21 March 2026
📸 Nicole Nodland
Portland‘s groove junkies THE DANDY WARHOLS, finaly did
what they wanted to do for a very long time, recording/releasing
a covers album.
It’s named PIN UPS, and it’s out now.
Zia McCabe (keyboards, percussion): “We’ve been talking for years
now about getting as many of the covers we’ve done for specific territories
together and releasing them for all to hear. It’s finally happening.”
A total of 17 covers by legendary bands/solo artists.
TRACKLIST
Cherry Bomb – The Runaways
What We All Want – Gang Of Four
Primary – The Cure
Kiss Off – Violent Femmes
Goo Goo Muck – The Cramps
Rain – The Cult
Straight To Hell – The Clash
Sister Golden Hair – America
Lay Lady Lay – Bob Dylan
Ripple – The Grateful Dead
Easy Chair – The Byrds
Blackbird – The Beatles
The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson
Love Song – The Damned
Jet Boy – New York Dolls
She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
Inside The Outside – Love And Rockets
TUTV: Best covers album ever, to my ears. Why? Because The Dandys do a fantastic
job by revitaziling all those classic crackers, the buzzing and fuzzing Warhols way. No
lousy copy/paste performances whatsoever, what happens/happened on so many
covers records.
Pin Ups excels in sonic ingeniousness and absorbing implementation.
They speed up originals, they slow down originals, but most of all, they immerse
them all in a whirling psychedelic bath, resulting in amazeballs renditions, revved
up with a mind-blowing barrage of hefty hooks, unlimited licks, rotating riffs, and Herculean bass/drum/synth extravaganza.
If you’re not familiar with some/all of the originals (people that live on Mars), you would think that Pin Ups is the Portland‘s mean groove machine’s new original LP. For those about to rock, The Dandy Warhols pin you up. After all these years, they’re not in the slightest passĂ©.
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