slide (DeBoer) Quick notes: - 16 Tons is a 40's folk song and has Steve Berlin from Los Lobos on saxophone. - Zuminga is Miles Zuminga, from Fastball - Haskins is David J Haskins, from Love And Rockets - Tchad Blake is back for the mixing, after recently doing the Black Keys album. - Jeremy Sherrer has worked with the band in the past and is doing engineering. The album cover was also presented:  It was painted by Portland artist Hickory Mertasching. I think that is enough for now. |
| February 21, 2012 - March 19 Portland Show Info. |
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The tickets for the aforementioned upcoming "secret" show sponsered by Jack Daniels are now available. It takes place at the Crystal Ballroom on March 19, at 8pm. As you can expect, being sponsored by Jack Daniels, it's a 21+ only show. To get them, you have to sign up at http://www.jdstudiono7.com/register.aspx?eid=4167. Registering is a bit misleading, as you aren't doing anything but signing up for the free tickets. They might want to send emails but you are given the option to not get anything when you sign up. Additionally, you can only register for tickets if you live in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Nevada (Conversely, people in that area cannot register for shows outside that area, unless it's on an "approved" list.) Anyway, the tickets are 1 per person who registers. And that person can then register up to 7 separate people themselves. Of note: having a ticket doesn't guarantee entrance, as it is first-come, first-serve when you try to actually get in the building. I think that is all. Will update if I forgot anything. It's all pretty straight-forward. (Edit: OK, time for honesty. If you were here before this "edit" was posted, the post originally had a couple typos. So, yep, I screwed up, but not trying to hide it. There are still a couple other semi-typos, but of a more accepted fashion.) |
| February 20, 2012 - Non-Update Update |
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OK, most of the information should already be known by you by now, since you should be visiting the official site, but.... There is a lot of new info out right now that I just haven't gotten around to updating yet. Including the full Europe tour schedule, album track listings and a lot of other odds 'n ends about the new album. I'll update this as soon as I can (in fact, it's mostly typed up, I just need to upload it and change a few things. If I wasn't so lazy, it would take like 10 minutes), but go to the official site for (almost) all the 411 on new news. |
| February 4, 2012 - New Album Update; Song Titles |
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The Wolfmen have been saying a few good things about the new album, which they heard. Most notably was the announcing & praising of 2 specific tracks: Well, They're Gone Don't Shoot She Cried Related to that, since a few more pieces of information on the next album have come through, I noticed that I didn't have an album update page made yet, as I usually do. So I made one quickly. Not sure if I got all the new stuff that can be talked about included, but I'll try. I had a partial one made, with an "Album 7 tracks" download page, but it turned into a 2011 tracks download page. This Machine Information. As a side-note, I used to refer to it as "album 7" before the name was confirmed. At the time, that is because I didn't consider DWAS or The Black Album to be real, full-fledged albums. Well, TBA probably was, but DWAS, not so much. Hard to consider it a separate full album. |
| February 2, 2012 - Upcoming Portland concert, March 19th. |
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The Dandy Warhols are playing in Portland on March 19, 2012 as part of the Jack Daniels Studio No. 7 concerts. Reportedly it is at the Crystal Ballroom, but no verification yet, as it isn't listed on their website. Tickets are done in a relatively odd way. You need to register through the Jack Daniels Studio 7 website and you'll get the tickets. But, the current problem is that the registration window for the Portland show doesn't start until Feb. 20. In other words: To get the tickets, you need to register for the site and you can't register for the Portland concert until Feb. 20th. |
| January 24, 2012 - for once, once in your life, won't you do what feels right |
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Everybody's writing songs with synthesizers, but I don't have a synthesizer. I can still get down like Duran Duran in 1985. I didn't name my band after an animal. I don't have any feathers or neon clothes. but I can stay out all night, like Sacajawea in a paint fight. for once, once in your life won't you do what feels right instead of waiting for the next big compromise stop running your mouth get out of the house get yourself downtown and shake it all out tonight I don't have any friends at Pitchfork or NME, no sexy heroin addiction plaguing me. but I can still get down like Frank Poncherello on a motor bike. That's right. once, once in your life, won't you do what feels right, instead of waiting for the next big compromise. stop running your mouth, get out of the house, get yourself downtown and shake it all out tonight. |
