DEVORA Will Be A Household Name

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Vinnie Devora. Is that you?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
I it's me. How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I should have known? I mean, I'm hassling you to
get up early, and you're playing the Grammar seat tonight.
You were probably gonna you were probably going to sleep in.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
No, oh my godness, no, I apologize. I was trying
to get an area with service.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Oh yeah, yeah it does. It sounds a little bit choppy,
but I'm excited to reconnect with you. You know what
a fan I am of Devora.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The world.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
You know. I am stumbled upon you at the Bush
Concert here in Connecticut a couple of years back. Great
opening act. Uh and on tour right now with the
Thrilled Killed Cult, right, Yes it is and uh great?
This is a small little like eight show, ten show tour.

(00:57):
What follows this, Devaura? Yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
It's not announced yet, but be doing like a West
Coast West Coast Throne in the spring, okay, and which
will be about ten plus shows, and yeah, some festivals
and or releases and there's a lot of exciting things
in stores for twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
So you're telling me that this is my shot, Like
my shot is this show right now? Because because I
want to see. I want to hear the news stuff.
I love cocaine karaoke, I love it. I can't wait
for what doesn't kill Me. It's like you've created a
genre of your own in a way, like there's a
little bit of country, but there's more rock. What's the

(01:44):
genre you would say you were Amora?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, so you know, growing up in Arizona, I definitely
have like a lot of Western influences growing up, you know,
I love listening to country music.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
But then.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Always always like you know, in the darker love the
darker genre.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So like.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Favor I really wanted to like bridge the gap, you
know between some of the heavier rock stuff was a
little bit of Western kind of stuff thrown on top.
So yeah, that's kind of where the genre fusion comes in.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, and you always got a cowboy You got a
cowboy hat on for a lot of it. I love
hearing you say, uh yeah, I could go for a
little bit of the U the darker stuff. You're this
beautiful blonde and yet when you post photos you're always
covered in blood, and it's like, what did she always
cover herself? And then I met you in person and

(02:45):
you're just delightful great conversation and the sweetest thing in
the world. And then I'll look at a food photo
shoot and be like, there are some thought lyrically even too.
You reveal much about yourself lyrically. Yeah. Yeah, and that's
why I so look five beating songs like not dead yet,
I'm still playing. I bought the EP at the last

(03:07):
show that that's one of the beefs I have with you,
and I want to get I want to have that
conversation with you that I think the EP was it
called Outlaw? Did the EP even have a name? The
first one, the one I got a few years ago, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
That one was Outlaw. That was the very first one.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Fistfights a banger. All the news stuff sounds great, and
you've been very good to me, like when I messaged you,
you you, you get back to me. But there's one
question that I've noticed you avoid every time I ask it,
and that question is where is the full length? Where's
the full length record? And you never answered me on that.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh my gosh, it's so funny. I think I answer
it in my head. I yeah, Oh my gosh, that
is that's a great I can't wait to do a
full length that's good.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
So it's just something you're just not working towards it.
That's just not like a goal, because i'd love some
Devora some vinyl and you probably have some maybe you know,
and what do they call it? A seven inch? But
I mean I would love I'm a vinyl guy, as
you probably know from when we met, even though it
was a couple of years ago. I would love some

(04:19):
Devora vinyl, especially because you know on that sleeve it
would be you and a cowboy hat just covered in
pig's blood.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, you know, that's it exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And it'll say what Doesn't kill Me? Over ex Why
aren't you? Is it? Because you're like, then, look, the
reality is it's a single, uh you know, Era, it's
the single hits Like my new single drops on Friday,
What Doesn't kill Me? It's all about the single, You
don't you're not working towards a full length in any way.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I definitely I'm like working for a larger body of honestly,
all these releases that I'm doing lately. That was supposed
to be another EP, but I'm really loving the consistency
of like singles lately and the way that it connects
stands and keeps them kind of excited and agree with next.

