May 2012
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Our Song Take Your Picture Goes All BMX
Our track “Take Your Picture” from Gypsyblood’s album Cold In The Guestway makes a perfect score for this Unit Riders Video of Kyle Baldock BMX Dirt Jump Sessions filmed at Gorge Rd New Zealand. Licensed through 1656 Music.
March 2012
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Cobra Lounge and Sailor Jerry Show Video - Was a...
Check out the video from the Cobra Lounge show, featuring Gypsyblood and some other great Chicago bands from last year’s Sailor Jerry Pitchfork After party. Was a sloppy good time!!
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Brooklyn Vegan: Show Pick - March 2nd Lake Forest...
Gypsyblood & Heavy Times to play a Lake Forest chapel
Chicago bands Gypsyblood and Heavy Times are set to play a FREE show this Friday (March 2), at the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel on the campus of Lake Forest College. The event is being presented by the school’s WMXM radio (89.9 FM) and seems to be open to the public.
In related (and unfortunate) news, Gypsyblood’s van...
February 2012
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Gypsyblood to play at the Sargent House / 1656...
Sargent House and 1656 Music presents their official SXSW show lineup for Friday, March 16th at Bat Bar - 218 E. 6th Street with the following bands. Deafheaven - 1:00am Zechs Marquise - 12:05am Chelsea Wolfe - 11:10pm And So I Watch You From Afar - 10:15pm Indian Handcrafts - 9:20pm Marriages - 8:25pm Gypsyblood - 7:30pm W/ special guest sets from Eureka The Butcher between bands
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Happy Valentines Day Downloads from Gypsyblood
In honor of Valentines Day, Gypsyblood has unleashed two Free tracks, a b-side and an alternative slow groove version of their track In Our Veins - Free for download, for lovers only …..
<a href=”http://gypsyblood.bandcamp.com/album/gypsyblood-valentines-day”...
December 2011
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Superstition REMIX
Remix of the Gypsyblood track Superstition from the album Cold In The Guestway
September 2011
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Don't Trust Your GPS In The Southern Appalachian...
Don’t Trust Your GPS In The Southern Appalachian Mountains: an Interview with Gypsyblood By Ryan Donar
Waiting outside of El Cid II; an out-of-place Mexican restaurant in the heart of Logan Square beside a comic book store that I promised myself not to go into. It’s about 6:50 p.m. when I look at the clock on my phone (early to a 7:00 p.m. meeting time of course, but only to make sure I got...
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Audio Tree Live Session - Sept 17, 2011
Thanks to Audiotree Live in Chicago for having Gypsyblood in for a great live session playing songs from their album Cold In The Guestway and hear their answers to some interesting questions. Click the picture to listen to the session and interview.
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Sargent House "May We Introduce You" Gypsyblood
If Error shows up click refresh In 2006, I was introduced to a band by Dave Davison of Maps & Atlases out of Chicago called Karma with A K. I fell deeply and madly in love with them. They never even got around to releasing an album before they disbanded. I was so sad when I heard they called it quits without ever having really left Chicago. But I kept dibs on the boys of the Karma unit...
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Dave & Erin of Maps & Atlases Talks to The AV Club
Dave Davison and Erin Elders The band members discuss their biggest influences
and they give props to Kyle and Adam’s old band Karma with a K and recommend Gypsyblood as a new band to check out. Very nice. - below are excerpts. Click to read FULL interview.
Maps & Atlases formed in 2004 at Columbia College, and soon gained notoriety for their frenetic musicality,...
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The Hideout : Chicago, IL - September 16th
Gypsyblood is playing The Hideout in Chicago, IL on Friday September 16th at 10:00PM. Tickets are $8 and can be purchased here.
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LIVE Audio Tree Session
Gypsblood will be performing LIVE on Saturday September 17th at 2PM courtesy of Audio Tree. Check out Facebook for more information and be sure to tune in at Audiotree.com!
July 2011
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Free Show July 17th at Cobra Lounge - RSVP
Gypsyblood playing a FREE show as part of the Pitchfork After Parties brought to you by Sailor Jerry it’s FREE with RSVP on July 17th at Cobra Lounge and just another awesome poster by the one and only Ryan Duggan. Hit That. CHI TOWN.
