DeVotchKa

These guys always slay me. Just gifted musicians with a great sense musicality. I am always entranced listening to their work and it is a wide musical terrain they traverse. Enjoy.

Have you guys checked out the band Firewater? If you are in the L.A. area check them out at The Roxy in Hollywood on Saturday, June 7th!!

Gypsy music is cool, and these guys have a great take on it. Its been awhile since I've put a disc on repeat for multiple days on end, but I can't stop listening to it... http://www.myspace.com/devotchkamusic

4:37 mins. There's something cool and engaging about the sounds Denver,Colorado's DeVotchKa make by taking such non-Western musical styles as Mariachi, Slavi, Romani, Greek, and Bolero and blending them with punk, rock and folk. I'm not even able to put my finger on exactly what makes them so enjoyable to me. Could it be the catchy pop-song structures? Or is it the English-language lyrics that make the songs more understandable? Perhaps it's the seductive wail of lead si... MORE

DeVotchKa have announced their largest American tour to date. Beginning at Coachella on April 26, the tour includes stops at San Francisco’s Fillmore, The Vic in Chicago, and New York’s Terminal 5. The group will be joined by a string quartet for the tour and the Cirque de Soleil style aerial acrobats-The Slavic Sisters -on certain dates. Basia Bulat will support the tour. A Mad and Faithful Tour is in support of DeVotchka’s A Mad & Faithful Telling set for release by A... MORE

Here's a track off the new DeVotchKa album, A Man And Faithful Telling. The album is out March 18.

DeVotchKa's new album, A Mad and Faithful Telling, their first for Anti, comes out on March 18th. This will be the Colorado-based quartet's first full-length since their Grammy nominated score for the film, Little Miss Sunshine. The first single from A Mad and Faithful Telling,"Transliterator," is heading to digital release on February 19th. You can stream the track below. Speaking with Stereogum frontman Nick Urata described the "Transliterator" track as "the classic... MORE

Denver quartet DeVotchKa have signed with the independent label Anti-, home of such notables as Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Neko Case. The Grammy-nominated group is best known for scoring the 2006 Oscar-winning film Little Miss Sunshine. Frontman Nick Urata Ten years into their career, DeVotchKa are pioneers of a geographical and genre-melding sound; once renegade rockers toting tubas andaccordions, now pillars of an indie-rock scene that produces more star violinis... MORE

if you were, say, taking a road trip from amarillo, texas to santa fe, new mexico -- what sort of mix would you take along with you? what would fit that mood? for those who are not familiar with this area, think canyons, dryness, cold mountain air, long open stretches of nothingness. devotchka, in my opinion, fits this bill hands down. but my mind is blank when it comes to anything else. i have one week. so please, kindly suggest any and everything.

It is said that when an individual experiences a new flavour generally it taste like chicken (yes, I'm aware that this miracle only happens with meat – especially those with lower levels of glutamates). (Well, let's not ruin my thing – CD's and vinyl's would definitely rock if they tasted like chicken, instead of all that plastic and acetate.) Psychologically music can leave a good or a bad taste in your mouth; it only depends on your musical taste. For example, _Dance wi... MORE

Time to sneak a good cover in before the day is through. I love this version! I was so fortunate to see DeVotchKa play at Bumbershoot this year. I loved this song when they played it live, but had no idea really what it was (or that it was a cover of a Velvet Underground song). The show was really marvelous - after a long day hanging out at the same stage (much of the day spent with Amber, I might add), DeVotchKa finally came on. My feet were killing me, by back hur... MORE

so i kept trying to figure out the lyrics to my new fave song stuck on hi-play on my ipod. Having no luck, and tired of tuneless yammering along with it (which startled my office-mate), I googled it: You're the Queen of all the surface streets I'm a wiener boy, that you're here to meet That's one of the lines??? Come on, such a pretty song and he's calling himself a wiener boy? http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858650011

I don't need the moneyI couldn't care'Cause everything I want is standing right hereI would live on the streetIn a cardboard shackJust the worship the feetAnd the curve of your backYou'll be my only preoccupationOn a permanent vacation Now I will move these rocksFor you my loveI will tear them up out of the EarthAnd I will bend my spine'Til it's quitting time'Cause I know what your love is worth And I get to see DeVotchKa in just two weeks at Bumbershoot...I can't ... MORE