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About Me

***UPDATE*** Thanks to everyone who came out for our final show. Check back here now and then as we'll be posting links to everyone's new projects.
Thanks so much to everyone who has stuck around with us. It's been a blast.
Check out drummer Jeremy Papay's band The Dirty Sunshine .
Part of Pittsburgh's volatile underground music and art scene, Chalk Outline Party was a new growth of bleak romanticism atop the city's industrial past. Slyly inverting the traditional power trio, vocalist Aaron Jentzen also performed on bass, while Brian Sproul's guitars draped the imagistic songs in shimmering post-Belew sonics, all over drummer Jeremy Papay's polyrhythmic attack. The group's hard-edged live show included a film by filmmaker Jessica Fenlon made specifically to accompany their performances.
Check out the "live" video for our 2006 single, "Psychic UK":

Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Jessica Fenlon just made this animated video for one of our older songs, "The Gun in Everyone," off our last EP. It's part of the film we sometimes show during our live shows:
Get this video and more at MySpace.com

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Member Since: 8/21/2004
Band Website: chalkoutlineparty.com
Band Members: CHALK OUTLINE PARTY: Psychic U.K. single

"a tight, smart urbane sound, darkly sardonic ... a cunning combination of Joy Division and The Cure's early existential gloom-pop, swathed in decadent '70s glam." Tribune-Review

CHALK OUTLINE PARTY: A Plan Lost in Dreams

"If only everyone's idea of straight-ahead rock'n'roll were more like Chalk Outline Party's: the dangerous swampland where rock's beautiful failures ('60s garage, post-punk, dark '80s new wave) are buried next to its lionized beauties (Bowie, Bryan Ferry)

Aaron Jentzen: vox + bass

Brian Sproul: guitars

Jeremy Papay: drums/keys

Influences: Nick Cave, Psychedelic Furs, Chavez, Television, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Bauhaus, David Bowie, The Cult, The Verve, Placebo, Afghan Whigs, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Church, Leonard Cohen, Suede, Marillion, Morphine, Pink Floyd, The Police, Secret Machines, Tears for Fears, Depeche Mode, Velvet Underground
Sounds Like: Television, Cobra Verde, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bauhaus, Pete Murphy
Type of Label: None

My Blog

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Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:25:00 PST

Eureka moment!

Hello everyone, Call it a eureka moment. After quite a rotating cast in the bassist slot and who knows how many auditions we discovered the perfect bassist for Chalk Outline Party was, you know, a...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:38:00 PST

COP in today's papers!

Hi everyone Were in the news today! See below or www.chalkoutlineparty.com for details on our show tomorrow night. Heres the first article: Music on the edgeIt's too early to be optimistic, but if C...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:37:00 PST

April news

Hi everyone a few exciting developments: NEW FILMWeve added a new element to our live performances an experimental film by Jessica Fenlon, whos an accomplished artist and big fan of the band. For the ...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:35:00 PST

Feb News / mailing list!

Want latest info on upcoming shows? Subscribe to our email mailing list here. Thanks to everyone who helped make this past year a successful one for Chalk Outline Partya lots happened in the pa...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:49:00 PST

Opening for Lake Trout & Benzos 11/15!!!

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Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 05:14:00 PST

Roustabout Preview article

Party, Debate to rouse Darkhorse By Paul Thompson Collegian Staff Writer Soda or pop? Eagles or Steelers? It's a moot point tonight at Roustabout!, as Pittsburghian gloom-rockers Chalk Outline...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:52:00 PST

Mobfest in Review

Yeah, so Chicago was pretty cool. Long drive, but Jeremy and Sproul conspired to rent this bizarre white suv to "travel in style," although it was packed to the walls... indiana must be hell? Got into...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cobra Youth House debuts at .25 on Specialty Radio!

The single Cobra Youth House debuts at number 25 on Specialty Radio! Here are some of the stations currently playing Chalk Outline Party, if you want to listen in or request:WARQ Columbia, SC, "Elev...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"Cobra Youth House" hits national specialty radio TOMORROW June 3!

The single "Cobra Youth House," off Chalk Outline Party's new record "A Plan Lost in Dreams" hits specialty radio programs nationwide on Friday, June 3rd. For more information, see our radio promoter'...
Posted by CHALK OUTLINE PARTY on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST