WHOOO! WEEKEND! HELL YEAH! Anyway, there's just WAYYYY too much going on this weekend for me to jabber on about right now. Let's just dive in, shall we? FRIDAY HAPPY FUGGIN' 8TH of JULY As we reported earlier this week, local screen printers and poster artists FugScreens Studios is opening its shop to the public for a night of free [...]
Who knew kids loved danceable psych-rock? Well, as we discovered after watching three members of Chicago's The Earth Program dance and hop around with the kiddies on a recent episode of Chic-A-Go-Go , the kids love it. A lot. Check out those young rock'n'rollers as they pick up Mr. Bibbles and singer Christopher Mondo's guitars and jam out all by themselves. You go, young rockers! And if you want to dance along to the Earth Program, check them out tonight at Memories Bar , 4358 N. Cicero Ave., with Team Band, UME [...]
THE RIGHT NOW | Photo Credit: SETH THOMPSON WWW.EPIGLOTIC.COM How's your bracket looking? Sick of watching basketball yet? Feel like doing something a bit rebellious? Well why don't you get out and see some of these great shows tonight and tomorrow? While the weather's nice for at least a few more hours we present to you several fine reasons to say "No" to CBS and yes to good ol' Rock n' Roll. Let's get to it, shall we? [...]
OK, so you are sitting around in your post-New Years Eve haze, thinking to yourself, "I love the pop-stylings of Jens Lekman, but I really wish I could hear his songs as played by snotty, loud riff-meisters from Chicago." Well, as fast as you can say "Whoomp there it is", here it is, courtesy of our friends, Team Band : [...]
The headliner was indie starlets The Black Kids but the beast of the show was Team Band . The Chicago foursome was simultaneously a complete mockery of the entire indie scene bullshit and a ferociously rocking half-hour of music. They're excessively self-aware in a "Hey! This is all ridiculous but no less ridiculous than The Black Kids" way. However, while you chuckle at their antics, you find your head grooving, your heel slamming the floor in rhythm with the drummer and your brain thinking "Fuck Yeah!" [...]
Team Band - Team Band Anthem (Live) [mp3] Seeing a Team Band show is a participatory experience that is both a pep rally and a book club discussion. It's as if Team Band is the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 crew, forever trapped in the blogosphere and doomed to watch YouTube clips of emerging artists in the blog-rock scene while singer Greg Drama echoes the commentary of the singularly displaced human forced to live among the robots. But this being the wonderfully communal city of Chicago, all pretensions disappear in the slowly realized [...]
Team Band wins the award for the survey contributor furthest from Vermont. Hailing from Chicago, they are America's answer to Art Brut with their self-aware brand of pop punk and love for SwedePop covers. For those in the city of broad shoulders, Team Band will be at Beat Kitchen on Jan. 25th. You can download their EP from their site by clicking on Audio. Guitarist Chad Belfour sent over his top choices for 2006. 1) What was your favorite song of 2006? [...]
oy vey, what a week its been. we made it to chicago record time, and without incident. its been a great visit, and has really solidified our desire to move back. not to take anything away from atlanta, cause its a great city too but the seclusion is getting a bit much to deal with. i actually prefer atlanta, as a city, to chicago, but home is home, i guess. on another note, i find it strangely frightening the amount of people who google the phrase "ball stretching" and they find this here joint. i [...]
I've posted mp3's by these guys in the past, now I've got the luxury of sharing the visual experience that is Team Band ... This is "Team Band Fight Song" from their recent show at Chicago's Gunther Murphy's , where they apparently successfully fought off robots attacking the club...or something: Upcoming Shows: [...]
A few months ago, I posted about Team Band's rocking cover of Sambassadeur's "If Rain". Well, the Chicago quartet now has a nine track album available and it's a blast. They're basically, America's answer to Art Brut. Hooky and blistering rock with an unusually plentiful and healthy dose of self-awareness. From the band's NASL inspired name and logo to it's own "Team Band Fight Song" to their amusing lyrics, it's obvious that they understand music is as much a form of entertainment as it is an art form. ROCK 'N [...]
When I posted the last "baker's dozen downloads" a couple weeks ago, I got crazy hits and lots of nice notes, so I'm gonna try to make it a bi-weekly thing. Here's a cd's worth of good stuff that's been making my ears smile lately: Purrbot - "Hologram" mp3 Real Ones - "Orlando" mp3 Monster Movie - "Vanishing Act" mp3 Xiu Xiu - "Boy Soprano" mp3 Pinback - "Messenger" mp3 Team Band - "Bond"
that's right - I like 'em! That's right everything is all crazy with team spirit rah rah rah. Think it's all a bunch of crap. It may be, but here's a team that you need to join. Team Band. They're from Chicago. Do you like the non-singing rock-n-party style of Art Brut and just want more! This is Team Band. Want to jump around - maybe even do a little slam dance, I mean why not? This is
I 've been out of commission and out of sorts for the last week or so. Why? I've been doing some reading which may inspire a future post and recovering from my drive back from Chicago and mourning the loss of a very dear family friend. So I'm going to start things back into gear this morning with a smallish collection of photos from my favorite set at Pitchfork. Here you go: bang, bang rock'n'roll [...]
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