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City Vinyl

About Me

Born from the ashes of multiple other bands, City Vinyl members currently reside in Winston-Salem, NC and Washington, DC. A contract drummer from Charlotte has yet to take us up on our offer.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/07/2007
Band Website: None
Band Members: Mike K, Steve H, Patrick C, and others.
Influences: Descendents, The Afghan Whigs, Pavement, Superchunk, Small 23, Archers of Loaf, The Figgs, Versus, The Meices, Chixdiggit!, The Lemonheads, Alcohol Funnycar, Dillon Fence, The Replacements, Bash & Pop, Tommy Stinson, Built to Spill, Dag Nasty, fIREHOSE, Alkaline Trio, Action Toolbelt, Dinosaur Jr, Dillinger Four, Knapsack, The Lawrence Arms, Tenacious D, Jawbreaker, Urge Overkill, Nada Surf, The Magnolias, Maritime, Agent Orange, Jimmy Eat World, Latex Generation, Punchline, Sebadoh, Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, Sunday's Best, The Posies, Seam, Strung Out, Motion City Soundtrack, Ruth Ruth, Thrush Hermit, Weston, Get Up Kids, A Wilhelm Scream, Let's Active, The Cardinal Sin, Blackpool Lights, Lucero, Brand New, Bloc Party, The Long Winters, Weezer, U2, The New Trust, The Mr. T Experience, The Weakerthans, The Bob Affair, and many more.
Sounds Like: A mish-mash of many of the above, but with less talent, training, technical skills and production values.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

1st Blog Since Last Blog!

Dear 414 Friends (and interested lurkers),Well, it's been two years now and we've been way, way more successful than we could have imagined had we set our goals really, really low.  It seems like a lo...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:20:00 GMT

Old songs are news!

Dearest Blog Viewer,Thanks for your continued support (your payment will be coming via PayPal).  We are still bogged down in trying to find our muse to churn out some new material.  Writing a song is ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Happy Belated Valentine's Day!

Dear Fan(s),This blog's for you.  Unfortunately, there's not really anything in it for you.  We're musically dry as of late.  Normally, terrible songs pour out of us at an alarming rate.  This has not...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:00 GMT

City Vinyl Presents: Holiday Blogtacular!

Dear All (two of you): We are in the midst of the holiday season, when thoughts turn to friendship, giving, peace, love and ROCK!!  To celebrate the tradition of giving gifts that no one wan...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:02:00 GMT

New Song (or Same Song?)

Dear Friends of City Vinyl (and miscellaneous chicks visiting the site in hopes of seeing pictures of Bob naked): We are on hiatus for Halloween, as we need some down time to regroup and recharge the ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:44:00 GMT

August Update (Note: Nothing exciting to report)

Dear Friends of CV, Let this blog update serve as a continuation of our valuable friendship. We have posted a new song, which is a tribute to a group of friends Patrick has known since he was little e...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:27:00 GMT

A long way to go....

Dear One of Our 345 Friends, Well, we are actually trying to get our act together to play at the Carrboro Music Festival on Septemebr 28th.  We have a long way to go for that to happen, but we ar...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:29:00 GMT

More New Songs! Same Ole Terrible!!

You know, it's hard when you write songs that come from your heart and people laugh at them because they think you are trying to be funny.  Well, we here at CVHQ are sick and tired of not being t...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:48:00 GMT

Surf Tune Demo Posted

Dear City Vinyl Fans (a.k.a. - Mom), We are finally back from an exteneded hiatus of not doing much.  In return for your patience, we bring you our new song, "You Can Ding My Heart, But Don&rsquo...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:07:00 GMT

Cover song posted

Dear All: We have posted a cover song of The Bob Affair classic, "Walk You Home."  It's hard to improve on something so iconic, but we tried.  Steve really brought his "A" game on this one. ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:36:00 GMT