"Musically, 'The Summer of Hate' became our homage to the sounds of The Damned, The MC5, and probably a bit of the Stooges in there as well," says Courtney Taylor-Taylor of rockers The Dandy Warhols. Talking about their propulsive and powerful new single "The Summer of Hate" whose A.I.-generated video is released today, he adds, "The record was the manifestation of our desire to hear a record of heavy raw punk and metal guitar riffs handled in a way that we felt was cooler than the standard knuckle draggin' man-rock that still tends to dominate a lot of popular culture in America."

 

The neon-drenched video which premiered today with Brooklyn Vegan was completely created by A.I. "Apparently A.I. felt that what his track is about is a macabre alien hot cave dance party/'60s mini motorcycle rally, and it pretty much nailed it," he laughs, pointing out the weird and wild imagery he and the video's creator concocted. "A.I. is like a brilliant child, complete with ego and defense mechanisms. If you try to control it too much, it will rebel by doing some f***ed up sh*t to your project."

 

The band kicks off a run of West Coast and Southwest dates this October with THE BLACK ANGELS (Queen Kwong opens about half the dates).