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The Deli Magazine

featured two bands from the Music Building in Manhattan!  The first two they feature… yours truly, Vinyette and Social Hero!  Ya’ll know Social Hero, great crew of guys who rock like they invented earthquakes.  Very choice words by the glamorous rock star scribbler aka Rocker Stalker, Meijin Bruttomesso! Check out the article!!!!

The Deli featuring Vinyette

The Deli Magazine featuring Vinyette & Social Hero

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VINYETTE plays host to NYC underground indie music showcase entitled the Vinyette Peepshow. We shall be posting live footage with HD video and sweet remastered audio. Live performances include Mother Brother, Gifts From Enola, the darling Roxanne De Bastion and yours truly VINYETTE! More to come….

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Vinyette @ the Delancey

Vinyette hit the stage at the Delancey for a killer set featuring two of our newest songs.  Here is a video clip from the show, with one of our new songs entitled Every Little Mouse Run!

This was a glorious show for Vinyette and a grand send off for Myles.  Thanks to everyone who could make it and rock the night away!

Vinyette is kicking ass in the studio while writing and jamming out new tunes with a furious fervor.   Vinyette is preparing to complete writing our first full length album by this Summer.  We plan on performing our new material as soon as April!  I can almost smell the tour that shall follow.  Here’s to a productive new year of new journeys and creations.  Much love to you our dear friends, family and fans!

For those who don’t know, our friend Myles has moved back to England.  The path that Myles is braving to gain his hearing is a tough one.  If you are interested in reading more about the new challenge Myles is facing, here is his recent blog “The Bumpy Journey to a Cochlear Implant.”

Secret Studio Show, Saturday July 24th

So Vinyette Just spent today cleaning up and organizing our studio in preparation for our secret show which I am announcing here on our site! Excited to bring this to friends and fans as a direct alternative to spending $$ on expensive door covers and over-priced drinks at sub-par venues who are abusing the live music scene. This will be a fun and FREE show in an intimate setting right in the heart of NYC indie music underground. Don’t miss out!

This Saturday July 24th 2010. 8:30pm til 11pm
584 8th Ave, NYC, Map/Directions
Room 704 on the 7th Floor of the Music Building.

We’ll be playing with our friends and special guest Mother Brother, a fine act to share the floor with indeed.
This will be a free show and we encourage you to BYOB. It’s also our bass player Jay’s birthday so the after-show celebrations will continue til late. See you there!

Seen our Press Kit yet?

Hmm, so have you seen our Press Kit yet? It’s pretty cool. I was looking at the site stats earlier and realized not many of you are visiting that humble little link up top. So here’s a post encouraging you to check it out.

http://www.vinyette.com/press_kit.html

We think it represents a good quality digital press kit especially if you’re band is not sure how to make a press kit. There will be a new video on the way soon too so check back for more.

Ripping the Curl on the Airwaves w/ Indie Darkroom 87.7FM

Myles churning the air with his luscious riffs

Vinyette is hitting NYC radio for the first time.  We gave our music to this slick outlet for emerging artists called “The Indie Darkroom” on 87.7 FM.  Hitting deep underground and hitting hard.

Our songs are being featured, tune in at 87.7 FM in NYC area (*giggles* – beware you may loose a bit of reception under big buildings) or check out the Indie Darkroom website live stream.  Indie Darkroom is forgoing the usual advertising sponsored route of airing music and it sounds gorgeous:

“…most commercial radio stations get their funding through advertisers. They get advertisers depending on the stations’ ratings. They get high ratings through playing top 40, and thus no independent music gets played.

We don’t like radio advertisements; we just want to hear the music and help feed the scene. We think we’ve figured out a way to support an advertising-free FM program featuring only independent music from artists who have no label or are on a very small label. There is so much great music out there. Let’s hear it.” – Indie Darkroom 3/3/10

So lend Vinyette and Indie Darkroom 87.7 FM some listener love.  Hit them up via blog or email and tell em how much you love Vinyette‘s sweet jams!  Spread the love to your favorite indie bands, they can submit their music to Indie Darkroom too!

Peace and love and keep those ears peeled.

Deaf Musicians, a beautiful oxymoron

I am a musician but I am also deaf, I never really think about this but lately such thoughts crop up more in mind mind. I love Vinyette and music is my life, but I am forever gripped in an eternal struggle between light and dark because it is so frustrating and yet rewarding all at once to continue doing what I must do. In search of inspiration, here is a list of others like me. Other deaf musicians and performers out there enduring this same battle with relish.

Evelyn Glennie

A true child-hood hero ever since I saw her on Sesame Street, Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society. Truly one if not the most talented of deaf musicians out there, we love you Evelyn and you will too after watching this video of her!

Beethoven’s Nightmare

Awesome awesome all-deaf band from LA, they put on super fun shows and got featured recently in the very moving and inspiring deaf documentary: See What I’m Saying by Hilari Scari. I was lucky enough to goto one of the premiere screenings in NYC and got to meet drummer Bob Hilterman from the band as well as other members of the cast. Bob and I hit it off and his band want to play NYC so invited me to play as an opener for them. Vinyette will do whatever we can to help them out when they hit the East Coast. Rock on Bob.

Mandy Harvey

Mandy is a deaf American jazz singer and songwriter who lost her hearing in 2006-2007 at age eighteen and abandoned her study of music. She pursued several career options, including education, but returned to music in 2008. Fortunately for us all she did and has self-produced her first album Smile (2008) which has received acclaim from Jazz critics. Go Mandy!

Signmark

Signmark (born Marko Vuorenheimo) is a very cool deaf Finnish rap artist. Unlike my background history raised in a hearing family, he was born into a signing family and grew up embracing Deaf culture. He feels that society should not treat the deaf as disabled people but as a linguistic minority with their own culture and history and I very much agree, there is much we can learn from the Deaf culture, communicating without words just like music does.

There are many others out there doing what they do best just like those I happen to mention above. I’ll leave you with the top-most sticky post from the Deaf Musicians forum at Alldeaf.com. It’s quite the beautiful poem:

What Is The Music?

What is the music, O! ‘Tis just the melody,
Instrument playing in perfect accordance?
‘Tis a vibration so complex to follow?
Searching intensely inside soul so deeply?
Beating profoundly relaxing persona,
Soothes in one’s mind? True sound and so audaciously
Vibrating its true intention with heartfelt
echoes of treble and bass so entwined, yes
that is the music and that is the melody!