born horny

Oh man, the spring is here. My neighborhood has become a sea of strollers, so many hidden winter yuppie babies flood the streets. Procreation. Even the rats have boners. The pigeons are doing that thing where their heads get all poofed out, their red eyes get all googly, and they start chasing around and raping the women pigeons. Ah, spring.
My windows are open and the fresh air is clearing away a winter’s worth of mustiness, smokiness, and booziness. I feel fantastic, and breathing in general is a new experience -- time of the season to write new songs! Songs about rat boners. Actually, we’re writing a new song right now called Hot Slave. It’s a long song. I think. I mean, 4 minute songs are long, right? I can’t tell anymore. It’s going to rule though.
We finished shooting our music video for Oh Man! last sunday. We got to film in a jewelry store called Blando’s Marry Me Jewelry in LaGrange (LaGrunge). It was awesome. The guy that owns the place is Geno Blando. Coolest name ever. And he was nice enough to let us film in there all day. Most of the footage is of Shawn casing the joint. And even a few of our friends make cameos in the video. The whole project should be done in a month or two. It will be hilarious!
Anyhow. I’m so happy right now that I don’t even care I have to go to work and wait tables and get scolded by children because their rice is too spicy.
We can’t wait for tour. We will be in your town soon.

ang

syb island

Current mood: blustery

Dudes, I’ll tell you what, it has been a long winter here on syb island. We’ve been staying in; holed up in the practice space with wet feet, stomping on pedals, breaking whiskey bottles and listening to Roger Miller, who reminded us that we can’t rollerskate in watermelon patches or drive around with tigers in our car.

I think we need a van tiger.

Anyway, as shitty as the weather is here in Chicago in the winter, we’ve been having a pretty hilarious time of it all. We’ve been getting back into writing new songs after we finished our new record, which, by the way, will be officially borne on May 20th. Just like Cher, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Cocker, and Busta Rhymes. So you know it’ll be good. May 20th is also my birthday. I’ll be 25 this year. That’s insanity... it’s been almost five years since we founded the syb. What are we doing with our lives?

Slaying, that’s what. And hopefully touring and travelling more and more. Like sxsw, we just got back from there about a week ago. It was fun, as always. We had a splendid time kickin it with the Absolutely Kosher crew, eating best wurst, and watching all of our friends get to rock at there respective showcases and parties. It’s hard to stay in one place very long down there but i was particularly patient when it came to watching Colour Revolt and Anathallo play at Spiros, Cloud Cult at the Emo’s annex, and this sweet Austin band called Transmography at some bar that was about as big as a turd. Bear in Heaven, Pattern is Movement, and the Gang ruled too at Friend Island. Ah, what a blur.

No more blur-outs. right. Seriously though, I want to write here a lot more often to commit things to memory and to share what I do remember from all of our adventures on syb island; a land of mystery and wonder. and piracy! and rumrunning!and damsels! and BLOOD! mwah ha ha ha ha. just a band adrift more than anything else.

soon, angela

sxsw stuff

So we are going to SXSW to promote our new album.
It comes out on May 20th and is called "Into the Trees"
Here our or shows for the next couple weeks.
Pumped?

03.08.08 Chicago, IL Sending the 4-Star City to the Lone Star State - SXSW Sendoff
@ The Hideout 1354 W. Wabansia
$10 for All Day Admittance
SYBRIS PLAYS AT NOON
Also playing Apteka, Bound Stems, Cameron McGill, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Hollywood Holt, Icy Demons, Killer Whales, Make Believe, Mittens on Strings, Pit er Pat, REds and Blue, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, The Hood Internet,Tom Schraeder & His Ego, Waco Brothers

03.09.08 Champaign, IL
@ Canopy Club, 708 S. Goodwin Ave
w/ Apteka, Stereofidelics, Plezby, Sam West, Scott Joseph Phares
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00
$5

03.10.08 Norman, OK
@ Union Court - U. of Oklahoma
w/ Colour Revolt, Anathallo
Doors 6:30, Show 7:30
Free

03.11.08 Austin, TX
@ Emo's Outdoor
603 Red River Street
Doors 5pm Sybris plays inside shortly after 5pm.

03.12.08 Houston, TX
Walters on Washington
4215 Washington Avenue
w/ Colour Revolt
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
All Ages $10

03.13.08 Austin, TX
SWS&M @ Chain Drive 504 Willow, 78701
two blocks from the Convention Center,
right off Red River, just south of Ceaser Chavez

3pm Bear Hands
4pm Subjects
5pm Jealous Girlfriends
6pm Sam Champion
7pm Sybris
8pm Mahjongg
9pm Crystal Castles
10pm Project Jenny Project Jan

03.14.08 Austin, TX
@ SXSW - Maggie Loft, 323 E Sixth
w/ Pidgeon, 60 Watt Kid, The Gang, Little Teeth

xo,
phil

what's crackin akron/whiteouts

What's Crackin Akron?/ Whiteouts

So we're in this snowstorm in Indiana right now, Eric is driving and I'm writing this to distract myself from the road conditions. We're going 35 mph or something so even though we're only 100 miles from the Chi it's going to be at least 3 hrs. We've been driving since what, 11am, and its 11 pm now. Not my favorite part of being in a band. But that's enough of the doom and gloom, you'll get the wrong impression, we really had a ton of fun this weekend.

