VENUS BOGARDUS

Music:

Member Since: 11/14/2005
Band Website: venusbogardus.com
Band Members: James Reich : vox, guitar, prepared guitar, keyboards, programming,
Hannah Levbarg : vox, bass, keyboards, programming
Obaro Evuarherhe : drums

PRESS and REVIEWS FOR VENUS BOGARDUS:

"I haven’t liked any Brits this artsy-farsty since… well, it’s been a long time. 8/10" (Chuck Eddy, PaperThinWalls, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, etc)

“Artrock epitomized…suffocatingly intense…bloody brilliant!” (DiS)

“Literate post-punk” (The Wire)

“Layers of noisemaking, grunge meets art meets rock meets art.” (Artrocker)

“I can’t tell you how much I love this band’s new album, they sound like all my favourite bands rolled into one. Think Mission of Burma, fIREHOSE, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Madder Rose, Throwing Muses and X…a glorious noisefest of wailing guitars, intense song structures and forward driven indie rock…ridiculously good…” (Album of the Week, Just Gimme Indie Rock)

"Venus Bogardus have the image and song subjects of a cerebral art band, but they rock with a capital R on stage. The engine that powers this left-bank Who is the guitar of James Reich who eschews the jangle and lo-fi clank of many art bands for deliciously overdriven long tones, penetrating treble and heart-stopping chunk." (Charley Dunlap, Bath Chronicle)

“Venus Bogardus are something special…No Wave jamming with classic pop harmonies…Art, noise, heavens above, something to write home about.” (Tony Heywood, Clash, Music OMH)

“Thrilling! One of the best live bands around, without a doubt.” (BBC Bristol Uncovered)

“Motorman, the album, is a wired up rush of post-punk psych-edged swirling energy. An urgent trip that never stops…sliced to hell glam-slammed psychedelic punk rock…sleep is no longer an option – on to layers of Venus’ acid-pop-grunge-art psychic TV intensity, and oh look just go explore for yourselves.” (The Organ)

“Artful pop-punk shards linked together with bizarre snippets of pseudo-pulp dialogue…like a caffeine driven narrative of wired hipster poetry…summoning up shades of Blank Generation angst with pedal-on-the-gas nuggets such as Birds, Autoclave, Analog Underground, or the Age of Sinatra, the latter of which has to be a hit single waiting to happen.” (Hugh Gulland, BucketFull of Brains)

“Venus Bogardus prove that electricity comes from other planets.” (OppositionT)

“Some people are just cool. Venus Bogardus are effortlessly so. They’re the type to look like they’re wearing sunglasses even when they’re not. ..impassively raucous, louche rock ‘n’ roll.” (Venue magazine)

“(Venus Bogardus) rocks! Art-house punk! Gloriously good.” (eFestivals)

DISTRIBUTION BY THE NICE FOLKS OF CD BABY IN PORTLAND and SUPER-D ONE STOP DISTRO MEANS THAT YOU CAN NOW ORDER ’MOTORMAN’ IN THE US AND WORLDWIDE FROM A HOST OF COOL RECORD STORES, INCLUDING WATERLOO RECORDS IN AUSTIN TX (Hannah’s home town)...GET IT FROM CD BABY BY CLICKING ’HERE!’

We run our own DIY label. VENUS BOGARDUS CDs, VINYL and DIGITAL DOWNLOADS are available from the Patchogue Records shop. IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS ORDERING FROM THE STORE, SIMPLY SEND US AN EMAIL TELLING US WHAT YOU WANT, AND WE WILL EMAIL YOU A PAYPAL INVOICE TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER.

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS: You can check us out via the usual suspects too...

Influences: our writing, dada, riot grrl and certain other undergrounds, no wave, experimental literature, authenticity through any medium
Sounds Like: Read more in our on-line press kit.
Record Label: Patchogue Records
Type of Label: Indie