Hello MFT!
Check out Mr. Gray at Manifest in Chicago.
We will play May 15th from 1:30 to 1:45 at Balbo and Wabash Avenues.
If you can't make it watch it stream live online at:
http://www.colum.edu/manifest
The Show is FREE and open to the public.
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Hello Team Chicago!
Check out Mr. Gray at Manifest.
We will play May 15th from 1:30 to 1:45 at Balbo and Wabash Avenues.
If you can't make it watch it stream live online at:
http://www.colum.edu/manifest
The Show is FREE and open to the public.
http…
Some of us have left our Indiana roots behind for the shores of lake Michigan and the city of broad shoulders. This is a group for the Chicago based MFTers.
I thought LLC stood for living learning center, we were required to take part in the community and take classes in the dorm. As for finding out about it - I wrote this elsewhere: A friend, Carl Broemel, invited my high school band, Populous, to play…
Collins Smith 007 was my room in 93-94. It was a half floor of the smallest building with TV, laundry, computer lab, and our RA was on the floor above - college utopia at the time.
I wonder where Dave Todd is? Last I remember him getting married an…
I recently found and pulled out a Split Lip t-shirt.
I think I might be biased, but I was a big fan of Split Lip. I remember playing shows with them, Planet Earth, Zero Boys, 8 Bark, Phalanx, and many more at the India Community Center. The shows w…
From Indy, went to Pike High School, played in a few bands then, played in a few since. Went to IU Bloomington off and on, took many years off of school, and now at Columbia College Chicago.
What bands are you or have you been in?
Populous, Proper Burial, invisible jet, Bentframe, Graymail, Mr. Gray.
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…
Futureheads- debut, Area ep
Hives-Vedi Vini Vicious , Tyrannosaurus Hives
Exploding Hearts-Guitar Romantics
Jay Reatard-Blood Vision
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds-The Lyre of Orpheus, Dig Lazarus, Dig!!! No More Shall We Part
Hope Sandoval & the Warm In…