The Vanity Set

The Vanity Set
OriginNew York, New York, United States
GenresIndie
Years active2000present
LabelsCARGO UK
MembersJim Sclavunos
Peter Mavrogeorgis
Jennifer Carey
David Morton
Tam Ui
Sasha Kazachkov
Jaiko Suzuki
The Vanity Set
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NME
Little Stabs of Happiness
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The Vanity Set is an indie rock group of mostly second-generation Greek-Americans formed in New York City in 2000. Led by Jim Sclavunos, the drummer/percussionist with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, they describe their music as a blend of "low art, high sass and raw bluster." Their music includes the sounds of rebetiko, "psycho-billy guitar, creepy keys, raucous tuba, mellifluous theremin."

By 2022, Sclavunos told an interviewer for NME that the project was done. He also said in 2021 that he had a set of unfinished Vanity Set material that he was working on releasing.