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the teaparty

About Me

We have half a concept record & four staggering shows under our belt...

My Interests

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Member Since: 09/10/2007
Band Members:

Photos by Lucy Munger
Influences: Several decades all at once
Sounds Like: Two guitars and drums. Loudly.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

One Two Three Punch

We just posted a new song that we recorded on Sunday.  It's called Asphalt. Woot.Mutiny show July 9th with our friend in People Sometimes, Roche Moche, and Baby Tornados. It's free. And will be amazin...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:10:00 GMT

Video on Acid Marshmallow

This is pretty cool.  Part of our set got recorded when we played Ronny's in May.  The dude recording runs a very cool blog called Acid Marshmallow. No one else in Chicago is giving up and coming band...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:00 GMT

Ronny's on SUnday

It has indeed been too long since we have played a show (at least for me).  In the meantime though, we've really gotten some cool shit together.  So, for those that come, I think this tiny little show...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 13:12:00 GMT

Interaction Demo

So when we began writing Prophet Canyon we had an outline but didn't realize the full breadth of the story. The initial plan was a 10 song LP, but we wanted to get songs recorded and start playing sho...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:05:00 GMT

Outback Banshee

Remember when I said we would post jams and developing songs from our practices. Me neither.  As a return to our initial idea, we posted a fun little vamp from the beginning of our last practice.  As ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:05:00 GMT

We are Sneaky

We are playing a show @ Reggies tomorrow. Word is we take stage around 9pm.  If you are free you should come out.  $7 door fee goes directly to bands making the long-haul to SXSW this year.  Pretty go...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:57:00 GMT

Songs and Such: In the Company (ROUGH)

We've been writing a lot of songs recently. Some are finished, and we will be playing them for people for the first time next Wednesday the 11th.  The rest are in various states of completion.  We rec...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:22:00 GMT

Wednesday the 11th @ Subterranean

We play our first show (in new form, in the new year) on Wednesday the 11th. It's @ Subterranean. We're Stoked because we get to play with Hostage Juliet, who beside b...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:17:00 GMT

A few more Songs

We just posted a 2 new songs ("COUGARS" and "Desserts").  Hope you enjoy. We also put up reworked versions of Samuel and Reticent Eye.  But! This shit still ain't done.  We have two more songs...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:37:00 GMT

One New Track and Beyond

As you can see...we posted a song ("Samuel") from our recent recording sessions. It's still in the "unfinished" category, but we are happy to share. Hope you enjoy. Some more songs are about ready an...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:28:00 GMT