Soft Speaker http://softspeaker.com Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:53:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 New LP: The Jockey (coming April 20, 2012) http://softspeaker.com/2012/02/new-lp-the-jockey-coming-april-20-2012/ http://softspeaker.com/2012/02/new-lp-the-jockey-coming-april-20-2012/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:05:48 +0000 paulf http://softspeaker.com/?p=475  Ahoy!
We are pleased to announce details of our next release, SSPKR-008, The Jockey.  It will be available on a limited edition cd on April 20, 2012 at our show with Sleepy Sun and White Hills at Subterranean.  At some point before the show, we will make it available as a digital download.  More on that to come.  This album features eight (8) Soft Speaker songs reinterpreted by artists that we highly respect and admire.  In addition, there is one live-in-the-studio track entitled, “P.E.P.,” that we recorded while taking a break from mastering Vortrobos.

As a tease, we have three tracks from the album streaming on our Soundcloud page:

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Beat Kitchen
2100 W. Belmont, Chicago
Friday, February 10th
Doors @ 8:30pm

Soft Speaker (headlining)

Sissy Mena

Soft Candy (on stage at 9pm)

You have briefly emerged from your mid-winter hibernation to harvest a snack from a lush hedgerow of gooseberries. Their spiny stems, as you know, provide protection from the pesky magpie moth caterpillar. Before returning to your cave, you are welcome to sup with us if you wish. May we sample your gooseberries, so moist and oddly familiar in both texture and flavor? Do enjoy a sip of our fresh mead. Please, lend your ears to the delicate and nimble fingers of our town minstrels. Be fair warned, their seemingly polite melodies oft grow ferocious and in rare cases, result in temporary delirium. Said minstrels will perform at designated times, as listed above. Their song cycles, also referred to as “minstrel cycles”, are each clever and unique.

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2012/02/soft-speaker-sissy-mena-a-mid-winters-hibernation-briefly-interrupted/feed/ 0 Soft Speaker Included in Chicago Tribune’s Best Music of 2011 List http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/soft-speaker-included-in-chicago-tribune%e2%80%99s-best-music-of-2011-list/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/soft-speaker-included-in-chicago-tribune%e2%80%99s-best-music-of-2011-list/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:17:49 +0000 joed http://softspeaker.com/?p=461

A colorful feather in our 2011 cap! Dig it:

Chicago Tribune

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/soft-speaker-included-in-chicago-tribune%e2%80%99s-best-music-of-2011-list/feed/ 0 Transmogrified Dayglow Marshmallow Fuzz http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/transmogrified-dayglow-marshmallow-fuzz/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/transmogrified-dayglow-marshmallow-fuzz/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:41:28 +0000 joed http://softspeaker.com/?p=442 Friday, December 16 at 8:00 PM

Radio Radio
1119 Prospect St
Indianapolis, IN 46203 UNITED STATES

Soft Speaker will investigate exciting new trends in musical adventurism including transmogrified guitar static, day glow gurgling drum spatters, and fuzzy marshmallow bass tones.

We are joined by Brando, Pravada, and Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine. Experience you there!

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2011/12/transmogrified-dayglow-marshmallow-fuzz/feed/ 0 Vortrobos and I’ll Tend Your Garden CDs Available http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/vortrobos-and-ill-tend-your-garden-cds-available/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/vortrobos-and-ill-tend-your-garden-cds-available/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:13:28 +0000 paulf http://softspeaker.com/?p=433 We have received requests for physical cd copies of I’ll Tend Your Garden and Vortrobos.  These are available and we intend to update our webstore soon.  In the meantime, send PAYPAL payments to CONTACT@SOFTSPEAKER.COM to order.  We can ship immediately. 

Prices:
One (1) CD shipped within the U.S.: $6.50
One (1) CD with international shipping: $8

Vortrobos & I’ll Tend Your Garden cd combo deal:
$10 including shipping within U.S.
$14 including international shipping

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Dig reviews of our new album Vortrobos:

Chicagoist Review

Chicago Tunes Review

Music Defined Review

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/the-reviews-are-in/feed/ 0 SOFT SPEAKER Record Release Show!!! 8pm, Saturday, Nov. 19th @ BEAT KITCHEN http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/soft-speaker-record-release-show-8pm-saturday-nov-19th-beat-kitchen/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/soft-speaker-record-release-show-8pm-saturday-nov-19th-beat-kitchen/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:19:39 +0000 joed http://softspeaker.com/?p=420 Saturday, November 19 · 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Beat Kitchen
2100 W Belmont
Chicago, IL

Soft Speaker invite you to celebrate the release of the band’s new album, Vortrobos, on November 19th at Beat Kitchen. Be witness to a psychedelic freakout the likes which no one has seen befooooooore!!! Boundaries must be pushed IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE! No small children or sensitive squaglers, please, for they surely will not survive the unfolding events.

Support comes from Secret Colours (Chicago), Hotel St. George (San Diego, CA) and Headshadow (Chicago).

Doors open at 8pm. Show starts at 8:30pm.

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2011/11/soft-speaker-record-release-show-8pm-saturday-nov-19th-beat-kitchen/feed/ 0 It’s Psychedelic, Baby – New Interview http://softspeaker.com/2011/10/its-psychedelic-baby-new-interview/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/10/its-psychedelic-baby-new-interview/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:09:53 +0000 paulf http://softspeaker.com/?p=417 A brand new interview with Joe Daley & Paul Foreman was just posted today at It’s Psychedelic, Baby!

]]> http://softspeaker.com/2011/10/its-psychedelic-baby-new-interview/feed/ 0 Record Release Show : Beat Kitchen : Saturday, Nov. 19th http://softspeaker.com/2011/09/record-release-show-beat-kitchen-saturday-nov-19th/ http://softspeaker.com/2011/09/record-release-show-beat-kitchen-saturday-nov-19th/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 03:48:42 +0000 paulf http://softspeaker.com/?p=410 We just confirmed our record release show for Beat Kitchen on Saturday, November 19th. Save the date, lads and lasses! There is a lot more info coming very soon on the album itself.

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Sincerely,

Paul, Blair, Joe, Nick and Darren

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