Combine the Victorious have released a new single, "What's Going On In Your Head". You can listen on all the popular streaming sites or check out the video below!
I will confess that I am a Big Black Delta fan, so when the opportunity came to interview him for an episode of RIML I insisted we take it! The first Big Black Delta album from 2013 was on heavy rotation on my phone for months, and I still find it entertaining three years later. BBD recently released a follow up album, Trágame Tierra and we caught up with Jonathan Bates before his appearance at the Biltmore Cabaret here in Vancouver last week. A very affable man, with an obvious love of all kinds of music, our conversation lasted over two hours and ended with producer Charles Brownstein and I sharing a glass of whiskey backstage while Jonathan related tales of touring and the odd concerned word about the state of the USA. A very fun interview that could have lasted hours if we'd had even more battery life in the recorders. Please have a look, and check out the new album, it's a solid and creative follow up to the debut full length.
This Big Black Delta episode of Records In My Life references the following albums:
1. Van Halen - 5150
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
4. Father John Misty - I Love You Honeybear
5. Kimbra - The Golden Echo
6. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Records In My Life is hosted and produced by Charles Brownstein
videography, direction, editing by Mark Henning
Animations and logo by Susana Ramirez
Music Credits:
This Big Black Delta episode of RIML features the song "Steer the Canyon" off the "Trágame Tierra" album
Theme music is "Best Tonight" by Combine the Victorious
Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire present Records In My Life featuring guest artist Jessy Lanza. We interviewed Jessy Lanza backstage at the Imperial Vancouver while she
was on tour with Junior Boys. She discussed some of her favorite
albums, which was a list that included some solid connections to members of Yellow Magic
Orchestra as well as The Duritti Column!
In this Jessy Lanza episode of Records In My Life the following albums were referenced:
1. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
2. Miharu Koshi - Tutu
3. Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic
4. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives of
5. The Durutti Column - LC
Records In My Life is hosted and produced by Charles Brownstein
Videography, editing, direction by Mark Henning
Animations and logo by Susana Ramirez
Music Credit:
This Jessy Lanza episode of RIML features the song "It Means I Love You" by Jessy Lanza from her "Oh No" album. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/it-...
Sept 14th 2015, Combine the Victorious will be releasing their second full length album, Autonomous. !2 tracks featuring collaborations with Don Harrison (Sons of Freedom), Stefan Sigerson, Leigh Grant (Pure), Ingrid Schroeder and more, this is their most focused and dance worthy album to date.
If you are curious to hear it sooner please contact that band at combinethevictorious@gmail.com for a free download copy this weekend.
New from Combine the Victorious, It's Still On, an epic remix by Paul Schroeder.
It's Still On written by Mark R Henning, Isabelle Dunlop, Ingrid Schroeder and Barry Flynn.
Mixed by Paul Schroeder
Recorded at Boutique Empire Recording
Mastered at The Valt by Jordy Birch and M
Vocals: Isabelle Dunlop, Mark R Henning, Barry Flynn, Ingrid Schroeder
Drums: Kevin Jones
all other instruments: M
Crumbling Hearts (Independent)
For whatever reason, there aren’t a lot of synth-pop artists
these days hitting the dance floor in a mood that could loosely be
defined as melancholy. At the moment, no one wants to be bummed out like
Depeche Mode or Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark—they’re more into
hitting the same glitzy, beautiful-people parties as Crystal Castles and
the Golden Filter.
Combine the Victorious bucks that trend on its five-song Crumbling Hearts
EP. The band’s name suggests one of those Hitler-haired Victory Records
emover acts that were all the rage a half-decade ago. What you get,
though, is retro-tinted dance music guaranteed to resonate with those
who spend far too much time alone in their lonely bedrooms, watching a
cellphone that never seems to ring.
Like, say, Depeche Mode, Combine the Victorious doesn’t sound
completely fixated on wallowing in self-pity. As coolly detached as the
duo—Isabelle Dunlop and Mark Henning—is, there’s an ethereal underside
to the unrepentantly synthetic title track and the ghostly “Glasgow”.
The EP’s standout is “California State of Mind”, on which an elastic
bass line and squelch-city percussion serve as the backdrop for a
sun-kissed reminiscence of a road trip to the state where it never seems
to rain. Amazingly, Combine the Victorious manages to make that sound
melancholy, although maybe not enough to make anyone forget OMD.
A brief video recap of Combine the Victorious's first show of 2012. Filmed live at LanaLou's in Vancouver, CV played a set of completely new songs, including debuting one brand new one: Smoke and Choke.
Guilty About Girls and Sex With Strangers have teamed up to put together their first big show of the summer.
The Peak 100.5 FM & The Georgia Straight present:
Guilty About Girls
with guests Sex With Strangers
and introducing Young Pacific
Friday June 3rd at Venue (881 Granville Street, Vancouver, Canada)
EARLY SHOW - doors 7PM
Sex With Strangers is supporting their fourth album - Frontier Justice - and is just about to debut the first video from that album for the track Born Again Liars Social Club. Below is their first video for New City Anthem, still a huge fan favorite.
Special Guests Young Pacific are making a stir with their fresh blend of west coast pop and guitar driven charm.
Doors at 7Pm
Young Pacific on at 7:30
Sex With Strangers on at 8PM
Guilty About Girls on at 9PM
There will be cd's on hand as well as posters to commemorate the evening.
Celebrating their fourth album, Sex With Strangers are releasing "Frontier Justice" on Thursday April 14th at The Biltmore Cabaret.
Guests include Run With The Heard, Joyce Collingwood, The Controlling Boyfriends and DJ Sets by Guilty About Girls.
Sex With Strangers will be performing at this year's SXSW in Austin Texas. They are also on the verge of releasing their brand new album, Frontier Justice. So, even while the inimitable Hatch Benedict is away from Vancouver, the rest of Sex With Strangers got together today to teach new keyboard player Luna their songs. Below is a quick clip of them learning We Want the Fire - no lead vocals or vocoder today unfortunately.
Though not officially a member of the Boutique Empire family, Ingrid Schroeder is a long time friend. We'd like to help announce the release of her new album, Love Runs Faster. A lovely down-tempo album filled with beautiful songs and an even more beautiful voice, Love Runs Faster offers ten brilliant songs that evoke the best of mid nineties trip hop and chillout. Her lyrics can be both poignant and cutting, but the delivery is pure silk.
Yes that's right, the official release date for Sex With Strangers new album is October 20th 2009.
Sex With Strangers presents: THE TOKYO STEEL
Track order is; 1] Tokyo Steel 2] New City Anthem 3] We Want the Fire 4] Shibuya 10;13PM 5] Sharpen the Knife 6] Last of the Unreals 7] The Dawn of Sexy 8] Asakusa 12:13AM 9] (The Part Where You) Surrender 10] We Are the Ones 11] Only Where Night Allows 12] Shinagawa 2:13AM 13] I Will Be the Last One
More information to follow as we near the release date.
