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“If you don’t absolutely fall in love with front woman Margot’s sensual, slinky crooning, then you probably don’t enjoy other fine things in life like rainbows or getting a fifty dollar bill back at the gas station when you only gave them a twenty.”—Amanda Mack of the backroom
- Amanda Mack of the backroom
"Searching... Again I have found it difficult to find musical acts that make any impression on me but I kept on going until I found some bands that were worth my time and worth your time. After filing through a lot of crap I want to thank these bands and all the others I have reviewed so far for keeping my faith in music strong....The first I have found that is very talented is boxViolet from LA (yes it’s LA again...) who to me sounds like a modern mix of Eurythmics and Blondie rolled into one. As soon as I heard the first beat from 'Sad Sad Girl', I knew that I would be hooked into listening to every song boxViolet had to offer and then listening to them again just to hear the musical genius they hold. If anyone deserves worldwide fame then boxViolet are that band. I dare you to tell me these guys aren't talented because you'd be wasting your breath." —Broken Toy Box Music Blog
- Broken Toy Box Music Blog
“The band whose underlying theme of sadness and infinite melancholy ooze from the vocals provided by singer Margot Paige seem to want you to not be sad for long as they pair these emotion-inducing lyrics with a backdrop of danceable music and beats provided by Luke Ehret…”—the Couch - the Couch
"While still a relatively a new band, boxViolet's potential for hugeness is evident in any one of the ten gems on their debut album Cut and Come Again. Fans of Poe, Curve, and Garbage should be eating this album up."—LA Underground - LA Underground
Discography
"Sad, sad girl" EP: $5--SOLD OUT!
This is our newbie. Handmade product featuring vegetable-inked drawing on recycled cardboard. Very limited release.
Track Listing:
1. Swallow
2. Fell in Like
3. Give it up
4. Obvious Mistake
5. Sad, sad girl
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"Scraps" EP: Only a handful left...
So Sweet Records has paired with venerable LA label Retone Records to bring you a 4-track EP from LA's favorite enigmatic band, boxViolet. Listen to one of the most distinct sounds in rock today.
Track Listing:
1. Dreaming of Scraps
2. Punding
3. Just Not That
4. Let Bad Slip In
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Cut-and-come again LP: Made to order, $10
Track Listing:
1. Dreaming of Scraps
2. Pop quiz!
3. Had I Known
4. Going to the grave
5. Punding
6. Unsaid
7. Just Not That
8. Train Won't Stop
9. Separate Plans
10. Make It Messy
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LA's Rising Scene 2004
An eclectic comp featuring some of LA's finest and, most notably, an early version of "Lazy Eye" by the Silversun Pickups. Please contact us for ordering information.
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Bio
boxViolet (Viola narthecium) is native to Los Angeles, a hybrid of boy and girl. Within a few days of meeting Margot, Luke shared the text of a song he'd written about her, which included the lines: "black hair, dark green eyes/they show." Discovering in Luke a musical accomplice, she convinced him to leave his band for the one he would start with her. Thus boxViolet was born, the sole seedling of their late union. At times a 3-piece and even a 4-piece, this project turned duo, embracing its Madonna-esque tradition of constant reinvention.
Prepared with tracks cut at their own live-work space and mixed, this cultivar spent some time on Leftwing Recordings/Retone Records at a time when the ownership was more focused on girl-fronted rock bands like Giant Drag and Midnight Movies but followed suit when these groups left disenchanted with the label and its changing priorities. These profusely flowering Violets are now on a rigorous rehearsal schedule of their own making, the moody stamen perfecting his rhythmic transfers for deposit into the nearby pistil, who responds with a voice that one listener dubbed "honey-covered sex dripping through the microphone."
They have performed at nearly every venue this town has to offer, including Silverlake Lounge, Spaceland, Mr. T's, Club Moscow @ Boardner's, and even a sold-out performance with Mellowdrone and Monsters Are Waiting….. at the Troubadour. boxViolet has been heard on TV shows including Without a Trace, Psych, Charmed, and Dawson's Creek. Their track "Had I Known" was included in an episode of the Undiscovered Radio Network, showcasing LA's best underground music, and Mr. Shovel of Indie 103.1 FM played "Pop Quiz!" as well as their latest single, "Sad, sad girl," on his local music show Check One…Two. In fact, their riveting claymation video for "Punding" was a finalist for that station's first YouTube contest. Their increasing local presence recently resulted in an article devoted solely to them in the Arroyo Seco Journal, which declared them "a must-see."
The newest seed of this specimen is the EP "Sad, sad girl." It is the follow-up to the EP released just over a year ago on So Sweet Records in the UK, and, while the writing still centers on relationships, it is doing so in a broader manner, in the spirit of the personal being political. Moreover, in a gesture toward the global, the music has become more danceable than ever. Ultimately, the future rests in song, in these boxes of lyricism that do what violets are known for—checking the melancholy of those oppressed with a sad mind, making them happy and making their breathing healthy. This is the intention of boxViolet. (-) collapse
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love. the crown chakra. the violet flame. st. germaine. raw vegan cuisine. alchemy. florence scovel shinn. stella mccartney.
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Sounds Like we have been told we sound like: new order, gwen, radiohead, portishead, interpol, the smiths, mogwai, bjork, morcheeba, cocteau twins, cranes, opal, fiona apple, garbage, denali, lamb, no doubt, morrissey, siouxsie sioux, ambulette, berlin, blondie, sneaker pimps, blonde redhead, the cardigans, goldfrapp, depeche mode, altered images, black, ultravox, simple minds, the associates, human league
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