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Great ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit recently. 
awesomepeoplereading:

Steve Albini reads.
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Great ‘Ask Me Anything’ on Reddit recently. 

awesomepeoplereading:

Steve Albini reads.

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    • #Chicago
    • #Steve Albini
    • #Reddit
    • #AMA
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iknddesign:

Chicago.
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iknddesign:

Chicago.

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    • #Chicago
    • #architecture
    • #photography
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andrewmalo:

From our tour practice sessions, as a submission to couch by couch west.

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    • #music
    • #Chicago
    • #indie
    • #lo-fi
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angelamalo:

lilac and hibiscus.
recently finished
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angelamalo:

lilac and hibiscus.

recently finished

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    • #paintings
    • #artists
    • #Chicago
    • #flowers
    • #beauty
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  • Trees bronze in my country, too

andrewmalo:

Seems I’ll be going to the studio soon to record these tracks for real.

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    • #Chicago
    • #music
    • #art
    • #piano
    • #Japan
    • #lo-fi
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angelamalo:

good listener. good friend.
acrylic on canvas 2012
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angelamalo:

good listener. good friend.

acrylic on canvas 2012

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    • #painting
    • #acrylic
    • #art
    • #Chicago
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weorme:

Our cover of Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground set to home movies shot on Sunday mornings this past winter.

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    • #music
    • #video
    • #Velvet Underground
    • #home
    • #Chicago
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If you live here or know someone who does check them out! It’ll be Andrew on vocals and guitar, Erik on percussion and other miscellany.
andrewmalo:

Spring Tour shows.  There will be a show in Chicago a few weeks after.  Come see me if you happen to be in TN or SC. 
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If you live here or know someone who does check them out! It’ll be Andrew on vocals and guitar, Erik on percussion and other miscellany.

andrewmalo:

Spring Tour shows.  There will be a show in Chicago a few weeks after.  Come see me if you happen to be in TN or SC. 

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    • #music
    • #Chicago
    • #tours
    • #Knoxville
    • #Tennessee
    • #indie
    • #folk
    • #greenville
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Chicago.

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    • #Chicago
    • #photographs
    • #downtown
    • #river
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Andrew's Album Mentioned in WBEZ Article!

Our very own Andrew and his most recent EP, Songs from Bubbly Creek, were just mentioned in an article about the Chicago River and cultural resources for positive change on the WBEZ website. Speaking of efforts to re-reverse the river and its troubled history it mentions, “…the notorious Bubbly Creek (speaking of cultural resources check out local Andrew Malo’s ode to the notorious stew, the 2012 EP Songs from Bubbly Creek).”

Click on the link above to hear the songs on bandcamp, read about the thinking that went into the album, and purchase the album!

    • #Chicago
    • #river
    • #album
    • #music
    • #culture
    • #WBEZ
    • #NPR
    • #art
    • #change
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Weird that this was just a little over a week ago here in Chicago…
lizabean:

I was dreaming of LA and its bright warmth against my skin. But then I woke up… to a shimmering thin blanket of snow.
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Weird that this was just a little over a week ago here in Chicago…

lizabean:

I was dreaming of LA and its bright warmth against my skin. But then I woke up… to a shimmering thin blanket of snow.

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    • #Chicago
    • #snow
    • #photography
    • #black and white
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I once had a job where I delivered medical equipment in and around Chicago. My job often took me to the South and West sides, where I’d never really spent much time, and into people’s homes that I would normally never come across. A good amount of older African American folks, on the South side especially, often had a front wall in their living room where they had pictures of loved ones, relatives that served in the military, old family gatherings…and President Obama. Say what you want about his presidency (and folks are saying plenty) but it has a whole other level of meaning to these individuals.

From Husayn’s “I Once Had a Job Where…” project…

I Once Had a Job Where…: More Than a Thousand Words 

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    • #Chicago
    • #President Obama
    • #South side
    • #jobs
    • #stories
    • #meaning
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angelamalo:

i miss those little pink petals. making the sky pink then the ground.
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angelamalo:

i miss those little pink petals. making the sky pink then the ground.

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    • #painting
    • #Chicago
    • #artists
    • #trees
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  • a saturday night recording for sunday morning

“A Saturday Night Recording for Sunday Morning” by We/Or/Me.

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    • #Chicago
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    • #folk
    • #indie
    • #gentle
    • #beauty
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My 7 year old daughter agreed that this was the perfect song to accompany the weather in Chicago this morning…

    • #bon iver
    • #Chicago
    • #weather
    • #holocene
    • #rainy and cloudy
    • #Spring
    • #i want to go to there
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About

Not quite a record label. Not based in Alaska.

Alaska Tapes started as a fictitious record label for the band/artist We/Or/Me. It took its obscure and misleading name from some audiotapes that documented a series of talks given by the artist's father in Alaska in 1984.

It is now less a fictitious record label, and more an actual artist collective of sorts. It hopes to put out some records, put on some shows, and bring some people together. It will strive to create a supportive environment for creative expression and meaningful conversations. It will favor the word community over the word scene.

So far it involves the following people/artists:

Husayn Allmart, Minister of Communications
Andrew Malo, musical artist Angela Malo, visual artist We/Or/Me, musical artist

Liza Mitchell, photographer

Soon it will involve others.

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    *Chicken tinga, beef in pasilla, taco platters, and much more!

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