We have a new release coming out this August on cassette via Fan Death Records featuring 2 brand new songs that will be appearing in October as a 7 inch. The cassette is going to be called Ice Station and will look pretty much like the above photo other than a title change. Here's the track list:

Side A
Siberian Eclipse
New Visions
Deathdream (Live)
Too Much Speed (Live)
Tomorrow is Too Far (Live)
New Visions (Live)

Side B
Siberian Eclipse (Demo)
Fever
Slipping Away
Asteroid Exile
All Places

The live tracks were recorded by our friend Steve Sanford at the show we did with Spectrum in May at the Velvet Lounge in DC. There's also the original demo of Siberian Eclipse and another song you might recognize from Interceptors.. And the Ice Station sessions are from October 2008.

Third Rail Radio This Sunday
We also just went into the studio with Sean Gray from Fan Death this past weekend and recorded a session at WMUC radio which will be aired this Sunday on Third Rail Radio. There will be some old tracks and some brand new stuff featured. 

Sunday July 25 from 6pm-9pm

Listen online here

There’s something hopeful about Screen Vinyl Image’s noise. For a while, it made Jesus and Mary Chain-style art pop with harsh beats—the group, more or less, was making in D.C. the same stuff a Place to Bury Strangers was making in New York. In 2010 Screen Vinyl Image is a different band: On “New Visions,” the B-side of its new Fan Death Records 7-inch, it revels in distant, observational vocals, harsh-light ambience, and clean, sequenced beats. That doesn’t exactly make it a cousin of the other bands on Fan Death, who lean toward sonic and thematic assault. If you’ve got a problem with the label, let ‘em know: While Screen Vinyl Image plays the Velvet Lounge’s second floor, Fan Death’s Sean Gray will be DJing downstairs.

- Jonathan L. Fischer

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Oh and this got lost in all the site revisions going on, Big Takeover Review of Interceptors

The intro is all atmosphere, then when the songs start, it’s noise and distortion, melodics, and the depth of some barbed wire kisses crushing out like a perfect mix of a Jesus & Mary Chain Suicide. This is experimental shoegaze goth techno darkwave, distorted into something more, enchanting, hypnotic, and folding noise into melody. It’s a dream soundtrack, a nightmare kiss, with both sides leaving you wanting more. The layers fit, and the broken drums stay solid, staggered against the underwater mystery of the vocals and the sparkled crush of guitar—mellow, but menacing, promising a world of wonder, but holding danger between each note.

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Also you can download the Remixes album from iTunes. Here's the link.

So here we go:

From Washington Post Blog:
Cold wave - it's not that hard to figure out what it is. It's like new wave but ... colder. Okay, that's an over-simplification of the disaffected, dark, synth-heavy music that starting dripping out of Europe in the '70s and '80s but, hey, we're blurbing here. It's mopey and dramatic and people who wear black dig it. Sean Gray (who helps run local label Fan Death Records) and Denman Anderson (who DJs No Control! and contributes to local blog All Our Noise) will be your DJ guides through No Love Lost, their new Cold Wave DJ night that debuts Sunday at Velvet Lounge. There is an appropriate collection of bands playing upstairs, including local shoegaze/noise-makers Screen Vinyl Image and Indianapolis's We Are Hex, who play icy and spiky post-punk with well-placed bursts of mayhem.

Sunday July 18
Velvet Lounge, Washington DC
Night and the City, We Are Hex, The Water

AND!

No Love Lost DJ night downstairs.
Sean Gray (Fan Death) and Denman Anderson spin
tons of darkwave and coldwave all night long.

We'll be adding some extras too in the coming weeks.

We have some shows coming up this month in the DC area. 

Word on the street is the Fan Death Ice Station EP on cassette tape will be out in August and the Siberian Eclipse 7 Inch in the fall. Sorry for the delay on this. Track info will be coming soon. 

Too Much Speed single is also planned to come out this fall and we're planning something special for the 12 inch. 

We're also planning a split 7 inch with Rude 66 (Bunker / Creme Org). We're really stoked about this split and if you don't know anything about Rude66, we highly recommend you doing some google searching. "from deep atmospheric soundtrack acid to dark industrial electro-funk and melancholic electronic wave disco, rude 66 has done it with a dystopian edge of new wave-futurism." More info to come on this collaboration.

http://indierockmagazine.com/press.html

INTERCEPTORS

A ride through space begins in Washington, D.C. Screen Vinyl Image, is an independent shoegaze/synth pop band heavily influenced by Depeche Mode. This is evident with the instrumental track "Synthetic Apparition," which is from the CD "Interceptors" released in January 2009. A "creepy" tale about aliens invading Earth. This track features a relentless dose of keyboards. This type of instrumentation brings out the eerie feel of the song.

