Following a triumphant 2024 with the release of their overwhelmingly critic-hailed twelfth studio album ROCKMAKER featuring Frank Black, Slash, and Debbie Harry, a packed-to-the-gills national tour, and a completely sold out West Coast 30th Anniversary-as-a-band string of dates, Portland’s iconoclastic and always surprising alt-rock band THE DANDY WARHOLS are returning to the road for a handful of East Coast shows that kick off on May 9th at Asbury Park, NJ’s Stone Pony and wrap with a handful of NYC dates at Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge.
Included in the dates is an intimate, acoustic-ish late afternoon performance on Saturday, May 17th at the sexy Two Fifteen Lounge in NYC’s Public Hotel, preceding their show the same evening at Bowery Ballroom. Loose and loungey, the cozy event will allow fans to sip signature cocktails and rub elbows with the band (and get autographs and pics too!) before and after a very special and rare stripped down performance.
Serving as a heady balance to their rousing studio albums, their blistering live shows are the stuff of legend. On reflection on last year’s Boston, MA show, the Boston.com hailed “the band wrapped its audience in a sonic blanket that had an almost hypnotic warmth at times.” Parklife DC said of their Washington, DC show, “the quartet maintained their classic psych rock roots but dove into even a grittier edge that borders on post-punk and even goth.” The Spill Magazine said about their Toronto show, “The Dandy Warhols electrified the Toronto stage with a performance that exuded sheer power and badassery right from the get-go… Their unparalleled talent and chemistry create an experience unlike any other.”
As a special treat for fans who have followed the band since the mid ‘90s and the newer fans who need to catch up, the band debuts their new video for “Love Thyself” from ROCKMAKER. A surreal journey that trails the band’s exciting and adventurous approach to music videos. he short film continues the band’s embrace of A.I. video technology as a tool to artistically and creatively render their vision, instead of re-constructing it.
Magnet Magazine was in attendance at the band’s hometown Portland, OR show on December 12, 2024 and was blown away, praising, “The Dandys have entered a kind of regency period as the young Rolling Stones of their generation: elegantly wasted, songs for days and as many ways to interpret them as you have small-batch bourbons behind the bar. They’ve earned their rightful spot at the altar of ‘great Portland music’ (hell, just ‘great music’ period), and tonight served as a two-hour-plus musical case study explaining why and how that happened. Dandys (still) rule, OK? Dig!” Dallas Observer chimed, “In the three decades that The Dandy Warhols have thrived and survived as a band, their art has never lost its luster.”
Forever changing the script on what a band should be, The Dandy Warhols continue to shift and evolve, never remaining stagnant or stale. Their latest album ROCKMAKER found the band exploring darker and more subterranean textures that opened their audience up to yet another vein of fresh blood: the post-punk world. Goth bible, Post-Punk.com characterized the album as “a dark-rock manifesto about this chaotic moment in American history,” while Brooklyn Vegan announced “a new, heavier direction for the band.” Musically, playing homage to the sounds of The Damned, The MC5, and the Stooges, vocalist/guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor explained, “ROCKMAKER is the manifestation of our desire to hear a record of heavy raw punk and metal guitar riffs, but has its own alley.”
Formed in Portland, OR, The Dandy Warhols combined the best bits of shoegaze, alternative powerpop and heavy rock with a wicked satirical pen,. Spawning alt-rock mainstays like “Bohemian Like You,” “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth,” “Have a Kick Ass Summer (Me and My Friends)” and the synth-disco jam “We Used to Be Friends.”
The Dandy Warhols is Courtney Taylor-Taylor (vocals, guitar), Peter Holmström (guitar, keyboards), Zia McCabe (keyboard, bass, percussion), and Brent DeBoer (drums, backing vocals).
The Dandy Warhols Tour Dates:
Fri, May 9 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony
Sat, May 10 – Pawling, NY – Daryl’s House Club
Sun, May 11 – Rochester, NY – Anthology
Tue, May 13 – Washington, DC – The Howard
Wed, May 14 – Ardmore, PA – Ardmore Music Hall
Fri, May 16 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Sat, May 17 – New York, NY – Two Fifteen Lounge
Sat, May 17 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Sun, May 18 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
ROCKMAKER Tracklisting
1. The Dooms Day Bells
2. Danzig With Myself (feat Black Francis)
3. Teutonic Wine
4. Summer Of Hate
5. I’d Like To Help You With Your Problem (feat Slash)
6. The Cross
7. Root Of All Evil
8. Alcohol and Cocainemarijuananicotine
9. Love Thyself
10. Real People
11. I Will Never Stop Loving You (feat Debbie Harry)
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