Matt Flegel and Mike Wallace announced their eponymous debut album "Viet Cong" with the release of its first single “Continental Shelf.” Matt Flegel told the story behind the song to Songs for Whoever: ”I remember writing that main riff – like the first thing that you hear in the song – on an acoustic guitar. It was on my birthday, I was on tour with Chad VanGaalen and we were in a little town called Encinitas just north of San Diego, down the West Coast of California Read more on Last.fm.

Preoccupations is a Canadian post-punk band, that formed in Calgary, Alberta in 2012 under the name Viet Cong. The group consists of two ex-members of the rock band Women, vocalist/bassist Matt Flegel and drummer Mike Wallace, as well as guitarists Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen. The group's musical style has been described as labyrinthine post-punk. The band frequently faced controversy over their original name, involving accusations of both racism and cultural appropriation because of the name's association with the original Vietnamese Viet Cong. In March 2015, the band was set to perform at Oberlin College, but the show was canceled due to their offensive name. In September 2015, the band announced that they were going to change their name: We are a band who wants to make music and play our music for our fans. We are not here to cause pain or remind people of atrocities of the past. On March 29, 2016, the Canadian music magazine Exclaim! reported that the band were still booking shows under the name Viet Cong, and began running a real-time Days since Viet Cong promised to change their name counter on the magazine's website. On April 21, 2016, Flegel announced in a Pitchfork interview that the band would henceforth be performing and recording under the name Preoccupations. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.