LISTEN TO OUR NEW EP! Recorded at with our man Mike Lust. Mastered by our guy Carl Saff. Featuring our pals Mannequin Men on the last track. 5 songs, you can't lose
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
BUY: Crooks and their Castles
Hooray!
Now you can buy a digital copy of Crooks and their Castles!
See you all TONIGHT at our album release show the Empty Bottle, where you can buy a CD.
OH AND WHAT'S THAT?
For a limited time only, ALL of our other releases, namely Apples and Sunshine and The Advice EP are FREE!
See you all TONIGHT at our album release show the Empty Bottle, where you can buy a CD.
OH AND WHAT'S THAT?
For a limited time only, ALL of our other releases, namely Apples and Sunshine and The Advice EP are FREE!
Friday, November 4, 2011
Black Friday FREE DOWNLOAD: "Life is Money"
Black Friday comes early! We're thrilled to share a free download of "Life is Money" from our upcoming release, "Crooks and their Castles."
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Monday, August 8, 2011
Welcome Chicago Mixtape Friends!
Hey friends! Did you come from THE CHICAGO MIXTAPE??
We are thrilled to be included in Casey's fantastic local music newsletter.
Please come see us August 14th at the Hideout (with My Goodness (from Seattle) and our friends and fellow Chicagoans ManbirdBelly) and be sure to check out these NEW SONGS!
Life is Money by bullyinthehallway If I can't have my cake and eat it too... then I'll have pie. by bullyinthehallway
We are thrilled to be included in Casey's fantastic local music newsletter.
Please come see us August 14th at the Hideout (with My Goodness (from Seattle) and our friends and fellow Chicagoans ManbirdBelly) and be sure to check out these NEW SONGS!
Life is Money by bullyinthehallway If I can't have my cake and eat it too... then I'll have pie. by bullyinthehallway
Monday, May 10, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Pick Up Our New EP "Advice"!
Our New EP "Advice" is now streaming on our website and myspace. It will be available for download on April 17 - Record Store Day 2010!
Links:
Download our new album here...Our Website
Our Space
Get your tickets for our May 29th show now before the All Ages event sells out! Smoking Popes/Shot Baker/bully in the hallway TICKETS!
The new Advice EP by bully in the hallway includes the tracks:
Advice
Magnanimous Corpses
Famous Young Monsters
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Advice EP is Streaming Now!
Our New EP "Advice" is now streaming on our website and myspace. It will be available for download on April 17 - Record Store Day 2010!
Links:
Our Website
Our Space
The new Advice EP by bully in the hallway includes the tracks:
Advice
Magnanimous Corpses
Famous Young Monsters
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Behind the Apples vol 1.4 - "Overdubs"
So you may have heard that we're heading back to Phantom Manor to record a few new songs for a digital single/ep project (yet unnamed), but before that I wanted to share a few more notes about the recording process behind Apples and Sunshine.
After we scheduled and completed our first studio blocks, we found ourselves facing a delay that was unavoidable: Simon needed surgery to remove his tonsils, and as a result we had to spread out our scheduling over the spring and summer. We completed vocals and overdubs during this period and here are some of my favorite overdub highlights:
"Infernal Machines"
This song has a distinctive intro that was created practically on the fly in the studio. Mike and I had isolated some feedback that was a bit abrasive as well as in key with the song. We looped it a few times, and then had Kennedy come in and read some passages of a Winston Churchill speech in his best (and stunningly accurate) Churchill voice. So yea, that's Churchill...
"Another Lover"
This song had a guest musician who during the overdubbed guitar solo who was unfortunately unheralded until now: Francie the dog. Francie, along with Amanda, Alexis had come to visit the studio and provide some great homemade tacos to a hungry band. During a romp around the studio, our four legged friend decided to show off her guitar skills. If you listen carefully at the end of the first solo, you will hear a distinctive 'screeeaatcchhhhhh.' This was confidently played by Francie who popped in the control room, pounced on my guitar and slapped the strings with her paw as I was sustaining the final note. This grand finale topped off what became the best take of the solo.
guest guitarist
"Crossing the Bar"
"Experience by Osmosis"/ "I've been meaning to say"
Austin Mayer was my roommate at the time, and is a very talented and well-studied Jazz musician and saxophonist. We wrote the song "Experience by Osmosis" originally with me on piano and Kennedy on guitar, but that never translated well live (we've never used a piano on stage). When we brought it to the studio, I still wanted to keep a little piano in the bridge of the song in the bridge and we thought "wouldn't it be funny if we had some sax on here?" The bride was a half-time version of the same verse chords, initially featuring jazzy major 7th piano chords of the same progression, accentuated by Jannotta's loose drumming which made it seem slower than the rest of the song. I shared the rough demo with Austin who then wrote his own melody at home, later to come to the Manor and lay down his solo in about 4 takes. We were floored - it really added a new dimension to the song, as well as a nice surprise not only to people who knew Austin, but we hoped to music fans in general. Before he left, we had him try out some solos at the end of "I've been meaning to Say." It was late at this particular session, and we were getting tired but Austin's playing really seemed to fire up Mike who did a great job at getting Austin to play the wild string of notes that appear at the very end of the album.
