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Kurt Vile

PHILLY'S CONSTANT HITMAKER

About Me

kv Constant Hitmaker cd OUT NOW!!! on the legendary Gulcher Records (that's right! a real live CD without the R!!!) home of the gizmos, the screaming mees mees, home blitz, to name a few greats. pick it up at gulcher.gemm.com today! kv/beat jams 7" OUT NOW (backslider records) kv and the violators have been "working" on his masterpiece album number 7 (courtesy of philly-genius recording engineer Jeff Zeigler) from last winter to now and still going strong- right on schedule to floor the human race sometime in the new year.... AND WE WILL!!! (it's pretty much done, really... who wants it?) tripped out vinyls to come on various friends' labels as well... .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/24/2006
Band Website: gulcher.gemm.com
Band Members: kurt vile-songs, singing, strumming of 6 & 12 string gtrs + altered resonator thru amplifiers, trumpet, tweeking of the korg family trio: k2, maxi-korg, mono-poly/// a. granduciel- memory man gtrs, take-the-edge-off effects, sweet loops, perfect samplage/// j turbo- sax, electric 6-string and baritone gtrs/// mike zeng- thunder kit, water drums, perfect percussian/// HONORARY ALUMNI: michael johnson- skins, korg bubbletone, modular jumpsuit/// timmy von trimble- he'll GET you.
Influences: love to burn, street hassle, street legal, beat street, bully of the bayou, heartland feeling, yellow schwinn stingray, roots train number 1 (extended mix), cocaine in my brain, juicy juicy juice, strawberry wine, violent students, richie records, ag tonez, tusk, ccr, neil young, crazyhorse, suicide, the dead c, charlie patton, bertha lee, blind lemon jefferson, mississippi john hurt, blind willie johnson, furry lewis, fred mcdowell, robert johnson, american primitives, lightnin hopkins, etc... john fahey, doc watson, hank williams, townse van zandt, bob dylan, bobby neuwirth, eat the document, the vu, lou, the stooges, iggy, the ramones, the stones, cluster, morton subotnick, isoa tomita, the fall, kurt's garage, blue kangaroo and the rest of wattle & daub.
Sounds Like: when u wake from a long and glorious slumber, then u realize u don't have to go to work, then u fall back into long and glorious slumber...
Record Label: gulcher, backslider, & juicy starz inc.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing...

http://seenothing.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/kurt-vile-constan t-hitmaker-cd/...
Posted by Kurt Vile on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:37:00 PST

interview with the sharkie

http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/06/new-york---a-f e.html
Posted by Kurt Vile on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:42:00 PST

Raven Sings the Blues

http://ravensingstheblues.blogspot.com/2008/07/kurt-vile.htm l
Posted by Kurt Vile on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:39:00 PST

dusted mid-year roundup

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/744
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:28:00 PST

signal to noize

http://hometown.aol.com/gulcherrecords/private/stn--kurtvile .jpg
Posted by Kurt Vile on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:51:00 PST

no front teeth review

KURT VILE instantly reminded me of  a fucked up, raw NEIL YOUNG and that's a great thing&his folk has more of a psychedelic twist than Young's and his approach is way more unprocessed rock 'n' ro...
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:02:00 PST

wfmus Beware of the Blog

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/04/philadelphia-me.html(d own towards the bottom)...
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:56:00 PST

fuzz review by doug mosurock

http://www.fuzz.com/articles/article/Constant-Hitmaker-208.. .
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:44:00 PST

kv / beat jam 7" reviewed in Dusted

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/725
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:41:00 PST

tom lax

Kurt Vileconstant hitmaker(Gulcher 611)kurt vile is the nom de plume of philadelphian kurt vile (!) whose shimmering home recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to th...
Posted by Kurt Vile on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:34:00 PST