Inspector Owl

We are a Chicago, IL band. We love tacos, pickles and playing music. New album out this spring.

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Six.

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#vscocam ghost bridge.

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Sharp Dressed Men. #inspectorowl

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Calvin and Hobbes. Paraphrasing Carl Sagan and promoting science literacy since ‘85.

“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The Sagan Series; Episode 3: A Reassuring Fable

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We kinda fixed it...

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10 years. Wowsers.

10 years ago my friend Victory and I started a simple two piece band. Guitar, bass, and a laptop filling in for a drummer and keyboards. We worked hard, wrote songs we were proud of and made more friends. As the years went on the band continued to grow and change. People left and sometimes rejoined. We have played more shows that I can remember, in more venues, gyms, and basements than I can remember. 

In celebration of our 10 years as a band we are going to be performing live on December 7th, at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago

We have also uploaded our entire discography to our bandpage. Every release we have ever made is up for download, and the best part is that all of them are free! So head on over to our bandpage and download our music.

Hopefully we will see you at the Anniversary show! There will be cake pops. I am serious. CAKE POPS.

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Inspect our fire. #inspectorowl

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Kayak problems... #inspectorowl

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Tonight! Beat Kitchen 10pm. #chicagoband #inspectorowl #sharks #beatkitchen

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C-Bear and the Baby Lord.

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Corey loves Peter. Peter loves Corey.

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Jesse...hard at work.

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Here is Taylor Swift’s “Trouble” covered by a 50-kid “rock orchestra.” It was not exactly what I went in search of - as with all hyper-compressed contemporary pop-rock hits, I yearn for a meaty but well-considered screamo cover - but man oh man am I happy it exists. It’s such a sharp song, full of discrete sounds, that it doesn’t really make sense for that many guitars and drummers, especially compared to some of their other selections like the already-smeary “Strawberry Field Forever” (though that one’s done by just a regular small combo). Dozens of guitars can’t physically produce the crisp on-off noise we’re hearing in the original. Instead, what we get is remarkably (but unsurprisingly, in retrospect) like a Glenn Branca noise, a toothy cloud of distortions, square waves piled on top of square waves until it becomes round. It makes the song more like the sensation it produces in your head as you hear it, the voice singing it and other voices singing along, the recording itself and all its other possibilities simultaneously. There are lots of other  pleasures, too: the synchronized head-bang at the first chorus, the small surprises of the vocal solos, the killer but totally out-of-place Slash guitar solo. A wonderful piece of work.

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Oh man, I love this so much.

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I cried involuntary tears of joy as the first chorus kicked in.

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Morning made. The Fight Club poster seals it.

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This was neat. I like it when all of the drummers sync up on the triplet hits at the end. Then the kid busts out a crazy solo and melts my face.