The Dandy Warhols

İlk yılları

Grup 1994'te Courtney Taylor-Taylor ve Peter Holmström tarafından Portland, Oregon'da kuruldu. Kısa süre sonra, davul için Eric Hedford'la anlaşıldı; onu bas gitarda Taylor-Taylor'ın kız arkadaşının başarısız bir denemesi izledi; klavyeci Zia McCabe ise o sırada bir kahve evinde çalışırken Taylor-Taylor'la tanışmasının ardından gruba katıldı. Taylor-Taylor grubun başlangıcını "içmek için müziğe ihtiyaç duyan" bir grup arkadaş olarak betimledi. The Dandy Warhols, Portland genelinde barlarda çıktı ve çıplaklık dolu canlı gösterileriyle ünlü oldular. Sahneye ilk çıkışlarında 1994'te, Tim/Kerr Records tarafından albüm kayıtları için teklif götürüldü. Sonuç olarak, 1960lar garage rock ve 1990lar shoegaze müzik unsurlarının birleştirildiği Dandys Rule OK albümü 1995'te çıkarıldı.
Albümden etkilenen Capitol Records şirketi grupla anlaşmaya karar verdi ve 1997'de ikinci ve ilk büyük etiketli albümleri ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down'ı yayımladı. Albümde beğenilen teklileri "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" de yer aldı. Ünlü moda fotoğrafçısı David LaChapelle tarafından yönetilen bu abartılı video klipleri onlara ABD dışında da ün kazandırdı.
1998'de davulcu Eric Hedford, telif hakları konusunda yaşanan bir anlaşmazlıktan sonra gruptan ayrıldı ve yerine Taylor-Taylor'ın kuzeni Brent DeBoer geçti.

Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia

2000'da, Vodafone'un tutulan bir reklamında yer alan "Bohemian Like You" adlı teklilerini yeniden yayımladıktan sonra, grup eleştirel ve ticarî başarı için üçüncü albümleri Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia'yı yayımladı. Grubun en bilindik şarkısı olan "Bohemian Like You" birkaç film ve dizide de yer aldı.
Around this time, Taylor took out a loan to acquire an industrial warehouse space in downtown Portland (the band's hometown), dubbed "The Odditorium", occupying a quarter city block. The Odditorium is the band's eclectic rehearsal space and recording and mixing studio. It also serves as an art space and clubhouse for parties and other events.
2002'de, grup David Bowie tarafından Meltdown festivalinde çalması için seçildi. The two acts played a rendition of "White Light/White Heat" together as an encore to the July 29 gig, which was billed as The New Heathens Night. Ayrıca grup David Bowie'yi 2003 A Reality Tour turnesinde destekledi.

Welcome to the Monkey House

Grubun dördüncü albümü olan Welcome to the Monkey House'ın yapımcılığını Duran Duran'den Nick Rhodes yaptı. Albüm 2003'te yayımlandı. "synthesizer"lar ve ağır seksenler havası içeren bu albüm, grubun tarzında bir değişim oluşturdu. Albüm teklilerinden biri olan "We Used to Be Friends", grubun en bilinen parçalarından biri hâline geldi; ABD kült draması  Veronica Mars ve daha sonra da Avustralya dizisi My Restaurant Rules'un giriş jeneriği olarak kullanılmasının bunda büyük katkısı olmuştu.
2009'da, grup kendi Beat the World etiketleri üzerine aynı albümün The Dandy Warhols Are Sound adlı ilk miksini yayımladı. Grammy ödüllü soul müzik yapımcısı Russell Elevado tarafından miksedilen albümün bu sürümü, Capitol Records tarafından reddedildi ve altı yıllığına rafa kaldırıldı.

Dig!

The Brian Jonestown Massacre ile birlikte, The Dandy Warhols 2004 yapımı belgesel filmi Dig!'in konusu oldu. Filmde BJM solisti Anton Newcombe ve Courtney Taylor-Taylor'ın etkileşimini vurgulayarak her iki grup arasındaki aşk-nefret ilişkisini ele almıştır. It was recorded over the course of seven years by Ondi Timoner, and won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Aynı senede grup B tarafları, cover ve yayınlanmamış şarkıların bir toplaması olan Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols ve Capitol Records tarafından reddedilmiş olan ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down'dan önce kaydedilen albümü The Black Album'ü çift albüm olarak yayınladı.

Odditorium or Warlords of Mars

Grup yedinci albümleri Odditorium or Warlords of Mars'ı eleştirel bir tepki olarak 13 Eylül 2005'te yayımladı. It was partially named after and recorded in the band's own Odditorium studio. The album was a return to the psychedelic guitar-oriented rock of ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, moving away from the synth-heavy sound of Welcome to the Monkey House. "Smoke It" was the first track released for radio play.
Around about this time, the band contributed to the Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse video game soundtrack with a cover of "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers.
On 17 July 2006, the band released the stand-alone single "Have a Kick Ass Summer (Me and My Friends)", which was later re-recorded as "Mis Amigos" for their 2008 album ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols.... The song was later featured in the downloadable song-pack for the Xbox video game Dance Dance Revolution ULTRAMIX 4.

