saki After Hours: A Christmas Mansion with Ami Saraiya & the Outcome and Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man

saki is proud to announce the latest in its After Hours series: A Christmas Mansion Holiday Party. The time when all is bright, merry, and joyous, when movies and television remind us of the true meaning of the season. And we all warm a little in our hearts even as the biting freeze of a winter's day relentlessly attacks us like falling icicles from a shaken tree. On Saturday, December 17th, you can add one more bringer-of-good-tidings to that list of nostalgia driven entertainment when you come to enjoy saki's Christmas Mansion Party with performances by Ami Saraiya & the Outcome and Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man. If ever you wished that life could be more like it is in the movies, let us be your Christmas Genie. Below is a list of exactly what you won't want to miss.

The Party:
- sweater contest
- egg nog, snacks, other tastes of the season
- cookie exchange (bring your own cookies and share with others)
- Christmas Freak Out Room (you'll have to come here and find out)
- sing alongs
- games and other small forms of entertainment

The Performances:
Ami Saraiya and the Outcome will be performing for the release of a brand new record on that day, just in time for Christmas!


Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man will, of course, make their customary After Hours appearance. However, they are currently holed up in the DC/DI Department of Records and Record Keeping working on their own recordings and will be beaming in via "in person" with a Special Christmas Message.


Blue Ribbon Glee Club will be providing a capella versions of both punk rock tunes & holiday charmers to keep you singing along and moshing (don't knock over our fancy mansion-things).


Okay, just one more bit of exciting news: Epitonic will be recording all three performances! We love them!
Be sure to RSVP on facebook!

saki After Hours: Concatenating Pedals

This just in! The sampler video for the saki After Hours: Concatenating Pedal show is finally here.

Check out our new After Hours page!

RSD - Live at saki

Alright Folks, we have solidified our line-up of performers for Record Store Day 2011. From 12pm to 8pm on Saturday, April 16th you're invited to peruse and purchase the countless RSD limited edition releases, while enjoying live performance from...

In Tall Buildings - releasing a special RSD 7" on Whistler records - loud loop press tells you more
The 1900s - Parasol records
Chaperone
This Is Cinema - releasing a special RSD 7" on Whistler records
Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man - Plustapes
Rabid Rabbit - Interloper records
Distractions - Twosyllable, Infinite Best, Plustapes

Seven bands, for free, byob, and all ages (if you're not 21+, you're not drinking).

Find out more about RSD at saki on our events page. Don't forget to RSVP on Facebook.

Be there or be...

Seance at saki: The Movie!!!

Now on sale at saki : A DVD of the The Bitter Tears and Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man performing for saki's first Art Challenge on October 30th, 2010. Only $3!

Tasked with telling the story of the pioneering Spiritualists the Fox Sisters, BDTEM sings the tale while The BT's take things to a whole new level of Bitter Tears Weird.

Included with the film is a soundtrack of incidental music prepared especially for the night's event!

And it's all available for only $3! Come into saki and ask for it!

12 Dey's of Christmas

Oh, and the Dey's of Christmas are upon us. As we approach the 25th of December, take a peep at these messages and songs from Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man, a staple artist group of ol' saki . There will be 12 of them, so be sure to stay tuned to this part of the internet!





Follow them here, too.

saki's Seance

I'm not even sure where to start! So much to take in! It's been a full day since the event and I am still not finished processing it. I can testify that The Bitter Tears have again heaped on additional months to my therapy bills. By the time the show finally started, a nice crowd of dressed, undressed, dressed up, and all in between had gathered to witness. I know there was a lot of competition on a Halloween weekend, so we were super thankful for the support shown to saki and both of these groups, who put the thing on for free!

The Bitter Tears perform Scene One from their original play, "The Talking Skull."

Saki Seance

I just saw Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man channeling a David Bowie concept as Can..and you fucking missed it...HA HA! Couldn't be a better way to spend a Saturday evening...kudos to Mark Jumper and cohorts...and still home for story time too!

Mysterious Speck

I looked at my shirt today and noticed a small speck of black that I had never noticed before. I asked my wife what she thought it may be. Her suggestion was startling.

"Perhaps," she began, "it is the looking of a spirit, from out of the fibers of your garment, into our world with a peeping..."

I was aghast at the thought of a shade finding it suitable to peer from a perch upon my arm. Had I become some kind of magnet to the needy spectre? Was I to be doomed to a life of astral tourism? Was I now nothing more than a Spirit's Guide?

With a glass, I examined the speck. Closely I checked it, squinting and watering.

"Who is in there?" said I, hoping for a response. "Who are you and what are you looking at?"

But there was nothing in response.

I went to bed with a hole in my head which only the mystery's solution could fill.

Support Community Radio: Buy Records!

The 7th annual CHIRP Record Fair is happening this weekend: April 18-19, 10am-5pm at the Plumbers Union 1340 W. Washington Blvd Chicago, IL.
The Chicago Independent Radio Project needs your support! Records, Posters, Mags, DJs, Entertainment (including CTD's Tyler as Bob Dey's Tank Engine) & more

Only $7 regular admission. Get this: Discounted price $5 with any CHIRP RF ad or a receipt from any record store dated 4/18/09 (Yay RECORD STORE DAY!)