Wednesday, April 15, 2026

CHAINLINKS 061: Venus Twins

With the 10th anniversary of The Chain happening this month, we've relaunched Chainlinks, a series we started back in 2017 to give our friends a space to share the stuff currently inspiring them — music, film, books, or anything else they wanted to recommend to the world.

For Chainlinks 061, we have noise punks and identical twins Matt and Jake Derting, a.k.a. Venus Twins. The NYC (by way of Texas) duo will be performing at The Chain’s official 10th anniversary celebration, April 19th at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, NY (presented by Saint Vitus Bar), along with Swing Kids, Fatboi Sharif, Trace Amount, and Body Stuff. Get your tickets!
Veganism

We have been vegan for 8+ years now and will never look back. Not only is it important for the environment and health, but the main reason we are vegan is for the animals. Once you make the connection that what you’re eating/purchasing caused the intense suffering of a living creature, you may not want to go back.

Ease into it, go full tofurkey, whatever- As long as you’re learning how to cook vegan and stay healthy you’ll do great.

Songwriting

We’ve been writing songs for a long time, but in the last two years or so, we started writing a song nearly every day, and trying different genres and techniques for fun. It’s a beautiful artform and craft that has become the central focus in our life. We’ve picked up books like the war on art and the creative act, that helped further along the process.

Making time for family/friends

Everybody’s busy as hell, got somewhere to be all the time – yada yada yada. But once every couple months we’ll set aside time to go upstate to see family, it resets us from the busy city. We’re lucky to have family we get along with well. Every visit with them or to go work with our twin friends Disaster Artist in Philly becomes a memorable and amazing time.

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