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Whales Live at PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

Whales performs live as the second day of the PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 moves into full speed with a soaring performance from the Grand Ballroom of Klas Restaurant in Cicero, IL on Friday, September 30th, 2011. Joining Whales on keys is the mysterious maestro, Matte.

For more info on Whales, please visit Whales Bandcamp.

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Small Awesome Live at PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

Small Awesome kicked off the second night of music as part of the PRF Auktoberfyst 2011 with an amazing performance under the lights of the Grand Ballroom of Klas Restaurant in sunny Cicero, IL on Friday, September 30th, 2011. Always impressive, at which I am never surprised, Jim and Faiz brought their creativity, and of course, awesomeness and made them rise like bread.

For more info about Small Awesome, please visit www.smallawesome.com because that would be awesome.

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“A Scrupulous Cultural Ignorance” – A Recap of The 2011 PRF BBQ Auktoberfyst

This piece originally appeared in DocAwk’s own blog, Martian Dance Invasion!.

Gothamist: “It just seems from my perspective that there aren’t many bands that are making dark or ugly music anymore.”

Steve Albini: “Well, it sort of depends on the idiom really. There’s a lot of sort of grungy metal and punk stuff where every single band is trying to make aggressive music.”

Gothamist: “Yeah, I guess I’m referring more to the…”

Steve Albini: “Bands that play at the clubs you go to.”

Steve Albini is at his quotable best in this interview over at The Gothamist blog, in which he shares his always smirk-inducing opinions on New York City, the asinine Odd Future dustup (“It was a message board thread about Odd Future and I happened to have an anecdote about them so I share my anecdote and what passes for Journalism these days is repeating things that other people link to you on Twitter so that’s what it boils down to”), and his interactions with mainstream popular music:

I’m an exceptionally lucky man in that I’ve never heard a note of Lady Gaga’s music and you could sit her on my lap and I wouldn’t recognize her. I know that she’s a cultural force at the moment but I’m quite satisfied in having dodged that one. It’s like a truck drove by spraying shit from a nozzle over the entire neighborhood and I happened to be under an awning. You know?

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Live Streaming from Klas, PRF Auktoberfyst 2011

We hear there is internet access at Klas that we can use. If we can get it working, we’ll be streaming Friday and Saturday’s shows at this internet location for those of you who can’t make it.

Until then, you can tune into our last broadcast, recorded live from Caffeinated Recordings, of Nonagon by hitting play below!



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