June 2011
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Rock A Rolla Review: Cold In The Guestway
Rock A Rolla Magazine reviews Gypsyblood’s Cold In The Guestway in this months Issue #32 with label mates Boris on the Cover.
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Redefine Magazine Reviews: Cold In The Guestway
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Cold In the Guestway (Sargent House) When it comes to the genre of “garage rock,” most listeners take the “been there, done that” attitude. It’s just hard to find something new — or rather, a new take on the genre. Chicago’s Gypsyblood blow that attitude out of the water with their debut, Cold In The Guestway. Their garage rock is combined...
May 2011
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Take Your Picture Video / My Old Kentucky Blog
A while back we turned the spotlight on Chicago’s Gypsyblood, a noisy little combo with a history of in-fighting, codependency and a snazzy debut in the form of, Cold In the Guestway. Today we’re happy to report that the band is still alive and well, and what’s more, we’re pleased as punch to be premiering the video for Take Your Picture, a noisy little number that starts with an...
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Vinyl District Interview & Chance to Win Vinyl
Chicago’s own Gypsyblood play a FREE show TONIGHT May 16, at the Empty Bottle (9:30pm, 1035 N. Western Ave.) in support of their newly released full length LP Cold In The Guestway. We recently caught up with Gypsyblood guitarist/vocalist Adam James, and got to ask him a few questions about the record. We’ve also got a copy of the new LP to giveaway to one lucky person, so keep reading to...
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Episode 25 Breakthrough Radio / Edit Room Floor...
Catch the outtakes from our Live Studio session with Gypsyblood, including the songs “Take Your Picture,” “Superstition” and “In Our Blood.” The Chicago band talks about their love/hate relationship and why creepy basement bars are just more fun.
For these and all the songs performed during our Live Studio session with Gypsyblood, stream and download DJ...
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Live Video from Breakthrough Radio / 2-4-6 In The...
Chicago’s Gypsyblood know how to rock. Watch them perform “2-4-6 in the Dark” from their debut album “Cold in the Guestway” live in from the Breakthrough Radio studio. Adam James and Kyle Victor front Gypsyblood, a band that has generated buzz (literally) for being what one blogger called “uncommonly loud.” But the band is more than just decibels, as...
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Vital Reverb Review: Cold In The Guestway
Gypsyblood - Cold In The Guestway Sargent House ESM Rating: 8/10
Ronnie Wood will not be pleased. The Rolling Stones guitarist and former member of The Jeff Beck Band and The Faces proudly flaunts his gypsy heritage. According to an interview with Keith’s fellow axe slinger on “Top Gear” — the British one, people — Ronnie was the first in his family to be born on land rather than on the...
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Songwriters On Process Interviews Adam James
Sargent House does a great job promoting their bands on Twitter, and it was no different with Chicago-based Gypsyblood. For several days, the label filled my Twitter feed with news about the band’s new release Cold in the Guestway. I was excited, then, to learn they were opening for Maps and Atlases here in DC at the Rock n Roll Hotel, since I had already read so much about them.
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April 2011
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Chicagoist Show Feature Gypsyblood
DOWNLOAD THEN SEE: Gypsyblood
If the year was 1991 instead of 2011 Gypsybood would be on Matador Records. Spin magazine would be creaming their pants extolling the band’s praises. Stephen Malkmus and Bob Pollard would be at their shows bobbing their heads in the back of the room. Their debut, Cold In The Guestway, is immediately familiar but never tiring. The Chicago duo of Adam...
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My Old Kentucky Blog: My RKO is MIA
Music makes for some twisted, codependent and abusive relationships. Lennon and McCartney. Jagger and Richards. Loggins and Messina. The list goes ever on. Longtime friends Adam James and Kyle Victor birthed Chicago’s Gypsyblood back in ‘09, not long after a huge throwdown between the two resulted in their previous project breaking up. But he swore he’d change!
Only time will tell whether or...
