Jeremy Ylvisaker - guitar, piano, everything
JT Bates - drums
Michael Lewis - bass
Courtney Collins - voicebox
Influences
Not sure these are all specifically influences, but here's what I like: David Bowie, The Pixies, Husky Rescue, Cheap Trick, Idlewild, French ye ye, Blondie, Andrew Bird, Motown, Neil Young, 70s pop, Nick Drake, The Stranglers, The Beau Brummels, The Strokes, She And Him, Devendra Banhart, Blinker The Star, Albert Hammond Jr, Abba, The Bells, Bright Eyes, Husker Du, Louis Prima, Little Joy, Dinah Washington, 70s r&b, Depeche Mode, Dr Dog, The Bad Plus, Detroit, Roberta Flack, Madonna, The Beatles, Maxine Nightingale, Television, The Left Banke, Donny Hathaway, The Cardigans, Stefie Shock, Electric Light Orchestra, Low, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Muse, Les Breastfeeders, The Spinners, George Harrison, Mary Hopkin, Cibo Matto, The Monkees, The Minutemen, Roddy Woomble, Alpha Consumer, Firefall, Berlin, Dosh, Death Cab For Cutie, Al Stewart, Sly And The Family Stone, Headlights, Murray Gold, winter, spring, summer, autumn, snow
Sounds Like
People have said: Blondie, Portishead, Ann-Margret, Regina Spektor, Julie London, Feist, Aimee Mann, Voltress, Mazzy Star, Nancy Sinatra, Madonna, Massive Attack, Garbage, The Pretenders, Tori Amos, Peggy Lee, My Bloody Valentine, Cat Power, Husky Rescue, Neko Case, Arena Venus
Courtney Collins is a musician/songwriter/chanteuse from Madison, Wisconsin, who released her first solo CD "Violet Night" on Maypole Records. A mix of indie pop, rock, lounge, and electronica, the CD was recorded in Minneapolis with Jeremy Ylvisaker (Alpha Consumer, Andrew Bird, Dosh, Eyedea, Fog) and Andrew Thomas (AT/DT, Hockey Night) and features members of Andrew Bird's band, Fog, Happy Apple, Tarlton, and the Fantastic Merlins. She's also a former member of the electronirock band Voltress, and used to be in the band Arena Venus.
Her song "Don't Forget" was featured on Magnet magazine's CD sampler in January 2007.
***She and her friends have just released a new CD titled "Welcome To Christmastown" by Courtney Collins & Jeremy Ylvisaker with J.T. Bates and Michael Lewis. "Welcome To Christmastown," "Violet Night," and other CDs from her previous bands are available at CD Baby and Amazon.com.
Other merchandise can be found at Cafe Press.
Visit CourtneyCollins.com for more...
Courtney also produces the comedy series "Chad Vader," written by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan. It has become an internet hit with over 50 million downloads on YouTube and MySpace, and has been featured on Good Morning America, Comedy Central, and VH1. Check BlameSociety.net for more.
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Welcome To Christmastown available at CD Baby and Amazon.com
May the Force be with you, my friends! The bottom line is, that should have been YOU playing in the Cantina in Mos Eisley, not Fig'rin Dan and the Modal Nodes.
he110 Courtney - just wanted to warn U about a maniac on the loose! Thee evil Dr. Night - ...all I remember is a blurry image of a man in a white lab coat. Lock your doors - he might be in your area!
FREE "Mach FoX - Dr. Night EP" on Russian netlabel Intox Noize download here- http://www.archive.org/details/intox031 links on our page too.
Hi Courtney! Just want to wish you an AWESOME week! Love seeing your Tweets on Twitter! The new Blame Society videos with Aaron are so funny! :) Love your new avatar photo, too! You are a LAMB! : ) hugs, Kristin :)
NO THEY of course are not NEW? I hope that's OK? ZEKE, wow that didn't last long...but i sure did love that shirt. Hope you are well. Please be a friend of one of my more recent projects:<br />http://www.myspace.com/frizzlefrympls<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Grant
Yay Courtney/Arena Venus for joining Twitter! I was so excited to see a new follower and seeing it was YOU! :) Awesome, now all we have to do is try to get Aaron/Chad Vader to become a member, too! :) Have an awesome week Courtney! Take care dear KRiSTiN :)
Hi Courtney! Thank you so much for the recognition you gave me in the credits of the Best Picture episode of Chad! I was so excited just to see the little mini Vader in the short film let alone seeing my name at the end! :-D You and Aaron are AWESOME! The Chad Vader episodes of Season 2 are FAN-TASTIC! :) Hope you have a great rest of the week my friends!
Hi!! Hope you are doing great! I'm sure you've been busy as ever with CV Ep's! Watched EP II last night & what an unexpected ending! Too funny! You all are doing such an awesome job!
Saw the short film of Chad re-enacting the film up for Best Picture&was estactic to see mini-me Vinyl Chad in it! More of a surprise was the credits! I truly appreciated the Special Thanks, you two are so awesome! Planning on buying more t-shirts&DVD's to show my support, too! Have an awesome week, Courtney!
Hugs,
Kristin : )
Hi Courtney!
I hope you had a nice Valentine's weekend with Aaron! : ) I e-mailed Aaron a few days ago to tell him about joining Twitter (an instant blogging site) and Im sure he'd have LOTS of followers as Chad Vader being so sucessful. :) I watched the latest Chad Vader video "Chad after Dentist". So made me laugh after had seeing the "David after Dentist" a few days earlier. How funny was that, too! ;-D Great timing on Chad Vader's spoof on it.
Thank you again for the T-shirt! What a pleasant surprise & so plan to wear it as one of my choice t-shirts to Comic Con San Diego @ the end of July! :) Must show my support of Chad Vader! :) Hope you can plan to make it there this year.
I completely missed Aaron's birthday last month when I totally thought it was in later, like March or something. My bad! When is your birthday if you don't mind me asking? I just don't want to forget yours too! :)
Have a great week! Talk to you again soon.
Hugs,
Kristin : )
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