summer

HI,

we've been busy bees. We are excited to announce that we will be recording our second full-length album this summer. This will be followed by some long-awaited out of town shows. Dates will be posted soon enough.

This summer will be truly great. More information on everything will be announced soon.

thanks,

truman xoxo

mas Springinsguth

Our full-length album Springinsguth is now available at Chicago stores Record Breakers and Uncle Fun. We also sell physical copies of the album through our webstore.

The album is available digitally through Itunes, Amazon, and eMusic.

sort of an update

We are in it.

At the moment we are planning on four releases this year. two cool splits, a free ep, and an album of our own (hopefully) all this year!

writing, writing, writing. Should be fun.

more news to come.

xoxo
Truman

Earth to earth

Hi

hope everyone is doing great. it felt really nice out today. is spring truly on its way? we wont know until we know.

we have two sweet shows coming up:

march 11 @ mad maggie's (18+). elgin, il
w/ suns, elephant gun

march 15 @ ronny's (21+). chicago, il
w/ eagle scout, more tba. hopefully elephant gun and bust

new merch is also coming. funny shirts.

Today i watched a show on animal planet about a man who was fishing and encountered a bear. the bear attacked him and proceeded to rip apart his legs, arms, and FACE. the bear bit across his face and squeezed out his eyeballs. crazy! be careful in the wilderness, everyone.

our friends in Drmanhattan are playing at the Empty bottle tomorrow. You should go.

Listening:
Beach House- Teen Dream
Talking Heads- Speaking in Tongues/Fear of music
Marvin Gaye- What's going On
The Zombies- Odyssey and Oracle

one more thing, Ryan always talks about listening to Stars of the Lid when he goes to sleep and how awesome it is. While i agree with him, I have started listening to them while i read which is really soothing and enables me to concentrate and become one with the text. either way, go for it.

chris

Frank's Daily Song #4

I missed a day, it's true. Here is #4. I'll post #5 a little bit later.

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A Tribe Called Quest - "Award Tour"

A Tribe Called Quest are easily my favorite hip hop act of all time. The first time that I had ever heard a Quest song was when I was 16 or 17 years old. I was driving around with a friend of mine in the suburbs and he had put "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" on a mix CD. I remember saying to him that I hated him for not showing it to me earlier in my life. The very next day, I went to Borders and bought two Quest records, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm and Midnight Marauders, the release that contains the track featured in this post.

"Award Tour" was always the stand-out track to me on Midnight Marauders. The production is so smooth. The electric piano loop in this song is so infectious that it gets stuck in your head by itself. Q-Tip rhymes the first verse on this track and I feel like it is the best instance of his vocals on the entire record.

"Award Tour" does not hold enough water by itself to really convey how great of a record Midnight Marauders is. I strongly suggest picking up this album.




A TRIBE CALLED QUEST -"AWARD TOUR"

We are getting closer to the future

The new songs are coming along like crazy. i really like them and cannot wait to record and release them.

we're going to be demoing more on Friday.

In late march i believe some of us will be going on a retreat to a lakehouse in peoria, il to have a writing/recording session. we're gonna do a bunch of crazy drugs and find ourselves and stuff.

hope all is well. we are playing next friday, the 26th at the Boiler Room. many new songs will be played.

take care,

chris

Frank's Daily Song #3

Stereolab - "Mass Riff"

Stereolab has an immense catalogue. It's not even the volume of the material (which is still pretty hefty...) but it is the incredible dynamic that the "groop" is able to create between songs and albums. I was thinking about how I wanted to post a Stereolab song but I was having trouble in deciding which track to upload.

Stereolab has an ability that many artists lack. They are able to craft songs that are so wildly different from each other while never losing the aspects that make them unmistakably Stereolab. We can say this about a lot of artists, yes. Stereolab is just one of them.

I chose "Mass Riff" from Instant 0 in the Universe for no real reason, really. Instant 0 in the Universe is the first Stereolab record that I purchased and I believe that it represents their career very well. "Mass Riff" is a good example of their attitude, arrangement dynamics, as well as the overall mood of the band.

I don't have much to share about this one. It's a really good track. I suggest buying anything that you can find by them It is all worth it. On top of that, all of their EPs are super cheap.


STEREOLAB - "MASS RIFF"