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Most things Disclexington will now be posted here.

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Playing bass with the Grun Tu Crew, Friday 11-21 at Quencher's.

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Hey Kids - the Original de Schmog Fairy Tale is now available for download at all your favorite online music stores including: eMusic, iTunes, Last.fm, Napster, Rhapsody and many many more.This is the original production (with the Sprawl Horns, back up singers, and a huge dildo)  recorded live at Rudyard's Pub in 1992 by the Deep Dot Mobile Recording Studio.Check out this week's track du jour for

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Hey Chicago - come out to Mutherland Gallery this July 4th at 7 PM. We're putting on a show.Here's a Taste...More Here.

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Tricia is in a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Check it. Nice photo - the models are my old bandmate Mike and his wife Susie, oh and his dog George too :)

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on NAP.

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The Second Part of a Three Part podcast is up on disclexington podomatic.checkito.u.t.

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Learn more about the latest podcast, Part One of a Three Part series, here.Go here to check it out.

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ClaraMore Here.

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Happy Solstice Everyone! Become a fan of our podcast, first edition - the churchbus Winter Podcast. It's twenty-five minutes of joy from us to you. I'm sure you'll find something in there that will bring you a smile. You can listen online or download to iTunes, put it on your iPod...whatev.Click here to get your own player.

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I wrote a little about it on the NAP this week.Here's some picsp.s. stay tuned man, some good things coming down the pike. LOVE!

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for this cool review of the Axiom show!

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Thanks to everybody who attended, participated and otherwise put together the Axiom Reunion Weekend. It was a lot of fun. Check out the pics our friend put up on myspace.Tom has a lot more photos from last weekend on his page. SStay tune, de Schmog Fairy Tale available on iTunes, eMusic and other databases soon.

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Keep in Touch. New in digital format.de schmog fairy tale

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churchbus done got a show at Bernice's. Don't Come!

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Hey our friend and poster artist Judge has two cool items up on eBay right now. All the money from these auctions goes to Chicago Women's Health Center. So this is a tax deductable purchase.Signed Touch & Go 25th Anniversary Poster SetNeko Case Poster signed by Neko.These are sure to keep their value. Cool Stuff.

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Okay so. No bidders for the Ed, 8 Bands on an 8 Track compilation with a book of American plays from the 1940's OR Ed, 8 Bands on an 8 Track compilation with a shoe dryer. So. The next, now auction is for Ed, 8 Bands on an 8 Track compilation and a, um...let's see. Okay gimme a day to think about it.

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Yeah can't stand them.I'm going totally retro. Here's the new site, enjoy.If somebody comes up with a good site design or at least a good idea for how disclexington should be designed let me know.In de News: Ed, a Disclexington 8-Track Compilation, is now available on iTunes, eMusic, MYSPACE and many of your other favorite digital music stores. Just do a search for disclexington and download this

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Okay so the last auction was a bust, so we're upgrading the free gift portion of the auction. We've still got the 8 Bands on an 8 Track compilation AND the excellent adjunct hand-screened poster but now we are throwing out the book of plays (who needs the 1940's anyway?).We're throwing in...That's right, we're throwing in a FeetJoy Shoe Dryer!Starting bid still one dollar plus five dollars

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Disclexington Productions is proud to present the Disclexington Auction Series. We are going to auction off the remaining Ed Compilation CD's with other stuff on eBay. What fun. But we'll start here. Get in early and all that. The first item up for bid...The Ed 8 Bands on an 8-Track Compilation CD (featuring artwork by the great Kathleen Judge and great audio work from Bob Taylor, Broad Tosser,

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As part of Lumpen's Version Fest 7, I'll be playing some improv music at the Zhou Brothers' space in Bridgeport ( 1029 W. 35th St.) Saturday between 12 noon and 6 PM.Friday Skare Krau Radio are playing up at Sonotechque. It's a record release and somehow connected to Version Fest too. These guys get naked and will freeek you out. Also Brilliant Pebbles will be at the Beat Kitchen. Too much.Lots

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All up in here.

