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Velella Velella

SPRING TOUR

About Me

Recent Press...

cokemachineglow.com - 12/08/07 linklinklinklinklinklink
"So while Jamie Lidell electronically reinvents soul and Stax, VV respectfully tackles the legacies of George Clinton and the Bee-Gees, blowing up and gutting current indie-dance trends into something that's refreshingly direct and irony-free, but also something that won't sound embarrassing in the year 2020. They're doing that better than anyone else right now..." CHAD BETZ

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Band Website: velella.net
Band Members: Andrew Means , Michael Burton, Jeremy Hadley and Sylvia Chen play- vibes, Wurlitzer 214 electric piano, Honer Clavinet Model C, Korg MS-20, Fender Telecaster Guitar, Rickenbacker 4001 Bass Guitar, Farfisa Mini-Compact organ, LP axuilliary Percussion, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Wurlitzer 144 Organ, E-Mu Emulator II+, Conn Electric Band, Roland Juno 60, & ACID Pro for drum programming.
Influences: Madlib, Stereolab, Daivd Axelrod, Mizell Bros., Gary Wilson, Beck
Sounds Like: Stereolab, Beck, Yesterday's New Quintet, Larry/Fonce Mizell, Four Tet, Ratatat, Parliment, Sergio Mendez, etc.
Record Label: HUSH Records / self-released
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Flight Cub EP /Fall Tour, Prince and James Brown light-saber dueling on a Rubiks Cube

WHOA. We just finished an EP for our upcoming tour! It's called Flight Cub.Two brand songs from the release, "Flight Cub" and "Cause Those People Get Free Airline Tickets," are now listenable via the ...
Posted by Velella Velella on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:48:00 PST

Awesome press in stranger lineout blog

Our show at the Sunset on Thursday was incredible- the Lonely H and Dat'r were off the hook, and the $2 pabst got people ready to sweat off all the $2 pabst they just drank.  The new(ish) music e...
Posted by Velella Velella on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:50:00 PST

Velella Velella + Hush Records = Cha Cha Cha

+ VELELLA VELELLA =CHA CHA CHA Hey friends! We're proud to announce that Velella Velella has been signed to Hush records! You may have noticed Hush included in our top 8, and it's no coincidence, as ...
Posted by Velella Velella on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:41:00 PST

Back from Tour!

Hey everybody- we're back from tour (got back on the 18th, and have slowly been aclimating back into normal life)!.. While on tour we had some great press- we were written up in the Onion A/V club for...
Posted by Velella Velella on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:34:00 PST

Spokane, We Can...

Velella Velella had an awesome time in Spokane this weekend!  First a show at Mizuna with a whole crew of college folk coming out and dancing their butts off, and an awesome bachelor/bachelorette...
Posted by Velella Velella on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:40:00 PST

Bumbershoot (and other news)!

Thanks everybody for coming out to Bumbershoot! We had a blast and we hope you did too. Sorry we weren't able to talk to more of you after the show, but we hope you had plenty of fun over the whole da...
Posted by Velella Velella on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:53:00 PST

Velella Velella in Portland

Everybody we're going to be in Portland tomorrow.  Party with us!
Posted by Velella Velella on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:28:00 PST

Awesome show...

Man, you folks who were at the show at the High Dive, we love you.  Thanks so much for the encore and the dancing and the yelling and singing, it was great. You should all come down to Austin wi...
Posted by Velella Velella on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:14:00 PST

CLAVI clavi claviNET

Just bought a clavinet.  Y'all know what that means.  Even more funk.  Spilling out of the trunk, even.  We'll post stuff soon...
Posted by Velella Velella on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 04:27:00 PST

Ready, set ALBUM

One month from today, we'll have our CD release party for Velella Velella's second full length album, The Bay of Biscay. This album is 16 tracks, coming in at a marathon 59:55 and consists of over a ...
Posted by Velella Velella on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST