Author Archives: Faiz

[wp_bandcamp_player type=”album” id=”3972605101″ size=”grande” bg_color=”#FFFFFF” link_color=”#4285BB”] This is a crude, digital facsimile of the Awesome e.p. by Small Awesome. The limited-run, hand-made, hand-spray-painted CDs (thank you, Beth Wiedner) with hand-cut, hand-silk-screened wood covers (thank you, Jay Ryan) and hand-cut wood-grain … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTi0eL6Xd0 Small Awesome is pleased to announce the release show for our Awesome e.p. on Tax Day. it is our one year anniversary as a live band, and this show should be pretty grand. ***************** Friday April 15th Mike Watt … Continue reading →

Small Awesome has just completed the recording of our debut long-player, Still Awesome. Still Awesome was recorded by the talented Matt Engstrom in the lovely home of Jim Birch and Vanessa Smetkowski between 12/12/09 and 12/12/10 It looks like we … Continue reading →

we presented a round-robin show @ Quenchers Saloon (Fullerton and Western) featuring: Small Awesome Lines and Terminals Transmontane all 3 bands will took turns playing their fine musics over two sets with a break in between. Mark Oster of Union … Continue reading →

We played @ Klas’ Restaurant in Cicero  Saturday, October 15th as part of the 3-day PRF Auktoberfest.  Mr. King took this photo: Jim Birch, Matt Engstrom and Rich Fessler did the A\V for the entire event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvPxPrYSHw Klas was gorgeous.  … Continue reading →

We played a show with two incredible bands, Post Honeymoon and Coins @ the Hideout. Post Honeymoon got the talented Karen Tisel to make the mindblowing flyer: we all had so much fun, there are talks of doing duofest yearly, … Continue reading →

Faiz co-curated an exhibit through Stockyard Institute called Nomadic Studio at the DePaul University Art Museum. Nomadic Studio was a four and a half month exhibit about the artist and non-traditional studio spaces. For the month of July, we are … Continue reading →

We played with the exceptional Crooked Fingers @ Schuba’s it was exciting and fun. Crooked Fingers were also a duo that night. it was a duo of duos.

We played a show at Beat Kitchen on May 20th: thanks to our friends BBGS for setting up a great evening, and a positiviely civilized dinner beforehand.  cheers. while sound checking, we ran through “the Ivy Twines” with John of … Continue reading →

We played our first show at Quenchers in Chicago on 4/15/10. we played with some excellent bands.  there were two flyers: Born on the Floor did not play that night after all. Our good friend, Jim Birch, of the Infrasonics … Continue reading →