The Dandy Warhols

Portland, 1994

Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Peter Holmstrom formed The Dandy Warhols in Portland in 1994, the name a play on Andy Warhol. Zia McCabe joined on keyboards after Taylor-Taylor saw her working in a coffeehouse. Tim/Kerr offered to fund an album after the first gig, and early Portland bar shows were known for nudity. A live recording from the X-Ray Cafe on July 8, 1994, their eighth concert, was later issued. Dandys Rule OK came out on April 6, 1995 (Tim/Kerr). Capitol signed them, rejected their first follow-up attempt, later The Black Album, for lacking hits, and released ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down on July 15, 1997, which reached 16 in the UK. Drummer Eric Hedford left in 1998, replaced by DeBoer, Taylor-Taylor's cousin.

Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was recorded from December 1998 to March 1999, in a former gay men's gym in Portland with a sauna as the drum room, rented for 500 dollars a month, Zia McCabe told Ink19. Taylor-Taylor said the band felt like we needed to make the last classic rock album, aiming between All Things Must Pass and Workingman's Dead, and that the record took more than a year and a half and is very much a guitar record. It reached 32 in the UK, where it is Gold, and 182 in the US. The Odditorium, their warehouse studio and art space in northwest Portland, opened on November 15, 2001. David Bowie chose them for Meltdown in 2002 and took them on tour in 2003. Welcome to the Monkey House (May 5, 2003) was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. Ondi Timoner's Dig! (2004), shot from 1996 to 2003, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for documentary; Taylor-Taylor said it's a movie, not a documentary.

They founded Beat the World Records in 2007 and left Capitol in 2008. Later albums are Earth to the Dandy Warhols (2008), The Dandy Warhols Are Sound (2009), This Machine (2012), Distortland (2016), Why You So Crazy (2019), Tafelmuzik Means More When You're Alone (2020) and Rockmaker (March 15, 2024), with a covers album, Pin Ups, announced for 2026. They rearranged the MythBusters theme. Taylor-Taylor wrote the graphic novel One Model Nation (2009) with Jim Rugg. Setlist.fm lists 1,436 setlists, and the band played Thirteen Tales in full once, in 2013 at the Wonder Ballroom, recorded for a live album.