Author Archives: Valerie

blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” Hiatus

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – we’re putting our beloved “Every Seven” project on a hiatus for a bit, due to…lots of songwriting.

BROWSERS (Amazon musical web series featuring Brendan’s music) pilot is OUT! Please watch/review.

BROWSERS, the Amazon musical-sitcom web series on which Brendan is music supervisor as well as co-composer, is HERE! (At least the pilot is…and we have all fingers and toes crossed for the rest of the season to be greenlighted.) It’s 22 minutes long, hilarious, smart, slightly profane (don’t let the little kids watch), and REALLY [...]

LEARNINGTOWN (one of two web series featuring Brendan’s music)

LEARNINGTOWN, one of two musical-sitcom web series on which Brendan is music supervisor as well as co-composer, is out and available! Written by and starring our great friends Paul & Storm, it is 10 8-minute episodes of hysterical geeky fun. The premise of LEARNINGTOWN is that comedy duo Paul and Storm take over a legendary kids’ [...]

Gene performing with Audra McDonald on her new record, “Go Back Home,” and PBS Live from Lincoln Center

Gene writes: I’m thrilled and honored to be playing drums on Audra’s new record. It features some of the music we’ve been touring with for years, as well as some amazing new material. We recorded at NYC’s legendary Avatar Studios, with a stellar orchestra. On Friday, May 24, three days after the album’s release, I’ll [...]

American Theatre Magazine article featuring us: “It’s Better With A Band”

      “The American musical’s next wave isn’t jukebox shows and rock stars—it’s a jam session between indie bands and theatre artists making vital new music together. …the most heartening and transformative trend in American musicals—and we might as well reclaim the word, all the better to broaden its purview—is a swelling wave of [...]

blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #12

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes this week’s  “Every Seven” video + download: “Money & Musicians & Explorers,” the song Ernest and Kat sing together about the financial woes they have in common. It’s a hootenanny!  

“Every Seven” #11: Giving It All Away (Live)

Intro to WHEELHOUSE: Years ago, we made our most exciting mistake – buying and attempting to live and tour in a used RV. The experience almost broke up the band, almost broke up Brendan and Val’s marriage…but as you are probably aware, we did survive and are still here to sing about it. We wrote an autobiographical show [...]

blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #10

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes this week’s  “Every Seven” video: “In The Forest” (Live), our nearly-through-composed, everybody suddenly-in-love-with-the-wron­g-person central scene in our rock-festival musical adaptation of Shakespeare: A LITTLE MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, filmed during our workshop production in LA in December of 2012.

“Every Seven” #9: Take On The World

Intro to WHEELHOUSE: Years ago, we made our most exciting mistake – buying and attempting to live and tour in a used RV. The experience almost broke up the band, almost broke up Brendan and Val’s marriage…but as you are probably aware, we did survive and are still here to sing about it. We wrote an autobiographical show [...]

blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #7 & #8

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes two weeks’ worth of “Every Seven”: these are songs we wrote long ago for Hooked on Phonics’ “Hooked on Bible Stories” project.