#jessica viscius

[dddima]

[reconprate]

Bnny

Bnny “Crazy, Baby” One Million Love Songs (04-05-2024) Second song from the Chicago band’s new LP to be featured on the weekly playlist.  According to vocalist Jessica Viscius, “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”  

[firetalk]

Bnny’s debut album is out August 20th on Fire Talk! Listen to “Ambulance” & pre order / pre save now!

[stevenvenn]

Bnny - Time Walk (from Everything) Didn’t hear about this album in 2021 but I have since discovered it and really love it. You can also watch a live at KEXP back in March by clicking here.

[dustedmagazine]

Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD)

Photograph by Jessica Viscius

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You by Big Thief

Big Thief’s new album, their fifth, eases into view with a tune called “Change.” It’s a woozy three-chord shuffle, the kind of song you can imagine being sung around a campfire, its well-worn truths about the futility of trying to keep things the same offering a degree of solace. The song acts as something of a mission statement for this double album, prepping the listener to expect the unexpected. Named after a lyric from Adrianne Lenker’s solo song “Anything,” Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You deftly touches down in the band’s usual folk-rock territory, while also exploring a new terrain of sounds and production styles that broaden their musical palette. Don’t panic, though; Big Thief hasn’t gone synth-pop. Instead, DNWMIBIY is both a consolidation of what’s made the band’s previous albums so compelling, and offers a natural next step in the evolution of their writing and arranging talents.

The majority of the album’s opening third will already be familiar to anyone who’s been keeping up with the band’s release schedule during the second half of 2021. The first surprising gear shift comes immediately after “Change” as “Time Escaping” pairs a metallic clanging riff on prepared acoustic guitar with James Krivchenia’s slamming drum beat. Then, on side B of the album’s four sides, the band takes its most striking left turn. After the joyous, swirling vortex of single “Little Things” comes the brief, minimal “Heavy Bend,” which brings to mind Four Tet’s Pause with its combination of crisp, compressed beats and harp-like nylon-string guitar. “Flower of Blood” and “Blurred View” draw the first half of the album to an uneasy close with murky, early 4AD-style tones. It suits Big Thief well, and adds a layer of mystique to Lenker’s otherwise clearly enunciated vocal performances. 

Elsewhere, the title track and “Simulation Swarm” evoke the crystalline beauty of 2019’s U.F.O.F. “Simulation Swarm” in particular is stunning, and stands among the band’s finest songs to date. The band generates spine-tingling tension between Lenker’s open-tuned arpeggios, Max Oleartchik’s sliding bass runs high up the neck, and an overdriven guitar break that ricochets out of the speakers. Buck Meek’s plaintive harmony vocals come to the fore on “Certainty” and “12,000 Lines,” and his wantonly oblique lead guitar wanders all over the loose, jammy “Love Love Love.” Twain’s Mat Davidson brings old-timey fiddle and backing vocals to rambling country hoe-downs “Spud Infinity,” “Red Moon” and “Blue Lightning.” And then there are welcome moments of repose, as Lenker goes it alone on “Promise is a Pendulum” and “The Only Place,” tracing out stark vocal takes over strident fingerpicked guitar. 

The most surprising aspect of DNWMIBIY is that for a double album, the quality control is high and the sequencing is especially effective. It’s also startling to learn that the band has another 25 songs from these sessions waiting in the wings (fingers crossed we get to hear at least some of them before the year is out). In the meantime, DNWMIBIY is the first album to join my best of 2022 list. 

Tim Clarke

[bleederziine]

Visceral and Manic: An Interview with Jessica Viscius of Bunny

What makes a really great punk rock band name? Irony and an appeal to sweetness, but also darkness, are a must. Bunny is a perfect example of this, a band named after a cute animal, and makes music that often sounds like a justifiable whine, music about bad times that are important enough to rehash over and over again in shows and recordings. Bunny also has songs that are simply beautiful, like “Not Even You”, that could fit right into any movie with lush expansive landscapes. Behold my interview with Bunny lead singer Jessica Viscius!

SUB/V What was it like making the music video for "Promises"? Why did you want to make a video?

