Vitamin Party is a San Francisco/Bay Area "DIY" rock-punk band which formed in 2004. Their style shows influences of lo-fi, indie

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

, post-modern punk

Punk rock

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 with straight forward rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

. The band has released an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 and two full-length albums on their own record label

Record label

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 Get It Out! Records.

Biography

Vitamin Party formed in the SF Bay Area in 2004 after the dissolving of the bands City Volume and We're Gonna Fight The Eskimos Next. The band wrote and rehearsed for a full year before recording their first EP Get It Out in late 2005 and playing their first show at a San Francisco house party.
The band soon began playing local venues such as Stork Club, Blakes On Telegraph, The Independent and the Red Devil Lounge with other local acts such as Ex-boyfriends, Hottub, Wallpaper

Wallpaper

Wallpaper is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. It is usually sold in rolls and is put onto a wall using wallpaper paste...

, Hundred Days, The Hot Toddies and Bwuh.

In 2008 they released two albums, both of which were recorded by Collisionville's Stephen Pride and mastered by Guitar Vs. Gravity's Ben Adrian. The first album, The Revenge, was released in February and the second album, titled Back On Task, on October 31. Both albums were released on Get It Out! Records. All album art was created by the band with the help of photographer Kirsten Lindquist Campana.

Their music has been featured on the show The All-For-Nots, and their song "Animal Farm" is the opening theme for the online show Animal Trash. Animal Trash has featured a number of the band's other songs, including "I Don't Wanna Know", "End Credits" and "Tiny".

They were named SF Deli Magazine's "Band of the Month" for January 2009 and were also the first runner-up in the magazine's "Best Emerging Artist 2008 Readers Poll".

Drummer Sean M. Carey was voted "Best Guy Ever" in The East Bay Express' Best of the Bay 2009 issue.

The Vitamin Party song "Last Known Photograph" was featured in Punkradiocast's Top 40 countdown of 2010. The song was judged by the listeners of the station for two weeks and placed third with 2,316 votes.

As of October 1, 2010, "Radical Agenda" (the title track of Vitamin Party's latest release), is used as background music for the "Sunny Side Up" Morning show, which airs friday mornings on 90.7 KZUU

KZUU

KZUU is a radio station broadcasting in an educational format. Licensed to Pullman, Washington, USA, the station serves the Pullman, WA area. The station is currently owned by Washington State University.- About :...

 out of Pullman Washington.

Band members

• Matty Campana - Guitar, bass, vocals
• Vincent Reeder - Guitar, bass, vocals
• Conor Thompson - Guitar, bass, vocals
• Sean Michael Carey - Drums, vocals

New album/hiatus

On July 4, 2009 Vitamin Party played a live set on 90.7 KALX's show KALX

KALX

KALX is a freeform FM radio station that broadcasts from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. KALX, a community- and student-run radio station licensed to the University of California, Berkeley, broadcasts in stereo with 500 watts of power...

 live. Afterword the band was interviewed and revealed that they were currently working on a third album, tentatively titled Radical Agenda, Go!.

On August 14, 2009 Vitamin Party performed at a benefit show to support the all ages venues of the San Francisco Bay Area.

On October 30, 2009 Vitamin Party played their last show before going on indefinite hiatus for personal reasons. In April 2010 the band announced a handful of shows along the west coast of the United States to promote a new EP. In regards to this tour, drummer Sean M. Carey said 'Let the rumors start here, we're going on hiatus again after these shows'.

The Vitamin Party EP "Radical Agenda, Go!" went on sale digitally, July 6, 2010. A vinyl release is scheduled for later this summer.

According to the Vitamin Party website the band has put together a live album compiled of soundboard recordings from a number of different shows. The album is yet to be titled or have a release date, but the band has said it will consist of at least 17 tracks.

Side projects

Conor Thompson and Sean M. Carey perform bass and drum duties in the band We're Gonna Fight The Eskimos Next (with guitar players Nathan Fritz and Brian James). On March 3, 2010 the band was featured on the compilation album 'Karl Rove

Karl Rove

Karl Christian Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives...

: Courage and Consequence

Courage and Consequence

Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence is a grassroots funded compilation of rock songs released on March 3rd 2010 in anticipation of Karl Rove's similarly titled memoir. The subtitle of the record is The Unabridged Audio. It was conceived as:...

 (unabridged audio)' a culture jam targeted at Karl Rove's book of the same name. Vitamin Party was thanked on the album.

Thompson and Carey are also featured on the San Francisco natives Ex-Boyfriends new album Line in/ Line Out, supplying back up vocals on the three songs 'Uh-Oh', 'Whiskey Sour' and 'Perfect Ending'. The bands have been friends for years as they formed around the same time and have played several shows together. Colin Daly (singer/guitar player of the Ex-boyfriends) has often said that the song "Pick Up Line" featured on his second album In With, is about the first time he met Sean M. Carey.

In May/June of 2011 Conor and Vincent recorded a new album with Ex-boyfriends singer/song writer Colin Daly. The new group called The Philistines debut July 3rd 2011 at San Francisco's Bottom of the HIll.

