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Advance Base – Summer Music

04/02/2012 in ADVANCE BASE, CALDO VERDE RECORDS, CARTER FAMILY, CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE, CHICAGO, COVER, ORINDAL RECORDS, OWEN ASHWORTH, TOMLAB | No comments


Advance Base – Summer Music

Owen Ashworth, formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and currently of Advance Base, is set to release the first full-length “A Shut-In’s Prayer” under the name Advance Base, due out on May 1st via Ashworth Brothers’ imprint Orindal Records (vinyl/digital) and Caldo Verde Records (CD) for North America, and via Tomlab Records (CD/vinyl) for Europe/UK. It was recorded at his home and the Chicago Public Library’s piano practice rooms.




Taken from Advance Base (Owen Ashworth with Jody Weinmann, Nick Ammerman & Edward Crouse) / Concern (Gordon Ashworth of Oscillating Innards & Knelt Rote) “Traditionals” Split 7″ covering The Cater Family songs, released from Orindal Records (2011).

Kelly Hogan – We Can’t Have Nice Things

03/16/2012 in ANDREW BIRD, ANTI-, CHICAGO, JACK PENDARVIS, KELLY HOGAN, SCOTT LIGON, THE FLATFIVE CHICAGO, THE JODY GRIND | No comments



Stream the track ‘We Can’t Have Nice Things,’ co-written by author Jack Pendarvis and Andrew Bird, from Kelly Hogan‘s long-overdue third solo album “I Like To Keep Myself In Pain,” due out on June 5th via Anti- Records. Pre-order, HERE.

Hogan’s first new album (since 2001’s “Because It Feel Good”) was recorded by an absolutely all-star band consisting of R&B legends Booker T. Jones and James Gadson (Bill Withers, Beck), Gabe Roth (of Daptone Records, the Dap-Kings) and Scott Ligon (The Flat Five Chicago, NRBQ), and the other songs were written by M. Ward, Vic Chesnutt, Magnetic Fields, the Mekons’ Jon Langford, the Handsome Family, Bird, Freakwater’s Catherine Irwin, John Wesley Harding, Robbie Fulks, Gabriel Roth and Robyn Hitchcock.


Three Sides Chicago : Squares, Squirrels and Dots

02/28/2012 in ARCHER PREWITT, ART, CHICAGO, ERIC CLARIDGE, EXHIBITION, PRESSPOP, SAM PREKOP, THE SEA AND CAKE | No comments

Sam Prekop



Three Sides Chicago : Squares, Squirrels and Dots
(シカゴの3つの側面：四角、リス、そして点)
Sam Prekop, Eric Claridge, Archer Prewitt
サム・プレコップ / エリック・クラリッジ / アーチャー・プルウィット

The Sea and Cakeの来日公演にあわせ、３人展が開催されます。

東京：3月26日 ～ 4月8日
リブロ渋谷店・洋書ロゴス渋谷店 ショーウィンドー
渋谷パルコpart1 B1F

京都：4月4日 ～ 4月22日
トランスポップ・ギャラリー

The Sea and Cake Japan Tour 2012

April 6th: Billboard Live, Osaka
April 7th: Billboard Live, Tokyo

Eric Claridge



Archer Prewitt



And ….. The A.V. Club is now featuring an exclusive track ‘Arizona’ (below) by Sam Prekop from Tim Sutton’s debut feature “Pavilion” which will premiere at SXSW 2012.

Willis Earl Beal

02/28/2012 in CHICAGO, HOT CHARITY, WILLIS EARL BEAL, XL RECORDINGS | No comments



Willis Earl Beal – Monotony (via)

A Chicago-based singer/songwriter/artist,
Willis Earl Beal will release his debut full-length “Acousmatic Sorcery,” due out on March 5th via Hot Charity/XL Recordings.


“The album’s 11 songs are taken from a series of recordings Beal made while living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After living in the Chicagoland area for his entire life, Beal felt compelled to be near the desert, an idea he had long romanticized.”  –Leor Galil, CHICAGO READER




Willis Earl Beal – Evening’s Kiss
Illustrated and directed by Willis Earl Beal.
Taken from the first single from Willis Earl Beal’s forthcoming debut album “Acousmatic Sorcery”.


FOUND’s Magazine #7 contains the true-life tale of Willis Earl Beal, who’s responsible for perhaps the sweetest and oddest looking-for-love flyer ever created.

Lint, the strip cartoon opera project

02/20/2012 in BELGIUM, CARTOON, CHICAGO, CHRIS WARE, WALTER HUS | No comments

おお、３月にブリュッセルでクリス・ウェアのカートゥーン・オペラ・プロジェクトの演奏会が！

Lint, the new strip cartoon opera project from composer Walter Hus is the ideal way to get to know the greatest cartoon genius of the last twenty years, Chris Ware. The book of the same name sketches the complete life story of a Jordan Wellington Lint (Acme Novelty Library Volume 20), who is remarkable for his wrong choices and missed opportunities. It was the leitmotivs, counterpoints and other musical elements in this ingeniously constructed cartoon that caught the attention of Walter Hus. Together with Angélique Willkie and Spectra Ensemble, he converts this fabulous work into a real cartoon concert.

Walter Hus is artist in residence at Namahn.
(via KVS, Brussels, Belgium)




LINT: the legendary strip ‘lint’ by Chris Ware with music of Walter Hus
2 & 3 March – 20:30 – KVS_Box, Brussel

Joan of Arc presents Joan of Arc

02/19/2012 in ANNA KARINA, CARL THEODOR DREYER, CHICAGO, CINEMA, JOAN OF ARC, JOYFUL NOISE RECORDINGS, SILENT FILM | No comments


Chicago’s Joan of Arc have written and recorded a complete soundtrack for the 80 minute classic French silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928). Recorded live on opening night of the 2011 Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, the new album “Joan of Arc Presents: Joan of Arc” is slated for release on April 10 2012. In this latest unexpected turn for the band, Joan of Arc have composed a dark, flowering sonic counterpart to the film’s grim subject matter (which is a rather haunting depiction of savage religious persecution).

Released on vinyl and digital only, via Joyful Noise Recordings.


Scenes from “The Passion of Joan of Arc / 裁かるるジャンヌ・ダルク” appeared in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa Vie / 女と男のいる舗道” (1962)

Narrow Sparrow – Spooky Head

02/05/2012 in CHICAGO, CINEMA, DADA, DARIUS MILHAUD, HANS RICHTER, NARROW SPARROW, RICHARD PORTILLO | No comments

Narrow Sparrow – Spooky Head

A Chicago-based experimental electro-pop project, Narrow Sparrow has released a new video (featuring spooky footage from the 1920s) for the song ‘Spooky Head,’ off their four-song EP “Synthworks.”
Download Synthworks EP for free, HERE.


Narrow Sparrow – Glow (from “Synthworks”)


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Hans Richter – Vormittagsspuk
(Ghosts Before Breakfast / 午前の幽霊), 1927
One of the Narrow Sparrow’s favorite short films … (via).

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