The Tour Bus Music Show – Episode# 29 – Interview with Steven “Ven” Berez Of Venrez - a podcast by T. Mic

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On this episode of The Tour Bus Music Show T. Mic talks with Steven “Ven” Berez, lead vocalist and founder of Los Angeles’s own, Venrez. In their discussion Ven shares the story of the inception of the band and its evolution into its current line up. He also shares about the back to the roots way that the band recorded their newest full length album “Sell The Lie”.  The band recorded the entire album in just matter of days using the tried and true method of recording the band live and tracking most all tracks at once, with the exception of vocals. Laced throughout the interview we feature several songs from “Sell The Lie”Including “Karma”, the title track “Sell The Lie”,  a haunting cover of Steve Winwood’s “Can’t Find My Way Home”, and “My Only Light” (the c;ip featured in the beginning of the interview is “Melting”).  Ven gives us a behind the scences look at their recent tour with Fuel and talks about their upcoming tour dates in June 2012 with the legendary shock-rocker, Alice Cooper. Their  current  tour schedule is listed below:

Current Tour Schedule As Of June 10, 2012
VENREZ in Charleston, SC	North Charleston, South Carolina	With Alice Cooper
Monday,  June 11, 2012 at 8:00pm	North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center
VENREZ in Knoxville, TN	Knoxville, Tennessee	With Alice Cooper
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 8:00pm	Tennessee Theatre
VENREZ in Dayton, OH	Kettering, Ohio	With Alice Cooper
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 6:30pm	Fraze Pavilion
VENREZ in Kansas City, MO	Kansas City, Missouri	With Alice Cooper
Friday, June 15, 2012 at 7:00pm	The Midland
VENREZ in St. Louis, MO	Saint Louis, Missouri	With Alice Cooper
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 7:00pm	The Pageant
VENREZ in Burlington, IA	Burlington, Iowa	With Alice Cooper
Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 5:00pm	Burlington Steamboat Days
VENREZ in Louisville, KY	Louisville, Kentucky	With Alice Cooper
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at 7:00pm	Iroquois Amphitheater
VENREZ in Raleigh, NC	Raleigh, North Carolina
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7:30pm	Raleigh Downtown Ampitheater
VENREZ in New Haven, CT	New Haven, Connecticut	With Fuel
Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 7:00pm	Toad's Place
VENREZ in Hampton Beach, NH	Hampton Beach, New Hampshire	With Fuel
Sunday, June 24, 2012 at 7:00pm	Wally's Pub
VENREZ in Uncasville, CT	Uncasville, Connecticut	Acoustic Show
Friday, June 29, 2012 at 7:00pm	Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville CT
VENREZ in Rochester, NY	Rochester, New York	With Fuel
Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 5:30pm	Main Street Armory
Venrez Live with Junkyard!!!	West Hollywood, California	With Junkyard
Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 12:30am	The Whiskey
VENREZ in Weed, CA	Weed, California
Sunday, August 5, 2012	4&20 Blackbird Music Festival

 

After the tours Venrez still has quite a bit going on throughout 2012. The band is already well into recording their next album and more tours are being planned as we speak. Listening to the album previous to the interview “Sell The Lie” while being reminecient of the kind of straight forward music that has  always been great to listen to when you just want to rock, it also has traces of influences of great rock bands such as the Rolling Stones and Alice In Chains .  In the end, the album sounds great and serves as a reminder that rock is alive and well in 2012. You can check out the bands news, touring schedules and purchase Venrez’s album “Sell The Lie” and some merch to boot at their web site: www.venreztheband.com

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