Posts tagged chicago music
We are preparing for upcoming summer shows lately. Got a couple new songs in the works. And we had a photo shoot for 2 hours yesterday.
Of course Jamie (who works in layout and design all day) had to do some of his signature tweaking as soon as he was handed 1 of the files:) here’s a little preview of what you’ll be seeing on stage…
mask and all….
We all get the usual barrage of #ff on twitter every friday. Anyone can say follow this person or that person, but once in a while we like to take it a step further and tell you WHY you should follow this person or that person.
This is our list of our crew, the people we love and those who have helped put us on the map in 2012!!
Here goes!
@CBGeneva She writes about lifestyle things and foodie items. Both of which interest us. Plus she is the producer for 13-MONSTERS
@AhaFan88 . Brian Chippendale. A good friend. Drummer for Lightning Bolt and solo artist of Black Pus. His tweets are like watching a man spin into a different realm and then bring it back. He is letting us borrow the name 13-MONSTERS (a Lightning Bolt song title)
She believes in the power of bacon.And she’s Jamie’s wife.
Our bass player in London, wine drinker, lover of music, lover of art, reveller in things!
If we had a band that we could live with inside of a jar of Ready Whip Topping..it’d be them! Go listen to ULY..NOW!! Seriously, an inspiration and great people. Brooklyn’s best!
@APTBS The band A Place To Bury Strangers .
@ElboRoomLive We have a special place in our heart for this venue. It’s where Jamie ended his last musical career and is playing show #2 as 13-MONSTERS ( fact: Jamie was the LAST person to smash a guitar on a stage in the 20th century. It happened at Elbo Room)
Art. Music. Pez. Leader of the band The Wheelers..who we love!
A four piece band specializing in 90’s influenced alternative/indie rock. Loud,Fast,Wheelers!!
Dave Adkins : Psychedelic, Shoegazer, Old School Skater, Guitar Effects Pedal Maker. A great guy who has his finger on the pulse of music!
@ShoegazeCo It all started here with us. Shoegaze Collective was the very first to help spread our name to the world. Our deepest love and gratitude.
@ayanamimusic An ass kicking band . Come see us play with them at Double Door on 12/5 !!
She makes the jewelries all the days and all the nights. None better.
@LoveAndRadiate Syth pop with a slight touch of punky. We love our sisters in Chicago music.
@Iconoclastband : Destroying eardrums with sonic glory
@MYGOLDMASK Gretta and Jack make great music. They are great hometown friends of ours. Go listen to them!
@backdoorslider Champion of the awkward life. Fan of the Oatmeal pie. Co-host of @J2C3Podcast.
@HushDelirium Official page for Art / Music collaboration
@CrystalSeagulls New London based Indie Rock band.
@YourCrapLocalDJ Twitter radio show every Thursday 10pm repeated Sunday 11pm
@RadioKC Voix Officielle de l’Académie de la MiXture RADIO OUT OF FRANCE THAT PLAYS US
@SonsOTNewAmish Jamie works with one of the members. Folk rock chicago style
@teddybrunson He tells us where to eat. Television Personality. Host of @chicagosbesttv on @wgn tv
@divehoney lo-fi, shoegazin WE LOVE THEM
@miishibuzz She likes us. We like her. She’s lovely and has a great taste in music
Mid-30s social club masquerading as rock band.We love em loud..and few are louder!
Shoegazer, musician, IT Geek, cyclist,beer snob / brewer, right wing nut job!He’s awesome and his music (20 Mile Freefall) is awesome shoegaze reverb madness!
Shoegaze/noise band based in Modena, Italy. They love all things distorted and fuzz
Her Vanished Grace plays power dream pop.We love them!
Dreampop whisper . Grab a glass of wine and listen.
Artist. Stone turner! Makes great stuff!!
goofy, giggly, big-hearted 31 year old chick. The ORIGINAL singer of 13-MONSTERS
The man who put us on the world map by playing us 1st on 40footholestudio radio!!!
24-7-365 Music. Featuring US!!!!
