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Tiara‘s new album, “Chained to the Crown”, is coming out in the Fall. To hold you over, here’s three mp3s from the upcoming album: The Night Air | No Better For It | Holes in the Brain of a Man

Looks like the album artwork changed, too. I sorta liked the original more, but maybe I gotta see this one up close to appreciate it better.

Mia Park has been kind enough to gather up the information below for the wakes and funerals of the three Chicago musicians killed last week.

I had the pleasure of working with both Doug and John’s bands in the past and…hell, everything I type just comes out all wrong. This is a tragedy that I just don’t have the interior mechanism to really process at the moment. It’s so fucking senseless. They will all be sorely missed.

*****Michael Dahlquist*****

From Tim Midgett: “We are having a wake for Michael Dahlquist this coming Monday. We wanted to do it while his family is still in town–they want to meet people, and we want them to see firsthand the wealth of influence he has had on people in Chicago.

Monday, July 18th – 6:30PM until ???
Electrical Audio
2621 W. Belmont, Chicago

BYO food and drink. Stuff you can share is great.

Hit the buzzer and go up the stairs. Keep going, through the first door, at least as far as the kitchen.

We want the event to be essentially unstructured but also dignified–much like Mr. Dahlquist was himself. With any luck, we will celebrate Michael’s life as much as we will mourn his death. I know his family will appreciate it.”

*****John Glick*****

Tuesday, July 19 – 1:00pm
Piser Funeral Home
9200 Skokie Boulevard
Skokie, IL 60077
773-561-1890

Burial to follow at:
Memorial Park Cemetary
9900 Gross Point Road
Skokie, IL 60076
773-583-5080

*****Doug Meis*****

Monday July 18th – 2:00pm
Unity Church
3434 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201
847-864-8977

Two great tastes that taste great together.

I hadn’t performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I’m with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them. So I think the same things that make people plunk down their hard-earned bucks for the tickets, it works both ways. You’re looking for an experience and something that contextualises, as best as possible, a piece of the world. I’m just taking a different road to it out there at night. It’s the same thing, you know? (full story)

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Brooklyn Vegan has photos of yesterday’s Siren Festival in Coney Island. Looks like it was a great time.

I was at the Siren Fest a few years back when Ted Leo and the Kills played. The sun was so close, it poked me in the eye.

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Bumbershoot takes place Labor Day weekend in Seattle, WA. Judging from the line-up, there must not be any other concerts going on around the country.

Bands scheduled to perform include:

Friday
Garbage + New York Dolls + The Donnas + Mavis Staples + Kermit Ruffins + Little Brother + Zion I + Razrez + M. Ward + The Ruby Doe + Anna Oxygen + Maktub + Stan Ridgway + Chris Stamey + many more!

Saturday
Trey Anastasio + Citizen Cope + John Butler Trio + Digable Planets + Lemony Snicket + Andre Feriante + DeVotchKa + Marc Bamuthi Joseph + Samite + Minus the Bear + Harvey Danger + Visqueen + The Academy Is… + Hidden In Plain View + Billy Joe Shaver + Bill Frisell Trio + Charlie Hunter Trio + Duke Robillard Band + SMART: Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Mike Doughty and the Transatlantic Orchestra in a Benefit for 826 Seattle + many more!

Sunday
Common + The Pharcyde + Talib Kweli + Ani DiFranco + Marc Broussard + Bo Diddley + The Posies + The Duhks + Joe Bataan + Israel Vibration + Midival Punditz + Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto + Hothouse Flowers + Marlena Shaw + Billy Preston + Pepper + The Locust + Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter + Juana Molina + Mary Gauthier + Pretty Girls Make Graves + STREB + many more!

Monday
Devo + Dashboard Confessional + General Public + The Decemberists + Ted Leo / Pharmacists + Meredith Monk + Okkervil River + Aqueduct + Federico Auebele + Sonny Landreth + many more!

Listen to “Soul Meets Body” over on their MySpace page.

The new album comes out on August 30. Pre-order link here.

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Nicole of the Madison, WI turned Chicago, IL weblog The Perfect Face For Radio reports the sad news:

“Yesterday around lunch time Doug Meis, the drummer for Exo and the Dials; John Glick, the guitarist for the Returnables; and Michael Dahlquist, the drummer for Silkworm all died in a car accident in Skokie. They were coming back to work from lunch and were hit by someone speeding while talking on a cell phone (which is now illegal in Chicago).”

She’s promised to update with details as they become available (link)

EDIT: More news has been revealed. The deaths are even more senseless than originally reported. NBC5 says:

CHICAGO — Bond was denied Friday for a 23-year-old woman accused of intentionally ramming her car into another vehicle at a Skokie intersection in a suicide attempt, killing three men from Chicago and injuring three others.

Jeanette Sliwinski was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the Thursday afternoon crash at Niles Center Road and Dempster Street, according to a news release from Skokie police.

Sliwinski, of 8915 S. Parkside St. in Morton Grove, was denied bond when a hearing was held in the Skokie Courthouse in her absence, while she remains hospitalized from the crash, Cook County state’s attorney’s office spokesman Tom Stanton said.

Stanton did not know which judge presided over the hearing.

Sliwinski was accused of intentionally ramming her 2000 red Ford Mustang into a 2001 Honda Civic, which was stopped at a red light, because she was distraught and trying to kill herself, Stanton said. He said her car was travelling more than 70 mph before the impact.

Three men in the Civic were killed. They were identified as Michael Dahlquist, 39, John Glick, 35, and Douglas Meis, 29, all of Chicago, according to release.

Stanton said Sliwinski was not seriously injured.

A fair punishment would be locking Jeanette Sliwinski in a 5′ x 5′ padded room under the prison with no clothing, bedding, or any kind of instrument that could potentially be used to commit suicide and then genetically engineer a drug that would make her live 500 years. And then kill the light.

EDIT: Brian Cox and Lolly Bowean of the Chicago Tribune have written a more in-depth piece about the 3 late musicians:

“They were people who were so smart and brilliant and amazing,” said Rebecca Crawford, Glick’s wife. “Everyone feels cheated that they haven’t been able to accomplish what they set out to do.”

Dahlquist, who moved to Chicago from Washington state five years ago, played drums for Silkworm, a band praised by critics for its independence and eagerness to experiment.

Glick grew up in Boston and moved to Chicago six years ago. He was a guitarist and singer with the Returnables. Meis played drums with Glick’s wife in a band called The Dials, described by Matt Priest, a talent buyer, as “loud and noisy but super melodic and super poppy.”

“Michael was friendly to an extreme. He was a very outgoing and upbeat guy,” said Tim Midgett, who played bass and guitar with him.

Without Dahlquist, the band is over, he said. “He can’t be replaced.” (full story)

UPDATE Funeral and wake information found here.

First off, I love Sufjan’s music. LOVE IT. Incredible stuff, I am a huge fan.

With that out of the way, I gotta say that the amount of reporting that is happening on this guy on music blogs everywhere is making me scared to even click over to my RSS reader. I can’t escape him. He is everywhere.

I think it’s even eclipsed the Arcade Fire hype.

Lots of critical and blog darlings have released albums recently, but I don’t think they’re getting the same kind of treatment. It’s out of control.

Help me.
Please.
Someone.
me scared.

Here’s the new “Bucky Done Gun” video.