Willis Earl Beal 7" release show at Cole's TONIGHT!

Willis Earl Beal's debut 7" is out today! We'll be selling the 7" at the release show at Cole's (possibly signed copies...), but we're also offering a special deal if you buy the 7" at the shop during the first week of release: Any purchase that includes the "Evening's Kiss" 7" will be 15% off! Buy whatever you want, and as long as your stack includes the 7", your entire purchase is 15% off. If you're buying enough stuff, just throwing in the 7" could actually save you some money.

Wherever you buy the 7", just don't miss the release show with Willis Earl Beal & Pillars & Tongues at Cole's! We'll also be selling some other saki stuff, including the limited edition Yellowlion shirt, so bring your hard-earned money. We'll have the goods!

9:30pm, 21+, Cole's Bar, 2338 N. Milwaukee Ave.

New Releases @ saki 2/21/12!

Willis Earl Beal - Evening's Kiss 7" (15% your entire purchase when you buy this 7" from saki through 2/27 + 7" release show at Cole's TONIGHT!)
Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee reissue CD/LP (with Jay Ryan replica artwork!)
Frankie Rose - Interstellar CD/LP
Josh Ritter - Bringing In The Darlings CD EP/10"
Wild Belle - Keep You 12"
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror CD/LP
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die LP
Consumers - All My Friends Are Dead LP
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum reissue LP
Grimes - Visions CD/LP
Mind Spiders - Meltdown LP
Pontiak - Echo Ono CD/LP
Harvey Milk - My Love Is High Than What Your Assessment Of It Could Be LP
Harvey Milk - Pleaser LP
Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads CD/LP
Wooden Shjips - Remix 12"
Polica - Give You The Ghost CD/LP
Cursive - I Am Gemini CD/LP
Burning Hearts - Extinctions CD/LP
Mr. M - Lamchop CD/LP
GG Allin & the Murder Junkies - Terror In America: Live 1993 LP
Perfume Genius - But Your Back N 2 It CD/LP
Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi - Imikuzushi CD/LP
Jim O'Rourke - Old News #7 LP
Terry Malts - Killing Time CD/LP
Tindersticks - The Something Rain CD/LP
Damien Jurado - Maraqopa CD/LP
Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From The Heart 7"
Eric Copeland - Car Alarm 7"
War - At War For Youth 7"
Zola Jesus - In Your Nature 7"
Colleen Green - Milo Goes To Compton LP

John Hodgman Returns to Chicago April 1, No Foolin'

Second City's new Up Comedy Club welcomes John Hodgman!

Daily Show Resident Expert John Hodgman will explain and illustrate most every subject you can imagine, including: how to enjoy fine wine, how to commit the perfect crime, how make money and find happiness as a deranged millionaire, the coming global superpocalypse known as RAGNAROK, and also, if pressed SPORTS. 

There will also be some ukulele playing.  People who may be pregnant and/or prone to seizures please note: JOHN HODGMAN will be performing without shoes or socks.   

THAT IS ALL

April 1. Can't wait!

See Megan Reilly & John Wesley Harding Sing New Duet

Sitting on the front porch singing a song from Megan's new album, "The Well," out April 24 on Carrot Top Records! Debuted on AOL/ @Spinner, where you can read more about this beautiful song's creation and recording.

Charles Bradley 2/18 @ the Metro

metrochicago.com

Despite a handful of 7" releases on Daptone even a voracious music fan might feel like Charles Bradley came out of nowhere. When they find out his first single was released roughly ten years ago, they might stop asking themselves where he's been and start wondering where the hell they've been. Fortunately, since No Time For Dreaming, Bradley's full-length debut and easily one of 2011 best releases, we've all arrived.

In four words you might call him "a male-Sharon-Jones", but the 64 year-old Florida native is far more. Like Daptone's aforementioned empress or local princes J.C. Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Bradley's tapped into the raw emotion and genuine grit of the best original Soul, Funk, and R&B, then framed it all in a contemporary context. It's a beautiful thing when past and present meet this cohesively and successfully.

"In one note, Charles Bradley’s voice mirrors painful plucks to the heartstrings, reminding listeners why this genre was simply, yet powerfully, titled “soul.” Like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett before him, Bradley’s raspy delivery draws all the pain out of the human condition and sends it straight into your eardrum. While the group sounds like it could have been plucked straight from the Motown lineup, the music incorporates bits and pieces of funk and more contemporary rock to keep things fresh." -The A.V. Club Chicago

C O D E I N E :: When I See The Sun

You are the best, Numero.