Screen Vinyl Image, creates "space age" music that will make hair stand up on the back of the neck.

-Leslie Snyder

REMIXES

The journey through the galaxy continues with Screen Vinyl Image. The  independent shoegaze/synth pop band released their "groovy" follow up CD "Remixes" in March 2010. This CD also has the heavy  influence of Depeche Mode. Evidence of this is in the sixth track "Passing Through Mirrors." A futuristic sounding track about the stuggles of everyday life. people do not want to take a long, hard  look at themselves. This track features slight hints of "robotic" vocals, and more relentless keyboard instrumentation. These features bring out the "gloomy" tone of the song.

Screen Vinyl Image creates more "hair raising" synth pop music.

-Leslie Snyde

We just released an album of remixes, Ceremony just released their full length Rocket Fire and Soundpool just released their full length Mirrors in Your Eyes. Come hang out!

Thur June 17

U Street Music Hall
w/ Ceremony and Soundpool
1115 U St NW, Washington DC
U Street Music Hall
$8, EARLY SHOW 7-10pm 18+

Fri June 18

Fatty J's
w/ Ceremony and Soundpool
106 George Street Fredericksburg, VA

Sat June 19

The Warehouse
w/ Ceremony and Soundpool and The Sky Drops
1229 Olney Rd in Norfolk, VA

Saturday May 8, 7PM
Basement Speakeasy
Pan Galactic Straw Boss, Screen Vinyl Image, Night and the City

BYOB (it's a house party after all), email basementspeakeasy@gmail.com for directions
(it's located behind the galaxy hut in arlington va for ref)
Suggested donations help get Pan Galactic gas + beer money.

Thursday May 13
Velvet Lounge, Washington DC
$12, 21+ Doors 7:30pm (show starts promptly at 8:30pm)
Spectrum, Screen Vinyl Image, The Vacant Lots, Kuschty Rye Ergot

From Custom Made Music:

We are taking Pre-Orders for this 12" record now (click here). A CD with all 6 tracks will also be included inside each jacket. Everyone that pre-orders a copy will get a hand stamped hand numbered copy that will also included a silk screened poster. This edition will be limited to 100 copies and can be ordered via paypal for $10 for U.S. orders and $20 for International orders. 

Pre-orders should be ready to ship by Tuesday May 4th. You may also preview all 6 tracks from the record here... http://screenvinylimage.com/releases/remix/svi-remix.htm

Posted by Jonathan L. Fischer 

We’ve devoted a lot of words on this blog to what Fan Death Records hates about D.C.—and less, for better or for worse, on what the Maryland label loves.

I’ll drop the editorial we and say that I can get behind D.C.’s Screen Vinyl Image, whose “Siberian Eclipse” 7-inch drops on Fan Death on June 29. I can’t tell you much about the title song, just its B-side “New Visions,” which the label mailed out today. Gone here are the Jesus and Mary Chain histrionics, but not the distant and distorted J+MC vox. Those, combined with the harsh-light ambience and laconic sequenced beats, are briefly suggestive of the satisfying, Curtis-indebted iconoclasm of Philadelphia’s Cold Cave. That all those elements are soon swallowed by a wash of hopeful noise—though it feels wrong to call it noisy—makes plain that the band isn’t especially interested in making record-collector rock.

By Paige Maguire on Apr 5, 2010

Interivew By Ryan Muldoon

They say it takes two to tango - apparently, it also takes two to create a massive wall of over-driven, electronic, ear-splitting musical beauty. Or at least that’s what the two members of Screen Vinyl Image have a reputation for doing.

On their most recent album, Interceptors, the duo known as Screen Vinyl Image (Jake and Kim Reid) make the most of countless waves of guitar layers, synthetic beats and keyboard craziness, coming together for a sound that’s dangerous - but somehow, delightfully digestible. When performing live, SVI seek to answer that eternal question, “What would happen if Goblin did the score to Dario Argenta's Susperia after buying the world’s largest PA, bathing themselves in neon light and threatening to crack the audience’s backs through sheer volume?”

And the answer is, “It would be awesome.”

What can you tell us about your commitment to providing a visually stunning live performance? Was that a natural progression or something more of a pre-determined goal for Screen Vinyl Image?

