I compressed these last night. I was trying out some options (Cleaner, QT, Compressor) and I ended up compressing files for my iPod. I think in the future, I may do a couple different options for each file – one for iPod, one for YouTube (upto 100mb!), and one for archive. Anyway, these are a little overcompressed considering YouTube’s max size being so large.

Devil’s Show:
Twenty Miles Westard (with Metallica’s Seek and Destroy intro)
Dear Jessica
Sweet Lil
Heliocentric Model (with Slayer’s South of Heaven intro)
Double Zero
Show Info (previous blog post)
Show Photos

Just found out we have been featured in Found Magazine News. We finally got a good (great, even) mix of Dear Jessica and they threw it up on their site. In case you dont know, the song was written for Found Magazine, so this day was not a surprise — just a long time in the making.

Thanks to Jason and Davy and the whole Found crew, even the dirty ones.

Hey People’s, I put up the photos from the last show at the Note. Once again, our good friend, Rana, took this shots. And there are pics of two of the other three bands as well (sorry, Grackles – we were there, but the camera ran out of batteries).

You can also find these photos and more at Flickr and Google’s Picasa.

More news coming as I am compressing some video from the Devil’s Show and some other things are bubbling in the tank.

We are playing with The Grackles, Lynyrd’s Innards, and Lost Armada at The Note on Friday, Jan 5th, an MPshows event. I believe it is the Grackles CD release and we are thrilled to be a part of it. Gonna be great.

And while we are on the topic of shows…. our next show should be in March. I am looking to put together a Silkworm Tribute Show to go along with the Silkworm Tribute Record. I believe *joesepi* and Century Rocket Building will be sharing one of the 8 abbreviated slots.

I dont know if I have mentioned this (check the archives, *hole!), but I have updated the Sessions page. There are new ‘rough mixes’ of all the songs. The previous mixes were very old and the new ones include contributions from such friends as: MTAR, James Olsen, Antoine, and more. Plus, the latest mix from Dear Jessica is there.
Enjoy!

Yes, we recorded our episode a couple weeks ago and it was a blast. Well, our episode, the NEW YEARS EVE episode, airs next tuesday (8:30pm) and wednesday (3:30pm) on CAN-TV channel 20 in chicago. For all of you elsewhere’s in the world (or the ones who just CANT WAIT), you can just jog on over to the Google Video: *joesepi* on Chicagogo
*joesepi* at about 7min in
El Train Dance featuring members of *joesepi* for the last 6min
Plus: the Wee Hairy Beasties, featuring Jon Langford, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan and the Devil in a Woodpile folks. WHAT A GREAT EPISODE!!
Chic-A-Go-Go Site

We have added GasMasK to MySpace.

myspace.com/unbelievablegasmask

I am just going to try and sneak this one in here:

CRB RuFF MiXeS

Shhh… Don’t tell anyone.

A good friend is involved in this and asked me to help spread the word.

From the page on the Second City site:

For the fifth straight year, a group of current performers and alumni of The Second City take to the stage for an entire 24 hour period to benefit children and families in the Chicagoland area during the holiday season. Improvised scenes, songs and games are performed by the ensemble, only taking breaks when a variety of top musical acts drop by to perform and inspire the cast and audience.

As a special treat this year, Second City and Saturday Night Live alum Horatio Sanz will be flying in from New York to join the cast!

Scheduled musical acts for “The Second City That Never Sleeps: Letters to Santa” include Jeff Tweedy, Robbie Fulks, Shellac, Sally Timms, Jon Langford, The Blisters, Jason Molina and many more.

Go here for the schedule and times.

First off, we have been working on a new Bearhawk record which has had several names associated with it (Softhawk, Softshell, Gentle Bear) but I think the album may be tentatively entitled, Killer Wails. This recording has taken a new form for the Hawk, with D going in and recording a bunch of songs and filling it out from there. For this recording, Mouse is playing drums (and recording/mixing); Jim is playing bass, Jon and I are playing guitar and we have had a few guest appearances on other instruments. We have recently made some rough, but almost final mixes and I have posted two (Archae Bacteria and Old Hotel) to the Bearhawk MySpace page. And speaking of the Bearhawk MySpace page, I have also filled it out a bit with some photos of members, contributors and friends.

Secondly, Century Rocket Building has been working on some recordings when we find the time between other projects, parties and the usual family/life stuff. I just put down a bunch of guitar the night before last up at Reelsounds and we are getting excited about the progress. I still need to do some guitar housecleaning over there and also add some vox, but from there we will probably sit with some rough mixes and start to flesh out some ideas to make these already great songs even better. Some sounds will be posted forthcoming. (Oh yeah, and I have posted a recent photo shoot we did trying to get a promo shot together.)

And as previously mentioned, we have a new mix for Dear Jessica from the *joesepi* rock band and we are hoping to continue putting parts down and wrapping up these sessions before the end of the year.