What's Used To Be New In 2006?

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December 7, 2006

Just learned that a new Atomic 7 album is coming. ...Something For The Girl With Everything is due in mid-January. Don't know anything else yet.

November 18, 2006

Added a new promo picture to the Pictures page. This one features a photo by Derek Von Essen.

August 24, 2006

Added another new article to the Written Word page. Found an issue of the Nerve from 1986 that has a very, very, strange article/interview. OK, it's not as bizarre as The Songs All Sound The Same, the fake biography of Shadowy Men, but it's close.

August 10, 2006

Added a new article to the Written Word page. Found an issue of the fanzine Cryptic Tymes from 1992 that has a nice interview with Reid Diamond. Check it out!

August 9, 2006

Added an entry for the new live album by The Sadies, In Concert Volume One, which was recorded by Steve Albini (who also recorded Sport Fishin') and Don Pyle.

June 18, 2006

Forest Juziuk sent on some cool stuff for the site. There's a scan of the napkin from the Just Married wedding. The back of it was autographed, so that's on the Etc. page (scroll down a bit). And finally, a cool new poster for the Posters page. Thanks Forest!!

May 30, 2006

Added a new autographed single I found on eBay ... OK, one TED found on eBay for me. Thanks Ted! A scan is on the Etc. page in the Autographed Stuff section.

March 21, 2006

Added info on a new compilation I got on eBay (and thanks to Ted James for the tip). It's a compilation called Rare Instrumentals, Vol. 9, although the Shadowy Men tracks aren't particularly rare, and frankly, this looks like a pirate release. Thanks Ted!

March 14, 2006

Got a nice surprise from in the mail from Sal Cincotta: Three new articles for the Written Word page.
- The first one's a review of Sport Fishin' from issue #4 of Nice Slacks.
- The second is an excerpt from an article about a Ramones concert with Shadowy Men opening. (There are full page scans of the whole Ramones article, but I only transcribed the Shadowy part). The same issue had an advertisement and a great little cartoon from Brian. Those two are in the scans as well as on the Etc. page.
- The last one is the biggie ... a very long (and occasionally strange) interview with Reid Diamond from issue #3 of Nice Slacks.
Thanks Sal!

January 18, 2006

Forgot one of Sean's contributions in yesterday's update. If you go to the Kids In The Hall entry on the Soundtracks page, you'll find links to MP3s of the Shadowy Men music in each show (both the between-sketch links and any appearances in sketches). They're taken from the DVDs, so any applause and dialogue are still there, so some songs will be easier to hear than others. Thanks Sean!

January 17, 2006

Got a couple of updates from Sean Plaisted. One is a much more up-to-date list on Shadowy Men music appearances in the first three seasons of The Kids In The Hall, and the other is an interview Sean did with Derek von Essen via email back in 2003. Thanks Sean!

January 2, 2006

Got an email from former Good Guys singer Ken Priestley, who gave me the scoop on the band, and the story on how the band that were eventually named Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet were briefly a four-piece. Thanks Ken!

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