the Vanity Set

{{about|a rock group||Vanity set (disambiguation)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = The Vanity Set

| image =

| caption = Little Stabs of Happiness - 2003

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| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = New York, New York, United States

| genre = Indie

| years_active = 2000–present

| label = CARGO UK

| associated_acts =

| website =

| current_members = Jim Sclavunos
Peter Mavrogeorgis
Jennifer Carey
David Morton
Tam Ui
Sasha Kazachkov
Jaiko Suzuki

| past_members =

}}

{{Music ratings

|title=The Vanity Set

| rev1 = NME

| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-2719-327552 |title=The Vanity Set |last= |first= |date=2005-09-12 |website=NME |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-12}}

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{{Music ratings

|title=Little Stabs of Happiness

| rev1 = Uncut

| rev1Score = {{rating|1.5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/the-vanity-set-little-stabs-of-happiness-22533/ |title=The Vanity Set – Little Stabs Of Happiness |last= |first= |date=2003-08-01 |website=Uncut |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-12}}

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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."{{cite web |url=http://www.vanityset.com/ |title=The Vanity Set |last= |first= |date= |website=The Vanity Set |publisher= |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721182445/http://www.vanityset.com/ |access-date=2025-04-12}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-bad-seeds-jim-sclavunos-shares-charity-bob-dylan-cover-interview-national-scott-devendorf-3201190 |title=The Bad Seeds’ Jim Sclavunos shares charity Bob Dylan cover: "It’s a tribute to a fan" |last=Trendell |first=Andrew |date=2022-04-08 |website=NME |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-12}} He also said in 2021 that he had a set of unfinished Vanity Set material that he was working on releasing.{{cite web |url=https://joyzine.org/2021/02/09/interview-jim-sclavunos-on-the-bad-seeds-no-wave-collaborations-and-his-debut-solo-single/ |title=Interview: Jim Sclavunos on The Bad Seeds, No Wave, Collaborations and his debut Solo Single |last=paulmaps |first= |date=2021-09-02 |website=Joyzine |publisher= |access-date=2025-04-12}}