San Francisco garage rockers stack fat organ licks on top of big piles of scuzzy guitar tones and then stagger around the stage with the whole business about to fall over. But it does not. Your shoes, however, will have been scuffed by the people dancing wildly next to you.
BAND NAME: Vue
ALBUM TITLE: Find Your Home
RELEASE DATE: September 18, 2001
FROM: San Francisco, CA
BAND MEMBERS: Jeremy Bringetto: Bass
Jonah Buffa: Guitar
Jessica Ann Graves: Keyboards
Rafael Orlin: Drums
Rex John Shelverton: Guitar & Vocals
DISCOGRAPHY: The Death of a Girl EP (GSL, 1999)
Vue LP (Sub Pop, 2000)
COMPILATION APPEARANCES: The Sopranos – Peppers and Eggs: Music from the HBO Series (featured on the April 22nd episode) Holiday Matinee CD Compilation Vol. 2 2 KXLU compilations and an upcoming GSL compilation
SOUND: With their second album Vue have developed a more cohesive sound, drawing from classic Rhythm and Blues with dynamic overtones of the entire history of Rock and Roll.
TOUR: Vue have toured extensively throughout North America for the last several years, playing the CMJ festival in 1999, South by Southwest in 2000 and 2001, North by Northwest in 2000, and The Holiday Matinee Summer Tour 2000 with The Faint and Camera Obscura. Bands they’ve played with include The White Stripes, Black Heart Procession, Beachwood Sparks, Holly Golightly, and The Locust.
LIVE PERFORMANCE: Vue’s live show ignites with the subtle, insistent drive of honest energy and motion. It’s an undeniable rhythm, a synergistic display and an invitation to basic sexual energy and beat. Vue create an unmistakable atmosphere in every room they enter, a spell so their own, you can’t wait to be dragged in with them: like a gospel preacher entreating you onto waves of lulls and highs, leaving you lying on the floor, lacking clear memory of the event itself. Vue come across at once calculated and composed, flailing and hysterical. True Rock and Roll energy channeled through these new bodies.