November 01, 2004Duvall's "O Holy Night" is available at all finer record stores.
Archived News
November 01, 2004
Duvall's "O Holy Night" is available at all finer record stores.
November
01, 2004
You can download one of Colossal's new album tracks here.
November
01, 2004
Here's some long awaited word from This Is Me Smiling;
"Well, it has been about a year since I last wrote to you guys in one
of these messages.. I'll be lucky if half of your e-mail addresses
still work.We had an awesome time doing our record with Sean O'Keefe. So
awesome, in fact, that he joined the band after we finished the album.
He's now our drummer.. replacing our friend/legend Mike Felumlee.
This would explain the months of not hearing from us, as Sean learned
the songs and we got used to playing with him.The album won't be coming out for awhile still.. as we are in the
search for a record label to put it out. We'll slowly start playing
shows around the area to get comfortable onstage again.. which will
take some time. If there's one thing this band is good at, it's
waiting.. haha.A website is back up... this time it's WWW.THISISMESMILING.NET. It's
barebones right now, but we'll probably put an mp3 or two from the new
record up to keep everyone in suspense.I mostly wanted to say Hi to everyone, just to make sure you guys
don't think we broke up or anything. We can't wait for you to hear
our record.. it's something we're all so proud of.All in good time."
Dan D.
thisismesmiling.net
September 05, 2004
Colossal's first full-length album is ready and will be available
on September 21, 2004. "Welcome The Problems" features ten brand new
recordings.
from asianmanrecords.com
COLOSSAL hails from Elgin, IL, and features Rob Kellenberger from Tuesday on drums, Pat Ford from Flowers on guitar and vocals, and Eli Caterer from Duvall & The Smoking Popes on bass. The band makes indie rock with a pop flair, adding jazz and math rock influences.
Colossal is starting to support this release with a tour this coming week, so check for dates. Go to the show and buy the album before the release, you won't be disappointed.
September 05, 2004
Duvall's "O Holy Night" will be out in November with a tour in the
plans around the same time. In the meantime you can check out the cover art
right here.
June 22, 2004
I'm starting a new feature at the site called "Smoking Popes Live."
I don't know if it will be monthly or occasional. Take a look for yourself and
let me know what you think!
June 5, 2004
Colossal, featuring Eli Caterer and Rob Kellenberger of Duvall, has finished
tracking on their upcoming Asian Man Records full-length release. Check out
colossalrock.com for more info.
May
21, 2004
The Turn have arrived! Mike Felumlee has put together a full band and now fronts
the Turn. The Turn are part of the upcoming "Turn it Up Tour",
with Split Habit and As Tall as Lions. This midwest tour runs during June and
July. After the tour the Turn will spend some time in the studio working on
their debut album.
More on the tour at turnituptour.com, you can view tour dates to the right of this page. More info will follow on this site as it is available.
May
21, 2004
Duvall has spent the last two weeks working on recording their Christmas Album.
The full length album, tentatively titled O Holy Night, is also tetativly
scheduled for a November release.The song list is as follows;
Angels We Have Heard
Light Of The Stable
Go Tell It On The Mountain
O Holy Night
Little Drummer Boy
Away In The Manger
Joy To The World
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Jesus Christ
First Noel
You can check out the recording logs by myself and Rob Kellenberger at duvallmusic.com.
May
04 , 2004
A couple Duvall items.
- Duvall's Volume and Density is available for sale on itunes.com and emusic.com as high quality mp3s.
- duvallmusic.com has seen another facelift. This time I had a partner in crime. Rob came by and we designed it and threw it together over this past week. So take a look it's sharp, if I do say so myself.... and I do.
May
04 , 2004
Mike Felumlee is no longer with This Is Me Smiling. You can however hear him
on their debut album coming soon.
May
04, 2004
A few news items from Tom
Daily!
Congratulations to Mark and Jeanne on getting hitched and the bun in the oven. Needless to say, we won't be bringing you the rock anytime soon, but you can find us at a nearby park with the young volunteers on the swings.
The everlasting recording project is still just that. I've decided to go for the record for the longest time between releases. I think Mission of Burma are the current leaders at about 22 years, so you can hear the new songs in 2023. I'm kidding, or am I?
In the meantime, the old men that call themselves Not Rebecca will be playing a show at the Fireside Bowl on Friday, May 28th. Why? Well, we're old. We don't remember things so good. What's that you say lad? Will it rock? Oh, sure. Have we ever let you down before? Well, never you mind that. We plan on staying sober and playing well. Did I mention that we are old?
