- A - Sign Of The Spike (18:10)
- B - Tridents (18:53)
Music & text by Troy Von Balthazar
Recorded & mixed by Troy Von Balthazar
Mastered by Peter Deimel at Black Box Studio, France
Artwork by Sébastien Lordez
Tag - discography
17 April 2026
Goodnight Silver Fox - 2026
By Franck on 17 April 2026, 16:50 - Albums
New album for disquaire day!
By Franck on 17 April 2026, 16:48 - News
Goodnight Silver Fox
Troy Von Balthazar rips opens another universe. The self professed master of sad songs is back with a new masterpiece.
“Goodnight Silver Fox” pulls the listener through massive musical tunnels, made for film soundtracks, and poetic wet dream landscapes.
This limited “vinyl only” release will shatter your complacency and leave you grateful that you searched for gold, and found it.
Limited transparent vinyl only available in these record stores for the Disquaire day tomorrow April 18th.
Tour dates
Troy will tour in the coming days, for both home & regular shows. Check the dedicated page for more info.
7 March 2025
Aloha Means Goodbye - 2025
By Franck on 7 March 2025, 07:01 - Albums
- Hammertime
- Boom Boom
- Her American
- Swimmer
- Please?
- St. Patience
- Poison Juice
- I Love Airplanes
- Let's Not Forget To Panic
- So Sunny
- Nurse 13
- Aloha Means Goodbye
Music & text by Troy Von Balthazar
All instruments by Troy Von Balthazar
Except cello on tracks 4, 8 & 12 by François-Pierre Fol, dunduns on track 6 by Philippe Conde
Recorded & mixed by Troy Von Balthazar at FloatingBrunoStudios, Angoulême, France
Mastered by Peter Deimel at Black Box Studio, France
Artwork by Nella Rieken & TvB
29 March 2019
It ends like crazy - 2019
By Franck on 29 March 2019, 10:02 - Albums
- Rain saves lives
- Holy something
- Impale
- Love me don't
- Lullaby for psycho
- Hell
- Big fat tear
- I put out
- Stoned dancers
- Fighter
- Invader
- Boys
- Filthy days
All musicians are TvB.
Mixed by Henri d’Armancourt at Velvet Underground Studio, Paris.
Mastered by Mathieu Bameulle at Soundbox Mastering, Paris.
Additional vocals on « Boys » by Zenobia Cobon.
13 September 2010
2010/09/13
By Franck on 13 September 2010, 21:21 - News
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.
9 July 2009
2009/07/09
By Franck on 9 July 2009, 16:51 - News
Tour dates
New tour dates in Czech Republic. A tour in China is scheduled for august-september 2009. See tour dates page.
8 songs for chinese girls
Note from Wangba Records : "This album is a special 500 CDs chinese version. A compilation from TVB recordings from 2003 to 2009. '8 songs for chinese girls' is released for TVB's China Tour 2009. Only available for his performances and selected stores in China". No import available. See disco page for artwork & tracklisting.
Flyer and poster
New flyers and posters of TVB 1st album on Sinnbus, TVB + Tocotronic tour and the forthcoming China tour on the photo page.
Interviews
You can read a short interview of TVB on Popblog (de/en).
You can also listen to an interview on Radio Pluriel (fr/en).
Live photos, reviews and videos
Pictures of the Nouveau Casino show by Alain G. at Soul Kitchen, review and photo/video on Blugture, and an acoustic session "Le choix des armes" on Dominotv.
22 March 2009
2009/03/22
By Franck on 22 March 2009, 17:08 - News
Tour dates
Troy is back on the road next month for a french tour (and a show in Prague too): see tour dates page for details.
TVB 3 EP CD & Compilations
A new CD including the Sweet Receiver EP, the Red Spider EP, and the Paradise EP will be available at the shows. Troy also appears on 2 compilations: the Surf me up! longbox compilation and the Inrockuptibles' 2nd Trésors cachés compilation.
See disco page for details.
TVB Covers
You recorded a cool cover of a TVB's song and want to share it ? Send it to
[ tvb AT troyvonbalthazar.net ] and a selection will appear on a dedicated page in the coming weeks.
note : only mp3 / 192kbps max are allowed.
16 June 2008
2008/06/16
By Franck on 16 June 2008, 17:12 - News
New tour dates
Troy will be opening for Berry for her autumn tour and play some other shows at the end of summer : see tour dates page for details.
Interviews
2 new interviews, one in french on Converse or not Converse, the other one in english and 3D video (!) on Fiese Falle, a german site.
Folk and proud
TVB's song Dogs appears on Folk and proud, a CD compilation released by Naïve, also featuring Devandra Banhart, Andrew Bird, Great Lake Swimmers, Girls in Hawaii, Cocoon, Laura Veirs... See discography.
Song on myspace
You can listen to Catt, a song already appearing on the TVB live in Paris DVD on Troy's myspace page.
