Round here, we’re SUPER excited these days, because there are wonderful things a-happenin’! (Not sure about this accent… .gonna lose it… NOW!).

First of all, I’ve been playing shows as an acoustic trio lately, backed by cello and keyboards. It sounds pretty awesome. Keep an eye out for trio shows…might have a few later this summer and in the fall.

And speaking of summer, I’m so excited about my upcoming tour with Sarah MacDougall! She hails from Sweden & Canada, and she’s fantastic. I was actually a fan of hers before we became friends and tour buddies, and I’m looking forward to a girl-tour around Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana! Check out the calendar for all of the details - hope to see you out there at a show!

summer lovin’,
vanessa

“Love Story” and “The Next Big Bang” have recently been used on MTV’s “The Real World,” “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” and Oxygen’s “The Bad Girl Club.”

Just some good news on this sunny April day.
We’ll be posting live MP3s for download soon…
love from a boat hostel in Belgium,
Vanessa

Good news for all our fans in the Benelux (or throughout Europe):

“Sweetheart, Keep Your Chin Up” is now available through Lucky Dice, a great site for Americana music. They are good people with a great catalog of music - check them out!

See you at a show this autumn!
Vanessa

Maverick Magazine gave us a great review in their July issue, and here are two more that we love:

Americana UK by Del Day

Flyinshoes Review by John Davy

Post your own review of “Sweetheart” here on this page (just leave a comment below) or on iTunes or on CD Baby!

xoxo

vanessa

Hey everyone!
Sorry it’s been so very long since I’ve written… my best excuse really is a good one. We spent the whole spring, from Jan 29 until April 28, on the road. We played … I’m not sure… 70 shows maybe? in 5 different countries and since we got home, I’ve been avoiding the computer as much as possible. Now I’ve jumped back in though, because I’m busy booking shows for our fall tour. We’re going to be:

* all over America
* in the UK and Ireland
* in Holland, Germany, and Belgium

and possibly a few other European countries as well. If you want us to come to your town, play at your university, or do a house concert for you and your friends, just send me an email! You’ll find all the contacts under, well, contacts.

Other great stuff:
We are working on some acoustic versions of the songs from “Sweetheart” and if we have time/money, we’re hoping to release an acoustic EP this fall with some of the remixes. It will likely just be a digital release but we’ll see.

We already contributed one track (a guitar+cello+vanessa remix of “Coming to Meet Me”) to the “Save Paste” campaign. You can read more about that here and see the download vault full of songs (including ours!) here.

Also, we’ve jumped on the ringtone bandwagon! We decided “Okay From Now On” and “Little Films” were great places to start. I think OFNO makes the happiest ringtone ever.

This summer we’re playing a few festivals in the Netherlands and Italy before we head back to the States this fall for our big tour there. I guess that’s all…. I’ll try to be a better communicator, so check back for updates soon!

Big hugs,
Vanessa

“Sweetheart, Keep Your Chin Up” is finally here, and we are so proud of it (and of ourselves, for surviving the long and expensive production process).  We could never have accomplished it without the wonderful, fantastic people who were kind enough to pre-order the record, thereby helping us finance a portion of the studio time & and printing costs.  MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU.

This is going to be a busy year for us.  We’re starting off with big European tour - Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium - before the official CD release in the US!  We’re hoping to hit Canada this year as well (any ideas are appreciated), and before the year is out I dare say we’ll have been back to Scandinavia and the UK as well…..

As always, we love booking house concerts, so email us if you want to have us play your living room/backyard/front porch.  And if you are in college, tell your university arts folks about us - we’d love to come play your school!  And while you’re catching up on everything, be our fan on Facebook (link please) and tag yourself on our fan map on MySpace (link please) so we’ll know where to book our tours!

So back to this fancy new album…..
You can listen to many of the songs here, on MySpace, or on Last FM.  You can buy the record here, at CD Baby, at iTunes… tons of places, actually, but those are our favorites. Buy a CD for the New Year, for Valentine’s Day, or St. Patrick’s Day, (let’s skip April Fools)…..Easter…. pick a holiday, birthday, any day…. regardless of the day you choose, we completely and totally appreciate your support.  We’re trying to do this “for real” and every CD sold will help more than you know.

Thank you for giving us the chance to do what we love.  We hope the music pays you back for all the love you’ve shown us.

See you at a show!  Thanks for listening and Happy New Year.
xoxoxoxo
vanessa and those wacky ICOM boys

PS - Big huge enormous thank you to Aaron Geis for kicking ass on album & web & tee & sticker & button & everything else design. :)  www.internaldeparture.com , check him out!!

Thank you also to Salim Nourallah and Rip Rowan for helping us making our album.  It sounds wonderful in large part due to you guys!