Friday we played in Akron at the remodeled Musica where Eric coined the phrase 'What's crackin Akron?'. It seems to be sticking as does the curse of the missing leg.

We played Pittsburgh on Saturday. It is very pretty.

The reason for the trip was opening for Brand New on Sunday in Albany. The show was at a 4000 seat basketball arena, a surreal experience for sure as the show was sold out. I think Angela captured it best when we walked in by exclaiming "Whoa, this is big!" The crowd was great, super pumped, and the sound was arena-esque. It was really nice of Brand New to ask us to play, real nice. They put on a great show and are real sweethearts.

Which brings us back to now, some 87 miles from Chicago and still snowing. You know how semi's seem to fly by you in bad weather? I hate that.

phil

Very Mini Tour & Brand New Show

So we are Playing three shows next weekend, leading up to A show opening for Brand New. We are excited to get out of town, even for a few days. Also We are playing some dates on the way to sxsw, but more on that later i.e.im to lazy to type about them now...

Fri 2/22/08-Musica Akron ohio
Sat2/23/08-Garfield Arts-Pittsburgh PA.
Sun2/24/08-Washington Avenue Armory W/Brand New

Awesome!

Blogosphere

A couple more blogo thoughts on some new cuts....

Sybris
By 4casey4(Milk Milk Lemonade)
Last Tuesday we received a message from today's featured artist giving us a heads-up on a new downloadable track to review. I've seriously been loving the song I checked out for a couple of days now and just this evening saw an ...
Milk Milk Lemonade - http://milkmilk-lemonade.blogspot.com/

Sybris
By sideonetrackone@gmail.com
Anyhow, lets have some fun today by way of some indie rockers called Sybris. The Chicago-based outfit had a well received self titled album way back in 2005 that I knew absolutely nothing about until yesterday when I saw it mentioned on ...
Side One: Track One - http://sideonetrackone.com

Sybris makes second full length
By Parasites & Sycophants(Parasites & Sycophants)
Sybris just finished recording their second full length at Pachyderm (Nirvana In Utero, PJ Harvey Rid Of Me) with producer John Congleton (Explosions In The Sky, Polyphonic Spree). Since putting out their first record in 2005, ...
Parasites & Sycophants - http://parasitesandsycophants.blogspot.com/

Pitchfork Review's Oh Man

Pitchfork reviews new cut, "Oh Man!".

check it out!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/47332-sybris-oh-
man-mp3stream

and for your viewing pleasure, here's a little clip from a House of Blues soundcheck from last year...

Virgin Fest Toronto

Here's a silly little vid from my camera phone of the syb on a water taxi going to rock the island!

What Should We Name the New Record?

Speaking of the record we just finished, we can't seem to spit out a name for it. If you have a snappy album title or two send them over, we've got vapor lock.
xoxo,
syb

We Recorded Our New Album

So we recorded our new album last week at Pacchyderm Studio in Cannon Falls Minn. It was pretty rad...The studio has a lot of history (Nirvanna, PJ Harvey) and is in the middle of fucking nowhere, 48 acres of "old Forest" and no cell phone reception for a week. It also had a guest house that looked like the place in Boogie Nights when the guy was lighting firecrackers and snorting coke. Five bedrooms indoor swimming pool and sauna. The whole place is supposed to be haunted but now some locals are telling us its "enchanted" On our final day the studio grounds were getting prepped for a full moon fest, we were loading equipment out they were moving dreamcatchers and crystals in...awesome. We recorded it with the lovely John Congelton who is the Paper Chase dude and also recorded Explosions in the Sky and the Polyphonic Spree (and he got to work with R.Kelly..sexxy). We had a real good time and hope you all enjoy it when it comes out this spring we will be touring all over the country and hopefully the world so keep an eye out... We have some pictures posted in our myspace pic section and will have some other ones soon when we get off our asses and load them. xoxo Sybris Currently playing : Halo 3 Release date

Taking the Water Taxi to Toronto Island Virgin Fest

Here's a silly little vid from my camera phone of the syb on a water taxi going to rock the island!

Currently reading : Drums For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) By Jeff Strong Release date: 31 July, 2006

Win a Date with Sybris!

