The Dandy Warhols (L-R): Zia McCabe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Brent DeBoer and Peter Holmstrom. Upon hearing of one of my misguided drunken exploits (hard to say which one exactly), a friend asked me how it is that I tally up all the stupid things I do when I’ve been drinking and still manage to justify not…
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A dialogue between Dunja Nedic and Christy Campbell comparing the Dandy Warhols‘ 2003 release on Capitol Records, Welcome to the Monkey House, and their 2009 release of the mix the band wanted to release originally. As a ‘seasoned’ Dandy Warhols listener (hello understatement), who lists Welcome to the Monkey House amongst their favourite albums, hearing…
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The reason I had never attended Parklife before this year was probably for the same reason that anyone who hasn’t attended Parklife hasn’t attended Parklife: pill-popping faux-trendsters. I had never even made a conscious assessment about whether to go or not, it was just inherently synonymous with something I didn’t want to do, kind of…
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A decision to make an impromptu visit to the U.S. in September was made a lot easier by Bumbershoot, Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, over the Labor Day weekend at Seattle Center. For the non U.S. residents amongst you, this means September 4th through 6th at the place where that funny looking thing that makes…
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