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Kindness Of Ravens Feature/Interview: Gypsyblood
Another band we kept hearing about during last month’s South by Southwest festival was Chicago’s Gypsyblood. The bandformed in 2009 and just released their debut full-length, Cold in the Guestway, which spans a range of sounds—all raw, all rough, and all undeniably appealing. One of our favorite tracks from the album, ”In Our Blood,” is this week’s Song of the Week....
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The Rathaus Review
The music of Chicago’s Gypsyblood has been compared to Pavement, Guided by Voices, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Archers of Loaf and dozens of other 90′s alternative bands. To me those comparisons are flat out lazy. I’ll admit certain elements of the early to mid 90′s (sludgy guitar riffs, strained vocals, brooding lyrics) vaguely hover around Gypsyblood’s latest LP Cold in the Guestway;...
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Chicago Album Release Show / FREE on 4.29.11
Gypsyblood will be celebrating the release of their debut album Cold In The Guestway with a hometown Chicago show on April 29th. Yes, we know its two weeks after it comes out but we are doing a mini tour first with Maps & Atlases & Delicate Steve. And who better to join us than the man who brought Gypsyblood to Sargent House, Dave Davison, Mr. A&R himself will be playing his own Cast...
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COS Reviews: Gypsyblood/Cold In The Guestway
Chicago is, in my humble opinion, one of the best cities for truly creative work. Granted, I am bias since it’s where I call my home, and also where I’m involved in the arts, but when it comes solid music, theater, and art, Chicago is where it’s at. Other cities have a lot of creative people doing creative things, but Chicago artists seem to still have a strong foothold in reality. There’s a...
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Chicago Reader Feature: Gypsyblood
It’s a good time to be making crunchy, guitar-driven music that sounds like 90s alt-rock. The ever-churning pop-cultural nostalgia machine is almost finished with 90s rave culture, and lately Doc Martens and flannels have been trendier than at any point in the past 15 years or so. Two of the most anticipated releases of the past couple months, Yuck’s self-titled debut album and Dum...
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Loud Loop Press Review
For a debut record, Gypsyblood‘s Cold In The Guestway seems to, no pun intended, hit all the right notes. Elements of ragged guitar rockery and noisy bedroom pop are tightly weaved together on Cold In The Guestway. And yet perhaps the band’s biggest accomplishment is that the record, while it does at times throwback to the early 90′s alternative-rock-era, doesn’t sound angsty or take itself...
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Cold In The Guestway - Early Listen
Cold In The Guestway by Gypsyblood
Gypsyblood’s Cold In The Guestway comes out officially on 4/12 but have a listen early if you like.
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Slug Magazine Review
Gypsyblood /Cold in the Guestway Sargent House Street: 04.12
Gypsyblood = Pavement + The Clean Cold in the Guestway is a channeled testament to the inescapable dark energy of frigid Chicago winters. I’d like to think of it as the musical version of Mike Brown and me smashing our kitchen. There’s a noticeably raw element to these catchy pop songs, with cool melodies and interesting layers of...
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Gypsyblood Vinyl & CD Pre-Orders
Gypsyblood “Cold In The Guestway” vinyl and cd bundles available, items also can be purchases separately. Ships early, on April 6th. Out in stores on April 12th.
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PopStache Review
Gypsyblood does a great job mixing numerous genres and influences into a nicely distorted, full-assault on lo-fi bands on the Sargent House debut Cold in the Guestway.
The opener “Take Your Picture” is an all-in-one idea of what Gypsyblood explores on the rest of the album. Driving bass lines, strong almost surf-rock guitar riffs, distorted vocals that function more as an instrument...
March 2011
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Exploding In Sound - SXSW '11
Gypsyblood took the stage next, delivering an energetic set that made great use of their surrounding environment. The four piece Chicago shoegaze/alternative band signed with Sargent House late last year, and it’s no surprise that their live show is intense and musically solid. Lead singer/guitarist Adam James took advantage of the patio area, wedging himself mid song between a tree and a...
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An Interview with Kyle & Adam
An Interview with Gypsyblood - by Adam Pfleider
One of Sargent House’s newest signings, the two main men of Gypsyblood have been playing music for years and are rooted in the Chicago music scene. This time around, they sound more honed into making it as organic and in your face as possible. After their set Saturday night, I pulled the guys aside to talk about their upcoming debut and...
