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Coltrane Motion

About Me

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HEY, let's make a dance record that sounds like what we dance to: girl groups and big beat and fuzzed-out indiepop / let's make a shoegaze laptop record out of drum breaks, drone and broken synthesizers / yeh, let's call it rock n roll

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/09/2004
Band Website: http://www.coltranemotion.com
Band Members: Michael Bond
&
Matt Dennewitz
Influences: MBV, ELO, MC5, GBV & ODB
Sounds Like: the last 40 years of pop music + distortion, delay & os x

over the past 5 years, we've played with: electrelane, girl talk, vhs or beta, datarock, someone still loves you boris yeltsin, robbers on high street, spinto band, i love you but i've chosen darkness, working for a nuclear free city, cex, band of horses, and many more..
Record Label: Datawaslost
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

More reviews of 'The Year Without A Summer' 7" than you ever wanted

Well, our new 7" has been out for a couple months now, so it's had time to make the rounds and garner a whole bunch of glowing reviews from assorted folks - we've quoted a few of them, with links to d...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:44:00 GMT

Two great Chicago shows in June

Hey, we've got a couple of great hometown shows coming up in June, after a Spring of touring..First off, this Friday, June 5, we're playing with garage rockers White Mystery and Fake Fictions at Schub...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:59:00 GMT

Two big shows this weekend - Southgate House & Double Door!

Hey, we've got a couple of great shows this weekend - first, Friday May 1 @ Southgate House in Newport, KY w/ The Seedy Seeds, Flotation Walls, and The Mighty - we go on third (around 11) and are real...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:32:00 GMT

Tour Diary 4 : Pittsburgh & Dayton

Thursday we headed back West towards Pittsburgh, where we grabbed some dinner and headed over to Club Cafe, a small venue on the South Side. It was our first time there, and we came in just as the ear...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:32:00 GMT

Tour Diary 3 : Philadelphia & Brooklyn

Tuesday found us at The Fire in Philadelphia, a small club in the Fishtown area where we'd played a few years back. Grabbed some pad thai with the guys (and girl) from The Lopez, who played alt-punk t...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:02:00 GMT

Tour Diary 2 : Cleveland & DC

We rolled into Cleveland on Sunday night, at a dance club underneath the Grog Shop called B-Side - it was a good space, filled with folks waiting to dance to MGMT remixes who seemed to make do with us...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:44:00 GMT

Tour Diary 1 : Chicago & Athens

We started out on home ground this time around, with a show at the Whistler in Logan Square. It's a new, small bar off of the California stop thats doing a lot of great free shows here lately, and mak...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:39:00 GMT

New 7" + tour!

Hey - a lot going on this month - we've got a new single coming out called "The Year Without A Summer", b/w "Maya Blue". Datawaslost is releasing it as a 7" on colored vinyl, and 75orLess Records is d...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:01:00 GMT

New Remix Posted

Hey - we just posted a new remix of "Can't" (off of our last album, Songs About Music) up on our Myspace page. It's by superaction80, aka J Reynolds from hip-hop fusion projects The Eagle To Squirrel ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:16:00 GMT

Friday @ Reggie's w/ Helicopters, Thunders, & Replica Republic

We're playing a show this Friday @ Reggie's Music Joint (that's the bar side, 2105 S. State St.) with three great bands:Helicopters (Chicago electro-pop)http://www.myspace.com/helicoptersThunders (Ind...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:24:00 GMT