Oh, and if you’re in the Chicagoland area, make sure you go to Wicker Park Fest on July 24th to see them (and make sure to say hi to me while you’re there).
The great thing about KTA is that Garen is a fantastic performer. He not only has killer guitar skills and an amazing voice (and some pretty awesome songwriting abilities), but he is a pro at cracking jokes between songs, or mixing things up by bringing people out to help perform a song or two. I respect those individuals who can command complete attention onstage with just themselves and a guitar. It can’t be easy.
Pat McAloon (the guitarist for Pat McGee, who was headlining) came out to help sing a song.
It’s been forever since Company of Thieves released their last record. For a while, we’ve been hearing about them in studio, and since then have been anxiously awaiting a new record. Glimpses and snippets have been revealed here and there, but it was finally released on May 17th. It is available on iTunes as well as at FYE (and maybe other record stores?). You can even get a free download of “Death of Communication” on Spin.com (it’s pretty amazing, you should download it).
This set of photos was the in-store at FYE on May 17th, the day of the release.
Another, much less important, note is the fact that I shot the cover art. Kind of. Long story short, the band is amazingly creative and made a collage for the cover, but it was all loose paper pieces and couldn’t be moved and they didn’t have a camera that could take photos of the resolution needed. So, I stopped by and took a few quick photos of the collage…the band was sweet enough to give me photo credit, even though they did all the hard work in making the collage.
Sometimes I like to sneak pictures of my friends in:
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