We are back in Nashville putting together files of album material for a hand full of kickass remixer/djs to do their electronica take on our songs. We hope to have an ep ready in a few months to sell exclusively through iTunes. Excited to say that Ki: Theory will be taking a stab at 'Giving up on Ghosts'. He is a great musical mind and has recently done remixes for The Brazilian Girls, Unkle, Sasha and Queens of the Stone Age.
Lots of exciting blog stuff going around right now for us. . . here is a link to an NPR piece.

nosaj thing as cvb?

tuesday in los angeles was completely taken over by lakers vs. celtics. watched the game downtown with some friends. headed over to west l.a. afterwards, and then back towards silver lake to see nosaj thing. unbelievable music. check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/nosajthing



cvb meetings today and tomorrow in l.a.

jm

spaceland, hollywood, and beyond

so beau and i met up at lax yesterday and, within minutes, we began discussing the age-old question of avis or alamo? after lots of shlepping we found avis was the key holder to our freshly-minted hyundai. after a dinner hang with steve in century city, we met up with amy and ninja simone down at spaceland. great night last night. it's been too long since i've walked through those doors. although, i have to say that catching that secret beck show at the echo last night wouldn't have been so bad either. ended up at the nacionale in hollywood...check out www.indie911.com today. they currently have an online listening party for us. you'll see it on the home page. many thanks to them...meeting with some folks today. looking forward to seeing some of the nash crew later on this week.

jm

pong and the world wide web

the truth is....beating the computer is not easy. perhaps, at some point, we'll have some kind of online pong tourney. who knows?... todd overstreet and rachel heussenstamm are responsible with bringing the lo-fi glory of cvb pong to the world wide web (lots of applause)...btw,would "lots of applause" be shortened to "loa" when blogging...or would that still stand for "letter of authorization"? hopefully you got the btw...i like to think that "btw" stands for "beau took western civilization in college". on to more important things...the week is winding up. hung out with todd parks today. he's an old friend of ours who is one damn fine bass player. jerry douglas thought so too and decided to hire him to be in his band and play on his brand new cellophane wrapped compact disc that is coming out very soon. todd played bass on our record as well ("outer space" and "concealed"), and just recorded an album with frank vignola, matt flinner, and fiddle legend: casey driessen. actually, i think all of those people qualify in the "i'm incredible at my instrument, try not to drool" hall of fame. aaaannnywaaayyysss...todd and i wrote some tunes in the comfort of an air conditioned music city home. general cvb scuttlebutt: i have to say it's great to finally see "give up on ghosts" out there for folks to check out. can't wait for everyone to hear the record on june 17. los angeles looms for cvb next week. beau moved to seattle for the weekend leaving me to dwell in nashville, the newly crowned capital of global warming and general discomfort. btw (loa) :-)...it's hot here.
(johnny mann)

the skinny

cvb is in the box today recording some tracks for some folks from vermont. it's good to sit down and work on some creative stuff after spending so much of the last few days with our biz vizors on. beau is out to the nwest tomorrow. we'll meet up in l.a. on monday for a week. should be memorable. more to come on that later. if you guys should happen to find yourselves in l.a. next friday, you can find me at:

California Soul 2008
Chinatown, L.A.



also, check out beau playing live on reg's coffee house next sunday with ford turrell. it will be live and direct on the world wide web. here's a link to the site:

http://www.regscoffeehouse.com

j.mann

barack on hip-hop

"lately i've been listening to a lot of jay-z"

june moves

after a show of support for a few folks giggin' at 3rd & lindsley (nash,tn)last night, we took a bondfire into the wee hours of the morning in east nashville. lots of good comraderie in music city these days...cvb made an appearance at belmont university this morning. then, a falafel business lunch at a mediterranean restaurant with a penchant for blasting recent neil young recordings. i wonder how neil feels about tabouli, and his growing fan base of mediterranean restaurant owners? also today...cvb got to hear a new remix of magazine queen by ninja simone, a dj friend of ours from los angeles. up on myspace. check it out there. the rest of the day was spent coordinating an upcoming trek to l.a. next week to promote the record. getting lots of good vibes and support from family, friends, and the rest of our team. beau and i checked out the new No Kids record. good stuff happening in vancouver. destroyer's (dan bejar) new record is one to check out as well. ending the day with minor league baseball. the whole crew is out on this trip to the park. beau is hoping to throw the first pitch.