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Thursday - Rudyard's Pub. The Mathletes. Bright Men of Learning. The Redo Band featuring people. Friday - Art on Cardboard Show at Super Happy Funland, see post below for some of the featured artists. The piece to the right is in the show. It's by Claire Yanik.Saturday - Infernal Bridegroom Gala. Fun for the affluent and bohemian minstrels alike.Tonight we're going up to the Breeze's new bar on

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blog updated April 6th to add Poopy Longstuffing, Emerald Mystiek and Flakey to to the Cardboard Art Show. REALLY keep up with the Cardboard stuff here. Also, Brad will not be doing work for the show but will grace us with his entire body for the opening Friday the 13th.blog updated March 31st to add Marie Catrett and Mike Switzer to the Cardboard Art ShowThursday April 12th - Come out to Rudz

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churchbus plays at 11 PM tomorrow Friday the 23rd of March at Activate.2215 S. UNION (at Cermak Ave.) in Pilsen, Chicago.f r e e s h o wThe image is an exquisite corpse made by the band in the churchbus.

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Cococoma (which features Mike and Bill from THE LATEST) got a good write up in the Reader this week. Check it out.Photo Courtesy of VictimofTime.com.

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Hey Chicago - I'll be playing Saturday night at Bernice's along with Donny, Joe Ryan and others. Dory is cooking up some irish stew too.SlainteP.S. Early warning, churchbus plays next Friday 923rd) at 11 PM for the Underscene event Activate. Gonna be a good one.

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Several weeks ago I made a "click me" gif out of a photo Tricia took on our Pacific Northwest road trip. I stopped using it on the disclexington site but the image is still on disclexington.com.Anyway I was looking at a disclexington.com traffic report and noticed that several "hits" come from sites that have nothing what so ever to do with disclexington, except that folks are grabbing this "

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Disclexington artists Joe Cashiola and Jeff Harms, who recorded here with Hotel Brotherhood, are back from the bottom half of the States, shooting their new feature-length movie. The trailer is up on Robot Machine Gun. Check it out.

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Hey folks, introduce yourself to Urban Djin, a south side yodeler with a vast repertoire of American music from Western Swing and Honky Tonks to Latin boleros and polkas. He's been writing up a storm on his myspace blog about the old Maxwell Street Scene, the state of country music today and other stuff. Urban's playing these days every Thursday night at the Smoke Daddy in the Ukrainian Village

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Check out this interview I did with Gapers Block about Ed.Also please pray for Twenty Degree weather. I can't believe I'm saying that but this subzero stuff has got to go.

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I talk about my neighborhood on the NAP, where this week you can also get in on a heated debate about New Orleans and Iraq, or get inside John Cramer's dark brain, or learn that Doug wants to play cello, or listen to some knuckle scraping ROCK, or get mad enough at MT to tickle him.Tomorrow check out Gapers Block. I got myself interviewed in the Air Bags section by John Hospodka, the resident art

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Some friends are filming in H-town this weekend. Here, let me let them tell you...Hanger-outers is what we want. Not a bunch of actors pretending to hang out. And you would be suprised what we can do with just 3 people with today's digital technology, you could become an army of hanger-outers.So, please come! Come one, come three! Come all!We are shooting on February 29th 3pm-6ish at the

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This special listen goes out to you bloggettes and you only thanks for reading.broadtosser-gunshow.mp3From our Nonalignment Pact post -A decidedly all-girl rock band who are hot and rock and they would like you to recognize that little fact. BroadTosser sounds like the Throwing Muses throwing down with Black Sabbath. Recently they've been recording a new demo as a three piece with lots of tricky

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Some writing about the new Disclexington release on NonAlignment Pact here and here.Go here to order you one. You will love it. I swear! (8 bands 16 songs 8 bucks including shipping, it's a steal)Check out a bonus track off the CD from the C*nts.

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Check out this cool video Brando made...

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I got me a ghouest writer on Nonalignment Pact.

