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Scene Through A Lens: Viva Voce

For this STAL session, Josh Darr followed Viva Voce through their time at Pygmalion Music Festival in Champaign, Ill.  read more

Viva Voce: The Future Will Destroy You

The husband and wife duo Viva Voce are based in Portland, have released records with respected labels like Barsuk and Asthmatic Kitty and toured with Jimmy Eat World and The Shins. They favor heavily reverbed, Mazzy Star-like melodies and rigidly metronomic beats that often sound like a drum machine even when there’s a person on the skins. But if you look beneath their heavy alt-rock signifiers, Kevin and Anita Robinson often sound like an old-fashion country music duo with the comfortable, give-and-take interplay of a John and June or Kenny and Dolly. On her own, Anita tends to draws out...  read more

This Week's New Album Releases (6/21/11)

This week's releases come with what is perhaps the most anticipated record of the summer. It's been three years since Bon Iver brought us the beautiful _For Emma, Forever Ago_, and Justin Vernon once again proves to be a master of song-craft on the band's self-titled second album.  read more

My 30 Favorite Albums of 2009

Even though it was, musically speaking, my least favorite year of the decade, there were still some great records that came out in 2009. Here are my personal favorites for the final year of the aughties...  read more

Viva Voce: Rose City

Hailing from Muscle Shoals, Ala., but holed up in...  read more

SXSW 2009: Blue Giant burns, burns, burns

"So, who are you going to go see tonight?" are probably the nine words most frequently exchanged between friends and strangers and new acquaintances at SXSW. Usually my answer is either vague or fraught with pained indescision, but last night I had a plan, one involving Micachu at Emo's Annex and, later, Blue Giant at Club DeVille. Somehow, though, for all the new and unknown bands playing, Blue Giant was the one that people most puzzled over when I mentioned it-- which was both a relief and a surprise. ...  read more

Viva Voce adds members, tours

Seattle's "sparkly indie-pop" blog, Three Imaginary Girls, struck fear into their readers' hearts recently by announcing Viva Voce's break-up. But thanks to a tell-tale asterisk, readers soon discovered that Portland's folksy husband-and-wife duo, made up of Anita and Kevin Robinson, was simply adding two new members to its fold. ...  read more

Band of the Week: Viva Voce

Just over a dozen years ago, Viva Voce singer/songwriter/drummer Kevin Robinson showed up to play a show with his college band, and was surprised to find that he had no idea who the other act on the bill was. This was something that didn’t usually happen in...  read more

Viva Voce to re-release dual-CD set

So let's say you're cruising the local record shop, looking for a few albums. You've prepared to be there: thick-framed Rivers Cuomo eyewear? Check. Plaid cowboy shirt with pearl snaps? Check. Holding a vinyl copy of Ege Bamyasi under your arm to show you "know" music? Check. Now, you just need to pick up the second and third Viva Voce albums you've wanted but never got your hands on, Lovers, Lead the Way! and The Heat Can Melt Your Brain. You ask the unkempt guy behind the counter, who you assume is an employee, where these albums are. Out of...  read more