Post Up: Interview With The Dandy Warhols

Happy Monday, Morphizm pals! Yesterday, I posted a fun chat with Courtney Taylor-Taylor on his band's latest, weirdest effort for Wired:

Battlefield Earth: An Interview with The Dandy Warhols
From its early dates pounding out psychedelia and dream sonics to its later leanings into electro-pop with the help of Duran Duran, it's been hard to catch up with The Dandy Warhols. It might be that rare band that could use a retrospective, just to refresh the frame.

The group has achieved an escape velocity of sorts on its newest effort Earth to The Dandy Warhols, that is if one can get a lock on its trajectory. Like the band, the release is all over the map: Whether Dandy guru Courtney Taylor-Taylor is aping Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stone's "Miss You" on the recombined funk of "Welcome to the 3rd World" or disappearing into the digital haze of the head-tripping "Wasp in the Lotus," the mission objective seems invested in keeping listeners off-balance. And asking them to dance, if only in a circle sometimes.

More bravely, the band has embraced the digital age. In May, the quartet released Earth to The Dandy Warhols online as a subscription package laced with extras. The hard copy arrives in August, and Taylor-Taylor is still cool with that. "I'm not gonna give [CDs] up until I have to," he promises.

Listening Post caught up with the Taylor-Taylor, and his sense of humor, to rap about Earth, download-only releases and why the major labels slept on the digital music revolution and missed their chance at becoming overlords of the future... MORE @ WIRED