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What a way to start December, with inches and inches of fluffy white powder and coffee in bed. Tricia got a Snow Day to boot.In other news: Chris Ware is on the cover of the New Yorker in a BIG way. The weekly magazine put out four different covers all by Mr. Ware and there's an online piece called Leftovers and an audio interview, check it out. It was only a matter of time before the New Yorker

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I did my part for humanabees on Nonalignment this week. I have more to say here but I haven't had the time.

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I don't know Joe Mathlete just some of his friends but I stumbled on his sites the other day and they made me laugh. In one he explains "Today's Marmaduke." In another he draws a nipple on Ziggy's nose (this site is apparently discontinued). The critic in me wants to say why not explain Marmaduke a bit more existentially and so get to its paramount importance faster.For example...Joe's

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track du jourArtist: BrilloTrack: Whole Heart Location: Sunken Monastery (Chicago,IL)Date: 11-20-2006Comment: Three years ago, two good friends had a baby born with Down Syndrome. It was very sad at first for everybody and scary because the boy was born with a hole in his heart. I was in a depression at the time myself and I usually sit down to write a song when I'm down. I had some familiarity

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Get 'em while they're hot.

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It's funny you mention Lewis and Clark. Tricia and I took a trip across the Northwest this Summer and hit on a lot of LC landmarks. I read that at the 100th anniversary Exposition, the advertisement for a Filipino exhibit said "come see the dog eaters." I bet there weren't many people at the exposition that realized the odd humor in that statement. The Lewis and Clark group ate a lot of dog when

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What brought you to Houston, Mark, and why did you stay?I moved to Houston in the mid eighties for college and the first thing I liked about it was the freeways and glass buildings, and the warehouses and the underground clubs, once I found them. I came from a small town in Oklahoma with little to do and I felt like everyone I knew was very narrow minded. In Houston I lived in the suburbs, but

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Let's start with the upcoming roll out of TexasCulture.org. What is the significance of this event?Texasculture.org, which is called Texas Community Advocate, is part of an initiative for localism. I was thinking about the issues of local business, arts, and media pretty seriously while living on Lexington Street. I've studied the economics of broad ownership versus limited ownership since then

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Mark Lacy is a long time friend who has been doing some amazing things in H-town for a couple of few decades now. Mr. Lacy challenges the sum up. Most people can be announced with a single defining quality - say "activist,""artist,""teacher," or "naturalist." Mark's all four and I'm leaving out the good stuff. He's also a photographer*, a former DJ, a back country traveler, a sociologist, a

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Joe Ryan put together a line up of singer songer writers for this Saturday night at Bernice's. I've got a slot. 45 minutes is a lot of space to fill so I'm bringing up Mr. Erin Edmister. Show starts at 8. I'm on at 9.

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Ramon Medina has aligned seven folks who in one way or another contribute(d) to the Houston music scene. Houston may be the pivot point yet the group is scattered across many time zones. The goal is to produce one music review a day with each volunteer assigned a day of the week. I'm proud to be a part of this project and a little bit daunted by the task.Even though I've been making music for

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A Message from the Mekong Smith Foundation:Hello,You are invited to our Garden of the Dead Sunday October 22nd from 2 pm until after nightfalls. All are welcome to honor the dead in our garden during the reception, or bring/install a piece before the event. Some of the artists contributing are Al Scum, Kilian Sweeney, Tricia Moreau Sweeney, Lisa Yu, Carl Virgo, Jacob Smith and a lot of maybes.

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That means we're playing out in the cold tonight at the Underscene. Come out! Bring warm clothes.In other news:It snowed yesterday in Chicago. Ain't that something?Kathleen Judge, once interviewed here, answers three questions from John Hospodka.

