The Dandy Warhols Launch New Label For Next Album
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Album:Earth To The Dandy Warhols
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Track:Be In
After being dropped by Capitol Records a few year back, the Dandy Warhols are starting their own venture with the World's Fair Group for their next album Earth To The Dandy Warhols, due May 5th. The band will release their seventh studio album via the label offshoot Beat the World. "World's Fair":http://worlds-fair.net/ are the people behind the Flaming Lips, El-P, British Sea Power. 
Expressing frustration about the Capitol fiasco guitarist Peter Holmstrom told Billboard.com, "Our records were recouping and making money for [Capitol] because of all the licensing, but they weren't promoting us or paying attention." The band's last album before being dropped by Capitol was 2005' Odditorium or the Warlords of Mars, which sold a disappointing 38,000 copies. "We were upset for about a week," Holmstrom said of being ditched by the major label, "and then we were overjoyed.""We were all totally done dealing with major-label incompetence," the band's manager Lee Cohen reiterated. "The last record was literally just dumped in bins at stores and they walked away from it."With Capitol, the Warhols only got 50% of licensing rights and it pissed them off that the label was cashing in from commercials, but not marketing the album. "World's Fair only takes a minor percent of the licensing, and their ownership only lasts for three years," Cohen explained of the new change."It's great," added Holstrom, "although it's a little scary, because if we screw this up, we have no one to blame but ourselves."Here's a clip of new material from Earth To The Dandy Warhols (Disregard "This video is no longer available" massage. Just hit play): Source: "Billboard.com":http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003721426
Expressing frustration about the Capitol fiasco guitarist Peter Holmstrom told Billboard.com, "Our records were recouping and making money for [Capitol] because of all the licensing, but they weren't promoting us or paying attention." The band's last album before being dropped by Capitol was 2005' Odditorium or the Warlords of Mars, which sold a disappointing 38,000 copies. "We were upset for about a week," Holmstrom said of being ditched by the major label, "and then we were overjoyed.""We were all totally done dealing with major-label incompetence," the band's manager Lee Cohen reiterated. "The last record was literally just dumped in bins at stores and they walked away from it."With Capitol, the Warhols only got 50% of licensing rights and it pissed them off that the label was cashing in from commercials, but not marketing the album. "World's Fair only takes a minor percent of the licensing, and their ownership only lasts for three years," Cohen explained of the new change."It's great," added Holstrom, "although it's a little scary, because if we screw this up, we have no one to blame but ourselves."Here's a clip of new material from Earth To The Dandy Warhols (Disregard "This video is no longer available" massage. Just hit play): Source: "Billboard.com":http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003721426
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