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Playing Girls Rock Chicago!

Monday, July 6th, 2009
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Girls Rock Camp Chicago

Girls Rock Camp Chicago

The Locals are totally excited to be playing at Girls Rock Chicago. . It’s a rock camp for girls 9 -16. What’s cooler than that? Um nothing. You can donate to this great program here girlsrockchicago.org.
We’ll be doing a 30 min set for the campers.

Enlisting in the KISS army…

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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kissThe Locals are going to be a part the Chicago bands tribute to KISS. Kirk and our producer, Steve Gillis , are a very very very very excited. LOL! This KISS must be deeply embedded into that “y” chromosome. I mean, Christy and I are happy to be a part of this, but Steve and Kirk are inches away from getting out the face paint.
So what song are we doing? Well, that you’ll have to wait for….check back soon.

Our new Facebook URL!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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Facebook has finally gotten around to letting users and fan pages have a name urls. Check it out, The Locals are at:
http://facebook.com/thelocals,

We’re back in the studio working on a new EP!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
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Yep, that’s right. We’re back at Transient Sound working the follow up to “Big Picture” (June 08). It will be a 4 song EP. We don’t officially have a title for the EP yet. Check back soon for details. We’re hoping for a winter 09 release.