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Voted one of the 10 Best Twin Cities Bands of 2007 Read the article here.
Read the full transcript here.
"They have chops, and a unique sampling style, too. It's safe to say they're the only ones around dabbling in Spoon licks while simultaneously attempting the Worm. In the audience, on the stage, to each other, on the floor -- you can't take your eyes off them, only because they won't let you."--Sally Franson, The Daily (Madison, WI)
"Their 2007 debut record 'Stance'... was a joyously defiant, resolutely unserious, Technicolor album." --Steve MCPherson, City Pages
"You'd be hard pressed to find a band that seems to be having as much fun as MC/VL." --The Onion AV Club
Review of "Stance" from Pulse Magazine-- "On Stance, the pop culture references come fast and hard: Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Robin Yount? Check. Mary Todd Lincoln. Yup. And how many bands can boast back-to-back tracks that share titles with great works of fiction ("Moby Dick" and "Ulysses")? …therein lies MC/VL's particular kind of genius, one which it shares with the Beasties: an ability to straddle the line between booty-moving and intellectual stimulation. Like Girl Talk's Night Ripper mix from last year, half the pleasure comes from tracing the lineage of the samples (listen for Tegan and Sara) and the other half comes from blasting it out of your car stereo. MC/VL have no illusions about their originality, and that makes all the difference. Immature artists copy, mature artists steal."
Link to 2006 City Pages write up by Chuck Terhark
"Stance" Available at Cheapo, Electric Fetus, Eclipse Records, Treehouse Records, and CD Warehouse.MC/VL

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Member Since: 11/18/2005
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Influences: 1985.
Sounds Like: 1986.
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The EP!

Well, the hour is nigh. Our second release is imminent, and here's a little info about it.The EP is 6 songs, comprised in equal parts of brand new material, remixed old material, and standards that we...
Posted by MC/VL on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:21:00 PST

Minnie/Mad Festival II!

Here we come, for the second annual Mini-Mad Festival, the yearly cultural exchange between the Minneapolis and Madison music scenes. See us tomorrow at the High Noon Saloon with the following radic...
Posted by MC/VL on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:12:00 PST

The Matawan Creek attacks of 1916

The panic came slowly. On July 1, 1916, 25-year-old Charles E. Van Sant was swimming 16 yards from the shore at Beach Haven when people on the beach saw a black fin slicing towards him and shouted a...
Posted by MC/VL on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:08:00 PST

Fatal, unprovoked shark attacks by decade, courtesy of the SRC.

 2000s ..> Name, age Date Species Location; Comments Jamie Marie Daigle, 14 June 25, 2005 Bull shark Killed while swimming with a friend on boogie boards about 200 yards off a beach in Walton ...
Posted by MC/VL on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:49:00 PST

Taxonomy of the Great White shark.

Carolus Linnaeus gave the great white shark its first scientific name, Squalus carcharias in 1758. Sir Andrew Smith gave it the generic name Carcharodon in 1833 and in 1873, the generic name was ident...
Posted by MC/VL on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:00:00 PST

New songs, new vids, new pics, new dates.

Here's a whole bunch new shit that's been a while coming.First-- We've got two new songs up from our new EP, which will be out in early fall. The songs posted are songs we've been playing since we sta...
Posted by MC/VL on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:01:00 PST

Stance.

En route to your jambox, baby's first album.   "Stance."   Shit drops in a month and a few days.   Forget about it, suckers.   See you at the Triple Rock.   --MC/VL...
Posted by MC/VL on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:57:00 PST

Hello DJ Tylt!

We've spent so long crushing microphones and slaughtering the vocal word we've lost our ability to set pen to paper. So we're dictating this update to our 15 year old Cambodian scribe. As anyone who h...
Posted by MC/VL on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:05:00 PST

Bye Bye BX

Yeah, BX, our beloved wizard of wax, is going to be hopping on that big bird east at the end of October. But it's not all bad-- at least he's doing it to live a dream.What this means for us is that, a...
Posted by MC/VL on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:10:00 PST

Up Your Art Space

Almost a year ago, MC/VL played an art opening at Ephemeral Space and rocked so hard, the cops got called. No lie. Well guess what? MC/VL got a re-invite to high society. That's right-- we get to sma...
Posted by MC/VL on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:45:00 PST