
Exciting News!
My song, WHY SHOULD I CARE? was just selected RUNNER UP in the International Acoustic Music Awards! Congratulations to all of the finalists! To see the full lists of finalists, click here:
Aimee Van Dyne Band at Rockwood Music Hall
Sending a big THANK YOU to all who attended Aimee's show at Rockwood Music Hall as Part of WFUV's John Platt's 'On Your Radar' Showcase. It was a blast!!!

September News!
Dear Friends,
I am thrilled to announce that two of my songs were SELECTED FINALIST IN THE JOHN LENNON SONGWRITING CONTEST!!!!!
Lonely Me was selected finalist in the 'Country' category and Hold On was selected finalist in the 'Folk' category. To say I am honored would be an understatement. The decision to pursue songwriting often feels like a crazy notion--the songwriter never knows if her songs are being understood or if they are having an impact on her listeners. To receive this honor is a huge validation for me, and gives me the encouragement I need to continue down this circuitous and often unpredictable path. To see a list of all of the winners and listen to the winning selections, please go to this link.
I am also pleased to anounce that I was FEATURED IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE OF ARTFUL MIND MAGAZINE. It was an absolute delight to participate in this interview, and I am thrilled with the way it turned out, including the beautiful photos by Edward Acker, Tricia McCormack, and Lee Everett. To read the full interview, please go to this link.
NEW YORK FRIENDS!!! Please SAVE THE DATE! I will be performing at John Platt's On Your Radar showcase at Rockwood Music Hall on Tuesday, October 11, from 7-9 PM. Please go to this link to purchase tickets .
That's all for now! Sending a big THANK YOU to each and every one of you for folowing me on this journey!

August News!
Hi Friends!
Exciting news! I have been selected to be part of John Platt's "On Your Radar" showcase at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC! John Platt is a beloved DJ from WFUV (NY) who selects artists each month to highlight at this event. The showcase will take place on Tuesday, October 11th from 7-9 PM at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3, 185 Orchard St, NY. NEW YORK FRIENDS--PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!!!
My new CD, Broken Love Songs, has been getting radio airplay all across the country and around the world! Some highlights include:
- #45 on the July Alt-Country Chart
- #20 Top Album on the July FAI Folk Chart
- #27 Top Artist on the July FAI Folk Chart
- #20 on the Roots Music Report's Weekly Top 50 Massachusetts Artist Album Chart
- #30 on the Roots Music Report's Weekly Top 50 Massachusetts Artist Song Chart for "Lonely Me"
- #31 on the Roots Music Report's Weekly Top 50 Massachusetts Song Chart for "Broken Love Songs"
- Placed on WVIA's top 40 AAA (Adult Alternative Album) playlist 4 weeks in a row

JULY NEWS!
I've got lots of exciting news to share! My new album, 'Broken Love Songs,' is being played at radio stations all over the country! The album charted #45 on the Alt-Country Chart (July) in it's very first week! (http://www.altcountrychart.com)
John Platt, beloved DJ from WFUV (NY), has invited me and my band to perform at his "On Your Radar" showcase in New York City on Tuesday, October 11th at Rockwood Music Hall. New York friends, please mark your calendars for this very important event!
Here in MA, I have another very special full-band gig coming up. I am thrilled to be performing at The Egremont Barn on Wednesday, July 27th at 7:30 PM. If you live near the Berkshires, please consider coming to this event--it's the last time I will be playing with my band this summer.
Thanks again for your continued support! Here's the chart!!!
A Majestic Return For Harmony Rock Songwriter Aimee Van Dyne
New York Music Daily
Back in the mid-zeros, Aimee Van Dyne led the best harmony-rock band in New York. They were on the quiet, more immersive side, with a lushly distinctive, disarmingly sophisticated vocal counterpoint that was neither baroque nor high lonesome. Van Dyne was trained as an architect, which no doubt informs the durable beauty and often intricate craftsmanship of her songs. Her sound, which remains consistent to this day, is a blend of artsy pop, Americana, and the more delicate acoustic styles that trace back to her formative years in the 90s, with a biting, knowing lyricism. Van Dyne has returned with a brand new album, Broken Love Songs - streaming at her music page -which includes both new material as well as concert favorites from that era.
Unsurprisingly, the most stunning aspect of the record is Van Dyne's vocals. She was a strong singer in 2005, and since then her range has expanded even further, with a warmly mapled, crystalline delivery possibly inspired by her new digs in the Berkshire mountains. On the new album she sings all the parts that Kathleen Hunt and Nina Soka would have filled out during the band's time playing around what was then a fertile crucible for music on the Lower East Side.
The loosely connecting thread between the songs is going into the wilderness and emerging intact. The opening track, ‘Lonely Me’ is an old live standard from the New York days, reinvented with a brisk backbeat from bassist Paul Kochanski and drummer JJ O’Connell, while Jon Graboff's pedal steel floats solemnly overhead. Jim Henry, who helmed the instrumental side of the project, adds layers of acoustic and electric guitars: it is astonishing that an album recorded remotely during the lockdown could sound so cohesive.
Henry's mandolin flickers amid Van Dyne's anthemic vocal orchestration in the album's title track, the interweave between the stringed instruments mirroring her vocal dexterity. Van Dyne paints a guardedly victorious lakeside tableau in ‘I'm One,’ Ben Kohn's spare piano lowlighting a tale of staring down a "tangled web of half-truths.”
"On the other side of all that sorrow brings, find your wings," Van Dyne instructs in ‘Hold On,’ a luscious blend of lushness and twang. There's a soulful roots reggae tune hidden inside ‘Lonely Boy,’ Kohn adding romping piano and slinky organ: it's one of the album's catchiest tunes. Greg Snedeker's cello soars over the bed of guitars in ‘Why Should I Care,’ a rugged individualist's anthem from Van Dyne's earlier days: the harmonies are more tightly constructed this time around. ‘The Story of Me’ is a disarmingly devastating tale of walking wounded, the self-deception and emotional workarounds that those who've been traumatized can fall back on (the song is way more poetic than that mundane description would suggest). Craig Akin's somber bowed bass and Kohn's tersely Romantic piano anchor ‘Unbroken Love,’ a resolute look at finding inner strength under duress. The new version of ‘Owning Up’ - the title track to Van Dyne's debut CD - has a welcome symphonic sweep: there are flying buttresses on this newly sturdy structure.
The edgiest song on the album is ‘Not Even You,’ a defiant kiss-off number, Henry's incisive fingerpicking underneath Graboff's ominous washes of steel. Van Dyne winds up the record with the fondly soaring ‘Together at Last,’ assembled around Henry's mandolin and Jon Carroll's accordion. Needless to say, it's inspiring to see Van Dyne reasserting the understated power she first made a name for herself with in this city.
Broken Love Songs
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After a 20-year hiatus, Aimee returns with an 11-song CD about finding light in broken places