T H E   C O K E   D A R E S

performances

Wed., April 9, Bloomington, IN, Art Hospital
w/ Minus Story and Tre Orsi
All Ages
8:00pm, $8.00

Thurs., April 10, Chicago, IL, The Note
w/ Minus Story, Tre Orsi, and Dreamend

Fri., April 11, St. Louis, MO, St. Louis University at Billiken Club 20 N. Grand Blvd.
w/ Minus Story and Tre Orsi
All Ages, Free

Fri., May 2, Indianapolis, IN, Emerson Theater
w/ Up! Scumbag, The Guts, and Highway Magic
7:00pm, $7.00
All Ages

Sat., May 3, Indianapolis, IN, Melody Inn
w/ Up! Scumbag, The Guts, and Flamingo Nosebleed
10:00pm, $7.00

Thurs., May 8, Bloomington, IN, Bluebird
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please and Push-Pull

Sat., May 10, Carbondale, IL, Hangar 9
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please, Conniption Fits, and Spokesmen

Sun., May 11, St. Louis, MO, Bluebird
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please

Fri., May 16, Madison, WI, TBA
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please

Sat., May 17, Chicago, IL, Ronny's Bar
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please, The Sass Dragons, The Monikers, and the Closet Fairies

Sun., May 18, Crown Point, IN, TBA
w/ Prizzy Prizzy Please

Sat., June 7, Bloomington, IN, TBA
w/ Cryptacize

listen to us
Black Beauties
Rocking All the Time
Acid Church Party
10 G's
I Won't Start Drinkin Without You
Wood
Mexican Ice
Tegrity
Treason (Naked Raygun cover)
look at us

news

Dear concerned surfer of the blessed Internet's World Wide Web:

It's official. After three years of tweaking, mastering, remastering, deleting accidentally, undeleting, doing, redoing, undoing, and then doing it all again, The Coke Dares have officially decided to release our "new" record. Feelin' Up will officially hit the racks at your favrorite record store in America on July 8, 2008. However, we have a few copies lying around, and if you want it early come see us play at one of the venues below and to the left. Do more than that -- bring us your used Starbucks cups and gift cards, your favorite quilt, and a couple of knitting needles, and we'll whip up a cloth-ish version of the Newbery Award, just for you. Tell all your friends you wrote My Side of the Mountain!

Feelin' Up is 33 tracks in less than 30 minutes. Feelin' Up was recorded live, no mixing, to analog tape at Russian Recording by Mike Bridavsky. Feelin' Up is coming out as a split release by Essay Records and Reibenbach Records. On one of the songs Beach Dog sounds like he has just eaten a bunch of razor blades. On another, Pill Bottle drums and sings at the same time. Skye Miles, on bass, keeps it tight by wearing sunglasses, virtually, for the entire length (pronounced "lenth") of the record. It must be heard to be believed. As a special incentive we will be offering our documentary of the recording of Feelin' Up, In The Studio With... The Coke Dares, for only $2 with purchase of Feelin' Up! It's $5, otherwise, and with this mortgage crisis it's better to invest at a lower interest rate and then sell the DVD on Ebay in ten years.

Also, available for the first time, is our split CD release with Racebannon. Racebannon=Nirvana and The Coke Dares=The Jesus Lizard on our combined cover of the classic Jesus Lizard/Nirvana split from years passed. "Puss" b/w "Oh the Guilt" can be yours if the Price is Right is hosted by Drew Carey -- and it is.

We also have copies of the "classics" -- Here We Go With The Coke Dares, The Coke Dares Live in Spain, and The Slow EP, not to mention our split 7" with Push-Pull and our classic t-shirts. Please buy our t-shirts. We need to make new ones.

Please join us at one of our upcoming shows for a night of gambling and hobby-horse riding. And come visit us at MySpace. That's where friends get together for gambling and hobby-horse riding any time they want, but especially during work hours and when they should be paying attention to their significant other or their "smart" phones.

Love you like a hurricane,
THE COKE DARES

discography
Feelin' Up
2008 - 33 Song CD - Essay Records
July 8, 2008
Recorded live to 2-track analog at Russian Recording
Here We Go With... The Coke Dares
2004 - 32 track CD - Essay Records
live tracks from B'ton, Atlanta, & Barcelona, Spain
mastered at Russian Recording
Here We Go With... The Coke Dares
2003 - 23 track CDR - Reibenbach Records
recorded by Mike Dixon at Hoosier Illusion
review at Firesideometer
Live At Seven & Ten Double-Live Album
2005 - 51 track double-CDR - Reibenbach Records
recorded live at Schuba's in Chicago on 04/09/05
plus liner-notes by Grand Buffet's Jackson & Lord Grunge
Live In Spain Millennium Edition
Remastered from Jose Mignorance's original digital transfer and packaged in full-color.
50 copies in this limited run.
The Slow EP
2007 - 11 Song CDR - Reibenbach Records
Recorded at the Shrine Club and White Ark Studios by The Coke Dares and John Dawson
Rapider Than Horsepower/Coke Dares split
2004 - 6 track 7inch - Pink Pistol Records
recorded live at The Projects by Jim Zespy
Mark Mallman/Coke Dares split
2005 - 4 track 7inch - Nodak Records
hand screened covers by Crosshair in Chicago
Push Pull/Coke Dares split
2005 - 3 track 7inch - Reibenbach Records
recorded at Russian Recording
Pulse From Mid-America compilation CD
2003 - 1 track (and LOTS of friends) - Anatomy Records
review at Delusions of Adequacy

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