Nick Hudac - vocals, guitars;
Matt Deming - guitars;
Gabe McElwain - bass;
Matt Kotheimer - drums
Influences
The Goddamn Shame listen to: Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Swervedriver, Tom Waits, James Carr, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Shudder to Think, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Afghan Whigs, The Twilight Singers, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Dandy Warhols, Wilco, The Constantines, Stax Records, Chess Records, Simply Saucer, Bicycles and Gravel, Matt Boyle, Theoretical Girls, Serena Maneesh, The Wrens, The Flaming Lips, Television, Mono, Curtis Mayfield, The Ravonettes, The White Stripes, Lying in States, Health and Beauty, Starlister, Nels Cline, The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Sonics, Singapore Sling, 13th Floor Elevators, Neil Young, The Who, Material Issue, Hum, The Libertines, The Kinks, SoulWax, Irish drinking songs.
We read too. Jorge Luis Borges, Chuck Bukowski, LF Celine, Ken Koch, Stephanie Anderson, Paul Celan, Bruno Schulz, Lyn Hejinian, WG Sebald, Charles Zukofsky, M Lermontov, Haruki Murakami, Michael Herr, Warren Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, M Bulgakov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Ashbery, Rainer Maria Rilke, A Rimbaud, Italo Calvino, Felisberto Hernandez, Jim Harrison, Ken Kesey, Ern Malley, Donald Barthelme, Virginia Woolf, Charles Bernstein, Ron Silliman, Junot Diaz, John Steinbeck, A Ginsburg, Kobo Abe.
Sounds Like
A complete clusterfuck of your favorite critically acclaimed bands.
The Goddamn Shame began in a smelly garage on the south side of Chicago in the Spring of 2004, with amps and drum kit positioned precariously around pallets, rusting appliances, and a refrigerator filled with flies. This proved to be an excellent space for songs to fester and grow, for pop hooks and blues scales to decay into a barrage of noise with hints of melody lingering beneath, on the verge of breaking apart. We love cheap distortion pedals, self-oscillating feedback, and contingency plans.
On July 2nd, 2006 we released our first EP, Dispatches from the Grey City, produced by Loren Jan Wilson of Mr. Hyde Records. We are currently writing new songs in various other shitholes around Chicago and hope to have another EP completed by the Spring of 2007. If you like our music and/or would like a copy of our current EP, send us a message or leave us a comment.
All the mp3's you hear on this page have been recorded in either Loren Jan Wilson's basement or Brian Sulpizio's Chateau Recording Studio, Humbolt Park. Please consider them, if you want excellent sounding recordings on the cheaps.
Quick Before It Melts says: "It's been awhile since I've come across a band on Myspace that's made me sit up and take notice, but I've taken a shining to Chicago's The Goddamn Shame."
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I got more HOTsingles lined up than RHIANNA AS A CONTESTANT ON BLIND DATE!!! .
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I got more HOTsingles lined up than RHIANNA AS A CONTESTANT ON BLIND DATE!!! .
MUSIC INDUSTRY CRITIQUE SCORE OFF TRAKHEADZ
Individual Score Card for song "YJ7K OBAMA 4 PRES" by "LORD_X_ODUS THE WILD ONION" Submitted by "MediaMusic360"
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW...SHOVEL...CAUSE BRAND NEW COLD BrrrrrBLOODED BULLSHHHHUKAS IS SOON TO BE UPON US.....BELIEVE WISDOM THAT 1! As my peoples taught me "IT AIN'T NOTHING BUT CHEWED UP GRASS CUZIN..." A little Black girl (UNCLASSIFIED) A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?" "Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "Since you are a black, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job?" and he smiles. "OK", she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff -grass -. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?" The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama... when you don't know shit?"
We're now accepting submissions for our next mixtapes, please submit your info at www. coast2coastsubmissions. com for your chance to get a spot on the next mixtape!
