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    Sebastian. (Song Clip - The Man From San Sebastian)

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    DeVotchKa is a four-member band known for blending folk, electronic, and classical elements into their indie rock and gypsy punk music. Their new album "100 Lovers" contains songs with influences from mariachi, classical, and indie rock genres. The band members are all multi-instrumentalists and the album makes use of strings, piano, accordion, and other soft instruments along with vocals. One of DeVotchKa's accomplishments was scoring the film "Little Miss Sunshine," which earned a Grammy nomination for best compilation soundtrack.

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    Sebastian. (Song Clip - The Man From San Sebastian)

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    DeVotchKa is a four-member band known for blending folk, electronic, and classical elements into their indie rock and gypsy punk music. Their new album "100 Lovers" contains songs with influences from mariachi, classical, and indie rock genres. The band members are all multi-instrumentalists and the album makes use of strings, piano, accordion, and other soft instruments along with vocals. One of DeVotchKa's accomplishments was scoring the film "Little Miss Sunshine," which earned a Grammy nomination for best compilation soundtrack.

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    DeVotchKa is a four-member band known for blending folk, electronic, and classical elements into their indie rock and gypsy punk music. Their new album "100 Lovers" contains songs with influences from mariachi, classical, and indie rock genres. The band members are all multi-instrumentalists and the album makes use of strings, piano, accordion, and other soft instruments along with vocals. One of DeVotchKa's accomplishments was scoring the film "Little Miss Sunshine," which earned a Grammy nomination for best compilation soundtrack.

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    Sebastian. (Song Clip - The Man From San Sebastian)

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    Rosalind W. Wong
    DeVotchKa is a four-member band known for blending folk, electronic, and classical elements into their indie rock and gypsy punk music. Their new album "100 Lovers" contains songs with influences from mariachi, classical, and indie rock genres. The band members are all multi-instrumentalists and the album makes use of strings, piano, accordion, and other soft instruments along with vocals. One of DeVotchKa's accomplishments was scoring the film "Little Miss Sunshine," which earned a Grammy nomination for best compilation soundtrack.

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    03.01.radio.

    DeVotchKa

    [Music- The Alley]

    WONG 1
    DeVotchKa is the Russian word for Girl. Their music delightfully summons up feelings of sunshine
    and fields of flower with the use of gradual layers of texture change mixed with a dose of unique
    harmonies. The band's new album 100 lovers open with the song The Alley, which blooms like a
    flower into spacey vocals. In Interlude I, obvious uses of folk, electronic, and classical elements are
    carefully blended to introduce the most mainstream song on their album, The Man From San
    Sebastian.

    [song clip – The Man from San Sebastian]

    WONG 2
    Strings and piano play an important part of their music, as do the accordian and various soft
    percussive instruments. Two interludes separate the songs logically based on the style. The album
    opens with four songs carrying largely classical influence. Sandwiched between Interlude I and
    Interlude II are two songs better identified with the genre of indie rock. Following Interlude 2 are
    three Mariachi inspired songs, Bad Luck Heels, Ruthless, and Contrabanda. The last song pulls the
    album order into a circle with it's violin produced chords and gypsy-like drumming patterns.

    [song clip- Sunshine]

    WONG 3
    The four man band, classified as indie rock or gypsy punk, started playing burlesque shows in their
    early days. After self releasing records, the band gained a large underground fan-base. All four of
    the members are multi-talented; Nick Urata sings, plays guitar, theremin, piano, and the trumpet.
    Tom Hagerman plays the violin, accordian, piano. Jeanie Shroder with vocals, sousaphone, and
    double bass. Shawn King with percussion and trumpet.

    [song clip- contrabanda]

    WONG 4
    One of DeVotchKa's accolades is for their scoring of the film Little Miss Sunshine, which was
    nominated for a 2006 grammy award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. Since their last album "A
    Mad & Faithful Telling" from 2008, the band added a new appeal to the general audience with the
    songs Exhaustible and The Man from San Sebastian, but yet etaining a loyal use of ethnomusic
    elements.

    [song clip- bad luck heels]

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