Albums and track lists

• The Revenge - Release February 23, 2008

1. "Vitamin Party"
2. "Jenny Got Jaded"
3. "Last known Photograph"
4. "Animal Farm"
5. "Endless Conversation"
6. "Greater than or Equal To"
7. "Last Goodbye"
8. "Etc."
9. "I Don't Wanna Know"
10. "Lottery"
11. "Prospect St."
12. "Your Friends"
13. "Cigarette Packs"
14. End Credits - "Tiny"

• Back On Task - Release October 31, 2008

1. "She's Not the One"
2. "Hijacked"
3. "Stepladder"
4. "Black Armband"
5. "Pencils Down"
6. "Wait it Out"
7. "3 Car Train"
8. "Over the Counter"
9. "Breakdown"
10. "Ghost Note"
11. "racEcar"
12. "Robots and Beer"

• Radical Agenda Go! - Released July 6, 2010

1. "Radical Agenda"
2. "Barely Standing Up"
3. "66th"
4. "Tempt Me, Tempt Me"
5. "Lost Her Mind"
6. "Exit Strategy"
7. "Oh God" - digital bonus track, not on vinyl
8. "The Song For Every Occasion" - digital bonus track, not on vinyl

Show history

• 11-??-05 House Party. SF, CA
• 12/03/05 Jacks' Club with Power Plant. SF, CA
• 03/18/06 Jack's Club with Suicide Shifter. SF, CA
• 04/16/06 Balazo Gallery with Ninja Academy, The Mormons, Scientician SF, CA
• 04/26/06 Thee Parkside with Overdrive AD. SF, CA
• 05/??/06 12 Galaxies with Ex-Boyfriends, Truxton. SF, CA
• 6/??/06 8th Grade Graduation with DJ Tiny Thompson SF, CA
• 8/19/06 Jack's Club with 'Vitamin Naughty'. SF, CA
• 9/15/06 Blake's on Telegraph with the Federalists and La Vendi. Berkeley, CA
• 9/30/06 Bayview Boat Club. San Francisco, CA
• 10/13/06 Blake's on Telegraph with Spooky Kabuki Assassins. Berkeley, CA
• 11/21/06 Sweet Water Saloon with Local Band. Mill Valley, CA
• 11/25/06 Thee Parkside with Big Blue Whale. San Francisco, CA
• 12/16/06 Jack's Club with Collisionville. San Francisco, CA
• 1/11/07 The Stork Club with the Immigrants. Oakland, CA
• 1/13/07 Kimo's San Francisco, CA
• 2/02/07 Blake's on Telegraph Berkeley, CA
• 4/21/07 Blake's on Telegraph with Tragedy Andy. Berkeley, CA
• 5/25/07 Blake's on Telegraph with BWUH, Buttercream Gang. Berkeley, CA
• 7/13/07 Blake's on Telegraph with Unko Atama. Berkeley, CA
• 12/02/07 Stork Club with BWUH and Ghost to Atom. Oakland, CA
• 12/13/07 Thrillhouse Records with ABI YO YOS. SF, CA
• 1/26/08 Thee Parkside. SF, CA
• 2/23/08 Blake's (The Revenge CD release party) Berkeley, CA.
• 3-39-08 Whiskey Dick's Saloon. South Lake Tahoe, CA
• 4-12-08 Stork Club. Oakland, CA
• 5-23-08 House of Shields with the Touques. SF, CA
• 7-11-08 Retox Lounge with Guitar vs. Gravity. SF, CA
• 8-8-08 Independent SF, CA with HOTTUB, Wallpaper. OWL Mag B-day party, SF, CA
• 9-20-08 Pissed Off Pete's with Nerv, Penny Dreadfuls, My Parade. SF, CA
• 10-31-08 Stork Club with Collisionville and Ex-Boyfriends (Back On Task release party). Oakland, CA.
• 11-21-08 Temescal Arts Center (acoustic) with BWUH and Collisionville. Oakland, CA.
• 12-2-08 Red Devil Lounge SF, CA. with Raised by Robots, Greening
• 1-17-09 Stork Club with Paper Sons, Collisionville. Oakland, CA.
• 1-22-09 Grant and Green with the Greening. SF, CA.
• 1-24-09 The Wild Rose with Purple Rhinestone Eagle. Seattle, WA
• 1-25-09 Dekum Manor with Purple Rhinestone Eagle. Portland, OR
• 2-21-09 Nickel City with Ego Trippers. San Jose, CA
• 3-3-09 Bottom of the Hill with My Parade. SF, CA
• 3-26-09 Grant and Green with The Greening SF, CA.
• 4-15-09 Stork Club Oakland, CA. with The Knew, Collisionville
• 5-31-09 Stork Club Oakland, CA. with Craftmatic Adjustables
• 6-17-09 Henflings Tavern Ben Lomond, CA.
• 6-19-09 Lounge Underground Monterey, CA.
• 6-20-09 Q-Bonkers Riverside, CA. with the Maxies, the Retcons
• 6-21-09 O'Connell's Bar San Diego, CA. with Social Concern
• 7-4-09 KALX 90.7 Berkeley, CA. ( KALX Live!)
• 8-14-09 The Uptown, Oakland CA. The Hot Toddies, Hundred Days
• 8-22-09 Thee Parkside SF, CA. with Ex-Boyfriends and My First Earthquake
• 9-2-09 Harlot SF, CA.
• 9-19-09 Stork Club Oakland, CA w/Bwuh and Craftmatic Adjustibles
• 10-30-09 Stork Club Oakland, CA. Ex-boyfriends, Outroriffagains

Interviews

• KALX live July 4, 2009. Live set and interview.