9/5/11 - TOUR KICK OFF! EMPTY BOTTLE FREE MONDAY! THIN HYMNS, DISTRACTIONS and HEALTH & BEAUTY!!!!!!

9/7/11 - Detroit, MI @ Bakery Loft w/Bones and more

9/8/11 - Cleveland, OH. @ Happy Dog w/TBA

9/9/11 - Pittsburgh, PA. @ Gooski's w/ Gangwish and Taichi Nakatani9/10/11 - Bard College, NY @ SMOG w/tba

9/11/11 - New York, NY @ Cake Shop w/Cloud Becomes Your Hand and Strange Shapes

9/12/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Bookspace w/ Cozy Galaxies and Oh! Pears

9/13/11 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar w/Lands & Peoples, Bachelorette, and In Every Room

9/14/11 - Blacksburg, VA details TBA

9/15/11 - Charlotte, NC @ Yauhaus (1227 Rollins Ave.)

9/16/11 - Athens, GA. details TBA

9/17/11 - Indianapolis, IN @ Cataracts Music Fest




Come hang out with us!  check out our tapes.

CHICAGOIST :: REBLOG \ Sub t

p.s. August 29, Distractions open a show at Subterranean alongside killer acts, Magic Key, Magical Beautiful, and CHANDELIERS!

New York Label Compiles Chicago Mixtape

Last week, the folks from Twosyllable Records showed Chicago some love. The label is based in New York, but they released a compilation highlighting music local to Chicago.

The mixtape is an 18-track collection of the label’s favorite Windy City acts - mostly lesser known bands that make up our city’s underground community. Some of our favorites include Distractions (who are on the NYC label), Campfires, Netherfriends, Wume, and Pillars & Tongues.

Twosyllable co-owner Zach Pollakoff actually grew up in the city’s north suburbs. Over at the label’s site, he discusses his Chicagoland roots and how he was introduced to the local music scene:

It started with the radio. Q101 (RIP) ran a local show, Local101, that highlighted local talent. Local bands led to local (read: “college”) radio, WNUR, WLUW, and more all played music I’d never heard before. I started attending basement shows in Highland Park and Northbrook. Hardcore kids raised on Naked Raygun and Big Black playing loud. That wasn’t exactly my scene, but as I delved deeper I learned that genre was no boundary to the underground.

Twosyllable made the compilation with an authentic cassette mixtape in mind, one that’s “meant to be listened to on the car stereo driving down The Eisenhower on the way home to the suburbs.” So, they’re putting out 200 limited-edition cassettes, which you can order through their site. Those of us who don’t own cassette decks can pick it up in digital form (or stream it for free) through their Bandcamp page.

show and shows of friends

8/5 - Distractions at Casa Donde w/ Binary Marketing Show
8/8 - POTIONS at Hungry Brain
8/10 - Thin Hymns at Lincoln Hall w/Magical Beautiful


-den dere's da famous laughs / vehicle blues tour coming to a city close to you
8/11 Cleveland, OH - Bela Dubby (w/Binary Marketing Show)
8/12 TBD
8/13 Columbus OH - Luka House (w/Cross Record)
8/14 Pittsburgh, PA - Keith's Garage
8/15 Bethlehem, PA - St. Bernard's (w/Sea Patterns, Red Exit)
8/16 Baltimore, MD - The Bell Foundry
8/17 Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger Gallery (w/Scallion)
8/18 NYC, NY - Vaudeville Park
8/19 NYC, NY - Sandy's Roof
8/20 Long Island, NY - Mr. Beery's (w/Brick Mower, Make it Pain, Deep Pockets, Giant Peach)
8/21 TBD
8/22 Buffalo, NY - The Vault
8/23 Detroit, MI - TBD
8/24 Chicago, IL- Big Dusty Palace w/ GORGES

Two Syllable Records ::: Chicago Tape Compilation

   

Purchase/Pre-order from Two Syllable Records
"Though I grew up mostly in the suburbs of Chicago, I was able to spend a lot of time in The City. I was born in Chicago-proper and lived within its borders for 2 years before I moved up north. The suburbs of Chicago are exactly as John Hughes (and later Tina Fey) depicts them: high school drama, bored teens, and privileged families. As a bonafide nerd, I didn’t fit in exactly, but when I finally reached high school, I was able to pull back the curtain on another underground I didn’t know existed.

It started with the radio. Q101 (RIP) ran a local show, Local101, that highlighted local talent. Local bands led to local (read: “college”) radio, WNUR, WLUW, and more all played music I’d never heard before. I started attending basement shows in Highland Park and Northbrook. Hardcore kids raised on Naked Raygun and Big Black playing loud. That wasn’t exactly my scene, but as I delved deeper I learned that genre was no boundary to the underground.

Venues and record stores became portals to new sounds. The pilgrimage from the suburbs with stacks of CDs became a ritual. Parent’s minivans and old sedans became our fortresses as we’d drive aimlessly acquainting ourselves with new names....

Skipping ahead almost a decade, when twosyllable released a 7” by Chicago band Distractions last year, we didn’t know what we were getting into. We slowly began discovering an intricate network of friends, musicians, small record and tape labels, DIY venues, bands, and music. We learned, in working with them, that every member of Distractions had their own musical project. And every member of those projects had their own, and so on.

This collection of 18 songs represents some (not all) of our favorite bands from Chicago. The music ranges genres, but is on the whole homemade. Garage rock, garage pop, garage folk, garage glitch...

Of course we are indebted to the labels, radio stations, record stores, and venues of Chicago. Special thanks to Matt Jencik, Christen Thomas, Ed Post, Tom Owens, Angel Olsen, and Stone Hansard.

We wanted to release it as a true mixtape, on cassette. Of course you can pick up a digital copy too, but it’s meant to be listened to on the car stereo driving down The Eisenhower on the way home to the suburbs.

Artwork by our very own Candy Claws’ member, Ryan Hover."

WAKE UP CALL

WAKE UP.

 

WOW.  This comes from a period where I was frequently dancing all around the city of chicago.  2008 to be exact... just before distractions came into existence.  Slightly slicker production than anything in the current distractions repertoire.

summer shows' galore

in chicago,

june 22 - yawn, DISTRACTIONS, CAMPFIRES at Beauty Bar, 9 pm
june 24 - daytrotter session for the deez
june 26 - RECKLESS RECORDS instore performance (wicker park location) from DISTRACTIONS

july 2 - Radio People, Palmetto Moon Electric Group, Pleasure Leftists, Mines, Wume, POTIONS
july 28 - DISTRACTIONS @ WHISTLER with Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man

august 5 - Casa Donde :: DISTRACTIONS w/ Binary Marketing Show