Home of the Vinyette Band
Fresh yum-yum out of New York City soon to be nestled within the innards of your minds.
Hear it, see it, speak no evil.
VINYETTE is the illegitimate child of Rock and Electronic Funk. Born and raised in New York City, VINYETTE gleaned sustenance from scraps of Punk, Jazz and Hip Hop.
What a night!
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.
VINYETTE on point, on to Greenpoint
Breathin' the funky groove
Thursday night, July 15th in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, bar Matchless hosts our incendiary grooves. Walk with VINYETTE cross borough borders to breakdown neighborhood lines with the funk rock.
We have been writing away in our studio this summer, with inspiration from the beaming sun. We have numerous new songs that VINYETTE is excited to share first at Matchless.
Matchless is a dope venue next to McCarren Park, in the beloved Greenpoint, Brooklyn neighborhood. Which happens to be blocks from VINYETTE’s first rehearsal space and the studio where we forged our first EP. The after party is Matchless, if you haven’t graced this spot yet, now is the time. Come enjoy the summer’s nostalgic high with reckless abandon, as VINYETTE have created a sound that shall turn your world upside down.
VINYETTE @ Matchless
Thursday July 15th
8PM Sharp
Matchless (Google Map to venue)
557 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Take this opportunity to follow VINYETTE on Facebook, if you haven’t already given us a “like.” If you really have some motivation, share some VINYETTE love with your friends. Much love and thanks for your support, here comes some fun for you in return! Next stop on this train, Greenpoint, BK! Listen… New Old Man (Teaser) – Vinyette
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!
Concluding our NYC Lower East Side Residency
Vinyette's Danny Monico and Nathan Frye performing with dancer Kelly Buwalda
Gotta shout out a big thanks to everyone who made it out to our Arlene’s Grocery residency. Friends from far and wide made it out and celebrated with us. We dropped a new album, the Hawkins Sessions. We released our new Vinyette merchandise too. I can speak for the band when I say we gained a lot from playing these regular Friday night gigs in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The overall support, the honest feedback, not to mention the great energy from our friends, family and new fans was unbeatable. The Arlene’s Grocery staff were f*cking great. They were on the ball, but had this bad ass, real attitude that just dripped punk and underground rock. Dope sound, great bartenders, crazy light show, hot recordings and slick option to view the live shows via a live streaming website. The footage was later saved on archive too! Thank you Arlene’s and especially our crew, old and new.
If I personally had to pick a favorite moment on stage, I think of a time during our fourth residency show at Arlene’s Grocery. I knew I wasn’t supposed to Read the rest of this entry »
Get Your Hawkins Sessions Free Download
Our CDs are currently being printed and we expect to start shipping them in the third week of March direct from our site.
We’re unbelievably excited to get some new material out for you guys and are now offering the Hawkins Session disc as a free pre-release download. So what are you waiting for…?
Our New Press Kit
New CD Release coming!
Sneak preview of the upcoming EP artwork, tentatively code named “The Hawkins Sessions”. Many thanks to David Hawkins for his beautiful artwork and tireless contributions to the band.
