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April 25, 2005
The Dining Rooms
The Dining Rooms have a new album coming out in May, the intriguingly named Experiments in Ambient Soul. For some reason, a long time ago, I had gotten The Dandy Warhols and The Dining Rooms crossed up in my head, so I never really bothered paying attention to The Dining Rooms, until the day someone sent me the Six Feet Under soundtrack (featuring The Dining Rooms and The Dandy Warhols) and I realized, "Hey, I am a jackass!" OK, well to be fair, I realize that several times a week, but. Turns out The Dining Rooms are neat - a groovy mixture of Thievery Corporation-style downtempo and United Future Organization-style jazz.
The Dining Rooms - Diamond & Comforts
The Dining Rooms - Afrolicious
The reason I didn't bother paying attention to The Dining Rooms back when I mistakenly thought they were The Dandy Warhols is because I had also mistakenly thought that The Dandy Warhols were basically one of those Cherry Poppin' Daddies-type bands, and you know, you really only need one or two of those bands in rotation before you're all like, "Enough with the frickin' boogie-woogie already!!" But no, The Dandy Warhols turned out to be completely different, as this trippy little track from the album Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia will demonstrate.
This post is part of my continuing effort to make sure no one ever, ever, EVER mistakes me for an actual music journalist.
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Posted by Scotto at April 25, 2005 08:00 AM