Honoring the Ghost of Patrick Swayze
Micro-Preset Tapes Available @ Washedrecordings.bandcamp.com
Free Downloads and Tapes of The Rise and Fall of Froggy Johnson for $5 at Washedrecordings.bandcamp.com
More Releases will be available very soon.

Highlighting the best music from Champaign-Urbana, past and present. Re-posting great current stuff and uploading amazing older tracks.

2 amateur music composers (Fabien, Bruno) with others.

Fans of Mogwai/Nirvana/PinkFloyd/TheCure/NoirDésir/SigurRos/GY!BE.

we decided to start this because of reasons. 

We are: 
Mel Ikeda (also known as Emily Baltz) and 
Jack Scotchdopole (also known as Rachel Gonzalez)

we like noise, neuroscience, literature, philosophy, writing, and you. 

check out other art-ish things: http://thebecauseofreasons.wordpress.com/

our current motto is: "patricia ricketts probably resents me"

Traquair & the Tranquilizers channel 60's psych, post punk and angular blues for the analogue minded. Come, listen and testify.

I'm primarily a guitar player but I'll try to make music with anything you throw at me. When left to my own devices I enjoy recording minimalist ambient pieces and textural soundscapes. My principal sound source for these efforts is manipulated guitar but I often include electronics and organic sources. I enjoy working on collaborations with other musicians. Please contact me if you are interested.
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I am the co-founder of the 80's indie avant-garde mutant pop band Proof of Utah, the Smiley Turtle Records label and the Smiley Turtle Recording Studio. For a taste of the Smiley Turtle sound check out: https://soundcloud.com/user-745187095
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*** Visit the collaborators' websites:

Louie Simon @lsimon33
Stan Magendanz @stan_magendanz
Wodwo @user-364196783-552705040
Lone Arrivals @tiny_wytch and @tinywytch
Marcin Gruszczynski http://www.fairlyconfusing.net/

Vaudevileins is Bill Aldridge (bass), Brennen Chouinard (drums/vox), Alex Jaskula (lead guitar), and Jeff Julian (vox/guitar). The band has roots in Chicago, Joliet, and Kankakee and also considers Champaign-Urbana a home away from home. Written during the pandemic and in the wake of its aftermath, the songs on Vaudevileins’ new album Lights Out (April 8, 2024) explore darker themes, the sense of giving up, and inevitability—a reflection of 2020’s isolation and the era’s political and societal landscape. 

The eight-song album leans into the band’s signature energy, loud guitars, and memorable melodies, which started with 2011’s self-titled album, continued with a collection of EPs and singles, and solidified with 2016’s Magician. Lights Out spotlights themes of transitions and endings, mining the fears of not being understood even as the album underlines precisely who Vaudevileins is: “There’s not a lot of quiet on this record,” Julian says. “It’s a banger from beginning to end.”

Album "Noctis Sonus" now available on ITunes, Amazon MP3, and other retailers.

Heirship Records is a project whose intent and purpose is to document the sounds of Champaign-Urbana.  C-U has a wildly diverse, dynamic and prolific musical culture.  With musicians, journalist, fans, dancers, dreamers and freaks all brought together for the community-edifying and soul-saving sacrament that is music.  Live music happens every weekend in the 217; however, many bands spend months and even years crafting albums.  Heirship Records exists to support, facilitate, promote, produce and propagate these documents, these recordings, these records.

4 people making music since late 2012. Still making music. Will continue making music until we get bored & leave.

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