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Wallsburg / Salt Lake City, UTAH

Hum, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Nada Surf, Ozma, Gomez, Queens of the Stone Age, Surrounded By Commas, Stone Temple Pilots, Folk Implosion, the Beatles, Stereophonics, Masters of Reality.....

Finish album No. 2 and play some shows.

bass, guitars, drums, dirty basses, unclean guitars, acoustic guitars, keyboards, charango, percussive sounds, air whales, vocal manifestations.

VENUS EUPHORIC is a band hailing from the great outback that is rural Utah. They were pulled together in the mid-nineties by seemingly cosmic forces back when good music blossomed like fruit on trees and could be harvested from such lovely places as X-96 in Salt Lake City and the BMG music service.

The band consists of guitarist Charles Humes, bass-player Brad Evans, and jazz-turned-rock drummer Matthew Humes. The three firmly believe in band unity and the idea that if the band is treated and cared for as more than just a vehicle to ride to fame and fortune – changing and replacing parts whenever they seem not to fit – the music that is made will stand forth with beauty and purity and truth that the listener can hear and feel.

In their high school years Venus Euphoric was raw and angry and unrefined, and it wasn't without reason that the few people who did attend their shows did it mostly as a friendly favour. But as the band played through this and many other setbacks over the years, the members matured as musicians and as people, and their sound matured as well. The band all but abandoned their angry, aggressive sounds, turning more towards ethereal melodies reminiscent of indie rock, and the sort of inspiring instrumental imagery found in space rock. But in spite of branching out in this manner, the band still remembers how to just plain rock, with tightness and intensity to spare. In fact, their strongest point is arguably their ability drive their songs into the hearts of those who attend their live performances, using a balanced mix energetic improvisation and dead-on precision like only a band who has spent the better part of the last decade playing together can.

The band recorded, produced, and released an album in early 2004 (entitled "The Other Nine Planets Are Next") from their own Blue Boot Studios, located in the basement of the Humes estate in Walsburg, UT. It remains to this day a rather hard item to find. But the band doesn't mind, as their brand new album -- "The Problem With Re-Entry" -- is set to be released soon in the fall of 2007. It is the culmination of ten years of work and collaberation, and nothing like it exists anywhere in this arm of our galaxy.