Austin-based rockers What Made Milwaukee Famous visited VZD’s, and they greeted us with this fun and funny session.
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If your ears haven’t found Cusp yet then start dewaxing them and give this a look/listen.
Taylor Rapp and company belted out a soulful rendition of “Shivers.”
Although the OKC-based folksters performed a solemn track, their glowing and warm demeanor were more than enough to keep winter’s bite at bay.
You can find “Shivers” on the 2012 album “Nothing Proper.”
We found some new friends in the Nashville-based touring band Kopecky Family Band.
Three family members played a cut off of their 2012 album “Kids Raising Kids.”
It only takes a few moments for your hips to wiggle and your toes to start tapping before you realize there’s something special about Matt Stansberry’s latest project.
Billed as Matt Stansberry & The Romance, the 10-member crew is more than a throwback to catchy ’50s tunes.
No, it’s more like an episode of American Bandstand and each member is just itching to show off their musical chops.
We can only fit so many humans into the van, so Matt had to consolidate the band’s size for this session. He invited his brother Joe Stansberry and backup singers Chandra Graham and Myra Beasley.
Matt chose wisely, and the resulting episode is a reminder of how keeping it simple only looks easy when you’re songs are that good.
It’s always a treat when a touring band is excited to be a part of VDub Sessions.
Especially one as busy and exciting as San Antonio-based band Girl in a Coma. The band is performing opening duties at Cain’s Ballroom Oct. 30 for Minus the Bear and Cursive.
That’s just a footnote in the GIAC’s tour history. The girls have opened for Sia, Tegan and Sara, The Pogues, Amanda Palmer and even Morrissey himself.
But that doesn’t stop GIAC from being down to earth.
Last month the trio performed a headlining gig at The Conservatory. Singer Nina Diaz gladly shot off some fireworks behind The Conservatory and hopped into the Spy Van to perform a track off of her band’s latest album “Exits & All the Rest.”
Check out the fun and visit with the GIAC in Tulsa.
Tell them VDub Sessions sent you.
Check out some stills after the jump.
Honesty is her best policy.
Seconds after Ali Harter finished playing a new song in the Spy Wagon, she blurted, “I fucked it up, but I don’t care.”
That’s enough to make Honest Abe blush. Shortly after, she went on to say that she knows the song will eventually get better.
And we believe her.
Harter is an Okie musician that’s been crafting her acoustic ballads for several years.
Her songs have taken her around the world and landed her on prime-time television.
Lucky for Oklahoma, the new mother hasn’t slowed down her musical prowess and continues to make the rounds in local venues.
Take a couple minutes to get to know Harter because she’s the kind of artist that won’t stick around forever.
That’s the honest truth.
What do you get when you mix a dog, a fiddle, an upright bass and a Purcell-native named Parker Millsap?
Well, the session above should give you a pretty good hint but we can make it easy on you.
The answer is hot sauce.
We couldn’t be happier to invite the red dirt talents of Millsap into the van to play an unrecorded, new song.
If you enjoy this session then you’ll be pleased to know Milsap and bassist Michael Rose will be performing at The Blue Note Lounge on Friday.
Now, grab your dog and start dancing.
Check out some stills from the session after the jump…
Our van doesn’t break down often, but when it does then it does it in style.
Right as Chelsey Cope and company started her Spy Van performance, our fearless driver Ferris O’Brien let out an audible groan as the van halted in the middle of the road.
“Hang on,” he said.
But with a quick push, the van settled in a post office parking lot and the festivities began.
Cope invited her friends Alex Coleman and Alberto Roubert to fill the spaces of her heartfelt rendition of “Journey Down St. Vincent.”
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Check out some stills after the jump…
You know that old expression about how the company you keep determines the trouble you meet?
I could only imagine what sort of trouble Edmond-native singer/songwriter Audra Mae could get into.
Her enthusiastic Spy Van performance of “My Friend the Devil” might give you a pretty good idea of Mae’s meddlesome ways.
Or you can look at her fingernails. Her thumb was painted with her symbol, an anarchistic A for Audra.
We’ve been fans Mae since her impromptu session at Norman Music Festival two years ago.
Both songs she has performed in the Spy Van are from her excellent self-titled album Audra Mae and the Almighty Sound.
Please don’t hold us responsible for all the trouble you get into after giving it a listen, but at least we can promise it will be worth it.
Here’s the Vimeo version of this video if you’re into that sort of thing.
Check out some stills of Audra after the jump.
We wouldn’t be surprised if Colin Nance dreams in zeros and ones.
Nance is a mainstay in the Okie electronic band The Gentle Art of Floating and his recent solo projects are like a one-man band M83.
So, it didn’t come as a surprise when Nance hopped into the Spy Van with an iPad and a boombox in tow.
The combination of cassette tape and his friend Pilar Pueyo made for one of the most inventive sessions we’ve had to date.
Check out some stills from the shoot after the jump…
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