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churchbus rings in the new season Friday the 13th -11PM- at OVERLOOKED AT UNDERSCENE. We're on when the art's off...FROM the Underscene:Overlooked no more! Come on down to the dripping, dusty layer of Chicago that is UNDERSCENE. Our boys from "This Will Be Our Last Song" are back to blow our minds Friday night, or stop by Saturday for an afternoon stroll. OVERLOOKED at

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track du jourArtist: The OilersTrack: Party StarterLocation: RBI Studio (Houston, TX)Date: 10-03-2006Comment: I was going through some unlabeled CD's tonight and I came across this forgotten Oilers track. The Oilers was a short lived project of mine with Johnathan (bass) and my brother Christian (drums) from de Schmog and also featuring Jeff Nunnally of Sprawl on keys and Brad "the Breeze" Moore

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Tonight I'll be at the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University 18 S. Michigan Ave. looking at Tricia's work. In conjunction with winning the ILNMWA grant, Tricia was given the capacious Three Questions treatment from John Hospodka in this week's Gapers Block. Check it out.Tomorrow night (Friday the 6th) we're going up to Props Theater to see Brian Torrey Scott's Year part of the All-Things-Beckett

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One of the great journalists of our time passed away today in Washington. Mr. J W Apple Jr. was a man who knew how to live. He was known for his political correspondence but in his later years, given a lot of leeway at the Times due to his superiority in almost every aspect of his profession, Johnny Apple wrote more and more about what he wanted to write about instead of what the headlines

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My better half and best friend Tricia Moreau Sweeney just won the annual ILNMWA grant. Her work will be showing at the Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University 18 S. Michigan Ave. There will be an Awards Ceremony and Silent Auction Thursday from 5-8 PM. Her work will be on view through December 1st. Tricia and Kathy Richland Pick were selected for this award amongst hundreds of applicants by the

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If you're feeling spunky Monday night come out to the Bad Dog Tavern for churchbus and Hotel Brotherhood (minus one brother). It's a free show and you can laugh at us shaking the dust out of our throats and off our guitars. This is churchbus' first show since June 3rd!

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Mr. Crane recently helped BMW get the word out that investing in one of their cars is as sound an opportunity as adding to your 401(k) or your IRA. I am grateful. In fact when I shelled out almost a grand for repairs on my own German-made vehicle just earlier this week, Mr. Crane's post allowed me to do it with confidence.In return I give you this gem recently erected at the southeastern

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In recent years your live music buck gets you more bang in one Chicago summer than anywhere else in North America. You've got the numerous block parties including several that bring in national acts (Taste of Randolph, the Hideout Block Party); there's the stuff going down at Grant Park - Taste of Chicago, the Blues Festival, the Jazz Festival, the Gospel Music Festival, Lollapalooza; then you've

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It was a fine send off for ol' Bob Taylor Sunday night. The bands played great. The crowd was full of friends. The bartenders were kept busy. Thanks all for coming out. [[sniff]]Pictures below by TriciaHeadache City's Dave HeadHa ha Cameron and Carol like PabstHeadache City's Lisa Roe (she like Pabst too so duz that big scary guy behind her)Submarine Races!THE LATEST!Our Beautiful PeepulBob

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THE LATEST leaves you in style Sunday night at Cal's sharing the bill with two Chicago class acts Sh*t Sandwich Records artists Headache City and In the Red Records artists Submarine Races. This isn't necessarily the last of THE LATEST as Bob Taylor may keep the name (fittingly) for his pursuits in Austin. So let's just say this is the last of the Chicago edition and wish Bob well in his

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I unwittingly had a late night dinner with somebody I've long wanted to meet. You see, when I first moved to Chicago five years ago the Lozenge crew turned me on to a hilarious video by a San Diego outfit called Optiganally Yours which featured Rob Crow now of Pinback. We laughed so hard at this video we almost collectively pissed ourselves. Anyway, after the festival last night we went out with

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For a club that's site usually matches its name, the Hideout location amply provided for this ambitious and successful event - it was said that over 6600 people were in attendance.For a day that's weather constantly threatened to worsen but never did, its heavy grey sky perfectly complimented the music - not to mention the audience's hair which I saw a lot more of than I've ever seen before at a

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In the words of Thor - "We live to Rock."In the words of Zolar X - "Don't Ever Quit. Don't Give up the Ship."In the words of Butthead - "That was the coolest thing I've ever seen."

