The Dandy Warhols November 6, Brooklyn Bowl.

We’re a long way from 1990s Portland, Oregon, but in some fashion, one of that city’s greatest musical exports brought us back to that northwest indie scene Friday night at Brooklyn Bowl. The place wasn’t nearly as packed as it would have been if, say, a live, staged version of seemingly real spoof show Portlandia was playing, but those who were in attendance were happy to get down to the crunchy sounds of The Dandy Warhols.

It’s interesting to think that at one point many tried to position the Dandys as new mainstream pop. Their psychedelic, shoegazey and often long songs had college radio written all over them back in the day, and now fit better on blog shows and SiriusXM than they ever did on KMXB 94.1-FM.

That’s not to say the group’s purest pop songs don’t hold up. In fact, “Get Off” and “All the Girls in London” were two of Friday night’s strongest numbers. And of course “Bohemian Like You,” likely their best-known song, held down a slot late in the set and delighted the warmly dressed crowd. (It felt so right seeing one guy there in a baja sweatshirt.)

I’m not sure ’90s nostalgia has caught on in the same way as ’80s nostalgia, but the train is moving and this is perhaps a sign of things to come. Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Brent DeBoer, Peter Holmstrom and Zia McCabe might not play shows in the nude anymore, but they can still bring you back to a specific time and place when they did. Yes, The Dandy Warhols are considered old now, but everything old is new again.