Caviar
Caviar

Not that the Smashing Pumpkins aren't all that, but move over already. The Chicago scene is a bursting out with a fresh new energetic sound. A sound so great, you can practically taste it. CAVIAR! Ok, Ok, a band's a band, but this band will arouse you into a hypersensitive, erotic mood.  I guarantee it! Blake Smith (vocals/guitar), formerly of Figdish, got together with Dave Suh (guitar), Mike Willison (bass), and Jason Batchko (drumbs) to generate some titillating sounds. You need to check them out on Caviars website asap! Their site is filled with motion and emotion and super sound tidbit tracks. These guys are so tasty, in fact, that their song Tangerine Speedo, is featured on the new Charlies Angels movie soundtrack. And who wouldn't want to do Drew Barrymore, even now?

Mike and Blake were bottomed out after the breakup of Figdish, and their credit card bills were thick enough to use as pillows, so they took sometime in February to go to England to see what was happening and they fell in love with popish music and came back to Chicago (Chicago Sun Times Interview) to work on an album!  The album they have produced will impress you if you aren't one of those people who can't stand to enjoy the sounds of a band that's already famous.  I guess you could say they got off to a quick start after a couple of failures.  We first heard them on "The Basement", a local band radio show on WDBM, Michigan State University's college radio station, and figured they must be some unknown phenomenon, but as it turns out they have been around the block once or twice.  That didn't change the way we felt the first time we heard Tangerine Speedo, we hope it doesn't change the way you feel about the band.  Enjoy it for what it is and remember they believe in music so much that they felt like it wouldn't be possible to live without it.  They are truly dedicated to the concept of beautiful music.

So they are a band from the city that boasts sausage, stuffed pizza and heartburn, but what's so terrible about that?  Hey, they might gain a few pounds here and there and their music will go bust someday just as sure as some pot belly sitting somewhere on a toilet after eating one too many ballpark franks and cranking down one too many Goose Island home brews, but just take a moment to appreciate something special, from the Midwest which has a rather international flare-the food of Caviar?  Ok, Ok, the music of Caviar.

That's all from the Midwest, until next time.

-carter

 

 

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Read more:	Highlights: Tangerine Speedo