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Prophet still, if bird or devil!
With many a flirt and flutter, ElvisBride steps in stately at Uncommon Ground on Clark this Sunday the 29th, starting at 7 pm. Sunday January 29th, also happens to be the weak and weary day when Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror back in 1845. Remember? [...]
We are a band that was a play and is now a band.
ElvisBride formed in 2009, but didn't get really good until 2009. Formed out from the cresting wave that was Chicago's Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, EB combines inventive arrangements with dark humor, creating something as eclectic as it is catchy. A musical curio free of the cabinet.
recording
we'd like to swear here
Busted!
We all have a past…
Beat Kitchen Round-up (with pictures!)
ElvisBride opened for the glamorously down to earth doo-wop group Midnight Moxie Thursday night at the Beat Kitchen. Beat Kitchen is a cozy corner hangout on Belmont where you can order a bacon spinach pizza, drink a fancy beer or tall boy and then thrash, sway, or bounce to a variety of bands from hither and yon. ElvisBride hails from [...]
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Measly: 1680s, “Affected with measles”; Sense of “meager and contemptible” first recorded 1864 in British slang. (source) Hokum: 1917, theater slang, “melodramatic, exaggerated acting,” probably formed on model of bunkum, and perhaps influenced by or based on hocus-pocus. (source) Bunk: 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual [...]