Friday 20 August 2021
By Franck on Friday 20 August 2021, 08:01 - Albums
Music & text by TvB
Recorded & mixed by TvB
Mastered by Norman Nitzche at CALYX Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Amandine P. & TvB
Photo by Camille Derian
Friday 29 March 2019
By Franck on Friday 29 March 2019, 10:02 - Albums
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.
Monday 13 September 2010
By Franck on Monday 13 September 2010, 21:21 - News
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.
A review of How to live on nothing on the french magazine Noise #17, another one on US webzine Blow the Scene.
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.
A great new TvB shirt, buttons and stickers will be for sale at the shows.
The Troy Von Balthazar song I block the sunlight out is featured in the 2010 award winning surf movie "Fiberglass and megapixels".
In 2010 book has been written and published in France. The rumour is that the main character is based on the life of TvB.
A new place for TvB to keep things up to date: the TVBlog.
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.
Thursday 9 July 2009
By Franck on Thursday 9 July 2009, 16:51 - News
New tour dates in Czech Republic. A tour in China is scheduled for august-september 2009. See tour dates page.
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.
New flyers and posters of TVB 1st album on Sinnbus, TVB + Tocotronic tour and the forthcoming China tour on the photo page.
You can read a short interview of TVB on Popblog (de/en).
You can also listen to an interview on Radio Pluriel (fr/en).
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.
Sunday 22 March 2009
By Franck on Sunday 22 March 2009, 17:08 - News
Troy is back on the road next month for a french tour (and a show in Prague too): see tour dates page for details.
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.
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.
Monday 16 June 2008
By Franck on Monday 16 June 2008, 17:12 - News
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.
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.
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.
You can listen to Catt, a song already appearing on the TVB live in Paris DVD on Troy's myspace page.
