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Duenow

Strip Mall Babies Make Flea Market Music

About Me


From the acid-washed strip malls of suburban Midwestern nowhere, from the ditch-weed and porn-filled shoebox under dads bed, from the muddy graveyards of muscle cars and tortured varmints come the children of Coleco Vision, Reaganomics, and high school shootings. Zach & Dorothea Duenow are the macabre and beautiful mushroom festering on the rot of the American Dream.

The duo perform a dizzying blend of genre that ends up sounding something like Eminem, Woodie Guthrie, and The Sex Pistols. Always delivered with manic smiles, their songs paint a picture of a surreal and pornographic Norman Rockwellian world that leaves no skeleton in the closet. The debut album from the duo, "The Draft LP", will be released by UNITED FOR OPPORTUNITY on April 25, 2006.

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Member Since: 3/21/2005
Band Website: nope
Band Members: Dorothea Duenow (husband), Zach Duenow (wife)
Influences: Negativeland, Jethro Tull, The Orb, Spooky Tooth, Jane's Addicion, Led Zeppelin, Bahaus, Christian Death, P.I.L., The Beatles, Queen, The Minders, The Beastie Boys, David Holmes, Paul Simon, Bog Log III, Eminem, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews, Grateful Dead, Phish, Metallica, Guns n Roses, Chemical Brothers, Beck, Nirvana, Enya, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Live, Violent Femmes, The B-52's, The Clockwork Orange, Nick Drake, Leo Kottke, Madonna, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, The Neutral Milk Hotel, Dolly Parton, The Spice Girls, The Kane County Fair Grounds Flea Market, George Michael, GG Allin

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The Draft LP

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Sounds Like: Sounds like someone smoked crystal meth and stayed up for 2 straight weeks rewriting the soundtrack to "Paris, Texas"
Record Label: United For Opportunity
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Our interview with Venus Magazine

Duenow The Chicago-based husband-wife duo discuss mixing music with marriage, covering Eminem, and their new album The Draft LP by Amber Drea Like Adult., Mates Of State, and Mommy And Daddy, married ...
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:58:00 PST

Album Review from Time Out Chicago

Duenow The Draft LP (United For Opportunity) Two and a half years ago, local songwriter Zach Duenow dropped his original band lineup, changed his glossy, folky sound to raw, bluesy garage and hired hi...
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:40:00 PST

Gonna rock at the Green Mill on June 4th (This was in Pioneer Press)

OOSTER/WICKER PARK May 3, 2006 Marching to beat of very different drummer The husband-and-wife rock 'n' roll tidal wave of blurred musical boundaries is at it again. Avondale's Duenow features Zach a...
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:29:00 PST

Check us out in the Illinois Entertainer

Duenow, Pay Later Posted by IE in Stage Buzz, Weekly (Wednesday May 3, 2006 at 3:31 pm) Duenow Elbo Room, Chicago Saturday, March 6, 2006 Because Zach Duenow plays guitar and sings in the band that be...
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:22:00 PST

DUENOW RELEASES THE DRAFT LP

These little letters that I type, carry only but a small portion of the humbled hours that Dot & I have spent thinking about all of you......from those of you that have just passed your pen over o...
Posted by Duenow on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:17:00 PST

Igniting Silence 101

While bold tales of litigation-proof planning have preceded this volume of our journal, I must confess that Dot & I are currently involved with fallout ramifications from our suburban sabotage las...
Posted by Duenow on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:39:00 PST

Boys Bleed

We have moved into our house in the burbs with great aplomb.  Happy are we to be sharing the sounds of our instruments with the echoes of the wilderness.  The midwest has remarkable birds al...
Posted by Duenow on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:33:00 PST

Demolition Sales & Dead Men

In addition to posting some new tunes on this high-tech go between, Dot & I have had quite a churning experience this week.  We're quite fond of demolition sales.  You show up to a pre-d...
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:39:00 PST

The Time Has Come For All Good Men to Come to the Aid of Their Country

Dot and I have sat soaking in the suburban sun for the past six months stewing up a masterpiece of performance to be unleashed in three parts to mark the April 25 release of our debut record THE DRAFT...
Posted by Duenow on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:47:00 PST

Preview "The Draft LP" on Myspace.com

Starting March 28th we will release 2 new songs every week leading up to the release, so come back here often!
Posted by Duenow on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:23:00 PST