Portland’s The Dandy Warhols will follow up 2009′s The Dandy Warhols Are Sound with a new LP this April. Titled This Machine, the group’s ninth album has little to no details yet, but last year, amidst their Australian tour, they did debut two new songs: “Rest Your Head” and “The Wow Signal”. No word on whether or not either of those will be on the LP, but it’s a little slice of material to consider.

Meanwhile, fans can look forward to seeing them on tour this year; already, they’ve issued a slew of European dates that take up much of April. Nothing like an overseas vacay in the Spring, eh? Peep the full itinerary below, re-listen to Dandy favorite “You Were The Last High” after, and stay tuned for more information on the new LP.

The Dandy Warholds 2012 Tour Dates:
04/14 – Bergen, NO @ Ole Bull
04/15 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
04/18 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar St.
04/19 – Glasgow, UK @ Garage
04/20 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy 2
04/21 – London, UK @ Forum
04/23 – Zurich, CH @ Abart
04/25 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
04/26 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Zakk
04/27 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
04/29 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
04/30 – Luxemborg, LU @ Luxemborg den Atelier

“You Were The Last High”:

Ghost On The Canvas features all brand new songs written by the likes of Paul Westerberg, Jakob Dylan, Robert Pollard, and Teddy Thompson. In addition, Chris Isaak, Dick Dale, Billy Corgan, Brian Setzer, Rick Nielsen, Roger Manning, and The Dandy Warhols all appear as guests on the LP. Campbell also plans to put on a “valedictory worldwide concert tour” called “The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour”, with the entire itinerary to be announced shortly.

In the interview with People, Campbell revealed he’s been suffering short-term memory loss for several years. The actual Alzheimer’s diagnosis, though, occurred six months ago. “I still love making music,” Campbell said. “And I still love performing for my fans. I’d like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.”

Ghost On The Canvas hits stores August 30th via Surfdog Records.

After a string of Australia shows for the Parklife Festival in late September/early October, the band hits the U.S. with a pretty hefty selection of shows starting October 28th in Minneapolis, MN. From there, it’s a heaping helping of dates across the U.S. (and Canada) before coming to a close on December 12th in Portland, OR. Just in time for Christmas at home.

If you’re jonesing for some kind of Dandy Warhols release, The Capitol Years 1995-2007, their best-of collection from their time at Capitol Records, was released back in July. Tickets for select shows can be bought at Ticketmaster.com.

The Dandy Warhols 2010 Tour Dates:
09/25 – Brisbane, UA @ Parklife Festival
09/26 – Perth, AU @ Parklife Festival
09/30 – Hobart, AU @ Wrest Point
10/02 – Melbourne, AU @ Parklife Festival
10/03 – Sydney, AU @ Parklife Festival
10/04 – Adelaide, AU @ Parklife Festival
10/16 – Portland, OR @ Satyricon (Farewell to Satyricon)
10/28 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Cafe
10/29 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
10/30 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
11/01 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
11/02 – Montreal< QC @ Le National
11/03 – Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub
11/05 – Brooklyn, NY @ Bell House
11/06 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
11/09 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
11/10 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
11/11 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
11/13 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
11/14 – Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
12/01 – Victoria, BC @ Sugar
12/02 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
12/03 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market
12/07 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up
12/08 – Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Cafe
12/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia
12/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
12/12 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

Among the tickets on sale Friday include !!!, Blonde Redhead, Brandon Flowers, Broken Bells, Pennywise, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The Dandy Warhols, The Gaslight Anthem, and Thirty Seconds to Mars. American Carnage tickets are also available to the general public.

Editors Note: Ticketmaster efficiently killed its Affiliate Program this week, putting a halt on all commissions from concert tickets sold within the first 24 hours of their on-sale date. (90 – 95% of all commissions made come during this window.) As a result, this is the last week you can support CoS by purchasing tickets, so please buy while you can!

