Cobra Lounge this Sunday!

Hey everyone!  This Sunday we'll be rocking the stage at Cobra Lounge (235 N. Ashland, Chicago, IL 60607).   There's a $3 cover (it's not free unfortunately, we found this out AFTER the flyer was made).  It's going to be a really great time.  We hope to see you out!

Arcade Fire After Party show THIS MONDAY!

Hey there folks! We have a last minute show we'd like to post here for you. Many of you may be attending one of the three Arcade Fire concerts at the UIC Pavillion on April 22nd, 24th, and 25th. We're certain you'll still feel like rocking after the show, and on April 25th, travel the short little mile to the Bottom Lounge (1375 W. Lake St, Chicago, IL) with your Arcade Fire ticket stub to get into our show for free. We're headlining an Arcade Fire After Party, and it's sure to be a good time.  Check out the other bands on the bill as well - 'Black Canvas' and 'Is World'.  Here's the facebook event link - LINK!  See you there!

Pinto and the Bean

Upcoming Shows

Hi folks.  We're currently setting up shows, and here are some of our upcoming gigs.  Hope you're having a swell Monday :-)

Pinto and the Bean

Our thoughts on 2001: A Space Odyssey

What?  A movie review by Pinto and the Bean?  That movie is over 40 years old and you're musicians, not film snobs!  We know, but we just saw it for the first time this past week...you know how you're sometimes just browsing through Netflix and randomly choose something - well, we put this on, and it really blew us away.  Ivan is quite certain that the Star Wars creators took the majority of their ideas from this, and he is quite the Star Wars fanatic.  Then we got to talking about how Stanley Kubrick was a visionary from another dimension in time.  He was probably an extra terrestrial who came to earth to share his out-of-this-world unique style with the rest of us, which is way cool!

we'd like to sit on one of these

Something swell about '2001: A Space Odyssey' is the minimal use of dialogue in the movie.  It's mostly classical music playing over elegantly painted scenes in outer space.  But really, the movie doesn't need dialogue to work.  We were too mesmerized with Stanley Kubrick's depiction of outer space.  It's amazing to see that quite a few of the technological advances the movie shows us are ones we live with today (like video chatting).  Still, some others haven't been realized yet. 

In any case, we just thought we'd share our two cents on the movie.  And on the music side of things, we're releasing a new music video soooooon!  And we've got more shows lined up - we'll keep you posted with all that jazz.

Paul and Ivan
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Pinto and the Bean at Double Door Thursday, March 24th

We are very excited to announce that we've been invited back to perform at Double Door (1572 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL) this Thursday night, March 24th. We'll be the opening act, so be sure to get there early! We should be taking the stage by 8:30pm.  Check out the facebook event here.

What else is so cool about this evening? All the bands performing with us this Thursday night are super awesome and we are delighted to be sharing the stage with such great artists. Almost all of them are touring from out of town, so please come support these acts as well as your fellow Pinto Beans. The info and links on the band lineup is below. Check out their music.  Come out and have some fun!

Pinto and the Bean

DOUBLE DOOR LINE UP - 3/24

Pinto and the Bean

(from Chicago, IL - as you may already know)

Fast Romantics 

(from Calgary, Canada) 

Emily Long 

(from Brooklyn, New York)

The Pass 

(from Louisville, Kentucky)

Clip Art 

(from Chicago, Illinois)

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Scenes From Our Double Door show

Thanks to those of you who came out to Double Door last Tuesday night, and those of you we met that evening.  It was a fun show! Thanks to our good friend Anitra, we have some footage of the show.  Here's a live performance of our song Night Rider.  We'll add more shortly. Enjoy for now and we'll talk to you soon.

Pinto and the Bean

Free Double Door Tuesday night.

Hey there Pinto and the Bean friends!

So, it's Sunday night and we're resting after a well needed practice.  We're guessing many of you checked out the Grammy Awards tonight.  It's great to see Arcade Fire take home the Grammy for album of the year.  That was actually unexpected and it put a smile on our faces.

We'd like to remind you of our show this coming Tuesday night at  Double Door.  We're playing with some great Chicago bands - Hemmingbirds, Jet W. Lee, and Tiny Bones.  We'd love to see you out and what's super cool about this show is that you can get into it for free if you print out the flyer located at the bottom of this blog entry; or you can simply pull it up on your smartphone.  Don't pay the $5 cover if you don't have to!  Click here for the facebook event

Looking forward to seeing you at the show!

Pinto and the Bean

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