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The Veils - “Drive” REM cover [LISTEN]

“I think the only way you can approach covering a song by a band this colossal is to pretend that you’re just playing one of your friend’s songs — that’s what we did anyway. It’s always a rewarding expedition doing a cover version, scraping away layers ’til you find something in there you never expected to find and then exposing it. I never realized what a scary, desperate, nostalgic, diamond of a song this was until now.” - Finn Andrews of The Veils

Artist: The Veils
Album: Nux Vomica
Label: Rough Trade / World’s Fair
Street Date: April 24th, 2007
Format: CD, digital
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We have a fun night @ Bowery Ballroom to remember a whole summer of The Veils and their “Nux Vomica”…

Check out the review @ Product Shop NYC. As you can see, for the encore, Finn donned a special pair of trousers for all us Americanos!

… before he proceeded to thrash the (rental!) drumkit as caught by NY Press:

Brooklyn Vegan also has a great review of the band’s show @ Osheaga, Montreal:

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Fri - Aug 31 The Veils @ Off Broadway Nightclub, St. Louis, MO
Sun - Sep 02 The Veils @ Download Music Festival, Troy, WI
Tue - Sep 04 The Veils @ Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
Wed - Sep 05 The Veils @ El Mocambo, Toronto, ON
Thu - Sep 06 The Veils @ Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ottawa, ON
Sat - Sep 08 The Veils @ Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC
Mon - Sep 10 The Veils @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

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You can win tickets to any of these shows except the festivals by sending a begging email to The Veils themselves at house.where.we.all.live@gmail.com - Or, be a good Veils fan and help chip in for their flights back home after their Stateside summer - tour dates below.

Lucky Los Angelinos get the chance to hang out with The Veils DJ’ing in Hollywood @ Hot Mess @ 3 Clubs (1123 Vine) after their gig at the Hotel Cafe on Thursday, the 16th. Don’t expect vinyl mastery or trendy bullshit, drunken screwups a specialty. Sweet? Sweet!

Catch up with The Veils as their temporary recording studio is invaded by all species of animal, dead or alive!

The Veils on tour!
Aug 13 - Phoenix, AZ - The Paper Heart
Aug 15 - San Diego, CA - Beauty Bar
Aug 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
Aug 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
Aug 18 - Las Vegas, NV - TBC
Sept 1 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
Sept 8 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
Sept 10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

The Veils - “Advice for Young Mothers to be” [DOWNLOAD]

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Enjoy not merely 1 but 2 Veils sessions and interviews recorded for radio.

The Veils - Studio Performance & Interview at Oregon Public Broadcasting [LISTEN]

The Veils - Studio Performance at Radio K Minneapolis [LISTEN]

Upcoming dates:
Aug 13 - Phoenix, AZ - The Paper Heart
Aug 15 - San Diego, CA - Beauty Bar
Aug 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
Aug 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Hotel Cafe
Aug 18 - Las Vegas, NV - TBC
Sept 1 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
Sept 8 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
Sept 10 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

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“In London, you’re packed in like rats. All artists are clamoring for space, especially musicians who have lots of equipment and play with the volume really high,” he said. “The situation we have in Oklahoma is completely unattainable in London without millions of dollars.”

Added drummer Henning Dietz, “We’re living in this space together, everything is set up, so whenever we feel like playing, we play. We play until four in the morning most nights. It’s perfect for us.” - Oklahoma Gazette [READ MORE]

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Fri - Aug 03 @ LIT, Oklahoma City, OK
Mon - Aug 13 @ Paper Heart, Phoenix, AZ
Wed - Aug 15 @ Beauty Bar, San Diego, CA
Thu - Aug 16 @ Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
Fri - Aug 17 @ Hotel Cafe, Los Angeles, CA
Sat - Aug 18 @ The Bunkhouse, Las Vegas, NV
Sun - Sep 02 @ Download Music Festival, Troy, WI
Tue - Sep 04 @ Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH *NEW*
Wed - Sep 05 @ El Mocambo, Toronto, ON *NEW*
Thu - Sep 06 @ Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ottawa, ON *NEW*
Sat - Sep 08 @ Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC
Mon - Sep 10 @ Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY

Stay in touch with The Veils & friends!

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“… a lovingly textured, richly dramatic guitar-pop disc perfect for people who find lead-singer histrionics much easier to swallow when they come equipped with killer tunes.” - LA Weekly [READ MORE]

“… loaded with infectious numbers ranging from hand-clap pop to atmospheric, piano-propelled mood-rock, and as the glowing reviews pour in, the band appears poised for an American breakthrough. ” - San Francisco Weekly [READ MORE]

New Tour Dates Announced!
Jul 11 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada
Jul 12 - Austin, TX - Stubbs Jr
Jul 13 - Houston, TX - The Mink
Jul 20 - Oklahoma City, OK - LIT
Jul 27 - Tulsa, OK - D-Fest w/ Flaming Lips/Shiny Toy Guns/The Format and more
Aug 1 - Lawrence, KS - Replay Lounge
Aug 3 - Oklahoma City, OK - LIT
More to come!

The Veils blow you kisses, won’t you come out to the shows you flirt?

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The Veils have appointed a new team correspondent, for now…

“Hey, dudes who think it’d be cool to own a rock venue: It’s nice that you put the effort into making nice green velvet booths and a big impressive shiny bar and stuff. But what’s kind of more important is that your PA works properly, and that you’ve got, you know…..monitors….and maybe more than one DI……not to be fussy or anything. Not to tell you how to do your job. Not to intrude on your glamorous dreams….” [READ MORE]

Jun 26 @ Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
Jun 28 @ Cafe du Nord, San Francisco, CA
Jun 29 @ Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA [Ticket Giveaway @ Losanjealous.com]
Jul 11 @ Club Dada, Dallas, TX *NEW*
Jul 12 @ Stubbs Jr, Austin, TX *NEW*
Jul 13 @ The Mink, Houston, TX *NEW*
Jul 20 @ LIT, Oklahoma City, OK *NEW*

The Veils - “Advice for Young Mothers to be” [DOWNLOAD]

The Veils - “Jesus for the Jugular” [STREAM]

The Veils - “Under the Folding Branches” [STREAM]

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“Not long after the ghost of Jeff Buckley floated down the mighty Mississippi River, people were anxious to crown a new alt-rock falsetto’d frontman to take his place. It’s just another cruel aspect of the music industry, refusing to let a deceased musician’s body grow cold before thrusting a newer/younger artist into their old boots…” Portland Mercury [READ MORE]

“Nux Vomica is an intelligently crafted album. The music is catchy, but not irritatingly so, and in conjunction with Andrews’s dour voice and words, it is an unexpectedly superb work of art. Perhaps my initial, superficial assessments were not entirely off-base; indeed, Finn Andrews is too sophisticated to be called a rock star. The man is a musician. One might even call him, if you can stand the dramatic pretenses, an artist…” Impose Magazine [READ MORE]

“It might seem a little odd to start a review of the new Veils album with, well, a discussion of the Red Sox, but here we are…” Three Imaginary Girls [READ MORE]

And a live review over at our friends The Scenestar Webzine

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