Front Porch Musings review Horse Operas new album

Written by . Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under News. No comments.
Horse Operas received a pretty stellar review from Front Porch Musings for their new album Dead Man’s Music. Here’s a snippet: I’m quite attracted to the stiff-upper lip sensibilities that come through in some of the tunes. The music is very simple; there’s a guitar, sometimes two, a ukelele, and some pretty easy to follow drum-beats. Simple [...]

Awesome last show for German Beef Initiative forthcoming.

Written by . Posted on January 12, 2010. Filed under News. No comments.
GBI's last show ever 01.23.10 at Cal's
GBI will play it’s last show in it’s current incantation before Josh Brown heads to Seattle. Please mark your calendars and look at them – Saturday, January 23rd at Cal’s in Chicago (400 South Wells Street) there will be Mr. Walker doing some stand up, Jewsus, German Beef Initiative, and Black Bear Combo Come out and see us off into [...]

Record Reviews… and a strange one for GBI

Written by . Posted on December 16, 2009. Filed under News. No comments.
Onion Av Club Top Band Names for 2009
German Beef Initiative made The Onion’s AV Club list: 2009: The Year in Band Names – Our annual look through the funny, the groan-worthy, and everything in between. Check under the “???” section. Thanks!..? Horse Operas‘ new album, Dead Man’s Music, received a new review but we can only guess it’s flattering because it’s from AltCountry.NL. We did [...]

Horse Operas release Dead Man’s Music

Written by . Posted on November 8, 2009. Filed under News. Tagged , , , . No comments.
Horse Operas - Dead Mans Music
It’s finally here. the new full-length release from Horse Operas entitled Dead Man’s Music. On Dead Man’s Music, Horse Operas both channel the music of dead honky-tonkers and beat it back with a stick, creating an album of garage country with punk undertones.  You can purchase a physical copy of the album at CDBaby and [...]

new member of our Southern Love family

Written by . Posted on October 1, 2009. Filed under News. Tagged , . No comments.
Grun-Tu-Molani will play their CD release party for Varelse Dans this Friday at one of the new spots in Chicago’s Logan Square ( Cole’s – 2338 N. Milwaukee) @ 8pm. Come witness the Rhodes/timpani/trombone~plus stylings of the only Southern Lover to have written every single one of their songs about an animal. Vulture my personal favorite.

New Southern Lovers, Taunto!

Written by . Posted on June 24, 2009. Filed under News. Tagged . No comments.
New Southern Lovers, Taunto, finished recording their debut and set to head out for printing. Vulture, Feast! will make the perfect back to school distraction for your illegitimate kids.

It’s printed! Furious Frank presents…

Written by . Posted on May 13, 2009. Filed under News. Tagged . No comments.
It’s printed! Furious Frank presents: The Hobocamp Mudshow is back from the press. The CD release party is June 19th at Quencher’s but we’ve got the bad boys in hand and they sound awesome. We’ve been recording this thing for a year! Check out some tracks

In the Year of the Pig opens for Xiu Xiu

Written by . Posted on February 2, 2009. Filed under News. Tagged , , . No comments.
German Beef Initiative, Containers and In the Year of the Pig have new live dates up on our shows page. In the Year of the Pig have a show with Xiu Xiu on Feb. 28th at Duke Coffeehouse. Bound to be a great night.

ITYOTP New Album and Containers Tour the Bay Area

Written by . Posted on November 6, 2008. Filed under News. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
In The Year Of The Pig are hard at work on their new album which should be released late 2008 or early 2009. It was recorded with Nick Peterson of Track and Field Studios in Carrboro, NC.  The new record took ITYOTP two days to record and will include 5 songs for a total run-time [...]

Horse Operas Album On The Way

Written by . Posted on September 12, 2008. Filed under News. Tagged , . No comments.
Horse Operas are hard at work on their first full-length album that’ll be available this winter from Southern Love Records.  It was recorded straight to Henry Michael’s 8 track Otari and they’re now in the process of laying overdubs and mastering the final recordings. Keep an out here for for further info.