Kansas City Music Blog

Someone in the Dandy Warhols camp must be booking their travel arrangements today, because several KC-related questions have appeared on the Dandies' Twitter @TheDandyWarhols in the past couple of hours. The band's September tour brings them to the Beaumont on 9/3. Here's what they's Tweetered so far:

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Dare you ask!?

Questions about the difference between KCMO and KCK and the gloriousness of our local cuisine are completely impossible to answer in 140 characters (minus the space it takes to tweet back "@" them), but I tried to answer the former: @TheDandyWarhols Though KCK has many fine dives and Mexican-food joints, KCMO dominates in art, culture, sanity, scenery and sexiness.

I don't know if it was noticed. Given the egregious alliteration, I wouldn't blame them for ignoring me. But if you have a cousin, brother, stepchild, etc, who works at the Raphael, I bet they'd sit up and listen.

The Dandy Warhols have just released their seventh (but not really) studio album, The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound, which is actually the original mixing of the band's fourth album, Welcome to the Monkey House. Fans will already be familiar with the story, but for the rest of us (quoted from publicity):

Prior to the release of Welcome To The Monkey House, the band had been pressing for a version mixed by Russell Elavedo, a GRAMMY-award winning soul mixing engineer whose credits include D'Angelo's Brown Sugar, The Roots' The Roots Come Alive, Common's Like Water for Chocolate, and Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor, among others. But contrary to the band's wishes, the Elavedo mix of Monkey House was shelved by Capitol Records, and an alternate mix the label had arranged was put out instead.​

Now, in 2009, established as owners of the label, Beat The World Records, the Warhols, as independent artists, have the freedom to release the original Elavado mix of Monkey House, aptly titled The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound.

As Taylor-Taylor describes it, "There are two different approaches to mixing. One is very slick and clean, and Welcome To The Monkey House fits more into that category. ARE Sound, however, has a sneakier profile. It seems very lo-fi and earthy, but the fact is, it's extremely precise."

Much as with the group's previous, 2008 album, Earth to the Dandy Warhols, you can buy ARE Sound in various packages at DandyWarhols.com.

Wait, did I just write a whole blog entry based on Twitter posts? Fuck it, someone speak up for our beloved barbecue!