!!!:

What: North American tour

When: September – November

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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30 Seconds to Mars:

What: North American tour

When: September – October

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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American Carnage:

What: North American Tour featuring Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer

When: September – October

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Blonde Redhead:

What: North American tour

When: September – December

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Brandon Flowers (of The Killers):

What: North American warm-up tour

When: August

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Broken Bells:

What: Tour dates for Los Angeles and New York City

When: October 6th and 11th, respectively

Tixs: $27.50 – $32.50

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The Dandy Warhols:

What: North American tour

When: November

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The Gaslight Anthem:

What: North American tour

When: September

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s:

What: North American tour

When: September – November

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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Pennywise:

What: North American tour

When: September

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Rodrigo Y Gabriela:

What: North American tour

When: August – October

Tixs: Price varies depending on location

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It happened before the train wrecks Stuck on You, Jersey Girl, and Bennifer. Elliott Smith was alive and making tremendously gorgeous music. The year was 1998, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, two newbies to Hollywood via Boston, held the red carpet and an entire post-modern generation captive with the quasi-autobiographical screenplay Good Will Hunting.

It’s not your fault.

Unless, of course, you happened to be a voting member of the 1997 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who bestowed the Oscar for Best Original Song to overly fizzy, Canadian pop songstress Celine Dion for “My Heart Will Go On”. On and on and on did that song go until Titanic finally sunk into its procrustean bed of SNL mockery. Those who were a part of the Academy that year passed over Elliott Smith’s original song “Miss Misery”, the linchpin of the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, and must harbor the guilt. To use the fuming, angry words of Damon’s character, Will Hunting, I bet every time that blasted Titanic song comes on they wish they had a take-back.

To everyone else, it’s not your fault.

After all, it’s easy to wax cynical about what grabs society by the neck, cuts off oxygen to the brain, and sends people into stupor-induced frenzies of idolatry. We are a fickle people who are quick to anoint something as the next big thing only to find ourselves mocking it shortly after (see also: Pogs, The Macarena, and the Rachel haircut). The truly golden stuff shines on. Guess what film, 12 years later, is still enjoying a spot in iTunes’ top 10 movie sales? Good Will Hunting. How about them apples?

Sure, we can nit-pick about Robin Williams’ on again/off again, Bostonian accent. Sure, GWH’s numerous memorable lines and man-emo made their share of SNL skits, but let’s get on to the music. Kevin Smith worked with Affleck on Chasing Amy and shopped his pal’s screenplay around Hollywood, passed over by several studios until landing at Miramax. Gus Van Sant directed and tapped Danny Elfman, whose CV includes Tim Burton’s Batman and The Simpsons, to compose the score. This is where it gets a bit interesting. Only two small bits of Elfman’s Oscar-nominated score appear on the official soundtrack. Elfman explains to Nuno Markl, “The albums are not about the movie: they are about marketing … It’s a little bit sad for the movie because, more and more the soundtrack album doesn’t necessarily represent the movie … Good Will Hunting didn’t represent the movie at all.” He speaks the truth.

“Fisherman’s Blues” is a fun, Irish-gypsy surprise, but misrepresentation rings true as tracks by Andru Donalds and Luscious Jackson seem particularly misplaced amidst chancy choices like “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty and “Boys Better” by The Dandy Warhols.  At least the latter earn their way as believable background noise in the life of the blue-collar, Bostonian twenty-somethings.

Elfman’s score also garnered an Academy Award nomination in the appropriate category (Best Original Score) and again lost to Titanic. Though, this is not as difficult to stomach because the score’s two true standout attributes are not Elfman’s original compositions. Instead, the best triumphs are his intricate weaving of the simple score into the modern cuts (as seen in the both the Harvard bar and fight scenes) and, secondly, Elliott Smith’s songs.