We used to use visuals in our old band Alcian Blue. We started out with a 16mm projector and found films on eBay and then we moved onto doing our own stuff with a digital projector. When we started SVI we wanted to continue that tradition so we started out with oil projectors and strobes before moving onto the digital projector and editing our own visuals. Kim also wanted to do something different from the white strobe effect which is why we use color gels. It's a big inspiration from watching Italian horror movies. We also try to change up the visuals every few months so you might see some of the same stuff, but then a lot of new material as well.

We really like all the psychedelic light show stuff from the 60's and 70's concerts but we also went to raves during the 90's and there is a definite correlation between those two movements and we wanted to have that element in our live performance. Give people something to escape into for 30 or 40 minutes.

READ THE REST HERE

We posted a bunch of new music both on Facebook and Myspace:

What You Need (TeenageSinTaste Remix) from the upcoming remixes 12 inch (May 1)

Siberian Eclipse from the upcoming Fan Death Records 7 inch.

Too Much Speed 4-Track Demo for the upcoming 7 inch on Custom Made Music

Cathode Ray Alternate "New Flesh" mix just for the sake of posting

We also did a remix for Factory Kids which you can find out about and listen to here.

We're lining up shows for spring at the moment. If you live down in Texas we'll be heading to Psych Fest 3 this year, check the link for all the info or the flyer below. 

The release show for the Remix album will be May 1 in Norfolk, VA at The Warehouse (1229 Olney Rd in Norfolk, VA) w/ Kingsteen, Last Remaining Pinnacle, Debris Amour (mem of Moutheater), and Kingdom Of Sharks.

And, our bud Markus made the official video for Cathode Ray based on footage he has shot of us over the past year. He did a killer job with it and we're really stoked and think you will be too. 

Screen Vinyl Image "Cathode Ray" music video from Markus Fussell on Vimeo.

More info will be posted as it comes in!

Psych Fest 3 April 23-25 (Official Website)
The Mohawk

The Black Angels
The Raveonettes
Pink Mountaintops
YaHoWa 13
Spindrift
Warpaint
Indian Jewelry
The Vandelies
The Meed
Headdress
Ringo Deathstarr
Christian Bland and the Revelators
Daughters of the Sun
Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor
The Night Beats
Shapes Have Fangs
Smoke and Feathers
Screen Vinyl Image
Black Acid
Ghost Songs

Sentamentalist Magazine

Link to Article

Fans of punk, Goth and shoegaze who were not in Brooklyn on Thursday missed out on one sweet treat with the impressive bill of Ceremony, Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and 999999999 at the Knitting Factory.

The show opened with New York’s 999999999 (pronounced “All nines”), which features guitarist Tony Banana Chow Mein, drummer Ted McGrath and songs with early Pixies and Ramones influences.

Next was Washington, D.C.-area band Screen Vinyl Image — Jake Reid and Kim Reid, aka J. Sequential and Kim K. The band’s sound lies somewhere between 1980s new wave and 1990s shoegaze. Think Visage (or early Berlin) meets Ride, synths and electronic beats with a heavy dose of reverb. The band has even been known to cover Ride in live sets, but not this night. Opening with the hard-driving “Cathode Ray,” from the 2009’s Interceptors, the band played only six songs, including two new ones that will be released as 7-inch singles in the coming months.

Outpost, who veers more on the synth-driven Goth side of things, reminded me of the dark soundscapes of Tones on Tail and Bauhaus, with fluid bass lines and haunting vocals and guitars. Though Outpost has two vocalists, the set included a surprising amount of instrumentals. The band is fairly recent on the scene, having played together for nine months now. Band members include Stuart Argabright, Mark C., and Kent Heine, former members of such bands as Ike Yard, Live Skull and The Holy Ghost. Outpost has just wrapped up recording on the debut album, which the band is hoping to release later this year.

Headlining the night was Ceremony, another two-piece band, from Fredericksburg, Virginia (not to be confused with the West Coast hardcore band by the same name). These guys rocked, rather loudly, with songs that recall the Creation Records heyday (pre-Oasis) with the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and early Ride but are more up-tempo. The set included “Our Last Goodbye” and “For Her Smile,” as well as a few new songs. Ceremony does not tour often, and lately has not played much outside of the Virginia-Maryland-D.C. area, so this was a rare chance for fans outside that region to see the band live. Ceremony — vocalist/guitarist Paul Baker and bassist/vocalist John Fedowitz – have a new album due out in Spring 2010.

Spotted in the audience were members of local heroes A Place To Bury Strangers (with whom Ceremony and Screen Vinyl Image have shared the stage), as well as Dead Leaf Echo.