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January 6, 2012 - Zia & School Of Rock Event on Jan. 13?; BJM, Too |
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On January 13th in Portland, Zia is slated to take part in a School Of Rock event, with local musician students playing songs alongside local "Portland" bands themselves. Maybe. Oregonmusicnews.com says she is there, but Bestofportlandshow.com doesn't list her or the band. Both places list the Brian Jonestown Massacre. No idea on what level of involvement. Regardless, tickets are on sale now for $14. |
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January 1, 2012 - Title "official" and some speculation |
Apparently this information showed up on the bands Facebook page (I'm not completely sure. I don't/won't use Facebook or Twitter.): The full image had a bit more information, but was mostly irrelevant (besides saying that Gothman designed it, which he has done the past few albums already, and it is earmarked as BTW13). Overall, no real surprise that this is the name, since it was reported by Courtney on the official site months ago (but mixed in with a bunch of joke titles) and he also verified it at the Christmas Concert series. Now, for some speculation by me. Don't take any of this as fact, and don't blame me when I'm wrong on this. It's really mostly just my own pesonal opinion mixed with things I've heard. The first thing that stands out, after the title and "produced by" Courtney line is that the copyrights are for Beat The World (BTW) records, AKA Courtney's label. The situation with this, though is that as recently as a week ago, I'd been hearing it was still NOT going to be on BTW. So, whats up with then? My guess is that it's a mock-up, and not the actual final label, and is really only the bands way of officially announcing the title of the album. I am guessing that any connection to BTW will be in the form of them releasing a special (vinyl) version themselves, but not the full commercial version. Simliar to what they did with the yellow vinyl on Monkey House and the Come Down vinyl being on Tim/Kerr and not Capitol. As a bit of a rebuttal: While you can't tell, because I cropped it out of the picture, is that it was made on November 30th. If it was that long ago, you would think that they would definitely have known at that time who was going to release the CD. Also of note is the listing only of Courtney as the producer. There will be a lot more names listed on the real thing, such as mixing, editing, etc. This again points to this being a mock-up. Lastly, and it's really nit-picking, the "Long Play Maxigroove" text is not even. It doesn't run exactly parallel to the copyright text around the outer edge. Again, this suggests a mock-up, or at least that there is/was more work to be done after this version was made. That isn't even taking into account that there are no songs listed (on the left side, you can see a slight bit of writing on the very, very upper left). But, as I said, a lot of that is just my pure speculation. I very, very easily could be wrong. By the way, thanks to Stian for mentioning that the picture had been posted. Unrelated to that, a source I don't usually trust but has been right in the past says Feb. 14th (Valentines Day) is the release date. |
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December 26, 2011 - Guitar Strings |
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This is more just a little bit of something interesting I saw, rather than any actual news. I was looking at the back of a set of guitar string I have and noticed:  No idea if it's a legit, official endorsement. For informations sake, they are Ernie Ball Regular Slinky guitar strings. Small update: the labelling isn't exclusive to the one style I mentioned. All packaging by the company has the band listed. |
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December 16, 2011 - I Love You/"New Song" |
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Someone asked me about a possible 5th new song played at the shows. Personally, I'm up in the air about it being either an extended ending to I Love You or a new song. Listen for yourself and make an opinion. I Love You/"new song" It is also with all the other new songs on the Christmas Concert series download page. |
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December 12, 2011 - Xmas Show 3 |
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Setlist: Be-In Used To Be Friends The Dandy Warhols T.V. Theme Song The Last High The Wow Signal The Legend Of The Last Outlaw Truckers I Love You Your Ghost Come In Burned Rest Your Head Enjoy Yourself I Am Free Bohemian Like You Get Off Every Day Should Be A Holiday Godless Little Drummer Boy Boys Better The Tattoo song New Tracks: Enjoy Yourself The Legend Of The Last Outlaw Trucker The Wow Signal I Am Free Rest Your Head Your Ghost Tracks from all three shows can be found at the Chrismas Concert page. |
