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Holiday Show at The Elbo Room

Sunday, November 9th, 2008
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Catch the last show of 08 at The Elbo Room on Fri Dec 6th! We’ll be pulling out our fav holiday tune and maybe a new song…… hope to see you there.

12/5/08

The Elbo Room, 2871 n Lincoln, Chicago Il 10pm

with: The Moves (cd release), Cut and Run, The Curbsides, Rachel Zystra

The Locals on Q101

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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Tune into Q101′s “Local 101″ show on Sunday 6/8, as they will be playing a song from the new Locals CD, Big Picture. You can listen at Q101 101.1 FM or check out the Q101 Podcast

You can go to q101′s site right now and listen to Tidal Wave by following the link below. They are running a contest to select a local band for their Rock The Block show. Please check out the song and rate us highly to help our chances of landing this gig.

http://www. q101. com/localonline/View. aspx?ID=11420&R=10

Hope to see you at the CD release party at The Elbo Room (2871 N Lincoln) on 6/14.

WLUW 88.7 FM is playing songs from the new CD, Big Picture

Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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Special thanks to Razor & Die at WLUW in Chicago. They have been playing songs from our new CD, Big Picture, over the last few weeks. Tune in on Thursdays from 11:00am until 2:00pm, both on 88.7fm in Chicago and streamcast at wluw.org. to check out Razor & Die in action.

Big Picture CD Release Party!

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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Finally a date! Big Picture, The Locals new cd will be released on June 14th at The Elbo Room, Chicago Il. We’ll keep you posted on what other bands are playing and give you more info on the night as soon as we’ve got it!

Sign up on our email list and we’ll shoot you a reminder about the show!

Eric Remschneider

Monday, February 11th, 2008
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I still remember the first time we heard Eric play cello. It was at a show at Chicago’s Elbo Room with his old band, Red Elephant. We were completely blown away by his style, energy and mastery of the instrument. That being said, it was a no brainer on who to call when we decided to add cello to Bending In The Wind. Eric came in and spent the whole day writing and layering parts over the song, each getting better one after the next. He was a total pro and great to work with.

Eric is probably best known for contributing to The Smashing Pumpkins‘ 1993 release, Siamese Dream, and appearing in the subsequent tour and “Disarm” music video. He is also credited on the band Filter‘s album Title of Record for acoustic cello and Zeta electric cello, as well as James Iha’s solo CD, Let It Come Down.