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Album Review: Virgin of the Birds – Numberless Needs
Virgin of the Birds returns to Seattle for their first Pacific Northwest show of 2019 at the Conor Byrne on May 11, joined by The Foghorns (also playing their first show of 2019) and Sam Russell’s new...
View ArticleBall of Wax 57 Songs: Virgin of the Birds –“Saint Ursula”
Our dear friend Jon Rooney is back after his longest BoW hiatus in quite some time (has it really been a year?), and he’s brought us a perfect, less-than-two-minute nugget of Virgin-of-the-Birds-iness....
View ArticleBall of Wax 58 Songs: “Christmas in the Borough of Our Birth”
In case the title didn’t tip you off, Virgin of the Birds lets us know right out of the gate that this is a Christmas song, with a comfortable “Be My Baby” beat and insistently chiming sleigh bells....
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Album Review: The Cupholders Present . . . “The Wisconsin Polka!”
Yes, this is a supergroup. Promise. Supergroups are strange beasts. Jan Wenner claims that Cream, with members from the Yardbirds, the Graham Bond Organization, and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers,...
View ArticleBall of Wax 60 Songs: Sarah Pasillas and Virgin of the Birds
Sarah Pasillas: “Hot Head” On the one hand, this song is a dreamy dive into a well of echoing vocals, lush guitars, and intricate basslines, while on the other hand you find all of that woozy sound...
View ArticleBall of Wax 62 Songs: Virgin of the Birds –“Delco Saved the World”
In the Virgin of the Birds Cinematic Universe (or the VOBCU, itself a subsidiary of the Ball of Wax Cinematic Universe, aka the BOWCU), Pennsylvania is our HQ. Jon Rooney (humble leader of Virgin of...
View ArticleBall of Wax 63 Songs: Virgin of the Birds –“Moon Chariot”
I feel like every time I sit down to write about a Virgin of the Birds song, I can’t help but comment on just how dang Virgin-of-the-Birds-y it is. And here we are again. “Moon Chariot,” Jon Rooney’s...
View ArticleBall of Wax 64 Songs: Virgin of the Birds –“An Archer”
Virgin of the Birds’ “An Archer” was one of two works interpreted by photographer Laura Letinsky. Ball of Wax Volume 64: The Music of TELEPHONE by Virgin of the Birds [Context: here and here.]
View ArticleBall of Wax 66 Songs: Virgin of the Birds –“Dreaming with the Hobgoblin”
I think Jon Rooney/Virgin of the Birds first shared his minimalist, synthy side with us on Ball of Wax 53, with his simmering meditation “The Earth Won’t Die, We Will.” He hasn’t stopped writing...
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Ball of Wax 67 Songs: autOaudiO –“Cardinal Points”
[Editor’s note: In continuing our quest to become a complete cultural ourobouros, it seemed like the best way to cover this autOaudiO cover of a Virgin of the Birds song is for our own Jon Rooney (who...
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