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Monolith 2009 - The Music

Owing to some work conflicts back in Wyoming, I showed up eight hours late to the Monolith party last Saturday. By that point, monsoon weather had hit the festival. Spectators crowded beneath overhangs, while water ran freely down the steps of Red Rocks Amphitheatre....  read more

Live Review: Dandy Warhols @ Terminal 5, 9/17

More than a few concert goers were likely intrigued by the scheduling of The Dandy Warhols two days apart from The Brian Jonestown Massacre,who performed at The Music Hall of Williamsburg on the 19th. The personal lives of both bands were viscerally exposed in the 2004 documentary Dig!, a 7-year rock 'n roll train wreck of brilliant filmmaking with highlights including a camera shot of bandmates snorting cocaine from underneath a glass table and the relationship of lead singers Courtney Taylor-Taylor (The Dandys) and Anton Newcombe (BJTM) transform from musical soul mates to bitter rivals.   ...  read more

The Dandy Warhols: …Earth to the Dandy Warhols...

Intermittent glimpses of the terrific band the Dandies refuse to be Since 2000’s rockin’ extravaganza Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, Portland’s Dandy Warhols have played against their strengths as a dynamic guitar-rock band with defiant perversity. Album number six starts out promisingly: “The World The People Together (Come On)” sounds like a shoegaze mutation of Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” and “Mission Control” could be the answer song to Flight of the Conchords’ “Bowie,” while “Welcome to the Third World” is a wry blend of the Stones’ “Miss You” and Duran Duran’s disco funk. But after that, things go south...  read more