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December 11, 2011 - Xmas Show 2 |
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Setlist: Mohammed Used To Be Friends The Last High (Two attmpts at playing. First attempt aborted) The Wow! Song The Legend Of The Last Outlaw Truckers I Love You (extended?) Come In Burned Now You Love Me Rest Your Head I Am Free Enjoy Yourself Good Morning Happy Birthday Solid Bohemian Like You Get Off White Gold And Then I Dreamt Of Yes Godless Little Drummer Boy Wasp In The Lotus PIA>Boys Better |
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December 10, 2011 - Xmas Show 1; Silent Night |
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Setlist: Be In Used To Be Friends Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth. Holding Me Up The WOW! Signal The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers The Last High Lou Weed All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey Enjoy Yourself I Love You You Come In Burned Rest Your Head I Am Free Minnesoter Bohemian Like You Get Off Grunge Betty Godless Little Drummer Boy Wasp In The Lotus Pete International Airport/Boys Better The band has released a new free digital single, Silent Night. Multiple people have been reporting troubles with the download. This is the method I used to make it work: Go to http://dandywarhols.cashmusic.org/?cash_request_type=asset&cash_action=claim&id=7&element_id=104 directly. Scroll down the page until you see "Send The Cards." Don't bother putting in any email addresses, unless you want to. Can get the download without them. Click on "Send The Cards." The next screen will look similar to the initial one, but right above the picture is a link that says Dandy Warhols: Christmas 2011 Digital 7". Click on that and the file will download. |
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November 29, 2011 - More? |
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Nothing all that exciting this time, but to toss out another couple tracks laying around. But, I'm feeling low-key. No html pages for these: The Rabbit And The Fox - New Pollution track. Courtney Taylor-Taylor on drums. July 20 - Remix by Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Jacob Portrait for advertising campaign. |
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November 27, 2011 - Get Off |
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What the heck, I'm bored. |
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November 12, 2011 - Smells Like Teen Spirit; Theme Song 1996 mix |
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Added 2 new tracks to the 2011 audio downloads page: Smells Like Teen Spirit - Dutch Masters (Courtney and Brent) cover for Nirvana 20th Anniversary of Nevermind tribute album. The Dandy Warhols T.V. Theme Song - 1996 mix by Tom Lord-Alge. |
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October 12, 2011 - 2011 Holiday Shows Announced; Glen Campbell's Strong; Smells Like Teen Spirit Snippet |
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The 2011 Portland holiday shows have been announced: Dec. 9 - Star Theater (21+) Dec. 10 - Star Theater (21+) Dec. 11 - Doug Fir Lounge (All Ages). $15. This show is VERY early, starting @ 5pm. Tickets to members of the newsletter go on sale today. Oct. 12. Other tickets go on sale Friday. Oct. 14. No (official) announcement of the opening bands. Forgot to mention: Glen Campbells "Strong" Nirvanas "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (short sample). |
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August 21, 2011 - Dutch Masters/Slimmer Twins Cover Smells Like Teen Spirit |
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The Salt Lake City Tribune has an article talking about an upcoming tribute album for Nirvanas "Nevermind" album, with a bunch of "indie" bands, for the most part. Courtney And Brent (Nee Dutch Masters, nee Slimmer Twins) have done a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for it. While I haven't heard it, I am a bit leary of how it will turn out, but that has more to do with my love of Nirvana than what the Masters can do with it. Personally, I would have had them do "Endless, Nameless." Album comes out October 25th. |
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July 3, 2011 - Cherry Bomb Cover; Rest Your Head |
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Cherry Bomb was finally found by people. Is at http://www.slabtown.net/audio/cherrybomb.mp3 or direct download at http://www.slabtown.net/audio/cherrybomb.html Still being superlazy with Rest Your Head. Apologies. Update: OK, I took the 7 minutes out of my life to upload Rest Your Head. It is on a 2011 page I put up. Also, site-related, I have taken down some sections, due to being out of date or broken. Forums, Chat and About are all deleted. FAQ and Dandysrule2 are updated to describe their current status (both basically dead). So, the downfall continues... |
