Loon!

Hex: It sounds like there's a bird in our recordings!?
Bailey: I know. It's awesome!

We just finished recording at Blam Studios tonight. We did a lot of layering on the tracks and with the help of Sean we produced something that we're all very proud of. We beefed up the songs and made them as epic as we thought we could while still keeping the idea of each of the two songs.

Sean is working on the mixes this week and we should have the two tracks by the end of the week.

On Good News we did a lot of cool stuff with the cello and even have some acoustic guitar in it as well. We also did some additional instrumentation that gives it a little more of an eerie feel.

Ronny's

Last night was an amazing night for music! I couldn't believe we were put on the bill with such talented bands!

Just before the show we took Cadejo Negro to visit Union Rock Yards. They'll be playing their in April on the 25th with Mayor For Life.

Today Cain and Brandon will record Good News and Seahorse at Blam Studios with Sean. I'm going to try get in the studio to record my parts as well. Kevin will be coming in tomorrow to lay down his tracks. We're trying to get them finished by April for a soundtrack.

Tonight

Tonight we'll be at Ronny's with:

Nanogon
Cadejo Negro
German Beef Initiative

Blam

Yesterday I was at blam tracking scratch tracks for Good News & Seahorse. It went pretty well, I think. I had to do everything to a click track so it took me a moment to get it down, but not as long as I thought it would.

Tonight Ursula goes in to record her parts.

Recording

Well, it's that time again. We're going to bum rush Blam Studios this week to try to get a couple of songs recorded for a soundtrack. We were asked to record Seahorse and The Monkey and the first three minutes and thirty seconds of Good News.

Unfortunately do to everyone's schedule we're going to have to do our recording in a slightly different manor than we're use to. I'm going to go in and lay down some scratch tracks for the songs to a click track. Ursula is going to come in on either Wednesday or Thursday to lay down her parts then on Saturday we're all going to come in and track the drums, guitars and bass.

I pray that this works.

Redemption

Yesterday we took part of the Feedback Magazine's P.U.S.H. Showcase. We got there just before 3pm and loaded in. We hung around and set up a table with some of our CDs and our mailing list. Most of the time if you don't mention it, people don't sign up for your mailing list or even take all the free junk you lay out.

Most of the bands, although good at what they did, sounded very similar. It's interesting to see a band and just know who their influences are. I do have to mention that we did see one band that really did amaze us more than any other group/performance. I don't remember their name right now but as soon as I remember it I'll post it.

Each band was given 15 minutes to play. Unfortunately most bands didn't listen to that rule. I started getting fairly upset when a band would bust in to song number four.

We did make a few new friends at P.U.S.H. and we're really excited to know all these new bands and people.

Just as we were about to leave Evie from Feedback told us to stick around because they were going to be giving away the prizes. As tired as we were, we're very glad we stayed. We were asked to do a radio interview with JStreet Radio 98.3 as soon as possible.

We won:
a video taping of a live show, and a taping of an interview
a video for one of our songs
graphic design work
We also were given the opportunity to play a festival at the Racine County Fairgrounds on August 21st.

That was the best 15 minutes for CANYON to date.

Feedback Magazine

Today is our showcase with Feedback Magazine. I've been spending the whole morning burning comp CDs of the songs we have recorded to pass out at the showcase. We'll still have to stuff them in to sleeves and label them.

We're all meeting at the space at 12 then we're off to Antioch, IL. It's going to be a long day!

March 27th

Ronny's
2101 N California Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60647

NONAGON (ex mbr of the Blue Meanies) is a 3-piece, punk rock concern that formed in 2003 and practices in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. They are the proud purveyors of a loud set of short songs that have unconventional hooks and changes but still (in the one-time-cool vernacular) “rock”. The band consists of drummer Tony Aimone (who used to play in The Blue Meanies, J. Davis Trio, and Taylor), bass player Robert Gomez (formerly of der lugomen and one oneth of Martian Law), and guitar player John Hastie (who was once in Jumpknuckle). They hope to soon create a lasting audio documentation of their existence, and they like to play shows but have no idea how to dress for them.

CADEJO NEGRO - Will Walker and Jason Whitus cut the cord of the traditional Rock and Roll format and come to the world as a thunderous Drum and Bass 2 piece. Former members of Mezzanine C14 stripe down the layers of calculating complex time signatures to bring strong rythums, back beats, and thundering bass while adding the art of noise as an instrument.

German Beef Initiative
The zombie walkers and vacuum assholes abounding, the German Beef Initiative stuck to their cause even while the New England occupation of Texas seemed complete with fascist commandant marching down Congress Street, vibrator lodged in ass screaming, "Limits to freedom!

It's a few of our friends' birthdays around that time. Donna, Dave and Ronnie, Ursula's room mate. We get to set the pace by going on first that evening! I'm really excited to be playing the show!

March 14th

March is finally uppon us. This month we have two shows going on. One will be at Tower Room in Antioch, IL for the Feedback P.U.S.H. (promote until something happens) Show Case. We'll be there passing out some CDs, probably bowling...

Here are some pictures of a photo shoot Ursula did for Feedback Magazine.