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I first heard of Touch and Go Records when I went up to Sound Exchange, er, Record Exchange on Westheimer in the early 90's with a handful of de Schmog singles. I asked Dorothy what I could do about getting the disks out. de Schmog wasn't exactly looking for a label - for one thing we couldn't tour and for another we were gung ho about the whole DIY thing, but some distribution would be nice.

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On the rabid advice of Ramon Medina (and in part thanks to his excellent photography). I shall be heading to the Note tomorrow to catch Zolar X and Thor. As if I needed any more convincing than Ramon's post-show-post, the most Skynrd-y Velcro Lewis and His 100 Proof band open.I saw Velcro and Co. at Cal's Fest a few weeks back and was very happy to see them in top form, particularly since their

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Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed in what would normally be a freakish accident. Considering the personality involved, "death by stingray" isn't so surprising as sad as it is. He was only 44 years old. What makes it freakish to me is the popularity it has brought to this blog.This Site has had 3,766 visits so far today and it is 9:40 AM. The site got twenty new visitors just between

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track du jourArtist: THE LATESTTrack: the WhistlerLocation: El Goodo Audio (Chicago,IL)Date: 09-17-2006Comment: Allow me some self-indulgence. Hell what am I saying, you're gonna have to allow me a lot of self-indulgence if you're looking at this site. Anyway here's one more from THE LATEST's new self-titled release on Bob Taylor's Recent Records. This track features Mike Fitzpatrick on vox.

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A message from Kris Poulin:Hello friends,This time there's a theme: Red.Camaro RougeLove Story in Blood RedRed Chamberplay this Thursday, August 31st, at Darkroom (2210 W. Chicago) at 9pm.$7 get you in.We asking everyone to wear red. Unite in color! Red shirts, red dresses, red pants, red socks, red hats, red shoes, red sunglasses, red gloves, red undies, red eyes. We want to see an entire

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Fact is I don't have any, not any close black friends. Why? Well it's actually easy to explain I guess. I don't hang out in black neighborhoods or establishments and for that matter not many black people hang out in the places you can normally find me. Civil Rights may have come (and gone) but that didn't really bring us people together. Still I have been influenced strongly by several black

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This might come as a surprise but Chicago indie rockers have funny bones. At least that's what the Empty Bottle, the brick and mortar determiner of indie hipness in this town, is impressing upon their drones. The butthole is promoting comedy night at Weed's, a Goose Island bar not normally known for laughs.While Chicago is known for many fine comedy establishments that continue to deliver the

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Brandon Holbrook - loving husband, father, web guru, and lead guitarist of de Schmog - now has a MySpace page. Holler at him will you? Let him know his presence is felt.He is doing a noble thing these days, giving de Schmog a MySpace home. Check it out. If you can, please comply with his request for photos and other de Schmog memorabilia.You see, de Schmog being one of those pre-internet bands

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Looking for something interesting to do this evening? An Art Opening just around the corner from me looks good. Everybody knows that openings aren't the best time to view art because of the distractions. The distractions on the other hand can be worth the fuss. In this case, the art is housed in a small Tango cafe owned by William Duvall.Aside from the potential to meet long legged women,

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Note from Norah -Hey everyone! Headache Citywill have a song on NPR's This American Life this Friday! Its our one minute interpretation of the folk song, The Cat Came Back. Please listen! Check out www.thislife.org for programming info. Its on at 7 pm here!

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The Chicago Loop Alliance, basically the Chamber of Commerce for the downtown area, put together a trio of audio tours along with corresponding loop maps that highlight the cultural attractions in Arts, Theater and Landmarks. Friday, Tricia and I did all three tours at once. It was a beautiful summer day, sunny but not too hot so a perfect day to wander. The tours proved geographically easy to

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Thanks to Erin for turning me on to this All Things Considered story written by Austin writer David Brown. I have to admit I was not aware of this Houston phenomenon. If anybody has more info, bring it on.

