James and April Combs, formerly of Arson Garden, have a new band: Honneycombs. We are playing a private house party in East Wicker Park. If you'd like to come, let us know through MFT email and we will give you the information...
Hello!
Love to go_trying to rearrange my schedule...will probably have to be a little late. What time do you perform? Also, not sure if you know but Patrick Smith is back in Chicago—I could see if he could go if you want...
_Robert
James and April Combs formerly of Arson Garden have a new band: Honneycombs. This time around they share the vocal mic and the songwriting. Laurie Burnham joins in on harmony.
With Chris Kupersmith.
I think the order of instruments played for me would be much more VOCAL and a little guitar.
What bands are you or have you been in?
HONNEYCOMBS!! New project with my brother James Combs and my dear friend, Laurie Burnham. Also formerly of: Arson Garden, Butter, and lastly but not leastly (at least musically) Snacktime.
At 4:16pm on November 20, 2008, Robert Smith said…
hello yourself...
I haven't check this site in a while...what is new with you??
Playing tommorrow in Chicago—Reggies Music Joint on the near South side—excited but nervous about turnout...harder to get people out here & many of my friends now have kids so...plus chicago has 100s of bands every night so there is stiff competition...you can hear some of our stuff at www.veipacray.com if you are interested...
Hi April -- I wanted to thank you so much for the beautiful 1st day of school picture. We've set it as our monitor background and we can't help but smile when we see it. Your girls literally glow with excitement, all shiny and ready to go. And so many fun details -- Michael in his suit waiting by the car, your sweet garden, and my favorite, the rub-on tattoos!! I hope their day went well - I'm sure they had many lively stories to share with you when they got home.
Thanks again and please keep us on the photo list,
Leath
What a blast! A perfect night of music, old friends and new. The only fallout is my office-mate, Stephanie, making me listen to "Little Moon" 27 times today. She has already memorized the words and is walking around singing it. If you ever need an understudy... Myself, I've been stuck with "Impossible Space" rattling 'round my brain day and night.
FYI re: our discussion about song choices, I see you friendid Bjork on your MySpace. We've got Vokuro in our repertoire.
Very Nice... Your voice was awesome ( as usual ) and the songs were aural fireworks everyone was dying to hear again. I wanted to get up there and kick a chair, bang on a beer bottle and shake the bag of potato chips.
-Jarv
Get down, April!!! Your songs are great! Your singing & performing is impassioned as always; as fun to watch as it is to hear. You (and James) have always been strong on stage, but your songwriting was a sweet surprise. And Michael's presence was complete value-add brain candy. Glad you both took a night off from familial bliss to grace the Bear's stage. Enjoy the rest of your tour and keep churning out those tunes. The CD will be available when????
I keep track of what I listen to, so honestly most of what I give a play is more older music, but these are the ones from the last decade that I listened to the most.
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Lift Your Arms Like Antennae to Heaven
Boards of Can…
Arular - MIA
Alright, Still - Lily Allen
Parallel Play - Sloan
Cold & Kind - The 1900s
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
Robyn - Robyn
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
T…
seconding 'the oughts,' except it is properly spelled 'the aughts,' as the ou-spelling meads 'should have' while the au-spelling means 'nothing' or 'zero.'
no list here.
off the top of my head the records that stay with me over the past decade:
W…
I love procrastinating with this kind of stuff. Here is a start, no order or top 10, but what I would place in the top 100 or so:
Boris, "Pink" and "Smile" and "Amplfier Worship"
School of Seven Bells, "Alpinisms"
Keren Ann, "Keren Ann" and "la Disp…