Vinyl Theatre's music video for 'Breaking Up My Bones' from the album, Electrogram - available now on Fueled By Ramen. Download it on iTunes at http://smarturl.it/electrogram
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Directed by Tony Corella and Scott Peters
LYRICS
You've got a funny way of hanging around
A thief in the modern age of rhythm and sound
Take me to another place where clarity's found
'Cause all I hear is noise
It's breaking up my bones
I wanna lie, but I don't care to try
We're taking off
We're taking off, baby
We're taking off
I know you know
You found another way to keep me around
I dreamt of a thousand ways to alter the sound
A thief in the modern age of rhythm and sound
But all I hear is noise
It's breaking up my bones
I wanna lie, but I don't care to try
We're taking off
We're taking off, baby
We're taking off
I know you know
So many times we're staring down the barrel of a gun
I know you care these open eyes stare
It's breaking up my bones
I wanna lie, but I don't care to try
We're taking off
We're taking off, baby
We're taking off
I know you know
It breaks up my bones
This breaks up my bones
VINYL THEATRE
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DateNov 29, 2014
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Event Starts8:00 PM
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Doors Open7:00 PM
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Ticket Prices$10.00
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AvailabilityOn Sale Now
Event Details
The members of Vinyl Theatre know firsthand that music has the power to bring people
together because it happened to them. Music is how they met, it’s what they bonded over,
and it’s what has transformed their lives. Since officially forming in 2012, the Milwaukee-based quartet has gone from being college students who revered bands like The Killers,
Two Door Cinema Club, The Shins, and Death Cab For Cutie to coming into their own as
artists themselves, building an impressive following for their buoyant synth-based
alternative-pop sound. Vinyl Theatre’s use of social media, including uploading tracks from
their independent EP Chromatic one by one over a period of months onto SoundCloud,
proved to be a savvy tactical decision.
“Whenever we would tweet that a new song was uploaded to SoundCloud, our fans would
play it non-stop, which pushed it to trend on the site,” explains drummer Nick Cesarz. “And
once you’re trending, everyone sees it.” That led to attention from venerated indie label
Fueled By Ramen (fun., Young The Giant, Paramore), which signed them and will release
their eight-song debut Electrogram later this year. Vinyl Theatre tell the story of having their
lives changed through the songs on Electrogram, writing about being so inspired by music
that it practically hurts (first single “Breaking Up My Bones”), finding their passion in life and
going after it (“Gold”), and persevering now that they’ve found that passion (“Shine On”).
Sonically, the songs pulse with kinetic dance-friendly energy that is informed by their
mutual camaraderie and sheer joy in the creative process.
“Our goal as a band is to share this experience,” says singer and guitarist Keegan Calmes.
“We want to share what we have. It's hard to share a relationship, but we want to show
people our bond, and hopefully they will form that bond with each other as fans and
become friends. I met all of these guys through music. It brought us together and we want
to do the same for others.”
Vinyl Theatre’s origins are rooted in a seven-year friendship between Calmes and
keyboardist Chris Senner, athletes who met at a cross-country track meet during their
junior year of high school. Senner approached Calmes, a star runner who would go on to
win eight All-Americans and three national titles, and said, “So you’re Muskego’s best
runner? I’m going to kick your ass today.” “He’s kind of a jokester and was trying to psych
me out,” Calmes says. “I was kind of mad, like ‘Who the hell is this kid?’ and I beat him by
two minutes. After the meet, the two got to talking and discovered that they were both were
musicians. Calmes began playing guitar at age ten and singing at 15. Senner began taking
piano lessons at age eight, eventually spending eight to ten hours a day practicing with the
goal of being a classical pianist. It was hearing The Killers’ Hot Fuss that changed
everything for them. “That was when I completely fell in love with pop music,” Senner says.
“That album was my rock,” Calmes says. “It’s what I return to whenever I want a refresher
about the craft of songwriting.”
The first time Calmes and Senner hung out, they wrote two songs right away. “I had never
really written with anyone else, and I was kind of guarding all my music like, ‘I don't trust
anyone,’ but immediately, the chemistry was there,” Calmes says. “I’m very structured in
how I write, but what impressed me about Chris is that he’s kind of off-the-wall. He brought
that missing factor for me.” Says Senner: “Keegan is just super-talented when it comes to
structuring ideas, writing hooks, and seeing the full picture of a song and what direction it
needs to go in.”
To complete the band, Calmes and Senner recruited two friends of Senner’s, his childhood
buddy Josh Pothier, who took up the bass in middle school and spent hours jamming with
Chris from the age of 12, and Nick Cesarz, who began playing drums in fourth grade. He
met Senner in a music theory class. “Nick has always been the prodigy,” Calmes says. “He
could have gone on to do anything with music, been a classical percussionist. What I love
about him is that he wanted to be in this band.” Says Nick, “I studied percussion
performance in college and I got sick of reading notes on a page. It just wasn’t for me. You
can only interpret something so many ways. But with these guys, I get to create something.”
Despite the fact that Calmes was attending college in Colorado, the four began exchanging
ideas over Skype and practicing whenever Calmes was back in town. “One night after a
show, Nick said, ‘I don't think that you should go to school so far away.’ He'd never spoken
up like that. And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘I just think it's foolish. I think
that we have something big here.’"
Turns out Cesarz was right. Calmes transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
and “that’s how this thing got serious,” he says. Since then, Vinyl Theatre has released two
independent EPs, performed many local headlining shows, and supported such national
acts as Royal Teeth, Parade of Lights, Five Knives, and twenty-one pilots, whom they got
to open for after winning a battle of the bands at Marquette University last year. “After the
show, the singer Tyler [Joseph] gave me a big hug, and said, ‘Just keep going, man. Keep
doing what you're doing.’ They’re one of my favorite bands, and that meant to the world to
me.”
The infectious spirit of that encouragement is something Vinyl Theatre hopes to put out in
the world themselves with their music. “Emitting a happy, energetic vibe is so key to us
because this is what we love doing, and when we write, that's how we feel,” Pothier says.
“And we just want that happiness to spread to other people because we love life and we
love doing what we do.”
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