With new releases expected from Screen Vinyl Image, Outpost and Ceremony in 2010, one would hope to see them on the same bill again at some point in the future – it would definitely be something to look forward to. –Teresa Sampson, Photos by Teresa Sampson

Will Trade Bike for Women

Link To Article 

I finally had the time to trek Brooklyn, had to put em Red Wing jawnz, left NJ and took the L train to Bedford Ave. It's been ages since I took the L train, what a weird feeling. Anyway, I was so excited to finally see Ceremony. It seems I'm terrible at keeping up with calendar dates, luckily I didn't miss them this time. What better way to see them with fellow shoegazer and Virginia natives, Screen Vinyl Image. This is the second time I've seen SVI. Playing with the original line up, Jake and Kim kept strumming those airy dissonant sounds with a loop of discotheque electro beats. What else impresses me about SVI, besides their upbeat yet dark sound is the enormous selection of effect and pedals they use. Clearly I wrote "use" and not just a big rig of stompers for show. Anyway, how fun it would be to play all those crazy sounds, right? I feel like button smashing or rather pedal stomping some right now. Continuing the pedal stomping and shoegaze-esque sounds, Ceremony, 2/3 of former band Skywave, played dreamy noise songs that without doubt reminds you that JAMC is somehow still alive. I do think that Ceremony have more a distinct pop sound on their record and that is something that made me play their records the whole night. Having seen both great shoegaze bands it reminds me that people should not end their ears at MBV. Big thanks to John for giving me a free copy of Disappear. Never Love Again and Cold Cold Night are awesome tracks. Please do watch out for their new record coming out soon.

Friday Feb 26
Velvet Lounge, Washington DC
Screen Vinyl Image, Last Tide, Dead Leaf Echo, Ceremony

Saturday Feb 27

Barnone, Virginia Beach, VA
Screen Vinyl Image, Dead Leaf Echo, Pan Am Down

First, we are releasing a 12inch of remixes:

A.
Chaser (Hypefactor's Blood on Your Hands Remix)
Until the End of Time (Remarkably Spry Remix)
Cathode Ray (SVI Drone mix)

B.
What You Need (TeenageSinTaste Remix)
Until the End of Time (I.H.M.C. Star Night Remix)
Passing Through Mirrors (SVI Orphée Mix)

Next we are releasing a 7 inch with Fan Death Records

A. Siberian Eclipse
B. New Visions

And finally a 7 inch with Custom Made Music

A. Too Much Speed
B. TBA

http://theblogthatcelebratesitself.blogspot.com/2010/02/until-end-of-time-with-screen-vinyl.html

Adam Franklin and Bolts of Melody

Seasonscollide

Bar None

5000 Cleveland Street
Virginia Beach, VA

We're currently tracking new material and putting together an album of remixes from Interceptors. We've got a few shows coming up in January which we will post info on soon and we'll be starting back up again, full force, in the spring. Til then, Happy New Year!

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We hit #12 on Mishka Bloglin's Top 100 of 09
The year’s two most prominent revival genres, married at last. Interceptor is so much the middle point between shoegaze and goth, you really can’t call it anything but gothgaze: dark and ethereal, mechanical and still somehow warm. I’ll be closely following Screen Vinyl Image in 2010; if Interceptor is any indication—and if they get the attention they deserve—we can expect nothing but great, gothgazey things.

Teresa of Sentamentalist Blog listed us in her Top 10 of 09

Shoegazer Alive Interceptors Hit #9 in their Top 10

The Blog That Celebrates Itself #3 on their Top 5

RDU New Zealand's Human Pleasure Top Songs of 2009 Radio Show (Fever was selected track)

Go Flying Turtle Best Albums of 2009
Soon I found myself quickly forgetting about everything, and like a moth to a blinding light, was standing front and center, transfixed by a sound that simultaneously transported me back to 1984 and forward to 2024. I don't think the kids were ready for this aural onslaught of vast, screaming guitar and keyboard textures, and at one point I thought, by sheer sound alone, the band was going to blow the roof off the bar. (Read full article here)

All the tracks are below (via YouTube) or you can go to Magnet and snag a free copy of "Lost in Repeat."

Screen Vinyl Image calls its music a mixture of shoegaze, electronica and psychedelia, and that’s as good a description as anything that we would have come up with. The Virginia duo’s latest album is Interceptors (Custom Made Music), and if you are into bands like My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, the Jesus And Mary Chain and Suicide, you should seek it out. MAGNET asked Jake and Kim Reid to make us a mix tape.

Check the mix tape here