April
20, 2004
Eli Caterer has joined up with his Duvall bandmate, Rob Kellenberger's band,
Colossal. Here's what Rob had to say on the Duvall webboard. For more info check
out colossalrock.com
Eli is now a permanent member of Colossal. He will be recording the full length record with us. We love having him in the band because he's so cute.
April 10, 2004
An update on the upcoming album for Ryan's Hope on DZ this month, from ryanshopemusic.com;
The ryan's hope debut lp the trials of recession will be released SATURDAY, MAY 1ST AT THE BOTTOM LOUNGE IN CHICAGO!!!!! DETAILS WILL BE UP SOON IN REGARDS TO SHOWTIME AND COVER!!! PLEASE MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO COME PICK UP THE BRAND NEW HOPE CD!!!
March 4, 2004
A bunch of news from Double Zero Records Website;
Split Habit - Split Habit's Double Zero debut "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" is out now. Make sure you go to your local record store and ask for it, or simply order it from us because we love you. Starting in April the album will be in listening stations at 70 Tower Records locations nation wide, it will also be in 45-50 listening stations at indie music stores throughout the Midwest so if you're not totally sure that the CD kicks ass (IT DOES!) you can go check it out for yourself. Also, Split Habit was just added to the Mad Caddies show @ Metro March 27th, hopefully we'll see you there!
Amazing Transparent Man - The ATM record is being mixed this week by Matt Allison over at Atlas in Chicago. We're still shooting for an April 20th release for this one. ATM and Split Habit are on tour together as we speak so go check the dates and get out to a shows, these kids are worth the cost of admission!
Ryan's Hope - Hey, we just signed another new band!! They're from lovely Joliet, IL they're called Ryan's Hope and I gotta tell ya, they can really bring the rock. We'll have some photos and an MP3 up soon so you can form you own opinion, I'll think you'll be impressed. We're looking at a possible April release for this one too if all goes according to plan
Jenny Choi - If you haven't pick up "Postcard Stories" yet you need to do it now. Lyrically it's the best album we've ever released and she has the voice of an angel. Also check out the dates for the AIR Tour on the shows page.
Fans Sign The Band - This week will mark the start of the final round of the FSB contest. This will decide who gets signed to Double Zero. I'd like to thank all the bands that submitted their music for this. I listened to everything that was sent in and wish we could have included everyone. Good luck to all of you.
Mike Felumlee - I'll be going to England with Squirtgun March 4 - 14th, it should be a great time. This Is Me Smiling's debut album is almost finished as well and it sounds amazing.
February
1, 2004
Welcome to the new and very
improved Smokingpopes.net. We have added a ton of new content and are working
on much more. We will update as we get new news and we will have monthly feature
updates. Please let us know what you think on the message boards and stick around,
there'll always be something going on.
-Eric
January 31, 2004
Duvall has released their first full-length album on Asian Man Records. You can order Volume & Density straight from Asian Man Records at http://www.asianmanrecords.com!. Here's what others have said of the release; |
 |
"Caterer's sound is strangely attractive, since it mixes his droll vocals over hard-charging guitar-rock."
Dan MacIntosh (http://powerpop.org)
"The band has a stellar sound, a driving energy, and that signature emo voice."
Kevin H. (http://www.realmagazine.com)
"This album is perhaps the most heartfelt and honest collection of songs based on one man's relationship with God."
Joe Giachero (http://www.decapolis.com)
January 31, 2004
From squirtgun.net;
|
 |
January 31, 2004
Double Zero Records has signed, local bands, Split Habit and Amazing Transparent
Man! Here's some news from the bands websites;
Split Habit.com
"We will be having our CD release show at Metro on Valentines Day, February 14th. So plan on dragging your date to the northside to come see us.""We have a new album coming out on Double Zero Records in February entitled, "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is". You can check out some of the album art in our photo section and listen to a few tracks as well."
A-T-M.net
"Alright, so for a while now, I've been saying how we should have some bigger news for you. Well, here is some of it... We are signing to Double Zero Records for the release of our new album. We are very excited to be working with them, and look forward to all the new ideas we have planned. As of right now, we're looking at recording in December, doing a small tour in January, then a full nationwide tour when the new album comes out in March. But that's all tentative. For right now, we're just very happy to be with the Double Zero crew."
"The album will be done in about a month, and has a tentative release date of mid to late March. More info (track listing, album title, artwork, etc...) to come soon."
January 31, 2004
New album coming this year! Here's some info from their website;
"Sunday, October 12, 2003
We're getting ready to go into the studio and make our first record with producer Sean O' Keefe (Fall Out Boy, Spitalfield, Motion City Soundtrack) and we're pretty excited about it. We'll most likely be keeping some kind of recording journal during our time in the studio, so read that if you're really REALLY bored."