27 july 2009
merch section added!!! fuck yes. buttons, stickers, custom shirts & patches now available through paypal!
password-protected digital download feature added for mind yr p's & q's! + discography updated!

Listening: The Copyrights - Learn The Heard Way LP
Feeling: Stoked

24 july 2009
records i acquired this week:

the steinways - gorilla marketing

sleep bellum sonno - judge us how we live our lives not by how we make our living

blink 182 - they came to conquer uranus

fifteen - ooze 7"

ergs!/grabass charlestons 7"

ergs!/modern machines 7"

mozart's greatist hits (for $fucking2...who's indie now?)

chicago chamber orchestra - mozart on michigan avenue

dizzy gillepsie/roy eldridge split

duke ellington's 70th birthday show

fucked up - hidden world
out of money. please donate to me here.

Hearing: Lifetime - Hello Bastards
Feeling: Broke.

23 july 2009
saw castevet at reggie's. they played with this sick band from vancouver called carpenter. they're coming back in november on their way home from the fest (that's a fucking long way!!!) do yrself a favor and check them out!

Enjoying: Pedro the Lion - Achilles Heel
Feeling: Minneapolis

Like Bats @ Platform 9 3/4, July 22, 2009

22 july 2009
went to a house on the southside. saw Arkansas?, Parrhesia, The Read (Cincinatti,OH), Like Bats, and Delay (Columbus, OH). holy fuck. in retrospect this will be one of the greatest shows i will have ever been at. I videotaped some of it: . None of my footage of The Read saved though >:-# .




Ringing: In my ears
Feeling: Sweaty & moshy

21 july 2009
went to the record store to get Dear Landlord's new 12", ended up with Gorilla Marketing by The Steinways. check out this songtitle: "(Nobody Wants To) Make Out (With Me (Because I Wear Sweatpants))" Hahahaha. Lead singer's also in a band called Barrakuda McMurder. They have a song on a 4-way split with Like Bats, Strait A's & Rumspringer called "I Just Broke Up (With My Girlfriend (So I Could Write Pop-Punk Songs About It))".


Hearing: Flatfoot 56 & Green Room Rockers @ The Beat Kitchen
Feeling: Ska

Article in the Chicago Tribune? Backed...

the best part is that they liken "hey usa" to "america, fuck yeah," which is our 'get pumped' jam, we play it on the way to shows, and sing it when we take breaks during practice. they nailed us.

written by andy downing:

The Please & Thank Yous

Despite the polite name, the Please & Thank Yous are far from goody two-shoes. Just check the local quartet's "The Blow Reilly Factor" (streaming at myspace.com/tpaty), where frontman Geoffrey Schott delivers a hilarious screed that could've earned the crew a mention on the Fox News commentator's "Pinheads and Patriots" segment (sample lyric: "I couldn't even get through the introduction of your book").

Further evidence of the group's offbeat sense of humor can be found by glancing at its MySpace site (Jeremy Upton's contributions are listed as "guitar, aimless banter, stage presence"). But the jokes would mean little if the music didn't work. Fortunately, it does, particularly on the Smoking-Popes-meets-Randy-Newman crunch of "Hey U.S.A.," a clean-cut cousin to "Team America: World Police's" unprintable theme song.