Jessica Viscius: I came up with the idea for the music video when I was walking around Logan Square on my lunch break one day hung over as hell feeling kind of manic. I was listening to "Promises" on my headphones and thinking of all these different unrelated brief scenes filled with tension that were all sort of manic in of themselves. I went to work and scribbled a story board and we filmed it that next weekend. My sister Alexa, who plays bass in the band shot it and I edited it. The whole thing took about 5 hours. It was really fast and kinda sloppy, just like the song lol. SUB/V:  You work as a designer, right? I see a lot of aesthetic cohesion in Bunny's show posters, and album designs. How important are aesthetic components to Bunny?

JV: Yeah I have a full-time design job. My sister is also a designer and our guitar player Tim is a really good artist, so it's pretty intrinsic to us.

SUB/V:  Considering your work in design, are there other forms of art that inspire your music in Bunny? 

JV: Music! SUB/V:  In your songs, especially "Promises", I've noticed that they don't follow a typical song structure, i.e., beginning-climax-end. They kind of go on until the end, like someone talking but not exactly telling a story. Do you consider yourselves more experimental musicians? Is "messing" with traditional songwriting something that interests you?

JV: To be honest I don't really think about song structures ever. I remember having to google what a bridge was when I first started the band, lol. I don't think about songs in terms of verses choruses etc. The whole song revolves around the vocal melody and that's such a visceral thing. SUB/V:  What do we have to look forward to in Bunny's future? When are your next shows?

JV: We are going on an east coast tour in October that I’m really excited about. We're going to be putting out our first EP soon too! We're playing a official lolla show with the Lemon Twigs on aug 4th. And a show at the hideout with dent may on sept 2. Those will be really fun. PHOTOS BY ALEXA VISCIUS

[yamamiya]

bnny

Fire Talk · Bnny – Ambulance もともとは、bunny (bunnybandchi) って名乗っていた、シカゴの Jessica Viscius さんは u をおとりになって、今夏すべて救急バンド（ lofi インディーポップ）で再デビュー。ジェシカさんの元恋人の死から4年。ずーっと孤独ぼっちで悲嘆にあけくれた国で彼と自分の過去にさよならを言うために作られた曲なんだそうだ。ささやきの微かなボーカルが哀しすぎます。これだけゆっくりなのはこの1曲だけなんだけども・・・。 Chloe Foy · Shining Star RYDEEN – TOKYO ● 2020 to 2021

[forgeartmag]

I just finished editing together Issue 17! To finish out the year I put together this colossal issue featuring more artists than I think I've ever been able to pack into a magazine! I've been working on this issue in each of the cities I've traveled to for work in the past three months (New York, Toronto, Providence, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) and there are traces of every location strung through out it! I'm so excited with all of the amazing artists I had the opportunity to work with on this one. The theme for this issue felt really relevant when I started working on it just after I decided to leave my full time job at VICE. But I'm glad to have more exciting prospects for the future now three months later, and I'm glad to have this issue off of my chest. 

GO READ IT ONLINE HERE

Issue 17: Risk includes submissions by Sarah Mason, Leesh Adamerovich, Corrinne James, Jessica Pettway, Brian Ejar, Louise Reimer, Alexa Viscius, Will Dereume, Graham Lister, Ross Jackson, Chris Nordahl, Sophia Schultz, Melisa Cola, Sander Ettema, Alexander Laird, and Disa Wallander. This issue also includes interviews with cartoonist, Mickey Zacchilli, Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils, photographer, Laurence Philomene, show promoter and booker, Yiwei Meng, and Rene Contreras of Viva! Presents. Issue 17 features comics by Patrick Kyle, Becca Tobin, and Patrick Edell in its OP-ED section. Lastly, Issue 17 also includes the FORGE. Summer Review, documenting several concerts and events that took place in New York, Los Angeles, and Providence during Summer 2017.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Live Picks: 1/24 - 1/30

From left to right: Joey Burns (Calexico), Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), & John Coventino (Calexico); Photo by Piper Ferguson

BY JORDAN MAINZER

This time, I’ve got your itinerary for a week!

1/24: DJ Maseo (De La Soul), Empty Bottle

De La Soul MC Vincent Mason, also known as Maseo, does a DJ set at the Empty Bottle tomorrow night. He’s currently working on his “DJ-Conductor” concept album, whatever that entails, so don’t be surprised if he spins album cuts and potentially spits over them, too.

Boogie Munster and Cutz on Cuts collective member Shazam Bangles opens with a DJ set.

