Hey everyone! 

This Friday, January 7th, our new video will be premiering on the internet! Before it, does, we’ll be doing a live internet performance from our studio via the web at: 

http://www.ustream.tv/user/vertigovenus

Join us at 6:30pm MST on Ustream for a live performance from our studio. followed by the premiere of the Video on YouTube.com.  The Video will premiere at 7:30pm MST at our YouTube channel at 

http://www.youtube.com/vertigovenus

We’re very, very excited about this video, so we hope you join us for it. This is the first video we’ve ever had that features all of us in glorious HD, professionally shot video.  Rip Williams (http://www.ripwilliamsphotography.com), a great local Photographer, shot it, along with Steve Groves (http://www.esi-media.com), Jason Alexander (www.wolfnetarchives.com), Deyona Gundlach (www.otakuphy.com), and Brad Cole ( www.i-systems.us)  We’re very lucky to have the group of people who shot this for us, so we hope that you’ll join us for it.

To RSVP for the event, click here: 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=187807004564362

Please spread the word, tell others, tune in!  Thank you all for your support! 

-brian, Vertigo Venus 

On friday, Feb. 19th, we played a gig in Santa Fe at Corazon, a great upcoming bar on the corner of Guadalupe and Montezuma Ave owned by Mikey Baker (a phenomenal guitarist whom I’ve always admired for his work in The Gluey Brothers, amongst other projects). The event was a fundraiser for Current Mayor David Coss; we’re not a band to take political stances on things, besides “politics suck”, but we decided to do this event because, we rarely get to play Santa Fe, and a number of people we respect were involved.

So, let it be said that we don’t really support any politician; but, we do support rocking out. And that we did.

As DJ Featherricci dropped some tracks, we loaded in (dressed to the nines, as we often are), set up shop, and after an intro by MC Max Friedenburg, we were rolling with our first song, “Everybody Down”. People were a bit put off, but by the time we were dropping our cover of “She bop”, they were grooving. Some folks were obviously confused; let’s face it, Santa Fe isn’t our scene. We don’t play there much, and it usually caters to a much different crowd. Jeff worked them over with his usual dry and razor sharp wit, Jesi blew their faces off with her keys, Chris and Kenny held it down, and I did my best to continue to beat the hell out of my drumkit. As people loosened up (likely thanks to liquor), things got better. By the time we closed with “Punk rock cheerleader”, they were electrified enough to even sing along! We destroyed things as we usually do with our closer; cymbals flying about, lots of noise from Chris and Ken.

We were called back for an encore, which is not something we’re used to getting to do, and so we dropped our cover of “Dancing by myself” by Billy Idol, got people dancing, and hopefully wanting more.

As we packed up our gear, MC Max stood on the stage and asked the Mayor to say a few words, the first of which was, “I love Vertigo Venus!”. You don’t get to hear that too much about a riotous synhpunk act playing to a crowd that’s used to blues or latin jazz on a friday night.

A good night in general, and well-attended; Corazon can definitely pack in the heads. We look forward to making our way up to Santa Fe more often, so look out Sfe-ans. We’re coming for you.

/brian

My band, Vertigo Venus’ song, “Everybody Down”, has been selected for the Reverbnation Playlist 7 promotion, which is a pretty big thing, we get one week of featured play starting monday the 15th, so I just wanted to throw out whatever lines I could to ask people to check the song out when it drops. The URL is:

http://www.reverbnation.com/playlist7

The song will be free thru the playlist7 site for a week, so the more downloads, the better for us, because we can keep getting featured.

So, if you’re looking for some music that’s outside the scope of most of the rock bullshit currently being played ad nauseum, check it out.

Thanks!

Our new song, “Everybody Down”, is available now ONLY to those who sign up as a Victim of Vertigo Venus . It takes about one second to do, and you get free shit if you do. So, do it:

Or don’t, be a little bitch, and we’ll laugh at you. That’s what we do here.