Hypnotic video for Tetras "Pareidolia i"

Tetras "Pareidolia i" from Flingco Sound System on Vimeo.
Promotional video for the track "Pareidolia i" by the Swiss trio Tetras. Video by Annie Feldmeier Adams, artwork by Jason Kahn with music from Tetras. "Pareidola i" is from the Double LP/ Download "Pareidolia," released on the FSS label.

saki After Hours: Predictive Gaming this Friday!

Predictive Gaming for Substandard Films is an evening of entertainment that incorporates game show elements into a screening of a "so-bad-it's-good" style movie. Halfway between Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Scene It!, Predictive Gaming invites movie fans to place bets on the plot of a campy B-movie throughout the screening in hopes to take home fabulous prizes - like Schubas, Lincoln Hall & Metro guest list spots & saki gift certificates! So as to prevent precocious predictors from premeditating their prizewinning, the film being screened will not be announced in advance, but bad movie fans (and game show enthusiasts) must trust that saki has dug up a real winner!

Predictive Gaming for Substandard Films, the bad movie game show, is Friday, February 17th at 8pm, at saki.

RSVP on the book of faces if you wanna be all social media about it... As with all our events, Predictive Gaming is FREE & BYOB if you've got your ID. And yes, there WILL be popcorn.

The Wettest County In The World by Matt Bondurant

For fans of The Proposition, Assassination of Jesse James..., The Road, or, well, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis & John Hillcoat - they've teamed up again! The Wettest County is an upcoming film directed by Hillcoat with original music from Cave & Ellis, & screenplay by Cave. The screenplay is based on a historical novel by Matt Bondurant called The Wettest County In The World. It is an account of 3 brothers (Bondurant's actual grandfather & great uncles) who ran a bootlegging operation in rural Virginia.

It's pretty much a done deal that this movie will be great, but we highly recommend checking out Bondurant's novel before seeing the film. You can read the New York Times review of the book here and pick up the book at saki for $9.50 now $5.00 (paperback)!

Participate in Chicago's Cultural Planning

Chicago is looking to gather the ideas of Chicagoans for its 2012 cultural plan. Read a bit of history about why they want us to help HERE.

The upcoming meetings start tonight and go through the the beginning of next week:
Wednesday, February 15: 6pm to 8pm @ Columbia College
Stage Two- 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor
Thursday, February 16: 6pm-8pm @ Nicholas Senn High School Auditorium
5900 North Glenwood Avenue

Saturday, February 18: 10am-12pm @ DuSable Museum
749 East 56th Place
Tuesday, February 21: 6pm-8pm @ National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 West 19th Street
RSVPs & Maps

Hideout ticket giveaways!

Our best buds at The Hideout hooked us up with a guest list spot to give away for each of these upcoming shows! The first person to purchase an item from each of these artists can claim the spot (no +1's)!


3/9 Laura Gibson


3/22 Psychic ills/Prince Rama


3/23 Andre Williams/Jon Langford


3/30 Nat Baldwin

CTD Press Update 2/14/12!

CTD Press Update 02/14/2012
Now Available Exclusively/Semi-Exclusively from CTD:

FEATURED:
Windy & Carl
"We Will Always Be"
Kranky: krank163

DROWNED IN SOUND 8/10:
“If you take an interest in ambient music, drone rock or related quasi-genres, it behoves you to own some of Windy and Carl’s catalogue; this is as useful and high quality a starting point as just about anything they’ve recorded.”
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16796/reviews/4144461

NORTHERN TRANSMISSIONS interview with Windy & Carl:
“Some of the songs on the are pieces carl was working on in 2009 and 2010, and a couple of them are from a recording Carl made for me for Valentine’s day 2011. The first song on our new album is certainly from that batch, and when i thought of how and why he wrote the songs for me, I wanted to put lyrics with it that would mirror his feelings.”
http://www.northerntransmissions.com/interviews/windy-and-carl

PITCHFORK 7.4:
“When Windy & Carl lock together, it's like being privy to a great secret, imparted in a moment of intensely personal creativity.”
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16222-we-will-always-be/?utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=site&utm_source=search-ac

Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division & New Order masters!

Today in crazy-ass news, NME reports: Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division & New Order master tapes "alongside guns, gold and jewelry... when digging up the basement of a new restaurant in Manchester."

For a loose reenactment, just imagine those are master tapes instead of bananas and papayas cradled in Jamie's arms...

Chicago Past

Great Tumblr full of old Chicago photos. Crazy beautiful stuff. via @samarov

Boating at Garfield Park

Happy Love Day