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November 2007
Singer Holly Brewer nominated for Best Female Vocalist 2007

HUMANWINE plans a tour in Feb with local comrades Beat Circus, who will be celebrating their upcoming release "Dreamland".

HUMANWINE celebrates BUY NOTHING DAY (a.k.a Black Friday Nov. 24) by closing down their on-line store

Plans to record their 2nd album to be release on Nervous Relatives Records in the spring a 2nd. Video and Graphic novel plans announced in this months newzletter..
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October 2007
HUMANWINE plans a Perpetual Tour in a School Bus fueled by waste vegetable oil.
Visit the Recycled Movement Page to see how you can help.
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One person intensely interested in the story is Jac Holzman, the legendary record man who founded both Elektra and Nonesuch Records and discovered talents as varied as the Doors and Judy Collins. Holzman created the band's unique ``e-label" Cordless Recordings, an affiliate of the Warner Music Group. Normally bands on Cordless release three-song ``clusters" that are available via download only. After two clusters, Holzman has committed to making a full album with the band. They start recording in January.

``The thing that attracted me to HUMANWINE was that they didn't look at anything from quite the same angle as normal people," says Holzman. ``By that I mean their take has always been angular and interesting. One of the things that an A&R person always asks is, `Is this something I haven't heard before?' And they were certainly something I haven't heard before."

Which brings us back to the sticky question of how to describe the music the duo makes, often with assistance from members of their local musical family. A quote on their website calls it ``vaudeville-anarcho punk." ``I think it's very operatic, sing-songy punk," musical comrade Glasseye says. Holzman calls it ``a little Weimar Republic but it has an edge that is someplace far out into the future." Brewer dubs it ``soundtrack music," since that means it could be anything. And McNiss says they draw on everything they've ever heard, from Squirrel Nut Zippers and Dead Can Dance to Tom Waits and Billie Holiday.

A band of self-described freaks probably isn't going to be challenging Nickelback on the pop charts anytime soon. But Brewer and McNiss don't rule out the possibility that there are millions of people who also consider themselves freaks for whom HUMANWINE could serve as musical heroes.

``There are people who work their [expletive] [butts] off and have the most awesome music, and I hear it, and I'll hear there were only 1,000 copies made and I feel lucky for having heard it," Brewer says.

While the pair -- both visual artists who do freelance computer and stagehand work to pay the rent -- are happy to sell 10, 1,000, or 1,000,000 records, they would like to eat as well.

``We're definitely not striving for stardom," says McNiss. ``What we strive for is to make sure that our daily lives involve art and a couple of meals."

Regardless of the commercial viability of their recordings, Brewer says their commitment to their craft is not a choice. ``I could cover myself in music for the rest of my life, homeless or living in a houseboat, and I will never stop. And neither will M@. It's what we're supposed to do."

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HUMANWINE was voted BEST NEW LOCAL ACT in the 19th Annual Boston Music Awards on September 27th 2006!

By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | September 28, 2006
In lesser hands, giving ones band an all-caps moniker might be considered empty hubris, but Bostons HUMANWINE makes musical statements just as brazen and bold. The cracked cabaret stylings and elaborately weird performances staged by co-founders Holly Brewer and Mat McNiss have garnered the band three Boston Music Award nominations (outstanding new act, outstanding lead female vocalist, outstanding local punk band) and a slew of gushing publicity. HUMANWINE also took best new act honors in the WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll this year.

HUMANWINE was voted BEST NEW LOCAL ACT in the 101.7 FNX Phoenix Music Poll

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November 19

Boston.tv HUMANWINE Show coverage

One Minute with HUMANWINE
Boston.tv coverage of a HUMANWINE show.

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November 14

School Bus Hunt Begins!

Thank you for your donations to Recycled Movement
Together we have raised $6,500.00.

HUMANWINE has is now looking for a school bus.
We have our ears to the ground
but we want to make sure a fated opportunity
doesn't pass us by.
So now we reach out to you to ask you to
Keep your Eyes Peeled!

Here is what we're looking for:
55 Person School Bus
Diesel Engine
Automatic Transmission

Let us know of any School Buses for sale
Long Buses for Sale
"Bus Carpools" (Parking Lots where sleeping buses go)

We're still $3,500.00 away from doing the conversion,
outfitting it with a Solar Energy System and building the
living space. We're working hard to see this through.
Visit our Recycled Movement site to see how you can help.

Please take a moment to check it out and pass along the info
to any of your friends who are interested in our mission.
Every day we get closer to making this a success.

LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-holly n m@

Dreamland Tour coming up in February

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November 1

Palestra catches up with HUMANWINE again!

Episode 8b - HUMANWINE

The extremely creative and talented members of Boston's HUMANWINE, Holly and M@, talked to ThePalestra.com about their first full-length release "Fighting Naked" and land of Vinland where it all takes place. For more on HUMANWINE go to HUMANWINE.org.