DeVotchKa
DeVotchKa is an American band that melds a collection of influences into a blend of rock 'n' roll. The band's fifth album shows influences of the Arizona desert with producer Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Neko Case) to create a compendium of short stories inspired by the varied moments the band experienced since the release of A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-, 2007). Like many bands, DeVotchKa spent much of their early years traveling the highways and byways searching for gigs and a musical direction. As time went on, the band began to foster important musical collaborations with the unequivocal Calexico and the seminal gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. International tours with Gogol and recordings with Calexico have helped spread the band’s sound around the globe. Originally a backing band for burlesque shows, in their early years DeVotchKa also toured with fetish model Dita von Teese. Numerous nationwide tours in support of self-released records earned the band an underground following. Their song How It Ends introduced the band to a wider audience after being featured in the trailer for Everything Is Illuminated, in a Gears of War 2 trailer called The Last Day, and in an episode of Everwood (Season 4). Arcade Fire singer Win Butler suggested to DeVotchKa that they cover the Siouxsie and the Banshees song The Last Beat of My Heart. The musicians found the idea interesting and they recorded that song for the now critically acclaimed Curse Your Little Heart EP. The band did a ...
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How It Ends
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You Love Me
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Such a Lovely Thing
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The Enemy Guns
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We're Leaving
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The Clockwise Witness
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Dearly Departed
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Charlotte Mittnacht (The Fabulous Destiny Of...)
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Transliterator
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Twenty-Six Temptations
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Too Tired
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Head Honcho
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The Winner Is
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Viens Avec Moi
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This Place Is Haunted
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Along the Way
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Reprise
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Basso Profundo
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Lunnaya Pogonka
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100 Other Lovers
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Overture
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All the Sand in all the Sea
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Comrade Z
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New World
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Undone
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Blessing in Disguise
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Strizzalo
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Queen of the Surface Streets
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I Cried Like A Silly Boy
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Death by Blonde
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The Alley
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C'est ce la
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Curse Your Little Heart
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The Last Beat of My Heart
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The Oblivion
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Venus in Furs
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La Llorona
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Miette
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La Llorrona
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Til the End of Time
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The Common Good
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Exhaustible
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Ocean of Lust
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One Last Vow
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Vengo! Vengo!
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Somethin' Stupid
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Till the End of Time
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The Man from San Sebastian
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Commerce City Sister
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El Zopilote Mojado
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