Taking Elfman’s thoughts about the album alone, he appears bitter about the compilation. However, the compilation and the film itself are a tremendous example of composer and contemporary musician weaving together their creativity, using the best of both talents. The decision to work with Elliott Smith appears to have been easy. Elfman said, “There were times when we [Van Sant, Smith] would sit together and play the guitar and play ideas. I was then able to make my score interface really well with Elliot’s music. I could make a piece of score end to the same key and flow into the introduction of Elliot’s songs, so you really couldn’t tell the difference! That was the best experience I had in terms of working with an artist on songs.”  This critical detail is a delicate one, which adorns without distracting from the true triumph of the film – the emerging of redemption from the broken lives of the characters.

At the time of the film, Elliott Smith was newly signed to a label and set to release his first non-independent albums. His confessional lyrics came from the dark, demonized caverns of his persona but were mournfully comforting; from this place, Smith helped pave the way for Emo’s mainstream surface in the early 2000s. Will Hunting is tough, bristled, and defensive. Smith’s music is gentle, effacing, and revealing. How does it work so well?  Playing into the dichotomy of the two was genius. Smith’s sound embodies the capable emotions running through Hunting, hidden and protected, buried somewhere under his combative amour. It shows the side of Will he cannot (or will not) show himself.

The film and soundtrack showcase Smith’s “Angeles”, “No Name #3″, and arguably his two most popular songs, “Say Yes” and “Between the Bars”. “Between the Bars” plays during a comfortably intimate scene between Will and his love interest, Skylar, played by Minnie Driver. Skylar playfully asks the defensive Will to be more open in their relationship. “People you’ve been before that you don’t want around anymore/That push and shove and won’t bend to your will/I’ll keep them still/Drink up, baby, look at the stars/I’ll kiss you again between the bars.” The song fits superbly with Will’s attempt to segment his life into nice, little, inaccessible pieces.

“Say Yes” is one of the most playful scenes of the film, where Will and Skylar have their first date. The lyrics encompass even more of the film’s theme of shards of happiness left in a mess when the dread of future loss paralyzes one from enjoying the moment.

Will’s journey culminates in “Miss Misery”, written specifically for the film. The self-deprecating tune somehow fills us with hope, as Will makes his first conscious decision to take off the armor, driving into the risk of loving and being loved. “It’s a comedy of errors, you see/It’s about taking a fall/To vanish into oblivion/Is easy to do/And I try to be but you know me/I come back when you want me to.” This is where Elliott Smith and Will Hunting part ways. Sadly, Smith never faced his demons and died tragically in 2003, most likely at the doing of his own hand. Thankfully, Smith’s music lives on in the story of a man whose life plays out differently, calling all out of shame and fear into a place of honesty and freedom.

Good Will Hunting Original Motion Picture Soundtrack tracklist

01. “Between the Bars [Orchestral]” – Elliott Smith
02. “As the Rain” – Jeb Loy Nichols
03. “Angeles” – Elliott Smith
04. “No Name #3″ – Elliott Smith
05. “Fisherman’s Blues” – The Waterboys
06. “Why Do I Lie?” – Luscious Jackson
07. “Will Hunting [Main Titles]”
08. “Between the Bars” – Elliott Smith
09. “Say Yes” – Elliott Smith
10. “Baker Street” – Gerry Rafferty
11. “Somebody’s Baby” – Andru Donalds
12. “Boys Better” – The Dandy Warhols
13. “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?” – Al Green
14. “Miss Misery” – Elliott Smith
15. “Weepy Donuts” – Steve Bartek, Danny Elfman

Monolith’s third edition will again take place at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado from September 12-13 and feature quite the indie-centric line up we’ve all come to expect and enjoy.

Saturday is highlighted by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Girl Talk, Of Montreal, M. Ward, The Walkmen, Frightened Rabbit, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, while Sunday offers The Mars Volta, MSTRKRFT, Method Man & Redman, Phoenix, Chromeo, Passion Pit, The Thermals and Wale among others.