So hopefully reading some of this will make listening to these tracks a bit more fun for you. Remember, you can download our album at Bullyinthehallway.com - you can download it for free or name your price! More updates about upcoming recording soon.
Billy
Overdubbin' !!
"Steal the Wind It's Free"
This song's bridge was initially a samba-style beat when it was written and worked out in our North Avenue sweatbox practice spot. By the time it made it to the studio, the bridge was a lot more fun - Aaron had written a fantastic syncopated bass lick and Jannotta had broken down the beat into a much more powerful hip hop style. In the studio, Jannotta and Kennedy (under the direction and vision of Jannotta) added shakers, clicks and djembes. As a final touch, I took my Ibanez delay and whammy bar to add that wirey guitar effect. Jannotta manually twisted the delay time knob to increase and magnify the choppy decay, which was especially present during the final few seconds of the song.
"Infernal Machines"
This song has a distinctive intro that was created practically on the fly in the studio. Mike and I had isolated some feedback that was a bit abrasive as well as in key with the song. We looped it a few times, and then had Kennedy come in and read some passages of a Winston Churchill speech in his best (and stunningly accurate) Churchill voice. So yea, that's Churchill...
"Another Lover"
This song had a guest musician who during the overdubbed guitar solo who was unfortunately unheralded until now: Francie the dog. Francie, along with Amanda, Alexis had come to visit the studio and provide some great homemade tacos to a hungry band. During a romp around the studio, our four legged friend decided to show off her guitar skills. If you listen carefully at the end of the first solo, you will hear a distinctive 'screeeaatcchhhhhh.' This was confidently played by Francie who popped in the control room, pounced on my guitar and slapped the strings with her paw as I was sustaining the final note. This grand finale topped off what became the best take of the solo.
guest guitarist
"Crossing the Bar"
Kennedy arranged and recorded this song all by himself. The lyric is an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem of the same name. He played the song solo with only an acoustic guitar and his voice in two perfect takes. He then added his own arrangement of harmonica, resulting in what I feel is one of the most moving tracks on the album.
"Experience by Osmosis"/ "I've been meaning to say"
Austin Mayer was my roommate at the time, and is a very talented and well-studied Jazz musician and saxophonist. We wrote the song "Experience by Osmosis" originally with me on piano and Kennedy on guitar, but that never translated well live (we've never used a piano on stage). When we brought it to the studio, I still wanted to keep a little piano in the bridge of the song in the bridge and we thought "wouldn't it be funny if we had some sax on here?" The bride was a half-time version of the same verse chords, initially featuring jazzy major 7th piano chords of the same progression, accentuated by Jannotta's loose drumming which made it seem slower than the rest of the song. I shared the rough demo with Austin who then wrote his own melody at home, later to come to the Manor and lay down his solo in about 4 takes. We were floored - it really added a new dimension to the song, as well as a nice surprise not only to people who knew Austin, but we hoped to music fans in general. Before he left, we had him try out some solos at the end of "I've been meaning to Say." It was late at this particular session, and we were getting tired but Austin's playing really seemed to fire up Mike who did a great job at getting Austin to play the wild string of notes that appear at the very end of the album.
So hopefully reading some of this will make listening to these tracks a bit more fun for you. Remember, you can download our album at Bullyinthehallway.com - you can download it for free or name your price! More updates about upcoming recording soon.
Billy
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Our Website Bullyinthehallway.com is LIVE!
If you don't have our album yet you can download it here for whatever price you think is fair...
Download Apples and Sunshine
Check it out! And let us know what you think!
Thanks Gang!
Bullyinthehallway.com
Friday, January 22, 2010
::FREE OUR MUSIC::
Our album is out! download it for free!
DOWNLOAD APPLES AND SUNSHINE FOR FREE HERE
Review it!
Tell us what you think!!!!
Listen and Share with Everyone!!!
Bit Torrent That Ish!
DOWNLOAD APPLES AND SUNSHINE FOR FREE HERE
Review it!
Tell us what you think!!!!
Listen and Share with Everyone!!!
Bit Torrent That Ish!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
limited album promo at tomorrow's show!
Only 50 copies! Free! See you at Empty Bottle tomorrow night!
(designed by Justin James)
Thursday, March 29, 2007
We love our Myspace Friends
We are all on the same team here!Hello,
Bully digital HR division has been set up at www.myspace.com/bullyinthehallway
Visit and be our friend!
Listen to our songs!
Read our thoughts (there as well as here)!
Hooray!
- Bully
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