The Deadly Syndrome

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The four members of The Deadly Syndrome are Chris Richard, William Etling, Mike Hughes, and Jesse Hoy. The first time I met Mike from The Deadly Syndrome, he was throwing up on my couch. He had been out drinking the night before with Will, tore the head off a paper mache dummy, wrestled it across a stranger’s front lawn and then stumbled up to my house (I was living with Will and Jesse, and soon Chris would move into the garage) where he puked all over everything and passed out. There was a lot of that sort of thing when The Deadly Syndrome first got together. Everyone was running around having fun, working shitty jobs, and writing music all the time. The house was drowning in instruments. There were cheap old organs that somebody picked up off Craigslist. Guitars, pianos, keyboards, violins, all broken down and beat up, just laying around in case somebody needed them. The weeks started to revolve around shows. You know how whenever someone says, “You should check out my friend’s band?” how your immediate reaction is “are you saying that just because they’re your friend?” I never had that problem. The guys attacked the stage; the audience lost their minds. Their shows were like festivals (with lots of cardboard cut outs). It was a wonderful couple of years. And then it stopped being fun. It’s a cliché to say that youth is fleeting. But it’s true. And it’s hard to separate youth from rock and roll. That’s not to say The Deadly Syndrome are a bunch of geriatrics, they aren

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The Ortolan

LIVE [Mondays (in Spaceland) - Vol. 5 June 18th, 2007]

All in Time

Nolens Volens

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CMJ 2007: The Bands, The Music, The City, Vol.1

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Indie/Rock Playlist: June (2008)

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Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: April (2010)

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Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: Best of 2010

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Gossip Girl

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Live Mondays Vol. 5 (In Spaceland - June 18th, 2007)

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Indie/Rock Playlist: June (2012)

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The Deadly Syndrome

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