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June 30, 2011 - Two Upcoming Appearances On Other Peoples Albums; Rest Your Head |
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Mark this down as a few things I forgot to mention... The Dandy Warhols will be playing a song with Glen Campbell for his next album (and last album he will make, as he has alzheimers). The song is called "Strong," and will be on his "Ghost On The Canvas" CD, releasing August 30th. The Dandy Warhols (well, I think only Courtney, Pete and Brent) appear on the charity album called "Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol II," a 3 disc set with dozens of musicians. The interesting part is that they team up musicians with Portland-area street musicians. Best of all, the money goes to a worthwhile charity. This comes out July 19th, but if you pre-order it now, it ships July 6th. With this, you get the 3 CD's, bonus tracks and a digital download copy, All for $15. Of note: The CD version has a few tracks not on the digital download version. Order your copy now Small update: The band members appear on separate tracks, not as The Dandy Warhols. Thanks for the update, Kevin. Sorry for delay posting Rest Your Head for download. Been too distracted. |
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June 30, 2011 - Two Upcoming Appearances On Other Peoples Albums; Rest Your Head |
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Mark this down as a few things I forgot to mention... The Dandy Warhols will be playing a song with Glen Campbell for his next album (and last album he will make, as he has alzheimers). The song is called "Strong," and will be on his "Ghost On The Canvas" CD, releasing August 30th. The Dandy Warhols (well, I think only Courtney, Pete and Brent) appear on the charity album called "Live From Nowhere Near You, Vol II," a 3 disc set with dozens of musicians. The interesting part is that they team up musicians with Portland-area street musicians. Best of all, the money goes to a worthwhile charity. This comes out July 19th, but if you pre-order it now, it ships July 6th. With this, you get the 3 CD's, bonus tracks and a digital download copy, All for $15. Of note: The CD version has a few tracks not on the digital download version. Order your copy now |
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May 28, 2011 - Wow Signal |
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Wow Signal surfaces. Rest Your Head still MIA Wow Signal, recorded by Telleebabe from Youtube. |
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May 28, 2011 - New Tracks Played In Australia |
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Well, the rumors were true. The Dandys are curently on tour down in Australia, and so far they have played two new tracks at both shows they have had, in Adelaide and Melbourne. The first one played was listed as "WOW SIGNAL," but I am assuming that this will be actually called "The WOW! Signal" based on the history of the phrase. While I am not sure of the connection to this song, I do know that The WOW! Signal is a famous semi-scientific term that has to deal with people searching for alien signals finding a strange signal on one of their print-outs and circling it with the label "Wow!". (EDIT/Update: Was pointed out to me that both this full name and the connection to the historical use of WOW! Signal are confirmed on dandywarhols.com. Didn't know that when I posted it. Thanks for the heads-up.) The second one is called Rest Your Head on the bands setlist. I have no information on this one. If anyone wants to get me any recordings of these tracks (live or otherwise. To share or keep myself), I would love it. I won't pay you, but I promise that, the second before you die, you will achieve total elightenment. Oh, and while I have this open, Stian on Dandysrule2 shared a link to an interview with Courtney. Not a lot of new information in it, but some stuff worth mentioning: New album is basically done. When commenting on the album style, Courtney says that "rockabilly music" has, to some extent with Pete, influenced the new album. Courtney namechecks Echo And The Bunnymen and The Cramps. He wants it to sound like DROK, but cleaner and more high-tech. The band won't self-release this, as they admit that at least for their own material, Beat The World and self-releasing an album was a disaster. (this was known for a while) The band covered The Runaways Cherry Bomb. (again, this was known back in November. It's not for the new album, but for a tribute album) There is very, very little time left in this as I write this, but in conjunction with the Quid Music Network in Australia, they are auctioning off a signed copy of The Capitol Years. Currently, the price is $51.01 AUS. But, it ends in 3 hours as I type this. Well, maybe with things picking up, this might convince me to update the rest of this hellhole, but we'll see. |
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