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ladybird shankar

About Me

hi, we're ladybird shankar. you may remember us from such bands as autosuggestion...I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/11/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/ladybirdshankar
Band Members:
paul plays guitar, marc plays drums and makes electronics do his sonic bidding, kris plays bass, and sandy sings whilst playing guitar.
Influences: sonic youth, nirvana, pixies, pavement, radiohead, dinosaur jr, joy division, the smiths, my bloody valentine, built to spill, pj harvey, butthole surfers, bjork, miles davis, yeah yeah yeahs, the flaming lips, spoon, modest mouse, sleater-kinney, r.e.m., grandaddy, les savy fav, dj shadow, dead kennedys, blur, tom waits, can, yo la tengo, beck, elliott smith, the white stripes, nine inch nails, smashing pumpkins, talking heads, the jesus and mary chain, elastica, the cure, tv on the radio, aphex twin, husker du, portishead, liars, thelonious monk, ween, the klf, deerhunter, super furry animals, arcade fire, bob dylan, the beatles, my morning jacket, swervedriver, guided by voices, creedence clearwater revival, david bowie, pulp, and many others...
Sounds Like: the songs that are playing on our page and other songs that aren't on our page.

Guided by Voices if Guided by Voices were a shoegaze band.
Record Label: chainsaw toothbrush

My Blog

all we hear is radio ga ga

that's right...  ladybird shankar are a little less than a week away from their radio debut.  we will be "rocking the casbah" on 90.1 KSYM at 7:00 PM CST on June 13th.  if you don't live in san antoni...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:14:00 GMT

mourning the loss of autosuggestion

we all knew this day would come...  the end of autosuggestion.  fortunately, like the chinese and homer simpson, we use the same word for crisis as we do for opportunity - crisitunity.  in the spirit ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 04:04:00 GMT

The Summer of Autosuggestion

While one can never be too sure what the future brings, prepare yourself for the summer of 2009, as it looks to be the Summer of Autosuggestion.So far, we have 3 shows lined up in May (one happened ye...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 20:22:00 GMT

have autosuggestion disbandoned?

no, we haven't.  we're going into the studio on sunday.  for how long, we don't know.  when it's all said and done, though, we hope to have an e.p. or an album or a cassingle or something.  then, we c...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:03:00 GMT

bullogetin

well, the "autosuggest the world" tour has come to an end. thank you to everyone who saw us play and to all the bands we were lucky enough to share stages with. we played our triumphant homecoming sho...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:57:00 GMT

i bet he'd like to thank god and his manager...

in case you haven't heard... the newest member of autosuggestion - kris zebrowski (also known as dr. theremin) has won the 210SA buzz award for Weird Instrument Player.  Even though this awa...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:36:00 GMT

future days

a lot of you...   well, maybe not "a lot of you..."  who are you, anyway?  might be asking "what's happened to autosuggestion?"  well, if you saw our recent shows at music town, you know we're all sti...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:17:00 GMT

return to hot chicken

remember that e.p. we mentioned awhile ago? well, it seems that chapter 2 of the long strange saga of autosuggestion's untitled e.p. is about to start - mixing. hooray! it feels like there's a million...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:22:00 GMT

the phonograph won’t play gold records

remember when i said i might update you on the status of the recording?  i dont know if i ever actually said that, and im too lazy to click on the link to look at the last blog.  i think i did, thou...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:56:00 GMT

a time for recording

if you've read my blog or seen mira radar's bulletin from a couple of days ago, you already know, but if not, autosuggestion is going into the studio with mira radar on february 3rd to begin work on o...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:05:00 GMT