Son Of The Velvet Rat is an Austrian folk-noir band currently based in Joshua Tree, CA, USA. Founded in 2003 by Austrian songwriter Georg Altziebler and organist and accordionist Heike Binder, the band started out with the sparsely instrumented releases, Spare Some Sugar [For the Rat] and By My Side, by the California indie label Starfish Records. In 2006, they were signed by Vienna indie label Monkey, and released the album "Playground". The album Loss & Love was released in 2007, and the song "Fall With Me" reached No. 3 on the FM4 charts, and No. 47 on their 2007 chart. In 2008, Son of the Velvet Rat was nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award in the Alternative category, and they performed on BalconyTV. The album Animals was released in 2009. In 2016, Altziebler and Binder moved to California, and signed with the New Jersey label Mint 400 Records and the Portland-based label Fluff & Gravy. velvetrat.mur.at Read more on Last.fm.