Vfib Recordings is an independent music label.
Our mission is to amplify good music.
Our artists include Two Dark Birds, J.B. Mills, Bicentennial Drug Lord, Iris Clementine, Koester, Airline, and Punchdrunk.
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IRIS CLEMENTINE
Outsider
Outsider is the debut EP from Iris Clementine, a 17 year old singer-songwriter from Woodstock, NY. Her rich voice centers these 6 explorations of the ups and downs of romance, family, friends, and finding your spot. Rich, melancholic, beautiful , hopeful , with a bit of dark undertow. For fans of Mazzy Star, Phoebe Bridgers, Fleetwood Mac. Recorded & mixed by Todd Adelman, Kevin Salem and Alan Weatherhead.
BICENTENNIAL DRUG LORD
BDL EP
Based in Milwaukee, WI, Bicentennial Drug Lord was formed when longtime friends John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Soda, Maki, Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights) needed a side project where, as Weatherhead puts it, “we could play and record the sad-sack country songs we wrote and couldn’t play in our main bands.” BDL’s debut record The First Hit Is Free crystallized a Minneapolis winter with music that could thaw even the iciest heart. FOR ITS NEW RELEASE, THE 6-SONG EP BDL, the band got together during a long, muggy summer to record the songs in a cottage outside of Richmond, VA. Emerging from a weekend writing session at a nearby horse farm where Daniels was living, the new songs reflect a fresh collaborative approach to songwriting and a shift away from the country focus of their debut. BDL gets the details right. Big choruses, subtle songwriting, indie pop in places with a dose of 70’s rock. Summer’s coming down.
TWO DARK BIRDS + J.B. MILLS
Porous
Porous is the fifth release from Two Dark Birds, the critically acclaimed band from the Catskills. This four song EP, a collaboration between singer-songwriter Steve Koester and producer / dummer J.B. Mills, is a distinct departure from the band’s previous more folk- leaning forays. Sonically speaking, Porous delves into the minimalist sounds of today’s pop and yesterday’s wave. It’s more J. Dilla than J.J. Cale, more New Order than New Riders, more Billie Eilish than Billy Bragg, more Drake than Nick. Or something like that. Lyrically speaking, the songs center around the usual subjects - love, family, nature, space-travel, roof-sitting, interdependent co-arising, bar hookups.
J.B. MILLS PRESENTS
The Beetroot Instrumentals
The Beetroot Instrumentals is the second collection of music to be released by Brooklyn-based drummer/multi-instrumentalist Jason B Mills under his producer alias “J.B. Mills”. For this EP, Mills pulled some previously unfinished instrumentals from the vault. These are all songs that were originally written for his Independent Music Awards-nominated band “Beetroot”, who were a fixture on the NYC club scene in the early 2000s, but were never graced by (Beetroot vocalist) Fiona’s voice. Deciding that they were too good to remain “unfinished”, he dusted them off, rearranged, and remixed them in the summer of 2020 at his “Little House Music Studio” in Brooklyn, NY. Think King Tubby meets The Meters at a DC Go-go club…. The lineup includes: Derek Nievergelt-Bass; Dave Guy-trumpet; James Hurt-keys; Wynne Bennett-keys; Marivaldo Dos Santos-percussion, programming; Jason Mills-drums, percussion, guitar, additional bass, additional keys, samples & production.
J.B. MILLS Presents
The Street Slippers “Put Your Foot In It”
The Street Slippers are an instrumental funk trio from Brooklyn, NY. J.B. Mills recorded their debut album “Put Your Foot In It” at his Little House Music Studio in August of 2019, and mixed it during the 2020 shutdown. These guys have written/played a lot of music together. Aubrey & Jason have produced the Yummy Sounds series while Jason & Wes have recorded together for Candice Anitra, The Love Machine Project, and many previous J.B. Mills projects. Jason’s work with Jonathan goes all the way back to Jason’s band “Beetroot” in the early 2000s. Think J Dilla sitting in on drums during a Meters / M.G.’s jam. New Orleans meets Memphis meets Detroit meets Brooklyn. The lineup includes: Aubrey Mills-drums, percussion; Jason Mills-bass, percussion; Wes Mingus- guitar. Jonathan Powell provides all horns. Etsuko Tajima-keys on “Street Slippers Theme”. Put your foot in it.
FEATURED from our ARCHIVES
Koester
Losers, Weepers
The third and final album from Koester the Rock Band, “Losers, Weepers” is a sonic exploration of NYC in the early 21st Century. Big hooks, weird sounds, AOR airs, Moog magic. Slightly fried. Recorded in 2005, the album was produced by Alan Weatherhead at Sound of Music Studios in Richmond Va.
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