Chicago Area Bands

[halfmassive]

My band - half massive. www.halfmassive.com/music you can download whatever you want.

Checkout the hideout's calendar, empty bottle, shubas, and other cool local venues - always good stuff

[seriplop]

cacaw are a rad band from chicago

[poguemahone]

He's releasing an album under his real name Bill Callahan soon. May already be out actually. NPR All Songs Considered played one on this weeks podcast. (One of the episodes this week.) Highly recommend.

it's already out. my friend elizabeth recorded and toured with him last year.
good album although i still like smog stuff more

[NoRelation]

wow, really like that centaur. just bought in streams.

Pit er Pat - which is their best album?
High Time Remix 2009
High Time 2008
Covers EP 2007
Pyramids 2006
3D Message 2006
Shakey 2005
The Babies Are Tired/Lullaby 12 2004

Town and Country - best album?
Up Above 2006
C'mon 2002
Decoration Day 2000
5 2003
It All has to Do With It 2000
Town and Country 1998

Tortoise - best album?
Beacons Of Ancestorship 2009
A Lazarus Taxon 2006
Its All Around You 2004
Gently Cupping the Chin of the Ape 2001
Standards 2001
TNT 1998
Millions Now Living Will Never Die 1996
Tortoise 1994
Lonesome Sound 1992

The Sea and Cake - best album?
Car Alarm 2008
Everybody 2007
Glass 2003
One Bedroom 2003
Oui 2000
Two Gentlemen 1997
The Fawn 1997
The Biz 1995
Nassau 1995
Already have self titled 1994

Shipping News - best album?
Flies the Fields 2005
Three-Four 2003
Variegated 2002

Red Red Meat - best album?
Red Red Meat - 1992
Jimmywine Majestic - 1993
Bunny Gets Paid - 1995

Brokeback - best album?
Looks at the Bird 2003
Morse Code in the Modern Age: Across the Americas 2001
Field Recordings From The Cook County Water Table 1999
Returns to the Orange Grove 1997

[bob h]

Lonesome Organist
Math

[crosshair]

For Tortoise, definitely the first s/t album.
Shipping News, "Very Soon and in Pleasant Company", 2001.
Red Red Meat, you pretty much can't go wrong.

can't comment on the others