Virgil Howe has been given instructions from beyond our galaxy to inspire love with his Moog synthesizer,music production and drumming skillz
Indie alt-rock outfit. A hometown band and friends of ours!
musical goodness. We do love them so.
Psychedelic/Blues/Shoegaze Rock Band from London
SIRS: A noise-rock band from Chicago
Investor , auto racing fanatic. Great friend!
Our friends from afar!!! Glasgow Shoegaze band. Gazing at shoes to make music to gaze at shoes to.
Adventurous,peaceful & warm-hearted globetrotter /Surfer /Guitar lover Music,Art,Nature,Poetry&Photography make my spirit soar. #sustainability Eco-warrior
Baltimore’s shoegazing grungie noisepoping sweethearts
Local band and friends of ours.
ADDICTED Chicago focuses on the food, fashion, music, art, and various happenings around Chicago that make us ADDICTED to Chicago.
@BobLee28 Says he’s the drummer of 13-MONSTERS but has never been to a practice.
A lover of life and singer, who is 1/2 of the Canadian-Ukrainian post-rock progressive ethereal fusion duo @Ummagma.
Garage Rock
Life is deadly, but don’t walk slow. Part of our chicago family. Crazy as they may be.
93MillionMilesFromTheSun are a shoegaze / dronerock / spacerock band. And they are awesome! One of our favs!
Joy of Painting is a Garage-Pop band from Nashville
More Chicago musical goodness . Shoegaze, black jeans, delay, reverb, distortion
rap duo from Chicago. Awesome guys..and one is Jamie’s barista!
King of the world. http://isitsafe.tumblr.com
Jamie owns this company. Specializing in large scale and life size outdoor portraits, art and murals.
her name says it all!
Educate yourself on social and environmental issues. She points out what’s REALLY happening.
In charge of security at all 13-MONSTERS shows.
ass kicking metal fan #1. Owner of Elite Ammunition
Lifer with Jamie..whether he likes it or not.
A homie band. Dreamy kinda stuff. Very chill
and finally…
Jamie. LIFE EXPERIENCE EXPERT . Co-Host of The J2C3 Podcast! Master noise rock musician and 1/2 of 13-monsters. Talks way too much. Has fun at a level that annoys many. Is lucky to be alive and knows he’s even luckier to have you read this.
So..our very first show ( as 13-MONSTERS is now, Laura & Jamie) was at Double Door, Chicago along with Brooke Bartlett, More Gorgeous and headliners Ayanami .
Being the first band up means that you are the last ones to get your stuff on stage, do a fast sound check and GO! Play your set and get the hell off ASAP. Ahhh..the life of a band.
Our set-up is a mish-mosh of “stuff” that sounds ridiculous if you’re a musician but genius-mad-scientist for the listener. The beats are recorded ( Jamie does the drums in our studio) along with an underlying deep bass beat that we run off of our MacBook. That goes into a Kenwood receiver (yes..a 250w home stereo receiver.) and is blasted out of the 2 Kenwood 250w home stereo cabinets ( the spray painted ones…yes..thos are just home speakers). The Guitar set-up is a simple 3 pedal arrangement that goes to a Gallien Krueger 206 jazz combo amp that Jamie uses as the head to a 4 X 12 Ibanez cabinet. Laura uses a Sennheiser e935 mic which then goes thru an extremely reverby/echoey Fender 25w combo guitar amp.
Yeah…like I said..it sound ridiculous, but somehow kicks ass. Blame Lightning Bolt..they taught me how to do this shit.
So..we get our set-up on stage and all plugged in. I flip the switch on the Gallien Krueger amp and…..nothing. Nada. Zip. Not even a power light. I’ve used this thing for 20 years with ZERO problems and all of the sudden it decides to take a shit on us right before a huge show. And there started the mad scramble! I was freaking the fuck out up there!