As it stands, Monolith 2009 currently looks like this:

A Shoreline Dream, The Answering Machine, The Antlers, AutoVaughn, Avi Buffalo, Beats Antique, Boulder Acoustic Society, Caitlin Rose, Chromeo, Cotton Jones, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Dandy Warhols, Danielle Ate the Sandwich, Deer Tick, DOOM, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, The Features, French Horn Rebellion, Frightened Rabbit, Generationals, Girl Talk, The Glitch Mob, The Grates, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jim McTurnan & The Kids That Killed The Man, Harlem Shakes, HEALTH, Ida Maria, The Knew, Lydia, M. Ward, The Mars Volta, Method Man & Redman, Hollywood Holt & Million $ Mano, Miniature Tigers, Montonix, MSTRKRFT, Neon Indian, Of Montreal, OK Go, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Passion Pit, Phoenix, The Pirate Signal, Rachel Goodrich, Red Wire Black Wire, Savoy, Speakeasy, Tiger, Spindrift, Starfucker, Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, The Thermals, These United States, Thunderheist, Tigercity, The Twilight Sad, Viva Voice, Wale, The Walkmen, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Wendy Darling, Woodhands, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Ahead of the festivities, Monolith will also be hosting two kick-off parties on Friday, September 11th at the Gothic Theater and Moes BBQ in Denver, with a Chromeo DJ set, The Cool Kids, Hot Tub, and Boyhollow being the scheduled entertainment of the evening. The events will be open to VIP ticket holders, media and winners of the Southern Comfort ticket promotion.

Speaking of tickets, single day, two-day and VIP passes are all currently on sale via monolithfestival.com, but you better hurry, prices for all three options will go up on August 14th.

Pulling together the many influences and unique sounds that have always characterized their music, …Earth To The Dandy Warhols, is quintessential Dandy’s. Although it’s the debut album on their new label, Beat World Records, the change of scenery hasn’t affected the band’s sound much. Courtney Taylor-Taylor and the other Dandy’s are still playing dreary psychedelic rock that’s somehow still fun. Filled with an enormous cluster-fuck of variety, this album definitely creates a fresh perspective of the ever so popular (and dare I say repetitive) indie-pop scene.

The Dandy Warhols have gotten a lot of notoriety in the past from having their songs featured in commercials. However, on this new album you are not likely to find a suitable song for anything but Space food. This time the band is just out there floating in space. Even though the album is essentially “out of this world,” The Dandy Warhols don’t forget to comment back on the world they are so critical of.

Drawing from the music of the Talking Heads and The Rolling Stones, “Welcome to the 3rd World” is the kind of song you could see being played at your next house party. It gets you feeling spunky and optimistic until you hear the rather harsh lyrics, “The boys all like the girls/and the girls like the money/you gotta spread it around/you see the girls like the boys/and the boys like the honey.” Perhaps this is the beauty and genius of The Dandy Warhols, because they can so easily trap you in a pit of self-hate, yet you can’t resist dancing in it.

Within the territory of psychedelic rock, the album brings you swirling guitar riffs, spacey harmonies, hypnotic beats and an endless void of synthesized sound. Ranging from the Orgy-esk psychedelic chug of “Mission Control” to “The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty” featuring the country stomp that Marcy Playground conquered in 1998, this album touches on a bit of everything. Mark Knopfler and Mike Campell guest in “Love Song,” which is a soothing calm that surprisingly isn’t another cover of the Cure. Later on, the campy mariachi band style of “Mis Amigos” offers you a chance to build up your self-esteem and the 15-minute orchestrated ambience of “Musee D’Nougat” ends the album with a sort of silent eerie lift off from space.

Amongst the beauty of this album, The Dandy Warhols are still assholes and they know it. As of recently, it’s become expected of them to shape their music as a mockery and a celebration of pop music and culture. As the title suggests, …Earth To The Dandy Warhols may be a critique of The Dandy’s themselves instead of the planet Earth. The album is currently only available for streaming off their website, but the CD version will be in stores August 19, 2008. Be sure to check this one out; it will surely guide your summer towards a glittering cave of wonders.

Check Out:
“The World The People Together (Come On)”
“The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty”