El Oso performing on Radio Milwaukee 88.9's 414 Music show

Jim Hanke, Jeff Grabowski and Jasen Kinart of the band El Oso sat down for a performance and interview on the Radio Milwaukee 88.9 show 414 Music to promote Saturday’s January 28 concert for the Pablove Foundation at Turner Hall Ballroom. You can stream or download the show at the Radio Milwaukee website. Do it NOW!

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El Oso 2011

Our guests this episode are Jim Hanke and Jeff Grabowski of Milwaukee indie band El Oso. They have reunited for a series of dates this month including one in Rockford, IL at Pirate Ninja Print Shop and another in Chicago opening up the Felix Culpa farewell show at the Metro on December 9, 2011. We’re joined by special guest Paul Karnatz all the way from Prague!

Download the El Oso catalog at eloso.bandcamp.com

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El Oso: Reunited and it feels soooo good.

Chip: Hey Jim.

Jim: Hey Chip.

Chip: So tell our readers about El Oso, man.

Jim: El Oso was a band from late 2003 through Spring of 2006. We were based in Milwaukee and played out quite a bit in both Rockford and DeKalb. After we split up, we all went on to play in other bands such as John The Savage, Kid You’ll Move Mountains, Transmit Now and Those Royals.

Chip: So how did the reunion come about?

Jim: We’d been casually talking about reconvening for a show or two over the last few years but nothing ever came to pass. When we were approached to open the final show for our friends The Felix Culpa though, we thought of no bigger honor to even be on their radar. Our last show was actually with them at the ELB in Rockford, and we still talk about how crowded that show was (the fire marshall had to be called to allow more people in). So we’re getting back together Friday, December 9. It’ll be at The Metro in Chicago and people can purchase tickets for a discounted price here when using the special code “ELOSO”.

Chip: Awesome dude, where can everybody get some El Oso music?

Jim: Why Chip, I’m very glad you asked that! We’ve decided to put up pretty much everything we released on Bandcamp on a pay-what-you-want scale. If people want it for free, they’re more than welcome to it. We’re just happy to be getting everything out there. I’m still shocked that folks want to hear El Oso songs when I do acoustic shows, so we hope everyone can have some fun reliving these old sounds. The Bandcamp address is http://eloso.bandcamp.com.

People can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook, because there’ll be more news as we get closer to the Metro date. We’re very excited to be playing together again and we hope everyone will be able to join us, or at least enjoy the catalog.

Chip: Well, thanks for having this dry ass email conversation with me. TTLY!

Jim: LOL, no problem. Stay classy.

Watch Jim Hanke perform the El Oso song “Julie Ann Fitzpatrick” at Sock Monkey Sound!

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Geronimo!

Geronimo! is giving away their recent 2010 release Fuzzy Dreams FOR FREE! While you won’t get the snazzy CD design with your download, you will get great tracks by some cool dudes. They’re doing this leading up to their FREE SHOW at the Double Door on Tuesday, March 29th with Kid You’ll Move Mountains, Brontosaurus (featuring Nicholas Papaleo), and The Soil & The Sun. Check out the details here.

Download Fuzzy Dreams for FREE! [Mediafire Link]

[UPDATE] You can now download it for FREE on Geronimo’s brand spanking new Bandcamp page!

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The Dismemberment Plan | Photo by Dave Holloway

Eric Axelson of The Dismemberment Plan joins us for this episode of Sock Monkey Sound. The D-Plan have reunited for a series of dates in 2011 to celebrate the vinyl release of Emergency and I on Barsuk Records. Featuring guest host Jim Hanke from Kid, You’ll Move Mountains who will be opening for The Dismemberment Plan on Saturday, Feb. 19th at The Metro in Chicago.

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Jim Hanke of Kid, You

Jim Hanke joins us once again for an epiosde of Sock Monkey Sound. Topics are all over the place as we discuss Middlewest Festival, Justin Beiber, Jim’s history in Milwaukee music scene, awesome Chris Walla records, Maritime, and SALSA! Jim also performs a new unreleased song by his band Kid, You’ll Move Mountains- 10 Million Strong and Growing

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Maritime {promo}

This episode we are joined by Millwaukee band Maritime along with special guest co-host Jim Hanke of Kid, You’ll Move Mountains. Brandon and “The Hankester” ask the tough questions, like – What’s up with Wood and Water? www.maritimesongs.com

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It’s just the Sock Monkey Sound Crew this episode bcuz our scheduled guest decided to have a baby. Pat bares his soul to our audience and cries. More RAMI talk (hopefully the last for a while), X-treme drinking games, and ourselves. Jim Hanke also makes an appearance via voice mail. Make sure you listen at the end of the episode for our extreme commercial.

Featured music by:

Big Science
Strange Arrangement
Robbers
Mike Droho
Son Of Rams
Elections

Intro by Nirvana

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Jim Hanke from Kid, You’ll Move Mountains joins us for some holiday cheer. We discuss his former band El Oso, all ages shows, his current band, and his hatred for Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo. Eww!

Music by
The Rikters
Kelly Steward
fun.
The Duchess and The Duke
Picture Books
Jim Hanke

Intro by Wham!

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