They Were Thieves – Citrus Girls
Posted by POTIONS / January 5, 2012
The long awaited follow-up to Red River Blue; “Citrus Girls” is due January 24 in limited cassette and CD-R formats. Steven Bakker has matured as a songwriter and it shows on this solid collection of songs that picks up where the Thieves left off. Bakker recorded all the songs in his home studio (electric blue room) and passed them along onto T. Owens (Distractions, Potions) who then mastered the tracks using reel to reel tape, enhancing the lo-fi qualities already present. The end result is a “perfectly haunting” slew of honest songs, combining sentimentality with folky rock-and-roll.
Katrina Stonehart + Potions “Stoney Islands” b/w “Sexytime” CDr split release w/ Solid Melts
Posted by POTIONS / December 15, 2011
PAR010 Katrina Stonehart + Potions “Stoney Islands” b/w “Sexytime” CD-R will be available within the week.
This is a co-release with Solid Melts ♥. Own this on tape RIGHT NOW!
POTIONS at Kaleid Series
Posted by POTIONS / September 27, 2011
Come on out to Roger’s Park. October 6.
Here is a recent POTIONS collaboration with Katrina Stoneheart.
DISTRACTIONS / THIN HYMNS back from tour
Posted by POTIONS / September 19, 2011
After traveling to the east coast and down south, Distractions and Thin Hymns have returned safely to our jobs, friends, and girlfriends in Chicago. Distractions will be taking some time to work on new material, but will still be playing a couple of shows in October. Here are some upcoming things to check out:
Sept. 22 (thurs):: POTIONS at Treasure Town (2106 s kedzie fl. 2) with Mines, No Babies (LA), Whitman (LA), Spells.
Oct. 6 :: Kaleid Series at Impala Gallery (1768 greenleaf ave) POTIONS with Quicksails, Drone Baez, axis : sova
Oct. 7 :: Distractions in Madison, Wisc. with a lot of bands that we have played in at one point or currently (thin hymns, netherfriends, pet lions)
Oct. 28 :: Distractions at Burlington (chicago) with MINDEN (Kansas?)
Famous Laughs / Potions – Wildcats c40
Posted by POTIONS / September 2, 2011
Famous Laughs & Potions will be offering a collection of space-scapes that we’ve recorded sporadically in not-so-recent times. We will be hocking these tapes at Distractions shows on our upcoming tour, which begins next week. Check out the dates below:
9/5/11 – TOUR KICK OFF! EMPTY BOTTLE FREE MONDAY! THIN HYMNS, DISTRACTIONS and HEALTH & BEAUTY!!!!!!
9/7/11 – Detroit, MI @ Bakery Loft w/Bones and more
9/8/11 – Cleveland, OH. @ Happy Dog w/TBA
9/9/11 – Pittsburgh, PA. @ Gooski’s w/ Gangwish and Taichi Nakatani
9/10/11 – Bard College, NY @ SMOG w/tba
9/11/11 – New York, NY @ Cake Shop w/Cloud Becomes Your Hand and Strange Shapes
9/12/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Bookspace w/ Cozy Galaxies and Oh! Pears
9/13/11 – Baltimore, MD @ Sonar w/Lands & Peoples, Bachelorette, and In Every Room
9/14/11 – Blacksburg, VA details TBA
9/15/11 – Charlotte, NC @ Yauhaus (1227 Rollins Ave.)
9/16/11 – Athens, GA. details TBA
9/17/11 – Indianapolis, IN @ Cataracts Music Fest
Now accepting orders for PAR007 + PAR008
Posted by POTIONS / August 13, 2011
PAR007 : Distractions – Lost Horse c32 \ pop pushed through a layered and noisy envelope created through our obsession with delay pedals, tiny keyboards, cassette culture, vintage spacey sounds
PAR008 : POTIONS – Odd Notions c62 \ ambient music with a “focus” on murky keyboards, janky non-sequenced drum machine beats all filtered through dub delays and looped to outerspace and back
$5 per tape
Shipping:
$1 U.S.
$2 Canada
$4 International