On May 24, we bash our chalices together in celebration of the release of the new Soft Speaker album, Turkish Mindbathers, on translucent, light pink, 180 gram vinyl. These recordings meld the intense, red-drape violence of Peekaboo and His Boys with the bleary-eyed, 5am fry-down groove of The Armadillo Handlers of Mexico City. Lessons were learned from the rise, corporate sell-out and fall of Flashy Larry and The Lotion Boys. And here’s to Little Boysenberry Boy and his Boo-Boys, who preached the gospel of promiscuity until their hamburger shacks could take no more.

Love,

Nick, Joe, Blair & Paul

LINCOLN HALL
2424 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL
Thursday, March 14th
9pm, 21+
$8 advance / $10 door

SOFT SPEAKER
The Van Goghs
Rainbow Gun Show

Soft Speaker is thrilled to announce a headlining performance at Lincoln Hall on March 14th, 2013 with support from The Van Goghs and Rainbow Gun Show. This will be our first performance at this wonderful venue and, as such, we’d love to see as many of you there as possible. The band’s new album, Turkish Mindbathers and EP, International Scheiße, Dummkopf! are now available at shows directly from the band and are packaged together on one CD. Many of you are already aware that as a result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, Turkish Mindbathers is in the process of being pressed on high quality, 180 gram vinyl and will be available in this format in late May. It will also be available digitally via iTunes within the next few weeks.

Thanks!

Nick, Joe, Blair & Paul

You can get close; but don’t land on the surface of Suns. You’ll get burned! Better to stand and watch…maybe sway your body and moan softly.

Saturday, March 2nd LATE SHOW
SUNS
SOFT SPEAKER
SHILOH
ROCKET MINER

Doors: 9:00 pm | Show: 9:30 pm
Tickets: $10.00 | 17 & Over

Beat Kitchen
2100 W. Belmont, Chicago
Friday, December 14th
Doors @ 8:30pm

Mr. Gnome (headlining)
Soft Speaker (on stage at 9:45pm)
Aktar Aktar

We, the kind-hearted members of Soft Speaker, urge you to set aside a small place in your heart for the underappreciated, hardworking Krampus. Please do join us this Friday at Beat Kitchen to celebrate an unsung holiday hero:

Krampus is the dark companion of St. Nicholas, the traditional European winter gift-bringer who rewards good children each December. The kindly old Saint leaves the task of punishing bad children to a hell-bound counterpart known by many names across the continent — Knecht Ruprecht, Certa, Perchten, Black Peter, Schmutzli, Pelznickel, Klaubauf, and Krampus. Usually seen as a classic devil with horns, cloven hooves and monstrous tongue, but can also be spotted as a sinister gentleman dressed in black or a hairy man-beast. Krampus punishes the naughty children, swatting them with switches and rusty chains before dragging them in baskets to a fiery place below.

Soft Speaker (headlining)
Tin Tin Can
Füxa
This will be Soft Speaker’s final headlining show of 2012. The enigmatic Randall Nieman, aka Füxa, is on board to delight with analog synthesizers and neon-encrusted jazzballs. If you speak to him with a tender tongue, mayhap he will regale you with stories of granular evenings spent in Tennessee recording with the late, legendary Jim Dickinson and Pete Kember (aka Sonic Boom). Sandwiched between our glossy bosoms and Mr. Nieman will be Tin Tin Can, tooting and purring into the orifices of your mindhead. Soft Speaker will be celebrating one of their own on Saturday the 29th of September at their debut show at the Burlington. Nick turns the corner on another year the day prior so it only seems fitting to slather fuzz tones amongst the faces of our so inclined friends and fans to ring it in.

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

Young Jesus (headlining)
Soft Speaker (on stage at 10:15pm)
The Hague
Champions

My Chancellor is in need of a remedy that can be carefully administered and monitored, while still giving him the impression that the dosage is irrelevant. My friend will be treated with Turkish Mindbathers of several types, and although the strength and action of a single pill would leave a normal-minded man in a daze; for my Chancellor, several pills throughout the day will give him rest and happy dreams. This will, I believe, not only calm his mind, but yield ultimately to him what he has screamed in the night desiring and never attaining: a sense of clarity and clear-mindedness while still retaining the essence of the brilliance and creativity that he has always possessed.

-An excerpt from page 33/197 of an official (restricted letter) dated May, 1931 from Doktor R.W. Großenlicht von Weißglühendfeure, the personal physician to Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, as translated by The Semisynthetic Arkiv. From the Private Chancellery Printing and Archival Services of Austria.

We play the North Stage on Sunday, July 29th at 3:30! (Milwaukee Avenue from North to Paulina )