Check it out!  The Color Bars were just featured on 2 of The Chicagoist's Best of 2011 lists!  Our record Prosopopoeia made their album list and our song Structupoppie Rally made their song list. Thanks to everyone at the Chicagoist for the love!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Record Release this Sat at Rockwood Music Hall!  Our apologies to anyone who was turned away at the door due to the limited seating. Be sure to check us out at Union Hall this Thursday and keep checking this here site (look to your right) for future shows!

The new Color Bars' album, Prosopopoeia is here!  The physical CDs are available for purchase directly from our store page and come in a handsome Digipak featuring several panels of all new artwork by Gerald.  Also included is a detailed booklet with full lyrics and liner notes and a limited edition 18"x24" poster of the Prosopopoeia Blobulus.  To buy the album as a direct download, click here.

Our song "Mustached Messiah" was just featured as one of Under The Radar's picks of the week!  You can download the track for free right here: http://www.undertheradarmag.com/media

The new Color Bars record Prosopopoeia is all done!  It's called Prosopopoeia because despite being an inanimate object, it's very much alive and acts as a friend or loved one often does, at times cruel but ultimately understanding and supportive.  And you can get drunk or stoned with it.  Be sure to order it here on Nov 15 2011!

New Color Bars album almost done (we promise) and it sounds GOOD.  Though we can't claim to have reached the height of artistic mastery that Tommy Seebach has, we feel like we've gotten pretty close.  In case you haven't seen this, you might want to break out the moccasins and faux leather tassles before pressing play...

Whenever people ask about The Color Bars' band name, I usually fumble through a slightly labored explanation of the phenomenon known as synesthesia and the experience of "seeing" sonic textures in music as bars of color with varying thicknesses and lengths, inevitably boring both the person who asked the question and myself in the process.  From now on, I'm just going to tell them to watch this video.  Pay close attention.

Thought this was cool, if a little horrifying.  Kind of wish this guy would animate one of our videos.  Warning: not for young children or for anyone who was forced to piano against their will when they were one.  For everyone else, enjoy.

We give you Double Dream hands...

Hell-Oh.  We'll be unveiling some of the new songs this Fri at Rockwood Music Hall at 8pm.  It's a FREE SHOW, so we DEMAND your presence.   By "demand" we mean we'd really really like it if you came.

From left to right: Gatelin McKray, Slerald Gervine, Spave Delbert, Jim Lorisson.  Photo by Lillian Gish; Gishpix.  Special thanks to Prof. H. L. Neary for letting us ride out the peyote in his psychedelic desert.