Ten years and thousands of shows later, Very Be Careful rises from the ashes of the latest booty-shakin firestorm with a raised glass in honor of the fuel that fed the fire, LOVE. Their new album, ¡ÑACAS!, soothes any itch those first seven years might have excited, and joins the catalog of the rootsest vallenato rhythms that VBC not only plays, but lives. From the Colombian Caribbean land of fishers and farmers, lovers and assassins, where accordion narrated tales spill from shops, homes, bars, and beauty salons, VBC has imported a vintage sound and an urgent agenda DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!! And, like it or not, punker or sonidero, new-ager or new-waver, b-boy or cowboy, sober, drunk, or saved, few can elude the rump rousing radar of a VBC parranda. Who else has dazzled bills as opposite as Joe Strummer and Carlos Vives, Murphys Law and Antibalas, Kronos Quartet and Grupo Niche, at venues as diverse as N.Y.s Copacabana and Berkeleys Gilman St. Warehouse, L.A.s HOBs and N.Y.s SOBs, Central Park Summerstage, SXSW, Chicago's Summerdance and Japans Fujirock Festival, East L.A.s Self Help Graphics and Harlem's Carlitos Gallery, London's Stranger Than Paradise and Brussel's Cartagena, getting solid airplay on commercial sonidero stations like California's Cumbia Caliente and El Sonido while being played on all the local alternative stations - KXLU, KCRW, KSPC, KPFK, WKCR, WFMU - as well as internet radio in Japan and Australia and a few club hits in Argentina and Mexico; when it comes to adaptability and pertinence, the VBC are champs, and vallenato music can break the barriers of cool and raze the stakes of hip. Along with Pinto Records 1998 El Niño (produced by Money Mark), De Volada Records1999 CD EP Cheap Chillin, Downtown Pijaos 2001 CD The Rose, 2002 CD/2LP El Grizz, and the 2003 film The Tooth (which stars the band), comes the newest in vallenato flavor and the oldest in human tradition, ¡ÑACAS!