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Tonight’s show CANCELED in Pittsburgh.
Tonight’s show at Mansions on Fifth has had to be canceled due to car troubles in Toledo. We’re okay – but we’re going to limp straight home and will NOT be able to visit Pittsburgh as planned. We’re so sorry and hope to come visit you in the spring. -rob ilyAIMY Wherever the Hyundai Makes…
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Support ilyAIMY’s 25th Anniversary…
I’ve felt a little bad that Heather has spent hours and hours on the past couple of days getting our brief funding campaign up and running, but I’m also really impressed with it all. She said it better than I would’ve. Coming together with the quote “there’s nothing less we could’ve said” is a truism…
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This 9/11 Post is not about 9/11.
9/11. It still seems inappropriate to be thinking about a gig for the night, but you can’t set the date aside forever. Waking up in Belleville, IL at our friend Susan’s house, the clouds are low and glowering and 9/11 could be far from my mind if it wasn’t for social media and our parents.…
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People Amaze. Amaze Amaze.
I’d Love to say something wide and encompassing like “the first morning on the road is always…”, but it’s never “always” ANYTHING. Sometimes it’s exhausting, sometimes it’s brutal. We often frontload our travels with long drives so that we get OUT and work our way back. But not always. It’s USUALLY a relief to be…
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Deja Vu.
Déjà vu. 18 miles from Cumberland again just as we were roughly 100 hours ago. Originally we’d planned to play Cumberland and just continue west but we HAD to complete the album first. I was convinced we could’ve done that on the road (Hell, most of our mix checks have been done in Heather’s car…)…
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Unsafe Ways.
Somehow there is nothing more dystopian than our local Safeway. Kristen and I have been shopping there regularly for as long as we’ve Lived in the area. Even as Mosno decided he preferred the local Giant, and Amy and Nate decided it was worth their while (and their money) to go to Kroger, and I’ve…
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Let Us Show You How To End It.
For six years I’ve been recording, mixing, re-recording, re-mixing – obsessively. ilyAIMY’s songs have sat, never collecting dust, but being worked and reworked and panned and re-panned and distorted and reverbed. And Heather’s been breaking me of it. For the past two months she’s set deadlines, made schedules, checklists and she has come over 3-4…
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Fragile.
My Dad never said things like “that looks gay” or anything, and as a NASA scientist he wasn’t a Man’s Man or anything, but he definitely would point out things that I would do or mannerisms I had and would complain “well, that’s not really how a man should sit / stand / look”. And…
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I want one of THESE.
I could use a slow day. Here’s a never-posted snipped that looks like it was ACTUALLY written on July 18th, but I think I’d rather pretend it was today. Thank goodness for the slow days. I got to lay in till panic woke me fully, but it’s a nothing panic. Realizing I’d left a Kit…
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The Music City Open Mic.
Okay, it’s taking me forever to get to the audio and video of this, as I’ve been focused on getting the new album done, so I’m going to post the photos and get to that later. Absolutely wonderful night, and the “Welcome Back Dad” song that was a) the sound check tonight from Mike Bragg…