The Dandy Warhols have just completed up a month-long tour of the U.K. to support its new album, "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia," and the outing culminated with a command performance at the annual Glastonbury Festival.
The Warhols new record, the follow-up to 1997's "The Dandy Warhols Come Down," won't hit American stores until August 1, although the first single "Bohemian Like You," is already drawing raves from college radio.
Some listeners have raised eyebrows about the single's sonic similarity to the Rolling Stones' psychedelic classic, "Jumpin' Jack Flash," although The Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor told MTV News that the song originated from a stop-and-go crush.
"[The song is] probably the only fiction I've ever written in my life," Taylor said of the track, "but only because I know it isn't really fiction. It just goes on all the time. But it's not autobiographical."
"I didn't intend it to be necessarily the Rolling Stones riff, right off," Taylor said. "It was more like Kiss, because if you listen to Kiss, they were pretty much just really cheap imitation with a lot of distortion of [the Stones or] this Beatles riff. Things that nobody ever noticed, but they just ripped, like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and stuff like that, except it's just all rock, 70s rock, glitter rock, tons of stuff.
"But it's good to listen to," he explained, "and I don't really care how much crap I get for taking it. It's what I want to hear and it's what my friends want to hear, and it sure is a lot of fun to play, so that was that." [RealAudio]
The Dandy Warhols plan to head out on the road later this month for a U.S. tour, starting on July 19 in Philadelphia (see "The Dandy Warhols Prep American 'Bohemia' Tour").
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