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Unpretty Things

Piled High Live or Die IT'S All OVER.

About Me

We're just 4 people picking up instruments and trying to make something out of nothing.THE TRUE STORY:J. met Mike one sunny day about 6 1/2 months ago... We sat in his old garden aprtment and forged a friendship and musical bond. After several months of writing and playing nearly everyday together, it was time to look for others to join our ranks... Ezra was the first drummer we auditioned and the minute he started playing, Mike and I looked at each other smiling and nodding in silent agreement that we had just found our new drummer!The three of us decided that it would be in our best interest to look for a second guitarist to attain that really big sound we wanted. And it just so happened one day shortly there-after that I somehow stumbled upon the MySpace page of one extremely talented and beautiful Megan Kasten.Megan had just moved to Chicago from Kansas City and was searching for bandmates as well. I listened to some songs from her old band the Hot Fruits' EP and was dead set on having her as a band member, knowing that she was exactly what we were looking for. She showed up at one of our early practices and everything about it felt right. The rest, as they say, is history.In our Music, Age, Gender, and Genre really don't apply. But we hope you enjoy these songs... We wrote them just for you.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/16/2004
Band Website: unprettythings.com
Band Members: Melissa Marquez - Rhythm Guitar and Vocals Megan Kasten- Lead Guitar and Vocals Mike Runnels - Bass Ezra Hozinsky - Drums and percussion
Influences: The Ramones, The Buzzcocks, Joy Division/New Order, Wire, Television,The Police, Pretenders, The Beach Boys, Beatles, Pixies,Dead Kennedys, X, Gang of Four, Kathleen Hannah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cars, Green Day, Weezer, The B52's, Nirvana, The Rezillos, Undertones, Vandals, The Clash, The Dirtbombs, Detatchment Kit, Devo,Jaw Breaker,The Gossip, Bratmobile, Iggy and the Stooges. Sex,Sweat,Blood, and Tears.
Sounds Like: More Cow-bell!!!
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

UNPRETTY THINGS HAS DISBANDED.

Well it is with a sad heart that i have to tell everyone the news that Unpretty Things is no more. We had only been playing for 7-8 months, but i felt that for such a young ba...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:44:00 PST

WE WANT TO EAT YOUR CHILDREN !!!

oops... I meant... Meet.... we want to MEET your children!And we can, if you bring 'em to Reversible Eye Gallery (1103 N. California Ave) this Saturday night because we are playing an All Ages show......
Posted by Unpretty Things on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:04:00 PST

CD CONTEST AT DELILAH'S TOMORROW NIGHT!!!

HELLO TO ALL OUR FRIENDS IF YOU HAVE NO PLANS FOR THURSDAY EVENING, THE 23RD (TOMORROW NIGHT!!!) PLEASE COME JOIN US AT DELILAH'S ON LINCOLN AVE. COME CHEER FOR OUR BAND TO WIN SOME AWESOME PRI...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:15:00 PST

TOP 5 THINGS TO DO ON A SATURDAY NIGHT !!!

                                  SEE THESE BANDS!!!...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:19:00 PST

NEW WEBSITE...UP AND RUNNNING.

Unprettythings.com    check it out. myspace is being a bit disgruntled at the moment and not allowing me to link our site here so you'll just have to copy it into your search engine......
Posted by Unpretty Things on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:26:00 PST

BEAT KITCHEN SHOW W/ METHADONES & THE BOMB!!!

That's right folks..you read that correctly... we areplaying one heck of a ROCK show the firstSaturday in Febuary (the 4th) at the Beat Kitchen (2100 W. Belmont) with THE METHADONE...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:22:00 PST

Venus Magazine, New Ep, and Last Show for the Year!!!

Hey Folks if you go out and pick up the latest Winter Issue of Venus Magazine... a comment submitted by yours truley was included under the heading "Thanks for Caring." which  also mentions ...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:01:00 PST

New Songs...New Page Lay Out...New Pics...New Show!!!

Hello Friends... we recently added some new songs from a session we did Live at Superior Street. We spent several hours and got 14 tracks in total from it....some were not so great while&nbs...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:11:00 PST

SHOW AT SILVIE'S THIS SUNDAY -the 20th!!!

We are playing another RrRrOck SHOw this coming Sunday the 20th at Silvie's Lounge. 1902 W. Irving Park. (right off of the brownline Irving Park stop) Show starts at 7pm and we play first!!! We recen...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:49:00 PST

The Night of A thousand Drum Machines...okay well..really only two.

Hey just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who made it out to the show the other night...we had A BLAST! Big Horse Lounge rules and the tacos were off the hoOk. haha.... All the Bands were great!...
Posted by Unpretty Things on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 04:34:00 PST