I credit the sound engineers at Double Door for jumping in and helping an obviously-flop-sweating me with figuring out that we had to quickly get the Gallien Krueger out of there, take Laura’s Fender 25w combo, disregard the entire Ibanez 4 x 12 cabinet, mic the Fender 25w combo and use THAT as the sole thing that the guitar went thru while running Laura thru the house system, mic’ing the Kenwood speakers AND running a line from the Mac to the soundboard for the house syatem as well.
I just heard a collective gasp from all the rock musicians who read that. I know..I know..it was madness. Yet genius a genius move by the best sound guys in the biz. They KNEW that we were to sound like something akin to a Sleigh Bells-White Zombie-Ministry guitar/drum buzz and they were hell bent on making that happen…which they did :) I was sweatin like a kid getting his lunch money stolen. And, as I’m sure you can tell now that you know the story, for the first song or two I was checking everything around me to make sure I wasn’t about to kick something lose in this new patched up set-up which we had NEVER used or played thru before. What we heard on stage was NOTHING like what we were used to. In fact, I couldn’t hear much except my own guitar that was being blasted thru a small amp which was now right in back of me. I barely heard the drum beats at all. Thank god for our MacBook, which I used as a visual guide to where the song changes are ( we use Garage Band for each song…so the tracks are actually running while we are playing..I know..I know, again..madness.
Laura told me a day before the show ” Whatever happens it’ll be a great story. We were asked to play at Double Door by a much bigger band for oour premier show, and only had a couple of weeks to put our set together. If we pull it off we’ll look like heroes. If it goes bad we can blame it on only having 2 weeks to get our shit together. It’s rock & roll. This is what is supposed to happen.”
Turns out that we looked like heroes. The other bands loved us. The crowd loved us. And quite possibly the best compliment ever…the sound engineers loved us. THAT is a HUGE compliment given that these guys have seen it all and heard it all. I think they saw this as a welcomed challenge. I mean..seriously..I knew they were going to dig working with us as soon as I saw their huge smiles when i pulled out a Sovtek BIG MUFF guitar pedal. One of them happily said ” Ok..this all makes sense now! This is gonna be cool” .
And the the story was written. One that we will always be proud of. The ultimate baptism by fire done by a 2 person band and a couple of great sound techs who shook the legendary Double Door. I’d like to give a huge thanks to our roadie-supreme, Jay Wolf. He kept me from going off the edge and was johnny-on-the-spot with everything. Everything during and after the madness went alot smoother because he was there.
Again, thanks to everyone who was there and all who watched THIS VIDEO live as it happened !
Next show is at Elbo Room on 1/13/13 “A 13-MONSTERS Spectacular 13th”. We hope to see you there! We promise we’ll have a new guitar amp by then :)
Have a great week everyone!
-Jamie-
”Everything’s gonna be ok….Everything’s gonna be ok…Everything’s gonna be ok…” -from Perfectly Imperfect by 13-MONSTERS-
We picked up a brand new Epiphone Special Les Paul guitar on friday. The things sounds so rad. Sustains forever..which is a good thing when you use distortion and feedback as we do.
We also signed one of our new posters for a fan in Texas. That was pretty sweet!
Reminder! We have a show at Double Door on 12/5. And we are talking to Elbo Room about an upcoming possible date there as well! We’ll keep you posted!
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Thanks for listening!!! Love to all!
Laura & Jamie
Perfectly Imperfect by 13-MONSTERS. It’s a song about how we all try to act “normal” even when we’re broken. But there’s always that one person who sees thru your bullshit act.
Our latest single DITCH . It’s a song about the after effects of a horrific motorcycle accident that Jamie was in.
Enjoy!
13 Monsters New song DITCH will be released Sunday Oct.28th, 2012 at 9:15pm EST right here on everyones favorite internet Radio Station 40footholestudio.com Radio
Laura & Jamie of 13 Monster will be here to inturduce the song and talk about their other three great songs. And talk about themself the band, and what is coming in the future..
Great way to Start the Week, or Finish it, your choose.
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Pretty soon we’re going to start releasing more music than Ty Segall.
Til then the next on debuts on internet radio!!
Grab it like it’s the last piece you’ll ever get ( yeah you know what we mean)