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North Carolina's Tres Chicas plays Schubas tonight. These gals sound good. I know Caitlyn Cary from her days scooping ice cream at Dolce Fredo in Houston but you'd likely know her from her hard fiddlin' with Whiskeytown.If you go bring Caitlyn a bottle of Dewar's for me and a big hug. I'll pay you back.

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portland

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I don't know exactly what that means either but a good friend is touring the country promoting his film. I've seen the trailer and it looks interesting. If you go, say hello to Nick for me and give him a big squeeze7/18 Acme Art Works, 1741 N Western Avenue, Chicago, IL 60647,773.278.7677, 7pm film, 8pm workshophttp://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/index.phpdocumentary: Soma: An Anarchist

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The Sweeneys are now in Central Oregon at Rosie's Mountain Coffee House featuring a deli & pastries and FREE INTERNET ACCESS powered by WVI.

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track du jourArtist: DebbieTrack: CrazyLocation: Log Cabin (Joseph, Or)Date: 07-04-2006Comment: Tricia and I are on a trip across the Pacific Northwest. We stopped at Wallowa Lake outside Joseph, OR so we could see fireworks that night. Instead we visited with new friends Debbie, Arnitra and Debbie's dog honey. We sang some songs, drank some wine, and talked about all kinds of stuff. track du

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Keep up with the Sweeneys this summer on a photo excursion from the middle to the Northwest and back again.

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Here are notes I jotted down over the four years and four months I worked at Sears. I left them in B6-256B in case they're helpful to followers.

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Friday Night - Erin's 30th Birthday. The Spoken Four, Shellshag, THE LATEST at Fireside Bowl 2648 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60601. Show starts at 10 PMSaturday Night - June, 24 2006 at The Tower 9521 Madison, Cleveland, OH 44101 Cost: $3-5 donation with Shell Shag and X Bolex BYOB

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Bob's old hanging buddy, Johnny Driver will be in town with his Brooklyn punk/no wave duo Shellshag. Also playing Friday night, Chicago's own grrl rockers the Spoken Four.Come on out and set a spell.The Fireside is at 2648 W. Fullerton. Show starts early, doors at 8 PM.

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track du jourArtist: THE LATESTTrack: Under the UnderstandingLocation: El Goodo Audio (Chicago,IL)Date: 06-17-2006Comment:This track was recorded in 2005 with Andrius Jutzi on drums. His last effort with us before leaving the band because his work life was consuming him. Andrius does set work for the TV show "Prison Break." The show's been a hit so it looks like Andrius made a good choice. We

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...I can walk into the street right in front of me and ride a pony or slide down a three story slide or ride a ferris wheel and see the tops of all my neighbors' houses. That's because our neighborhood street festival is going on this weekend. Aside from the sudden transition from a quiet residential block to carnie central, my favorite thing about the Heart of Italy Food & Wine Street Festival

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THE LATEST recorded yesterday at Steve Albini's studio Electrical Audio. Mr. Albini was there but he wasn't wearing his trademark jumpsuit because he wasn't working. He was studying a poker match and from a peek at the collection of books and videos on the subject, lying around the studio, he's quite a poker buff.Our engineer was Robert Daniels, owner/operator of el Goodo Audio and reknown

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track du jourArtist: BrilloTrack: NutSackLocation: ChicagoDate: 08-07-2006Comment:click below to listen (requires FLASH)...track du jour

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It was inevitable that IBP and Daniel Johnston meet don't you think?In many ways the timing couldn't be better. IBP began work on their Daniel Johnston Rock Opera before the latest DJ resurgence. Of course they can't help but get caught up in all the fanfare, and so far for the better. Anyway, the show's a success in its own right.Lucky Houstonians (and those Austinites willing to break down

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New Town Drunks (Chapel Hill) and churchbus (Chicago) play Moe's Bar & Grill Saturday June 3rd with local hero Beckett & Friends.We will also be enjoying your Rock and Roll Hall of Shame on Sunday if you care to join us.Come out.

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