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Via Violenta

There's a riot goin' on?

About Me

We play music, its not brain surgery...thats for the afterparty

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/2/2005
Band Website: capitulated to myspace
Band Members: Hari Rex- guitar, keys, vox; Freddie Nix - bass, piano, vox; D. Paul Dutt - drums, percussion
Influences: Tom Waits, Blonde Redhead, Charles Mingus, British Sea Power, Ricky Gervais, Funk Brothers, Dylan, Fugazi, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, Skip James, James Taylor, Sparklehorse, Minus the Bear, Grizzly the Bear, Beach Boys, Libertines (The), TV on the Radio, Talking Heads, Lennon, Van Morrison, Gram Parsons, The Band, Gang of Four, The Fall, Django, Joy Division, Sly Stone, Dostoevsky, Cat Power, Blur, Can, Pixies, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nick Mason, Brian Eno, Gil, The Cure, Fela Kuti, Scott Walker, Walker Texas Ranger, Velvet Underground, King Crimson, Elliot Smith, PAvement, My Morning Jacket, Wolf Parade, Arcade Fire, CYHSY, DEstroyer, Iggy Pop, Otis Redding, Zombies, Paul Simon, Ramones, Pink Floyd, Parliament, Nina Simone, Scott Walker, Charlie Parker, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Joe Cocker, David Bowie, Roy Orbison, CSS, !!!, OutHud, New Order, Love, Carl Perkins, Lee Perry
Sounds Like: those clever ads at the top of our Myspace page that tempt you to win free PS3's and Ipods. Its really that easy!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Oh Sixeyes, you shouldnt have!

Alan over at Sixeyes blog did a nice little number on yours truly, http://sixeyes.blogspot.com/2007/02/via-violenta.htmlread his blog regularly...you owe him that much after delivering two of your thr...
Posted by Via Violenta on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:13:00 PST

New Song - Long Black Lashes

Posted new recording of "Long Black Lashes", our friend Terry Lewsader on the pedal steel guitar. This is what happens when you dont post on your blog for 11 years
Posted by Via Violenta on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:23:00 PST

BREAKING NEWS: Via Violenta not dead, says FreeIndie.com

the wonderful individual who runs FreeIndie.com has posted a little review of our EP. FreeIndie is a great site that provides music from bands who release their music for free, there are some other g...
Posted by Via Violenta on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:52:00 PST

A message from former idiots

we've been real busy lately. doing what, we're not sure.  but our REAL webpage is up http://www.viaviolenta.com its so funny, it will make you sick. speaking of making you sick, we have finished ...
Posted by Via Violenta on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A message from idiots

Don't know why it took us so long but we're finally on MySpace. Don't know why we're on MySpace, though. After all we do have our own website, but it does not have this nifty blog featurette yet. We'd...
Posted by Via Violenta on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST