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About Me


Click here to join the Devin Greenwood e-mail list and keep up with what's going on (including information on upcoming shows). New EP released in November, 2006. You can buy it on iTunes or from CDBaby . There are some pictures from the record release party below, and more on JJ Tiziou's site .

About the EP, WXPN's Bruce Warren writes "Since the early 2000s, Devin Greenwood has been at the center of a creative revitalization of the local music scene here in Philly due in large part to his work with Amos Lee, John Francis, Birdie Busch and Denison Witmer. Finally though, we have a solo album from Greenwood, undeniably one of Philly's most creative and talented musicians."

In a 2005 City Paper profile , John Vettese talks with us about our sound: "Greenwood hates the "singer-songwriter" label, and cites an eclectic crop of influences that ranges from Nina Simone to The Police. (He promises his record will have some darker new wave moments). Perhaps the most apt comparison would be Jeff Buckley, not because of sound or style but because of the trembling emotionality at the music's core, as well as its obvious references to a gamut of forebears while being an end product that's so distinctively his own."

Earlier this year Vettese also reviewed "This Over Here," one of the stand out tracks from the EP, calling it both "Orwellian" and captivating.

More DG photos! »


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/6/2006
Band Website: www.devingreenwood.com
Influences:

the future

st margaret who used to slay dragons from the inside with her silver crucifix...

marshall mcluhan

Sounds Like:
"an ecclectic sound with deep textural tentacles and broad lyrical scope." -Prince Charles
Record Label: treasure records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Radical

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."- American Revolutionary, Philospoher, Philadelphian, Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Posted by on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:57:00 GMT

Orpheus in the Underworld (Dreams of Drug Cocktails & Jean Cocteau)

I never thought I'd find a true antecedent to Twin Peaks but last night I watched Jean Cocteau's Orpheus, shot in the 1950's with the same serial visual-quality as Leave it to Beaver, but replete with...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:46:00 GMT

The Logic of Oceans and Tides

We're told this election season promises to be the most interesting in over fifty years. First of all, there hasn't been a race without an incumbent or near incumbent on either ticket since 1952. And ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:49:00 GMT

Bar/None to release Greenwood-produced Penny Arcade

On september 25th, Bar/None Records will release Birdie Busch's second album Penny Arcade which Devin produced and recorded last spring at his home in Philadelphia and at Scullville Studios near Atlan...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:43:00 GMT

Devin appears on Norah Jones "Latest"

Those of you who do such things may have noticed Devin's name while perusing the liner notes on Norah Jones' album Not Too Late released last February. Devin was pleased lend some B3 last summer, raci...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:42:00 GMT

Devin nominated for 2007 Barrymore Award

Hey everyone, we are happy to announce that as a result of his collaboration with Philly alt/theater company Brat Productions last spring, Devin has been nominated for the 2007 Barrymore Award for Ne...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:56:00 GMT

Roul Vaneigem

For in a sense, every sphere of everyday life is experienced embryonically in childhood. The child packs such a horde of events into a few days or even a few hours that his time does not trickle away ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:09:00 GMT

dust

long ago when i was a child, i saw two butterfies collide in a meadow; specks of colored dust shifted from one creature to the other, they flew off and i forgot about them. last night on the road, a m...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:11:00 GMT

Partisan

I wasn't paying attention to the task at hand, I guess.I'd angled forward to watch the beautiful young motherthree booths left shift her pink swaddled infantarm to arm and her standing toddler boyfrom...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:26:00 GMT

Camus

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Posted by on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:18:00 GMT