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Take Your Picture (Fan Made Video)
some times you just have to leave it to the gods of youtube to beat you to the punch on making videos, here is a good one somebody made for “Take Your Picture”. Thanks
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COS Interview Gypsyblood SXSW 2011
Have you ever been cornered in the restroom and barked at with questions? No? Well, Chicago’s Gypsyblood has – at least when Cluster 1 and the fantastic duo decided to knock heads in the stall. Well, not literally. Or even metaphorically. Ack! ANYWAY, check out this adventurous interview which has Cluster 1 pestering Adam James and Kyle Victor with questions about their time at SXSW,...
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SXSW 2011 - 7 shows
Gypsyblood will be playing the Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions official show this year at SXSW on Saturday, March 19th at Emo’s Annex along with : Adebisi Shank Cast Spells Fang Island Gypsyblood Le Butcherettes Native Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group Therapies Son Zechs Marquise
GYPSYBLOOD AT SXSW SHOW SCHEDULE 3/16 Betsy’s Bar (301 W. 6th St) - 3:15pm 3/17...
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The Deli Magazine- SXSW 2011 Chicago Band Pick
The Deli Magazine names Gypsyblood as one of their bands from Chicago to see at SXSW 2011. Click to see Full Issue with Fang Island on the cover!
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LoudLoop Show Pick - Gypsyblood
GYPSYBLOOD A trifecta of greatness will be taking over Lincoln Hall as Gypsyblood, Light Pollution and Maps and Atlases rock the stage this Friday. All three bands have ended up on our recent plethora of “Top Ten” lists, so this show will be incredible. Indie hard rockers, Gypsyblood, are known for their acrobatic stage antics, big rock sound and intense vocals. Light Pollution will make you...
COS Premiere New Track - "My R.K.O. Is M.I.A. "
Check Out: Gypsyblood – “My R.K.O. Is M.I.A.” (CoS Premiere)
When your drummer walks off stage after the last song of the night and decides that hitchhiking home is better than another night in the van with the rest of you, it kind of sounds like that’s the end of your band. That’s exactly what happened when Kyle Victor left Adam James and the rest of Karma With A K angry and percussion-less...
February 2011
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March 11th Show - Lincoln Hall - Chicago
Gypsyblood will be playing on March 11, 2011 at Lincoln Hall with Maps & Atlases and Light Pollution.
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RCRD LBL Features "Take My Picture"
Thank you, Gypsyblood. Thank you for taking the tired terrain of indie and turning it on its head, for doing something innovative with your lo-fi vocals, for proving that surf isn’t just a cover for technical inability. Here’s to the three minutes of “Take Your Picture” that take fuzz to infinity and beyond. And here’s to Sargent House, who release Cold In The...
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Gypsyblood Vinyl & CD & Store
Gypsyblood store is now open for business. “Cold In The Guestway” out on April 12, 2011 on Sargent House - pre orders ship on or around 4/1.
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Under The Radar
Gypsyblood
“Take Your Picture” MP3
Feb 11, 2011
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The Chicago indie-rock duo Gypsyblood formed in 2009 in the wake of a dissolving band fronted by longtime buds and former bandmates Adam James and vocalist/drummer/bassist Kyle Victor. The new project that rose from the ashes saw the men filtering their ’90s indie influences (Guided By Voices, Pavement, et al.)....
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Cold In The Guestway - April 12, 2011
Gypsyblood ’s debut LP “Cold In The Guestway” will be released on April 12, 2011 on Sargent House. Vinyl, Digital & CD!
Tracklisting 1. Take Your Picture 2. In Our Blood 3. 2-4-6 InTheDark 4. A Song Called Take 5. Superstition 6. Dirty Thieves 7. Man Of States 8. When I Was A Boy 9. My R.K.O. Is M.I.A. 10. Endless Summer 11. Hey...
BIRP! New Music Feature Gypsyblood
Chicago’s Gypsyblood released this self titled ep a little while back and has recently came to my attention. They are lined up to showcase for SARGENT HOUSE at SXSW with labelmates Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Fang Island, Native and Adebisi Shank, among others. The self titled ep is available for “name your price” (0.00 also works) download via their bandcamp. If any of you are...
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