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The Goddamn Shame

Noise Annoys

About Me

The Goddamn Shame began in a smelly garage on the south side of Chicago in the Spring of 2004, with amps and drum kit positioned precariously around pallets, rusting appliances, and a refrigerator filled with flies. This proved to be an excellent space for songs to fester and grow, for pop hooks and blues scales to decay into a barrage of noise with hints of melody lingering beneath, on the verge of breaking apart. We love cheap distortion pedals, self-oscillating feedback, and contingency plans.

On July 2nd, 2006 we released our first EP, Dispatches from the Grey City, produced by Loren Jan Wilson of Mr. Hyde Records. We are currently writing new songs in various other shitholes around Chicago and hope to have another EP completed by the Spring of 2007. If you like our music and/or would like a copy of our current EP, send us a message or leave us a comment.

All the mp3's you hear on this page have been recorded in either Loren Jan Wilson's basement or Brian Sulpizio's Chateau Recording Studio, Humbolt Park. Please consider them, if you want excellent sounding recordings on the cheaps.

Quick Before It Melts says: "It's been awhile since I've come across a band on Myspace that's made me sit up and take notice, but I've taken a shining to Chicago's The Goddamn Shame."

Gig Highlights

11.7.07 - Empty Bottle (w/ Lab Partners)
05.01.07 - Subterranean (w/ Welcome to Cambridge, Cries Tiger)
03.09.07 - The Elbo Room (w/ The Modern Temper, Pontius, and Jumbling Towers)

02.17.07 - The Elbo Room (Benefit for 50th Ward Alderman candidate Naisy Dolar w/ The Jesters, The Blue Line Riders, and Greenfield Park)

10.22.06 - The Chicago Marathon

10.06.06 - Gunther Murphy's (w/ The Hourly Radio and The Modern Temper)

07.02.06 - The Wilderness Loft (w/ Bicycles and Gravel, Matt Boyle, and Grinner)

06.02.06 - Main Quad, The University of Chicago (Mr. Hyde Records music showcase w/ First Coat, The Passerines, Cola Wars, Unled Tit, Lixian Hantover, The Flying Fishes, etc.)

03.31.06 - Pure Hype on WHPK 88.5 (live, on-air performance)

11/11/05 - The Smart Museum of Art (for the "Smart Soundscapes Series" w/ The Modern Temper & The Passerines)

4/7/05 - Phyllis' Musical Inn (w/ Felta, Cadet, Jeremy Williams)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2005
Band Website: thegoddamnshame.com
Band Members: Nick Hudac - vocals, guitars;
Matt Deming - guitars;
Matt Kotheimer - drums;
Deb Umunnabuike - bass;

Influences: The Goddamn Shame listen to: Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Swervedriver, Tom Waits, James Carr, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Shudder to Think, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Dandy Warhols, Wilco, The Constantines, Stax Records, Chess Records, Simply Saucer, Bicycles and Gravel, Matt Boyle, Theoretical Girls, Serena Maneesh, The Wrens, The Flaming Lips, Television, Mono, Curtis Mayfield, The Ravonettes, The White Stripes, Lying in States, Health and Beauty, Starlister, Nels Cline, The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Sonics, Singapore Sling, 13th Floor Elevators, Neil Young, The Who, Material Issue, Hum, The Libertines, The Kinks, SoulWax, Irish drinking songs.

We read too. Jorge Luis Borges, Chuck Bukowski, LF Celine, Ken Koch, Stephanie Anderson, Paul Celan, Bruno Schulz, Lyn Hejinian, WG Sebald, Charles Zukofsky, M Lermontov, Haruki Murakami, Michael Herr, Warren Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, M Bulgakov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Ashbery, Rainer Maria Rilke, A Rimbaud, Italo Calvino, Felisberto Hernandez, Jim Harrison, Ken Kesey, Ern Malley, Donald Barthelme, Virginia Woolf, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Junot Diaz, John Steinbeck, A Ginsburg, Kobo Abe.
Sounds Like: A complete clusterfuck of your favorite critically acclaimed bands.
Record Label: Mr. Hyde
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Studio, studio, studio

Hey dudes and dudettes!  Just wanted to keep you posted on all things shameful.  The boys and babe are in the studio today making the finishing touches to what will become our first full le...
Posted by The Goddamn Shame on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:02:00 PST

$240

Thanks to all who made it out to the show last night. We managed to keep our fingertips superglued in place and not bleed all over Nick's family members. And we were remarkably sober for a change. ...
Posted by The Goddamn Shame on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 06:55:00 PST

Elbo Room Show Saturday

Dudes and Dudettes,Just posting to remind ya'll about our show tomorrow at the Elbo Room (2871 N Lincoln).  If it isn't clear from our recent gig history, WE FUCKING LOVE THE ELBO ROOM.  We ...
Posted by The Goddamn Shame on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:08:00 PST