MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      The Dandy Warhols With their provocative press-baiting and blatantly mercenary attitude, the Dandy Warhols offered the salve of outrageous excess to music fans’ grunge-filled wounds. Frontman Courtney Taylor played in the Portland, Oregon, glam band Beauty Stab before forming the Dandys in the early ‘90s with then-teenage keyboard player Zia McCabe, guitarist Peter Holmstrom, and drummer Eric Hedford. The group’s debut album, Dandy’s Rule OK? (1995), appeared on the local label Tim/Kerr, and its mix of arch sarcasm, retro psychedelia, and modern Britpop struck a chord with major labels looking for the Next Big Sound. After touring with Electrafixion and Love and Rockets, the Dandys became the object of a bidding war -- during which the bandmembers bragged about decadent feasts and drinking binges at the expense of various major label A&R reps. Capitol won the right to sign for the bar tab, releasing the quartet’s cheekiest single yet, “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth,” in 1996. The song -- with its notorious declaration, “heroin is so passé” -- became a minor US hit, but it really struck a chord in the UK, where the Warhols’ 1997 full-length, Come Down, launched two more smash singles, “Boys Better” and “Every Day Should Be a Holiday.” A long silence followed as the band endured lineup changes and break-up rumors in the wake of its sudden success. Eventually, Brent DeBoer replaced Hedford, and the Dandys returned to the studio to record Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, released in August, 2000.     The Dandy Warhols Godless LiquidAudio,WinMedia Alternative These swaggering Britpoppers have spent the past three years taming the fuzz pedal and honing their hooks in their very own urban bohemia: Portland, Oregon. Now they’re ready to tell the tale…
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