News

Happy new year

It's that time of the year again. Have a nice 2011 full of good music and love.

Reviews, interviews, articles...

Once again, lots of reviews, interviews and articles about TvB's How to live on nothing and the 2010 fall tour.

Reviews: Popnews (fr), La musique à papa (fr), Des oreilles dans babylone (fr), Fensepost (en), Slanted mixtapes (en), Musiczine (fr), Indiepoprock (fr), Alternativ musik (de), Mainstage (de), Indierockmag (fr), France Inter / Didier Varrod (fr), Babysue (en), Leo Weekly (en), Orcasound (en).

Live reviews: Le mauvais coton (fr), Cave aux poètes (fr), les inrocks (fr), Le Bien Public (fr).

Interviews: Take a drag or two (fr), Dark Globe  (fr), Fest magazine (pt/en).

Articles: Telerama (fr), Magnet magazine (en).

TvB LP review: Shoot me again (fr).

Special show

A special TvB show will take place at la Machine (du moulin rouge), Paris (Fr) on April 15th. See tour dates page for details and reservation.

How to live on nothing

The new album How to live on nothing is out today on Digipack CD and digital (Europe only for the moment). Released on 3rd side records, you can purchase the 14 tracks LP in stores or via itunes. It'll be available next week in Belgium & Switzerland, and in Germany at the end of September.

You can find the lyrics at the words page, tracklisting, artwork & credits at the discography page.

Review

A review of How to live on nothing on the french magazine Noise #17, another one on US webzine Blow the Scene.

Fall tour

Check the fall tour dates at the tour dates page.

TvB will be touring with Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo (from Chokebore!) on drums and percussion and Adeline Fargier Jasso on bass/keyboard.

Merchandising

A great new TvB shirt, buttons and stickers will be for sale at the shows.

TvB song on the soundtrack of a surf movie

The Troy Von Balthazar song I block the sunlight out is featured in the 2010 award winning surf movie "Fiberglass and megapixels".

A book?

In 2010 book has been written and published in France. The rumour is that the main character is based on the life of TvB.

TVBlog

A new place for TvB to keep things up to date: the TVBlog.

Brand New site version

Completely new site, new design, many new features such as syndication for news & tour dates, maps & hcal & ical utilities for the shows.
New songs added at the audio page, and at the covers page.
More to come soon.

New song to download

Download for free CATT, a new track from Troy Von Balthazar's new album, to be released in september: http://troyvonbalthazar.bandcamp.com/

New video

See the CATT video on Dailymotion
Directed by Ingo Schiller.

Interview, review & German TV

A review (+ photos and a video) for the Oliver peel session #13, a private gig in appartement on Rocker Paris. A video interview on photobyjj.com. Troy also appears on a report on ZDF (check from 26:30).

New single soon

New single to be released for TVB upcoming album How To Live On Nothing on 3rd side records soon.

The 2nd book

Troy is just finishing the writing of his 2nd book.

Contribute

Contribute to the project on kisskissbankbank.com and help to "keep me from running to the mountains", in other words help Troy to carry on writing songs and books, playing concerts.

New covers / remixes

From members of Europe and Co Collective. Check them out on the covers page. If you want to be on this page, you can send your mp3s to [ tvb AT troyvonbalthazar.net ].

Lyrics for the TVB LP / TVB 3EP

Lyrics for the TVB LP at the words page.