Rock for Kids www.rockforkids.org is having an auction of local bands mix cd's at the Metro on 8/16/07 in a addition to auctioning our debut cd, a mix of summer jams and a t-shirt we are throwing in a free date with all members of the syb.... check it yo's! sybris Currently playing : Shadow of the Colossus Release date:

Wicker Park Fest

highlights of W P fest have been gently smashed onto you tube...

this one is from the el platform behind us, better sound than usuall and sexy dancing



this one's a bit more, um, raw

Top Sights/Observations of Summerfest in Milwaukee....

Gastropods eating spaghetti under a baking sun.
Free Atari at the grocery store.
Burnout/hackey circle corner.
Morris Day is a pimp.

Our Summer Plans

So far Our plans are this, We are playing Summerfest in Milwaukee on July 6th, this should be a good time, Summerfest is a blast and is a good excuse to get out of the Chi for a night... Then On July 29th we are gonna play the Wicker Park Street Festival In Chicago With, High On Fire @ 9:00 pm Russian Circles @ 7:55 pm Pit Er Pat @ 6:45 pm Sybris @ 5:40 pm The Race @ 4:34 pm Don Caballero @ 3:30 pm Mannequin Men @ 2:25 pm Fun! Then in the middle of August we are going to go on a band vacation/recording session with Good Ol' Dalton Brand In Port Clinton Ohio. Swimming, islands, boats, chillin, tan.... We might play some more shows to! peace babies sybris Currently reading : The Road By Cormac McCarthy

Hideout w/ Apteka and Life During Wartime DJ's

Nerd Alert Entry for May 19, 2007

We had the best time ever on friday and have pictures to prove it...

So we played a show last friday at the hideout with Apteka and the Life During Wartime Dj's. Clayton Hauck came and took awesome pictures and here they are...


everyoneisfamous.com

wolfsyb or sybwolf?

Nerd Alert Entry for May 04, 2007

so i'm working on Monday night and get a call, do you want to open for Wolfmother tomorrow at the Metro? and of course i'm like you're kiddin me. but there was no kiddin. so 24 hours later we we're playing at the Metro opening for Wolfmother. crazy, huh? it's a good thing i ate all those 4 leaf clovers and stuck that horseshoe where the sun don't shine. now if only the clovers and horseshoe could help with the jack daniels hangover, oy vay!

Nerd Alert Entry for April 17, 2007

Ohio Spring 2007 Tour - Journey to Serpent Mound





we recorded once again on the lapping banks of lake erie in port clinton, but you'll have to wait for that tune. Dalton Dominates, nuf said.






Sometime after PopFest at Ohio University the van suffured a vicious attack from what appeared to be a chicken burrito. Needless to say the van won. Could this be a sign from the serpent mound?


The show itself was a good 'ol time. Cotton candy was floating near the merch so we caught it like blue whales catch plankton. (Perhaps I've been watching to much of the discover channel's planet earth.) It's sad to see that WOXY might be closing down as the southern midwest's best independent radio, if it does i nominate ACRN to pick up the slack.







We arrived near dusk at the serpent mound. It was desolate. What is the serpent mound? A warning to the heavens? Alien visitation site? Ancient freak art? A tribute to the great snake god? An ancient golf course? Perhaps we will never know.







Angela was the most effected by the mounds. Here you see her throwing horns, obviously delirious from the ancient energy of the snake. Cinci represent!

sxsw 2007

Nerd Alert for April 3, 2007

yes, I am tardy. so we drove to austin, it's about 17 hours straight through from chicago, a little less because we stayed at a very stain-ed motel a few hours out. actually i slept in the van. in the morning it's all wierd clowds and kinda rainy and stuff and then we get to emo's and load in and before you know it we're playing songs. totally over before i knew it. too the max. and that's how it started, like a dust devil.

bands i saw that dominated... land of talk, oxford collapse, colour revoult, dios (or dios malos, not sure what they're calling themselves these days). circa survive put on a good set and russian circles are a band i'm very happy is on the shuv. MASTADON RULED. i missed about a million other bands that i wanted to see down there, it seemed like everyone's show was at the same time as ours.

burgers. very good cheeseburgers. i had several.

the best sxsw party was in dallas. we played ye ol cavern and then had a sockhop with raleigh. this is what it looked like.

oh, and there was this secret show on a pedestrian bridge all gorrilla style and what not. slam dancing and generator fumes. 3 1 2. the fog rolled in during the rockin. most egg salad.

slater,

syb

Nerd Alert for March 03, 2007

let's jam man...

so the Bon Savants played at Schubas and The Blacks played at the Logan Square Auditorium and then we had members of both at our space for a reggae jam man...

we left just before dawn, this is how it looked...

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