Exclusive: Download VHS or Beta's Dance Banger 'Breaking Bones'

Click here to listen to VHS or Beta's "Breaking Bones"

In the time since the release of their album Bring on the Comets in 2007, the two core members of VHS or Beta packed up and moved from Louisville, Kentucky to Brooklyn, New York. The shift in location resulted in a change of direction for their music, which has become even more electronic and dance-oriented than before. Diamonds and Death, the band's third full-length album, reflects their extensive experience as DJs and remixers, with bright synthesizer parts bouncing off of hyper-kinetic live and programmed beats. The album won't hit stores until September 27th, but you can download its vibrant first single "Breaking Bones" for free right now.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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