NY Slice Nights at City Vineyard

Two "NY Slice" alums, Tipa Tipo and Vakili Band, will be the focus artists for the second installment of FUV's concert series, "NY Slice Nights," at City Vineyard on Monday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m., hosted by FUV's Alisa Ali. The first "NY Slice Nights" show took place in February with Bird Streets and Golden Alphabet.

Last year, Tipa Tipo performed a "NY Slice Session" and took the "NY Slice" pop quiz too.

WFUV is proud to partner with City Vineyard for this celebration of some of our "NY Slice" all-stars with the radio station's mission of music discovery always at the forefront. And we're excited to see you there!

Tickets are on sale now for just $22 in advance, $25 day of show.

Tipa Tipo:
Brooklyn-based combo Tipa Tipo fuses the spirit of '70s soft rock and disco with Latin rhythms to create their fresh take on tropical yacht rock en Español. Originally formed in Lima, Perú, the band plays live as a trio fronted by co-producers Adele Fournet and Felipe Wurst with Jordan Auber on drums. The band packs the sonic force of a much bigger ensemble by combining contrapuntal synth bass lines, tight vocal harmonies, intoxicating guitar, and electric piano textures. Last year, Tipa Tipo released their first full-length album, Cintas, featuring Fournet and Wurst’s distinctive production style synthesizing retro pop with Peruvian cumbia. This release comes in the wake of many recent successes for the band, including their Lincoln Center debut and the release of their first two EPs,  El Chari (2021) and 2 Al Azar (2022), which gained attention throughout Latin America and US Latinx independent music circles. Their single “Voy Por Ella'' was recently featured on the Mexican TV series “Soy Tu Fan" and their song "Grifo" on the music app Beatstar. You can catch their tunes on radio stations including WFUV, KEXP, KCSN, and WXPN (NPR’s World Café) and reviews on Paste, Bandcamp, Rock Achorao (Perú), WNYC’s New Sounds, and more. The Bandcamp Daily calls Cintas “an overall wonderful debut” with “clean guitars, sweet vocals, and lyrics that touch on political and feminist issues.”

Vakili Band
Led by genre-transcendent singer/songwriter Lily Vakili, the Vakili Band sound has been called "an electric blend of rock, soul and psychedelia" (Under The Radar) and Lily’s voice as “compelling the way the first Patti Smith music gripped a listener, the Swans’ Jarboe enthralled, or even Nico startled” (Americana Highways).

Raised in a large multi-cultural family in Honduras, Florida, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and Iowa, Lily left home at 16 to join a theater troupe in Minneapolis. She’s since worked as a dancer, actress, summer theater stage director, choreographer, corn detasseler, human rights researcher, waitress and lawyer. Whatever the age, the role, the place, the job, the predicament, she marked the journey by writing songs. Taking her mother’s advice,“What are you waiting for? No one else will do it for you,” Lily launched her recording career as a solo artist before forming the five-member Vakili Band, releasing three studio albums: Oh Alright (produced by Ray Ketchem), Walking Sideways (produced by David Amlen), and Honey (produced by Vakili herself). The band also toured up and down the East Coast.

Vakili's most recent project is the solo EP Tannersville, co-produced with Reed Turchi at Second Take Sound in NYC. Called a “casual, pensive, yet intensely luxuriant showcase” by Americana Highways, the songs from Tannersville accompanied Vakili on her debut West Coast tour in the fall of 2024 (opening for John Douglas of Trashcan Sinatras). The track "Photograph" landed Lily as a featured artist on WFUV’s "NY Slice."

A Vakili Band album is in the works at Second Take Sound, also co-produced with Turchi and due for release in fall of 2025.