VANDAVEER

“Superb. Vandaveer’s Divide & Conquer avoids the sophomore slump by miles and miles.” – POPMATTERS

“Jarring new folk.” – ROLLING STONE

“Divide & Conquer is as good as we could’ve hoped–slightly more delicate than Grace & Speed and punctuated with crescendos that explode in mid-air. ” – LA BLOGOTHEQUE

Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live, stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring of 2007 garnering rave reviews and comparisons to Donovan, Dylan, Waits, Drake, Simon, and the like. Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever since, Vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling artists including Bon Iver, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Evan Dando, Scout Niblett, The Ditty Bops, Smog, Fleet Foxes, Alela Diane and his dear friends in DC’s ramshackle collective, The Federal Reserve. In addition to said Vandaveering, Heidinger has been known to fraternize and conspire with other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist with fellow DCers These United States.

Photo by Kurt Gohde (2007)