(05:19):
But I'd love to shoot for like a larger, larger
body of work, of full length in twenty twenty six.
I think that would be amazing. I'm with you, dying
to do vinyl.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean the vinyl's hot right now.
So that's a really interesting answer. It's it's just there's no,
not necessarily any game plan. It appears to me too,
as far as a full length is concerned, it appears
to me to like you kind of never really got
off the road from the You're always there's always a
smattering of shows. As far as Devora is concerned, it seems, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
There's definitely been. You know, in July, I did like
a festival in Canada, which is amazing. Yeah, and then yeah,
and then I had, you know, I have like a
month or two kind of off and then but I'd
love to do like a crazy, crazy you know, like

(06:15):
a like a European tour for like a month or
something like that. You know, that's the goal for sure.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Now tell me what what I'm look as far as
this is going to get me in trouble, but as
far as cocaine karaoke is concerned. I have experience. I
have experience with both of these things, yes, but never simultaneously.
Is that a thing I can't imagine I'd be any good. Well,
I'm not going to karaoke in general, but tell what

(06:43):
the hell is cocaine karaoke? Tell me about it.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
So jokin karaoke is like the eutimism for basically, I
was dating this guy and he was you know, in
music and entertainment you obviously run into a lot of
people that are on cocaine, and it's the whole thing,
and it's a lifestyle and it's you know, there's a
lot of bullshit. And basically I was getting this guy

(07:08):
who kind of promised the world but it was all
it was all like you know, it was all false
promises and his you know, it came down to it,
it was all cocaine karaoke.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
It was all that's tremendous.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
They're kind of thing. Exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, that's a great hashtag. Yeah it is exactly. That's
a that's a great hashtag. Is that is that lingo?
You think? Is that out there? Like? Is that understood?
You know? You do? Now I've got kids, your age,
I don't even know how old you are. But I mean,
you know, I've got a twenty two year old my
son now he's nineteen. Who you met I think when

(07:44):
he was about fifteen?

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Oh my god?

Speaker 1 (07:47):
But is that lingo that's out there? Would people know
cocaine karaoke? That's just a guy with a line of
bs a mile lone? Like, is it is it known?

Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know, it's really not known. You kind of have
to let listen to the song and put things together.
I think if you like, if you hear the song,
you listen to the lyrics, you'll you'll, you know, you'll,
you'll definitely it makes sense. It definitely makes sense. But
it's not like a wht we used yeah thing. It's
more it's more like poetic and kind of tongue and cheese.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I guess, well, first first thing is that guy's a
jackass because you're catch city, You're You're thank you. The
blow up on you is? I don't it's it's about
two years off. I'd say when you're a household name.

(08:40):
I think it comes with the full length I do You're,
You're You're about to pop your fantastic live. You're fairly
easy on the on the eyes, even when covered in blood.
So I don't know why this guy's b sing you.
I don't know who he thinks he is. He's a clown.
But beyond that, you know, what you really do have
a talent for, too, is is titles like that. You're

(09:02):
very good with the titles, you know. Cocaine Karaoke is
a very catchy title. Not Dead Yet it's great, fist Fight,
body Bag, and never mind the fact that it's a
tremendous song. God is Dead is very you know, it's provocative.
Do you do that intentionally? Do you do you think
about the title when you're writing a song or does

(09:23):
the title come after the song is written.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah? No, I'm a big title person, big title concept person.
That's like one of my favorite things is like coming
up with that first and then building the world around it.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah. It's like it's funny, like you just type your
name into a Google search and you just read not
Dead Yet, God is Dead, porn Star, fist Fight, body Bag,
dangerous Life, and it's like, I'm scared of this girl,
you know, but it's fantastic stuff. I wish you the

(09:57):
best of luck on this small tour. I wish I
could have made the Grammarcy Show Congress. Have you ever
played it before?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
No? No, never played Grammarcy Yeah on the bush?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah yeah. I hope you make it back our way
in the spring. Doesn't sound like you're going to UH
as far as it being a West coast tour, And
I really want you to focus on that that full
length because I'm just a huge fan. It's rock and roll, man,
I was playing I was playing that EP to death.

(10:30):
I played that EP so much your autograph smudged right
off of the sleeve. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm a big fan.
I'm looking forward to what doesn't kill me dropping on Friday,
break a leg tonight, and let's stay in touch. You're
the bad I mean, I want to be the guy
that you're like. You know, he was behind he was
with me when it was all just starting, even though

(10:51):
you've probably been at this a while, but you're a natural.
But I want to want to be regarded as the
guy who was there from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah. I appreciate you so much, are for sure?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I love it all? Right, tavera good luck tonight, and
let's stay in touch.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Honey, Thank you so much too. We'll talk soon.