Tuesday, July 6

Totally a Review

Google Translator:

007 belongs in the publication history Tyler Jon Tyler a new band from Chicago with her debut single. offered on their band T-shirts emblazoned the slogan "Pop Music for Floozies" - so for pop tart - which fits well because Floozies will hear certainly not shallow Weichspülpop, but perhaps semigefährlichen garage-pop brand Tyler Jon Tyler. Tougher, catchy, symphatisch grating, is reduced to essential Schrammel-pop with female vocals, then, as he is here to listen to "New England Street" and "Faster Than Light."


Or in German:

Die 007 in der Veröffentlichungsgeschichte gehört Tyler Jon Tyler einer neuen Band aus Chicago mit ihrer Debütsingle. Auf ihren angebotenen Band T-Shirts prangt der Slogan "Pop Music for Floozies" - also Pop für Flittchen - was gut passt, denn Floozies werden gewiss keinen seichten Weichspülpop hören, sondern vielleicht semigefährlichen Garage-Pop Marke Tyler Jon Tyler. Tougher, eingängiger, symphatisch knarziger, auf wesentliche reduzierter Schrammel-Pop mit Frauen-Gesang also, wie er hier bei "New England Street" und "Faster Than Light" zu hören ist.


Plus a ton more stuff about Trouble In Mind records at Flying Revolver!

Friday, March 12

Separate Issue



Isn't it time I start a new fucking blog already? I'm too cheap and/or poor to buy new hosting. I fuck with custom Wordpress installations all day for work but I'm still here, at Blogger.

Anyway! Our new 7" comes out on Rococo Records 4/20/10. "Separate Issue" backed with "Paul" featuring Ian Adams (Maximum Wage, Submarine Races) on a gorgeous 12-string Rickenbacker.

"Separate Issue" is named after the brand of my favorite pair of thrift store sneakers.

"Paul" is the fictional account of a 16-year-old girl who falls in love with Paul Westerberg by watching old YouTube videos of him when he was young...



After hearing from a friend that you can go watch him coach his son's little league team in Minneapolis, she seeks him out and tries to have an affair with him.

What an imagination...

At SXSW: Party at Hot House on Thursday, March 18th (we play at 5:45 PM). Then the Trouble In Mind Showcase on Friday, March 19th (we play at 1:00 PM). Holy shit!

Tweet at me, twats: @rebeccaflores @tylerjontyler.

Monday, November 23

Tyler Jon Tyler's Debut Single

Our first 7" is out! Here's what Trouble In Mind says:

TIM007: Tyler Jon Tyler "New England Street" b/w "Faster Than Light"
We are proud to release the debut single by Chicago's own Tyler Jon Tyler. We can assure you that no other band going sounds like TJT. With a Pony that has traded his drums to play bass upside down, Tom from Daily Void's intricate drum patterns and "new comer" Rebecca's sparse guitar and thoughtful lyrics, their skeletal "less-is-more" sound brings to mind bands like The Clean, Young Marble Giants, & the Raincoats. These songs evoke a time and a place and demand your attention. (Not too mention Ian Adams' Stylophone wizardry on the B-Side)

Buy it on mix-colored vinyl at Trouble In Mind or from a distro near you! Here's a stream from our Bandcamp site...

<a href="http://music.tylerjontyler.com/album/new-england-street-7">New England Street by Tyler Jon Tyler</a>

Monday, September 28

Beaky

Beaky

I drew this vulture probably about ten times. The color in this one was accidental but I liked it and drew over it.

Tuesday, August 26

Cover Letter Part 1, or How to Bullshit to Get a Job

With this one, I got a pretty good interview in (the guy rolled in on a Segway, I shit you not) but blew the second interview.

To Whom It May Concern:

If technology were a religion, I'd be wholly devoted. If you take a look at my living space, it would almost seem like I already am. Every night I stand before a shrine of charging electronics, where plugging in my cellphone, BlackBerry, MP3 player, and digital camera is like lighting candles; I read Engadget and TechCrunch RSS feeds multiple times daily as if they were each a gospel in the bible. This is why I was very, very excited to see your ad in Craigslist-- finally, a chance to work around what I am already so engrossed in.

I previously worked in sales at a company that was held together by email. I was enthralled to have my own workstation and BlackBerry, and used each to their full potential to maintain an efficient workflow. Also being in sales helped me work directly with both management and clients, where I learned to fulfill the needs of both parties successfully.

It would be great to receive a reply and possibly set up an interview. My resume and references are in plain text following this cover letter-- please let me know if you'd like it in a different format. Thank you for taking the time to read through this-- if I'm not what you're looking for, hopefully you found some humor in this anyway.

Hope to hear from you soon,

Rebecca Flores

Monday, August 25

Mother of Tears

Almost was the cover to their 7-inch out soon on Hozac, but we have to retake it as we did not realize the resolution was so low. Mother of Tears

Sunday, July 20

Tiny

Snipped out of my sketchbook.

Kit Halo

Window Square Coil

Sic Alps and Friends

A few pictures from last week.

Sic Alps Guitar

Patrick

Andrew

Thursday, July 10

Things I haven't been using as bookmarks

I have a ton of stuff lying around that I need to scan or take snaps of, except some of it is at the practice space or being used as a bookmark or not 100% finished yet.

There's a miniature version of this up at the practice space:
Guts

This is very tiny. It fits on an index card. I drew this a really long time ago, and I kept changing how I wanted it to finally look like. It ended up retaining none of its original meaning. At all...
Head/Jar

Doodles on a Chicago Red Eye during my lunch break. Cut them out and glued them together:
Newspaper

I also just posted some show snapshots and "Bottomless", something I wrote last week. I wrote a couple other things that I'm not quite ready to post yet, but I'll try to get around to it by this weekend.

Wednesday, July 9

Ronny's Bar, 6/14/08

A few snapshots from the show: Feeling of Love, Sang Des Loups, Mother of Tears, White Mystery. At Ronny's Bar in Chicago on June 14th. After the show we proceeded to party at my house, which ended up getting me kicked out of my apartment. It was worth it! Just so this qualifies as a review: all of the bands were awesome, the end.

Seb and Seb The Human Fly
Pool Shark Nathan Sang des Loups

Monday, May 12

Pipes

This was my weekend project. I'm kind of worried that this paper will turn yellow.

Pipes

Friday, May 2

Disposable April

Jenn and I bought a couple disposable cameras and made a rule to not look through the viewfinder. She scanned the negatives and put them up on her Flickr. Here are a few taken by me. At least I think I took that one of Sam...



Tuesday, April 29

Clam Teeth

Clam Teeth

It started out as onions. Then vaginas. Now it's clams with teeth.

Tuesday, February 19

Holes/Television

I haven't posted because I kind of don't have the internet. Here are a couple of scans of my hand to make up for it.

Holes TV

Monday, January 28

Worms, 4/15/07

Our heads are like apples, dizzily
bobbing in a bathtub of beer; worms
wrap 'round the seeds, getting drunker,
drunker as their vessels sink.

Sunday, January 27

Mass Sketchbook Upload

I just uploaded a bunch of pictures of pages out of my sketchbook(s). I usually don't show them to anyone, but all of these are old so I don't really care much at this point. I guess it makes them not so personal anymore... Also, they need to be put through a scanner, but I'm way too lazy to make the effort.

Mushrooms and Girl

Branches