The Dandy Warhols Detail New Covers Album ‘Pin Ups’ and Share a Reverb-Soaked ‘Goo Goo Muck’
The Dandy Warhols have always been better at being a “band’s band” than the industry really knew what to do with.
They have spent three decades oscillating between massive radio hooks and the kind of druggy, shoegaze-adjacent experiments that make critics swoon. Now, fresh off the success of 2024’s ‘ROCKMAKER’ and its remixed sibling, the Portland veterans are turning their focus inward. Their new album, ‘Pin Ups,’ arrives March 20, 2026, via Beat The World and Little Cloud Records. It is a curated archive of the songs that built them, a collection of covers that finally gathers years of disparate recordings into one place.
The timing feels right. After the high-concept grandeur of their recent performances with the Oregon Symphony, ‘Pin Ups’ serves as a grounded reminder of why this band started in the first place. This is a map of their influences and friendships. Zia McCabe noted that many of these tracks have been sitting on hard drives for years, waiting for the right moment to surface. That sense of history gives the record a warmth that most covers albums lack.
One of the centerpieces of this announcement is their version of ‘Goo Goo Muck.’ While The Cramps turned the track into a swampy, psychobilly nightmare, the Dandys lean into a surf-guitar flavor that feels custom-built for a late-night drive. It’s slick and reverb-heavy, trading the original’s graveyard dirt for a polished, cool-toned swagger. It’s the kind of transformation the band excels at: taking something jagged and making it feel like it was always meant to be a Dandy Warhols song.
The rest of the tracklist is just as eclectic. You have a “percolating” take on the Runaways’ ‘Cherry Bomb’ and a hazy, psych version of The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird.’ Zia takes the lead on the Violent Femmes’ classic ‘Kiss Off,’ injecting it with a bratty, 1950s mod energy… Courtney Taylor-Taylor has been vocal about the personal connection to these songs, noting that almost every artist covered is a friend or someone they have shared a meaningful experience with. The only exception seems to be the artists from the 1960s, a gap he finds “weird” but fitting for a band that has always felt a little out of time.
‘Pin Ups’ is a love letter to the people who shaped the Dandys’ world. From the post-punk of Gang of Four to the back-porch twang of The Byrds, the album covers a staggering amount of ground across its three sides.
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