...Earth to the Dandy Warhols...

The band released their eighth record, ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., digitally through a subscription service on May 19, 2008. It was the first album of theirs to be released on their self-founded Beat the World Records label, after splitting with Capitol Records in 2007. The album featured a collaboration with Mark Knopfler and the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell on the track "Love Song".
In the same year, the band released an EP titled Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume One, consisting of electronic remixed versions of "The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers", "Welcome to the Third World", "The World the People Together (Come On)", and "Wasp in the Lotus". They followed up this EP in 2009 with Earth to the Remix E.P. Volume Two, this time containing remixes of "And Then I Dreamt of Yes", "Talk Radio", "Love Song", and "Now You Love Me".
In 2008, the band covered the Cure song "Primary" for the charity album Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, which released on October 28, 2008 on Manimal Vinyl Records, with profits going to Invisible Children Inc. The band also contributed to the Love and Rockets tribute album, No New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets, in the same year, covering the song "Inside the Outside".
In 2008, The Dandy Warhols announced they were releasing a collaborative album called Breathe Easy to benefit conservation projects. The recordings, which started on October 21, 2008, took place at the band's The Odditorium studio in Portland, Oregon. They collaborated with bands such as The Bravery, The Kooks, Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, and Spoon. Not much is known about the current status of the project and recordings are not readily available.
In 2009, the band covered The Beatles' "Blackbird" upon the passing of Michael Jackson, as a reference to the lyrics of their 2003 song "Welcome to the Monkey House" from the album of the same name: "When Michael Jackson dies/We're covering Blackbird".

The Capitol Years and This Machine

On 19 July 2010, The Dandy Warhols released The Capitol Years 1995–2007, a greatest hits album chronicling the band's years with Capitol Records. The album consists of singles and popular songs from the albums ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, Welcome to the Monkey House, and Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, as well as the original Russel Elevado mixes of "I Am a Scientist" and "Plan A" from The Dandy Warhols Are Sound, an alternate mix of "Every Day Should Be a Holiday", an extended version of "Godless", and a new track, "This Is the Tide", written by Brent DeBoer and Zia McCabe, with DeBoer on lead vocals. "This Is the Tide" debuted on Triple J on 18 June 2010 and three different music videos have since been released for the song.
The band are currently in the process of recording a new album. While playing in Sydney's Enmore Theatre in May 2011 as part of their 2011 Australian tour, lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor announced the new album would be titled This Machine (although Taylor-Taylor has previously jokingly announced the album title would be called either The Pastor of Muppets, Shitty Shitty Band Band, or Whirled Piece in blog posts on the band's official website). On the same tour, the band debuted two new songs, "Wow Signal", and "Rest Your Head", which are believed to be tracks from the new album. It is expected to be released in April 2012.
In 2011, The Dandy Warhols "rearranged and performed" the theme music to the popular science-based television show MythBusters, with the updated theme music first appearing in episode 171, "Bikes and Bazookas".

Other developments

In 2009, frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor released a graphic novel titled One Model Nation. Taylor-Taylor also regularly writes "one sentence movie reviews" on the band's official website.
In 2010, drummer Brent DeBoer released a solo folk album called The Player. A music video for the song "You Win" was produced. DeBoer currently fronts the country band Immigrant Union. The band appeared on an episode of Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight, playing a cover of Rose Tattoo's "Bad Boy for Love".
Guitarist Peter Holmström currently fronts the neo-psychedelia band Pete International Airport, which was named after the Dandy Warhols song of the same name and also features members from bands such as The Lovetones, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and The Upsidedown. The band released their debut self-titled album in 2010. He also appeared as a guest musician on The Dead Stars on Hollywood's EP, Anthems for the Friendly-Fire Generation.
Keyboardist Zia McCabe currently plays in the country band Brush Prairie.

Müzik tarzı

The Dandy Warhols' sound has included a variety of different genres ever since their conception. Dandys Rule OK (1995) featured garage rock- and shoegaze influences, while their next album, The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997),  displayed a more commercial and polished sound (being their first record on a major label), abandoning the garage rock of the previous album and delving further into psychedelic soundscapes. Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (2000) featured a matured, less overdriven sound, with less overt psychedelia and more power pop leanings.
Welcome to the Monkey House (2003), produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, represented a significant leap in style, from guitar-driven alternative rock into eighties-influenced synth pop. Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (2005) featured a return to the overdriven psychedelic soundscapes of Come Down, whilst also incorporating the genre experimentation seen on Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... (2008) continued in the electronic style of Monkey House.