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Pinebender is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois. In autumn of 1997, Matt Clark, Chris Hansen, and Stephen Howard got together to manufacture a series of songs that Hansen had written. Cast in a second-floor bedroom at Stephen’s parents’ Wilmette, Illinois, home, the music revolved around crawling tempos and loud, soaring guitars.
After relocating the gear to a proper rehearsal spot within city limits, the band set its sights on recording. They booked studio time at Electrical Audio Recording in February 1998. The songs recorded during that session, engineered by Greg Norman, would become the Too Good To Be True EP, an apt title for the long-shelved effort recorded for a fleeing phantom of a record label. The band’s first show was played in a backroom bar of a taqueria on Milwaukee Avenue on April Fool’s Day. An important lesson was learned that night: earplugs must be recommended to audiences. They played many more shows at local venues such as the Empty Bottle and the now-closed-and-much-missed Lounge Ax.
In April 1999, the band checked back into Electrical Audio for five days to record their debut full-length, Things Are About To Get Weird. Steve Albini engineered the ten tracks that range from epic, psychedelic slow-burners to distorted pop songs. On the last day of the session, the phantom label floated up into the ether never to be heard from again. Borrowing money from family, the band paid for the session and began looking for a new home. They would find that home at Ohio Gold Records, a small indie label in Chicago.
After relocating the gear to a proper rehearsal spot within city limits, the band set its sights on recording. They booked studio time at Electrical Audio Recording in February 1998. The songs recorded during that session, engineered by Greg Norman, would become the Too Good To Be True EP, an apt title for the long-shelved effort recorded for a fleeing phantom of a record label. The band’s first show was played in a backroom bar of a taqueria on Milwaukee Avenue on April Fool’s Day. An important lesson was learned that night: earplugs must be recommended to audiences. They played many more shows at local venues such as the Empty Bottle and the now-closed-and-much-missed Lounge Ax.
In April 1999, the band checked back into Electrical Audio for five days to record their debut full-length, Things Are About To Get Weird. Steve Albini engineered the ten tracks that range from epic, psychedelic slow-burners to distorted pop songs. On the last day of the session, the phantom label floated up into the ether never to be heard from again. Borrowing money from family, the band paid for the session and began looking for a new home. They would find that home at Ohio Gold Records, a small indie label in Chicago.
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Things Are About To Get Weird
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The High Price of Living Too Long With a Single…
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indiepunkDD wrote:
..ohh..what awesome..
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minisaigon wrote:
i vote for "kick it"
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guerillaradio00 wrote:
nah, parade of horribles
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jamesa1986 wrote:
mask tree is easily their best song
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