1/24: Junius Paul, Constellation

The most recent album for upright and electric bassist Junius Paul was December’s excellent ISM, yet another in a strong line of releases on local jazz label International Anthem. Tomorrow night, he plays as part of a quartet with some of the record’s most prominent contributors: Corey Wilkes on trumpet, Justin Dilliard on piano, and Vincent Davis on drums.

CHAI

1/24-1/25: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Chicago Theatre

Tedeschi Trucks Band returns to the Chicago Theatre for their annual residency, which took place last weekend and continues tomorrow night and Saturday. Their most recent record was last year’s Signs, which we described as “definitely a band showcase,” highlighting the horns of “Walk Through This Life” and Susan Tedeschi’s blues guitar picking on “The Ending”. A year removed from Signs, expect to hear from all over their discography and a smattering of covers, especially if their recent sets have been any indication.

1/24-1/26: Benjamin Gibbard & Tara Jane O’Neil, Thalia Hall

Death Cab For Cutie leader Benjamin Gibbard comes to Thalia Hall for a three-night stint. Though he’s released one studio solo album (not counting his cover of Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque), most of his performed material should be DCFC with a couple Postal Service classics thrown in for good measure.

Opening is LA-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Tara Jane O’Neil, whose last studio album was her excellent 2017 self-titled release. Over the past couple years, she’s dropped various compilation, reissue, live, soundtrack, benefit, and singles records. With a catalog that spans two decades, who knows what she’ll perform?

1/25: Dave Burrell with Joshua Abrams and Hamid Drake, Constellation

Saturday’s trio at Constellation juxtaposes a piano legend with two of Chicago’s finest bassists and drummers--respectively, Dave Burrell with Joshua Abrams and Hamid Drake.

Benjamin Gibbard

1/25: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones and Kevin Gordon Band, FitzGerald’s

At this point, Blasters founding member Dave Alvin has had a longer career as a solo artist than as a member of various classic cowpunk acts. While one of those bands, The Flesh Eaters, released an album last year, Alvin’s last record billed to his name was Downey to Lubbock, a collaboration with country singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore. He has, however, got a new band called The Third Mind, who are releasing a 6-song self-titled debut with 5 covers and 1 original on Valentine’s Day. Saturday, look forward to a mix of solo material, band material, and covers.

Louisiana singer-songwriter Kevin Gordon’s last record was 2018′s Tilt and Shine. In previewing a set a couple years ago at SPACE, we wrote that it was “an album about his vision of Louisiana through and through. The tracks are musically referential to the region; take the blues stomp of 'Fire at the End of the World' or the buzzing, organ-fueled country of 'Saint on a Chain'. And in lieu of fetishizing a Southern mythology, Gordon’s stories are rooted in everyday life or people’s perceptions of it, from prisoner rodeos to deals with the Devil.”

1/25: CHAI, Empty Bottle

We covered Japanese quartet CHAI’s set at Pitchfork Music Festival last year (they’re still touring their excellent 2019 album PUNK):

“CHAI believes you can be Kawaii while still subverting standard definitions of beauty and femininity. Or really, they argue that there’s no such thing as the 'standard.' They exist somewhere between individualism–arguing that you’re a 'Fashionista' as long as you’re dressing the way you dress–and collectivism, donning a band uniform of an orange top and pink pants with white stripes, tightly harmonizing and chanting with equal pitch. That dichotomy in and of itself is unique, especially in Japanese culture. They call it PUNK, their terrific second album. From freedom anthem 'CHOOSE GO!' to the propulsive beats of 'THIS IS CHAI', the band’s instrumental variation (the funk of 'FAMILY MEMBER', banging dance of “Curly Adventure”) is always tied together by the four women and the spirit each of them brings to the performance combined with the sum of parts that the band CHAI represents. And their radicalism is present in songs like 'GREAT JOB', a reclamation of housework as therapeutic, but it’s never so strong as when they shout their simple proclamation: ‘We are CHAI!'”

Bunny, the dream pop/bedroom rock project led by local musician Jessica Viscius and Sports Boyfriend, the indie pop project of local musician Eileen Peltier, open.

1/25: GZA, Concord Music Hall

Wu-Tang clan member GZA performs his classic sophomore album Liquid Swords with a live band. Any non-Liquid Swords tracks he might perform include other solo material, Wu-Tang clan verses, or even snippets from other Wu-Tang members.

Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest, local rapper Femdot, and local remix masters Altered Tapes open.

