58. An Illuminated Evening

A heads-up for Small Awesome’s next appearance at Illuminated Brew Works with our favourite guitar wizard, Brian Pennington. Sunday Feb 25th @ 5:30. This one’s FREE and early and so you’ll be home by 9:00. Or not! Illuminated allows you to order food to their spot, too.

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57. Post-Thxgvng

Small Awesome plays our maiden voyage at Empty Bottle with our friends Menthol and Dianogah. Dianogah is celebrating the re-release of their excellent catalog on vinyl, and we’re gripped to see Menthol fire up the machine again after a long minute. It’s presented by the fine folks at CHIRP Radio 107.1FM. The Show is Nov 25th–the Saturday after Thanksgiving, and is 21+, $15, doors at 8:00, we kick it off at 9:00.

Here’s a a big mood gibbon to get you in a big mood to buy Tickets Here.

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56. Tone Deaf II

Ahoy! Small Awesome got called up from the bench to play with our dear friends, Deep Tunnel Project for a FREE, ALL AGES afternoon show at Tone Deaf Records this Saturday April 29th. Come on out, buy some records, buy some of our records, and bask in the radiant vibrations of music.

Address is 4356 N Milwaukee Ave. We go on at 3pm, see you then!

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55. BBQ 2022

Well, it’s baaaack. Small Awesome is playing the 2022 PRF BBQ on Saturday July 9th @ 5:00. Another gathering of bands raising money for TPAN’s Aids Awareness organization. Lots going in in the days before and after, so come on out and shout.

Photo by Annie Brinkman
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54. Tone Deaf

Well, let’s try this again! We are stoked to be playing a Matinee show at Tone Deaf Records with the newly minted band, Deep Tunnel Project who are alumni of Tar, Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, Blatant Dissent….and more! Anyway, a FREE afternoon show with some fine fine music coming your way. See your masked faces there.

COVID NOTE: show has been postponed from Sun Jan 16th to Sun Feb 20th.

Please enjoy a half hour with our band, if’n you’d like. Thx!
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53. Kazoo!

HI FRIENDS, Unfortunately, due to Covid Delta intersecting our collective orbit, SMALL AWESOME will NOT be traveling KZ MI for what would have been just a lively dang time. We are vaxxed and have negative tests and are healthly personally, but there is just enough going on in the equation that it makes total sense to remove any x-factors.Welcome to the newest state of our currently liminal world! Please continue to support vaccinations, masking and other guidelines that will allow us all to get to a stable plateau. We’ll just keep working on our next record! You will see us in the future.

Best, Small (Jim) Awesome (Faiz)

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Greetings Michiganders and wayward state neighbors, Small Awesome is playing our first show since [INSERT PANDEMIC HERE] and are excited to set foot in Kalamazoo for a free outdoor show (tip the touring bands, please) Sat Aug 14th. Come on out if’n you can:

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52. PRF BLM

Heads-up, heads. Tomorrow sees the release of the PRF/BLM benefit compilation that features a fresh new Small Awesome song, “Be Nice” among other fresh new things. 37 songs for $10 or more if’n you’d like, with all funds going to Brave Space Alliance and My Block, My Hood, My City. Tomorrow, Bandcamp is waiving all of their fees, so it’s the day to purchase for maximum benefit. Link here!

https://prfblm.bandcamp.com/releases

We had the distinct privilege of being able to record “Be Nice” with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. Steve graciously waived his fees and we can’t thank him enough. Salut!

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51. The Return, Pt. II

Small Awesome is pleased to announce our first Chicago show in an age. We’re playing a FREE show at the Long Room with our buddy Calvin on Sunday Oct 27th. New music, older music, and just music in general is promised.

The custom drink of the eve.
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50. PRF Campout 2019

And we are out from hiding! Nice to be back. Our first course of action is to run off into the woods for the 4th PRF Campout.  We did one a few years back, and it was sublime.  Won’t you run off into the woods of Mattawan, MI and join us? We play Saturday Oct 19th

Photo by DJ Hostettler
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49. Paper Machete at Green Mill


Greetings! Couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that Small Awesome will be playing at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge this Wednesday, Sep 12th as the musical guest for The Paper Machete cocktail hour. We will be book-ending the lefty variety show with a couple short sets. The show is FREE, runs a tight hour and a half, and fills up quick, so get there early. Show is at 6:30 SHARP.

Saw you up there:

If you listen closely, we are singing a chord.
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