#the grackles

[maiathebee]

I Am So Depressed I Feel Like Jumping in the River Behind My House but Won’t Because I’m Thirty-Eight and Not Eighteen

Bring me a drink. I need to think a little. Paper. Pen. And I could use the stink of a good cigar–even though the sun’s out. The grackles in the trees. The grackles inside my heart. Broken feathers and stiff wings.

I could jump. But I don’t. You could kill me. But you won’t.

The grackles calling to each other. The long hours. The long hours. The long hours.

by Sandra Cisneros

[hangsabove]

Tanis makes me imagine things in different ways. I am always intrigued by the strangeness of it all, and the tinge of unease.

[satxmusic]

4/13: "Shane-Dig (Vol. VII)" - Convoi, The Grackles, Dick Wiggler & The Cattle Guards, Bigwood, Vic Dean, Cemetery Hips, Lotus Revolver and South-End Wreckers @ 11225 S. Foster (House Show)

PUNK/SKA/ROCK/BLUES/AMERICANA, MUSIC FROM 3-11 P.M.

FREE SHOW (DONATIONS SUGGESTED), ALL AGES

FACEBOOK EVENT

3 P.M. - South-End Wreckers: Facebook, ReverbNation

4 P.M. - Lotus Revolver: Facebook, ReverbNation

5 P.M. - Cemetery Hips: Facebook

6 P.M. - Vic Dean: Website, Facebook, Jango

7 P.M. - Bigwood: Facebook, ReverbNation

8 P.M. - Dick Wiggler & The Cattleguards: Facebook, ReverbNation

9 P.M. - The Grackles: Facebook, Bandcamp, on YouTube

10 P.M. - ConvOi! (Austin, TX): Website, Facebook, Twitter

[darkyellowsongs]

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Title: Sun Spots Band/Artist: The Grackles Album: Honeypot Personnel: Nicole Roach, drums; Brian Aleman, bass; John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: Spring 2004, Phantom Manor Studio, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Of any song on the record, this one would have been "the single." When we were featured on "Local Anesthetic," on Chicago's WXRT radio station, this is what they played. And when we appeared on the local hipster/children's dance show Chic-A-Go-Go, this is the one we lip-synced to.

[darkyellowsongs]

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Title: The Chicocal Locago Land Radio Show Theme Band/Artist: The Grackles Personnel: John Huston and Brian Aleman Recorded: December 2004 in Ottumwa, Ia. and spring 2005 in Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: For about a year, Brian and I had a radio show on the college radio station WRRG that focused on local Chicago bands. (Get it -- Chicocal Locago? Whatever. The name was Brian's idea...) Anyway, I had this instrumental demo song lying around and we added the world's most idiotic vocals on top. Pretty sure no one was listening to our show anyway.

[darkyellowsongs]

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Title: Virus Like You've Never Seen Band/Artist: The Grackles Album: The Burning Candle EP Personnel: Brian Aleman, bass; John Fee, drums; John Huston, vocals and guitar. Recorded: June 2006 at the Music Factory and Pirate Alley Studios, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: I had this bass riff kicking around my head for literally years until I finally came up with a melody to sing over it. Took it to the band and the song quickly became one of my favorites. (I also really dig how the background vocals came out.)

[darkyellowsongs]

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Title: Bridges and Balloons Band/Artist: The Grackles Album: Unreleased Personnel: Brian Aleman, bass; John Fee, drums; John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: Live, Feb. 21, 2007, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Our rock version of the Joanna Newsom song. 

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Title: Backwards Day Band/Artist: The Grackles Album: Honeypot Personnel: Nicole Roach, drums; Brian Aleman, bass; John Huston, vocals and guitar Recorded: Spring 2004, Phantom Manor Studio, Chicago, Ill. Fun fact: Wrote this song in college, but too late to record it with my band The Transoms. Did a solo version in 2000, but brought it back when the Grackles went into the studio to record our first record. I still like that outro guitar riff.