Dave Alvin

1/26: John Cale, Art Institute of Chicago

Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground are forever entwined, and because of that, I can’t think of someone more appropriate to celebrate the Art Institute’s current major Warhol retrospective than Velvets member John Cale. Expect, however, to hear mostly solo material.

1/28: Whitney, SPACE

Though not quite as strong as 2016′s Light Upon The Lake, Whitney’s most recent album Forever Turned Around does manage to reflect inward and distinguish itself that way from the band’s breakout debut, as we wrote in our preview of their Thalia Hall show last month. Here’s your chance to see them in a venue as small as SPACE while they continue to ascend.

Japanese quartet CHAI (mentioned above) opens.

1/29-1/30: Calexico & Iron & Wine, Thalia Hall

In 2005, Calexico & Iron & Wine were hot shit. The former, prolific as ever, were 2 years removed from their most acclaimed album yet, Feast of Wire, whereas Iron & Wine had released two beloved LPs and an EP. The prospect of a collaborative EP between the two was something to behold, and they lived up to the hype with In the Reins. Fifteen years later, neither act is as trendy, and they aren’t necessarily the critical darlings they once were, but they’re finally touring together to celebrate the unlikely release of their first collaborative LP, last year’s Years to Burn. They should play collaborative songs, and perhaps more excitingly, drawn-out highlights from their respective careers, plus some covers.

Local singer-songwriter Gia Margaret opens Wednesday. Singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham opens Thursday.

[jungleindierock]

Bunny - Not Even You

Bunny are from Chicago, Illinois, USA. They are Jessica Viscius (guitar, vocals), Shane Prewitt (drums), Tim Makowski (guitar) and Alexa Viscius (bass).

[bybiancabee]

elizabeth de la piedra for CIRCUS 003

being able to interview the *incredible* photographer + artist Elizabeth De La Piedra for CIRCUS’s third print issue was an absolute dream. we’ll be releasing the cover story online soon, but until then you can order your physical copy online here <3  photos by alexa viscius

makeup by jessica monzalvo

hair by jana marie hoeller

styling by cloe doherty 

shoot producer + creative direction by me 

[reconprate]

Bnny

Bnny “Good Stuff” One Million Love Songs (04-05-2024) First release off the Chicago band’s new LP.  According to vocalist Jessica Viscius, “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”  

[chicagovisualarts]

from @itsnicethat: Twin sisters Alexa and Jessica Viscius on creating this year's Pitchfork festival identity https://ift.tt/2KrBZOF

[high-tech-news]

Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music? - Pitchfork

http://ift.tt/2yU6ZQE

Pitchfork

Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music? Pitchfork Illustration by Jessica Viscius for Pitchfork; continue on to see images from Magic Leap and Sigur Rós' forthcoming virtual reality app. by Marc Hogan. Senior Staff Writer. Longform · Rock. 7 hrs ago. Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter. Open share ... Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New ImagesRoad to VR Magic Leap demo is exactly what the AR startup didn't needSlashGear Google-backed Magic Leap continues content partnerships w/ Sigur Rós 'mixed reality' app9to5Google Next Reality -The Verge -Engadget all 8 news articles »

high-tech-news.tumblr.com

[danderson8]

Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music? - Pitchfork

Pitchfork

Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music? Pitchfork Illustration by Jessica Viscius for Pitchfork; continue on to see images from Magic Leap and Sigur Rós' forthcoming virtual reality app. by Marc Hogan. Senior Staff Writer. Longform · Rock. 7 hrs ago. Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter. Open share ... Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New ImagesRoad to VR Magic Leap demo is exactly what the AR startup didn't needSlashGear Google-backed Magic Leap continues content partnerships w/ Sigur Rós 'mixed reality' app9to5Google Next Reality -The Verge -Engadget all 8 news articles »

from Technology - Google News http://ift.tt/2kIMSj3 via IFTTT

[comedytrendsnyc-blog]

Bunny – “Not Even You”

Bunny – “Not Even You”

Bunny, no relation to the Toronto band of the same name, is the songwriting project of Chicago’s Jessica Viscius. Their debut EP Suckeris arriving later this summer, and today, they’re sharing “Not Even You,” a relaxed indie-rocker that radiates a gently comforting form of downcast warmth. “I remember I wrote ‘Not Even You’ early last fall when the temperature was beginning to drop and the air…