The Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols at the 2006 Summercase Festival
General information
origin	Portland , Oregon , USA
Genre (s)	Rock , alternative rock
founding	1994
Website	www.dandywarhols.com
Founding members
Vocals , guitar	Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Guitar, bass	Peter Holmström (Peter Loew)
Keyboard	Zia McCabe
Drums	Eric Hedford (until 1998)
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar	Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Guitar, bass	Peter Holmström (Peter Loew)
Keyboard	Zia McCabe
Drums	Brent DeBoer (since 1998)

The Dandy Warhols is an American rock band formed in Portland , Oregon in 1994 . Her name is a reference to the artist Andy Warhol .

history

The Dandy Warhols was founded in 1994, consisting of frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor ( vocals and guitar ), Peter Holmström (guitar), Zia McCabe ( keyboard ) and Eric Hedford ( drums ). Musically, the group is closest to psychedelic rock or power pop . It is also influenced by rock 'n' roll and garage rock . The name of the band is derived from the pop art artist Andy Warhol , who was particularly popular in the USA in the 1960s and in whose circle in New York the band Velvet Underground , from which The Dandy Warhols had a strong musical influence is, lived at times.

Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Peter Holmström met at a music camp in Oregon at the age of 14 . Taylor-Taylor began playing drums in a glam rock band called Beauty Stab . After they both graduated from college , they decided to form a rock band together.

The first album was released in 1995 under the title Dandy's Rule OK? Capitol Records signed the band that same year. Nevertheless, the new label did not want to release the band's second album on the grounds that it did not contain any hits. Disappointed but not discouraged, the band set out to rehearse and write new songs. In 1997, the album Dandy Warhol's Come Down was released . Although the album did not lead to the longed-for breakthrough in the USA, the band became more and more an insider tip in Europe. The increased sales in Europe eventually led to the single Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth being filmed as a music video by star photographer David LaChapelle . The drummer Eric Hedford left the group in 1998. He replaced Taylor's cousin Brent DeBoer. The band's final breakthrough came in 2002 with the title Bohemian Like You from the album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, which was released in 2000 and featured as background music in a Vodafone commercial. In the same year, Peter Holmström married his long-time girlfriend and took her maiden name Loew. The 2003 album Welcome to the Monkey House was created in collaboration with members of the Duran Duran group . In March 2005, keyboard player Zia McCabe, who was heavily pregnant with her first child, Matilda Louise, made headlines when she posed naked for the SuicideGirls website . In September 2005, the fifth album, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, was released. The single, Smoke It , was boycotted by most American radio stations because it included an invitation to smoke marijuana .

The band also contributed the theme song to the Veronica Mars series with We Used to Be Friends and to American Campus with Solid .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1997	Come down	-	-	UK16 gold (9 weeks)UK	-
2000	Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia	-	-	UK32 gold (24 weeks)UK	US182 (1 week) US
2002	Dandy Warhols	-	-	UK93 (2 weeks) UK	-
2003	Welcome to the Monkey House	DE75 (1 week) DE	CH83 (2 weeks) CH	UK20 (4 weeks) UK	US118 (2 weeks) US
2005	Odditorium or Warlords of Mars	-	CH85 (1 week) CH	UK67 (1 week) UK	US89 (1 week) US
2008	Earth to the Dandy Warhols	-	-	-	US128 (1 week) US
2012	This machine	-	CH65 (1 week) CH	-	US88 (1 week) US
2016	Distortland	-	CH84 (1 week) CH	-	-

More albums

• 1995: Dandy's Rule OK?
• 2004: The Black Album / Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols (only available on the band's website)
• 2009: The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
• 2019: Why You So Crazy

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1998	Every Day Should Be a Holiday Come Down	-	-	-	UK29 (2 weeks) UK
	Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth Come Down	-	-	-	UK13 (4 weeks) UK
	Boys Better Come Down	-	-	-	UK36 (2 weeks) UK
2000	Get Off Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia	-	-	-	UK34 (4 weeks) UK
	Bohemian Like You Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia	DE42 (13 weeks) DE	-	CH49 (11 weeks) CH	UK5 gold (12 weeks)UK
2001	Godless Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia	-	-	-	UK66 (1 week) UK
2003	We Used to Be Friends Welcome to the Monkey House	-	-	-	UK18 (3 weeks) UK
	You Were the Last High Welcome to the Monkey House	-	-	-	UK34 (2 weeks) UK
	Plan A Welcome to the Monkey House	-	-	-	UK66 (2 weeks) UK
2005	Smoke It Odditorium or Warlords of Mars	-	-	-	UK59 (1 week) UK
	All the Money Or the Simple Life Honey Odditorium or Warlords of Mars	-	-	-	UK83 (1 week) UK
2006	Horny as a dandy	DE40 (9 weeks) DE	AT13 (11 weeks) AT	CH30 (11 weeks) CH	UK17 (6 weeks) UK	Mousse T. vs. The Dandy Warhols

More singles

• 1994: Little Drummer Boy
• 1995: The Dandy Warhols TV Theme Song
• 1995: Ride
• 1998: Good Morning
• 2006: Have a Kick Ass Summer (only available through iTunes )
• 2007: Good Luck Chuck (only available via iTunes )
• 2008: The World Come On
• 2008: Mission Control
• 2008: Mis Amigos
• 2009: Blackbird
• 2012: Sad Vacation
• 2012: The Autumn Carnival
• 2015: Chauncey P. vs. All the Girls in London
• 2016: You Are Killing Me
• 2016: STYGGO
• 2016: Catcher in the Rye
• 2018: Be Alright
• 2019: Motor City Steel

Filmography

• 1998: WeT!
• 2004: DiG!

Web links

• Official website (English)
• English speaking fansite
• The Dandy Warhols at Discogs (English)
• The Dandy Warhols at MusicBrainz (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Awards: UK
3. ↑ Audio sample Mission Control