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About Me

Washburn acoustic=$20...Recording vocals after going to the C..priceless.
We've been covered by (links to posts)-
Said the Gramophone
Largehearted Boy
Pasta Primavera
Speed of Dark
The Devil Has the Best Tuna
Bullets From the Belfry
The Last Pop Song
Auralgasms
FutureSounds (and featured on their compilation )
Chicago's NPR
Little Radio
BreakThrough Radio in NYC
Local 101 in Chicago
Different is Dangerous
Your New Favorite Song
Phonic Rapture
Past Shows
12.14.06 Chicago, IL Subterranean
1.20.07 Chicago, IL Metro
1.30.07 Minneapolis, MN Nomad Pub
2.1.07 Iowa City, IA The Picador
w/Thunderbirds Are Now! + Oxford Collapse
2.2.07 Milwaukee, WI Riverwest Commons
2.3.07 Kansas City, MO The Brick
2.8.07 Chicago, IL The Darkroom
2.27.08 Chicago, IL Schuba's
3.9.07 Champaign, IL Cowboy Monkey
3.23.07 Minneapolis, MN 400 Bar
3.31.07 Milwaukee, WI Stonefly Brewery
5.18.07 Chicago, IL The Hideout w/Sybris + L.D.W. Dj's
6.21.07 New York, NY Pianos w/The Jealous Girlfriends
7.8.07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
8.18.07 Chicago, IL Av-aerie
10.18.07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle w/ Adam Franklin
11.21.07 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
11.29.07 Chicago, IL Darkroom w/ the Blakes
12.29.07 Chicago, IL The Hideout w/L.D.W. Dj's
1.12.08 Chicago, IL Metro
2.8.08 Chicago, IL The Darkroom w/Airiel
3.8.08 Chicago, IL The Hideout SXSW Send Off Show w/Sybris, Tight Phantomz, Make Believe, others
3.8.08 Iowa City, IA The Picador w/Jealous Girlfriends, Most Serene Republic
3.9.08 Champaign, IL Canopy Club w/Sybris
3.10.08 Oklahoma City, OK Sauced
3.11.08 Tulsa, OK Exit 6C
3.12.08 Houston, TX Notsouh
3.13.08 Austin, TX Agave Bar
3.13.08 Austin, TX Bikini Bar
3.14.08 Austin, TX ATX
3.14.08 Austin, TX Pete's Bar
3.15.08 Austin, TX Agave Bar
3.19.08 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen w/Retribution Gospel Choir
4.15.08 Bloomington, IN Uncle Festers
4.18.08 New York, NY Arlene's Grocery
5.9.08 Chicago, IL Subterranean w/Sybris & Bon Savants
6.6.08 Detroit, MI Small's Bar w/Four Star Alarm
6.12.08 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
7.4.08 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle w/The Living Blue
7.11.08 Chicago, IL Metro w/Empires & AbsentStar
7.18.08 Minneapolis, MN Hexagon Bar w/Gospel Gossip, To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, & Flavor Crystals
7.20.08 Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge w/Office
8.2.08 Chicago, IL Beat Kitchen

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2006
Band Website: aptekamusic.com
Band Members: Dino, Jesse, Adam, Dave

Influences: Barbarella
Bauhaus
Black Sabbath
Blonde Redhead
The Byrds
Carl Buddig®
Chad
cheese sticks
The Clean
Clinic
The Cure
David Bowie
Detroit
Dungen
Echo & the Bunnymen
eye gougers
Flower Travellin' Band
Fugazi
Galaxie 500
glooms
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Gold Bond®
Huey Lewis
Humble Pie
Interpol
Jane's Addiction
Jeffey Swindleton
Jesus & Mary Chain
Joy Division
killer whales
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Low
Lurky
Mandini
moderate nature
mods
Mogwai
Mojave 3
Mr. Wolf
My Bloody Valentine
Nate
nerds
The Oblivians
Om
Paz
permafries
pick thieves
Pink Floyd
Ride
The Robby Burton
safaris
Scott
seiches
shankers
Shellac
The Shire
The Shocking Blue
Siouxsie & The Banshees
skinks
Slim Pickins
Slowdive
Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Sonic Youth
Spacemen 3
Stereolab
The Stone Roses
Stooges
Suicide
Sun Kil Moon
Syd Barrett
Thin Lizzy
thumpers
Tonewood
tough trippers
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
Wheelhouse
The Who
The Zombies
Sounds Like: Gelflings

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Type of Label: None

My Blog

interview w/Chicago Flame

See the link below folks. I think we were caught in a large hadron collider tear of the space/time continuum. We're ok though. I think.Chicagoan psychedelic noise-rockers, Apteka, check in and tell us...
Posted by Apteka on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:06:00 PST

East Coast Tour 2008

hope to see you.......
Posted by Apteka on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:52:00 PST

Speed of Dark/Pasta- The Sheet/Edie Sees

We made it back from the sxsw mini-tour all in one piece- 12 shows in 8 days and then a little show over at Beat Kitchen last week with Retribution Gospel Choir. We met Alan after our set- he sa...
Posted by Apteka on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:05:00 PST

Chicago Public Radio Interview

This is a fun little interview we did with Althea Legaspi for NPR Chicago that aired today- http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=19489 Thanks to Althea for the kind words......
Posted by Apteka on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:21:00 PST

APTEKA VS GERMANY

Ready your translation software...schallgrenzenthe last pop song...
Posted by Apteka on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:18:00 PST

SXSW 2008

Here are the current dates:03/08/08-Chicago, IL @ Hideout noon03/08/08-Iowa City, IA @ The Picador 9pm03/09/08-Champaign, IL @ The Canopy Club 10pm03/10/08-Oklahoma City, OK @ Sauced03/11/08-Tulsa, ...
Posted by Apteka on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:14:00 PST

Lonelygirl15 pt. II

.. ">Here we go again.......
Posted by Apteka on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:06:00 PST

Lonelygirl15

Here we are in a CA gas station, playing and singing to a lonelygirl who's apparently attracted to danger. Yeah...weird. ...
Posted by Apteka on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:56:00 PST

Metro 01/12/08-Free Tickets Here!!!!

Just print the ticket below and arrive at Metro before 9PM and see us turn to bats for FREE.....The night will include live sets by the Lavellas, and Plane and DJ sets by Scary Lady Sarah.Stick around...
Posted by Apteka on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:39:00 PST

Chicago Reader review

These locals have developed a pretty darn solid take on early-90s shoegazer Britpop, considering they played their first show in December. They're unsigned and haven't formally released anything yet, ...
Posted by Apteka on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:27:00 PST