Dandy Warhols news

The Dandy Warhols mark their 25th anniversary with a new album, 'Why You So Crazy' (Dine Alone Records), a single-shot 360° short film featuring Mad Men’s Jessica Paré for the single 'Be Alright,' and a 2019 tour of Europe, the UK and North America as well as exclusive goodies available via PledgeMusic.

“The weirdest thing about it being ‎our 25th anniversary is it doesn't feel like 25 years. Feels like about six. Or five,” muses frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. The 360° short film for 'Be Alright,' which centers around the consumption of a magic wine, was done in a single shot and filmed at the band’s space, Odditorium, which includes a bar owned by Taylor-Taylor who has a deep passion for the wine world. Directed by Taylor-Taylor, the video was written and conceived by Kevin Moyer.

"Back in 2002, the Dandy Warhols bought a ten thousand square foot building in what was then industrial NW Portland and created The Odditorium, a place that soon became their band headquarters, recording studio, and hang out for them and all their friends and fellow artists,” says Moyer.

“I've been there many times and it is such a cool and ethereal place, full of psychedelia and gothic touches and auras, that it just makes your head spin trying to take all of it in as you walk through the unique rock n roll space. So what better way than to use a head spinning media format to take the viewer on a magical journey through the Dandy Warhols own space and sound, with the new single ‘Be Alright’ making things exactly that along the way."

“We’ve always been driven to create art with emotional clarity,” says Taylor-Taylor. “That’s what the world needs more than ever right now. I’ve never felt so strongly that people are losing their minds, and it’s more of them than ever before. Local politics, international politics, news programs, sitcoms, and our president all feel like the heat got turned up. It doesn’t feel like a natural progression of insanity, it just happened. Most people are behaving in a manner that can only be described as batshit crazy.”

The band is also hitting the road in 2019 (see below), with North American dates on sale this weekend.

PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE
WATCH THE 360° VIDEO FOR 'BE ALRIGHT'
'BE ALRIGHT' SINGLE AVAILABLE ON ALL DIGITAL PLATFORMS HERE

Track listing:

1. Fred N Ginger
2. Terraform
3. Highlife
4. Be Alright
5. Thee Elegant Bum
6. Sins Are Forgiven
7. Next Thing I Know
8. Small Town Girls
9. To The Church
10. Motor City Steel
11. Forever
12. Ondine

Tour dates:

Dec 1 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom (A Benefit For SMYRC).

Jan 24 - De Roma VZW - Antwerp
Jan 25 - Olympia - Paris
Jan 26 - Paradiso - Amsterdam
Jan 27 - Festsaal Kreuzberg - Berlin
Jan 29 - O2 Institute - Birmingham
Jan 30 - Old Fruitmarket - Glasgow
Jan 31 - Albert Hall - Manchester
Feb 2 - O2 Academy Brixton - London

On sale 11/16:

May 3 - 5 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival (on sale 11.14)
May 6 - Washington, D.C. - 9.30 Club
May 7 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
May 8 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
May 10 - Toronto, ON - CMW
May 11 - Chicago, IL - Metro
May 12 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
May 14 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre
May 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Theatre at the Ace Hotel
May 17 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory at North Park
May 18 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore