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January 28th, 2008

Happy New Year! The RedRoom Cinema record got a nice review here on punknews.org I've been keeping busy teaching, working on some records, and writing songs with my band. More about that soon.

June 2nd, 2007

Andy Bosnak is kicking some tail at Playground Studio!
Serengeti - chaotic deconstruction/reconstruction. Andy Bosnak and Serengeti are crafting a wild record. Hip Hop with lots of sonic details. Tons of fun and it will soon be finished. Look for a release from the fine folks at Bonafyde.
The Lavellas new record is freaking Andy out. In a good way. The guys are all very proud to watch this record take shape. Each session is going very well. They're so happy with how it's coming along. They've tracked 15 songs and are now in the overdub stages. vocals, guitars, and fun stuff.
Eschatol made a great 4 song ep in two days! Mathy intricate post rock with unique sounds. holy !@! I posted 2 new songs on the music page.
Balloonatic- ep is done. ROCK with a great combination of classic and modern influence. The love comes through in the music.

April 2nd, 2007

We’re keeping busy with great music at The Playground Studio.

Serengeti! What a crazy bunch! Throw together an experienced hip-hop artist with great lyrics, two indie rock dudes writing music. Oh, then add Pablo - some bass player from the world of experimental, house, industrial, latin, and jazz. You end up with one of the most unique records I’ve worked on. ‘Marry Your Affair’ has been tons of fun and it will soon be finished. Look for a release from the fine folks at Bonafyde.

Eschatol will soon grace The Playground with beautiful heavy post rock. I’ve recently become a big fan of this band. Most of the band members’ names start with J. ?!@#@%^*? They are unique and they have something to say, but use almost no vocals. This is what made them win the free weekend of recording at Playground. I can’t wait to start working with this group.

The Lavellas are coming in to start their new full-length record on April 6^th, 2007. Their new songs are very impressive. These three are really stepping it up for this one. I’m very excited to get to work on this one. Cool, trippy, spacey, pop. ROCK!

Redroom Cinema’s new record turned out great and will be released soon. This is a beautiful dynamic record. Pretty post rock that’s mostly instrumental. I posted their song ‘At Long Last…’ on the music page.

The guys from Balloonatic are  kick ass and it really shows in their sincere songs. Their ep has been a blast to work on and it’s really coming together. Bold, dope, unique rock and roll with a variety of modern and classic influence.

The Bones Brothers record ‘Life, Death, and Fair Weather Friends’ is about to be released. This is a classy rock record from some fine people.

I finished a fine ep filled with hot rod rock from The Bonneville Flats. ‘Fifteen to One’ turned out great and I will post a song soon.

Beautiful Chaos. This is my Celestial life at The Playground!#%$^%**

Today I will finish the forthcoming ep from Bonneville Flats. This is going to be an elegant demo. So fun to work with these guys on their music.

More kick ass projects coming my way. I’m excited to announce that I will be doing a lot of work on the forthcoming full length from The Lavellas. We are now starting preproduction and this is going to be a stunning record. I can’t wait to start working with these fine folks again.

Chaos can be beautiful! A great example is Serengeti. This is four kick ass people with different voices coming together to make some dope unique music. I’m so fortunate to be recording and co-producing  the new record by Serengeti. It’s gonna be off the heeeeezy!#%** Playground and Serengeti rock sound.

Holy !@#!%**! Balloonatic will be with me at Playground to start their new ep. I can’t wait to be with these guys again. HUGE rock beauty from this power trio. It’s been years and they bring it more than ever. Such sweethearts.

The Timeout Drawer is writing some kick ass new material. We are playing a show soon!

the timeout drawer

March, 6 2007 at Subterranean (a great stage to play on)

2011 North Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60647

w/ Dalek and Destructo Swarmbots

http://www.timeoutdrawer.com

TUE 3/06/2007

DOORS @ 8:30 PM | SHOW @ 9:00 PM | 18 & OVER

TICKETS: $8.00 Adv. / $10.00 Dos.

DALEK

DESTRUCTO SWARMBOTS 

THE TIMEOUT DRAWER

There are more great projects headed toward Playground Studio. I’ll let you know soon. Lots of love – Andy B

January 28th, 2007 - The Redroom Cinema mixes were finished last week and this record is beautiful! When it's mastered  I will post some songs on the music page. Bonneville Flats came in to Playground on January 20th and 21st to record a super cool hotrod rock and roll demo. Classic sounds and unique entertaining songwriting. Bones Brothers will come to Playground this weekend to finish mixes and master their full length record. It will be fun to hang out with these guys again. We'll finish their classic rock-influenced record and it's going to be super dope!

Serengeti will  be at Playground  February 9th -11th to start recording a rock, hip hop record. Or whatever you want to call it. I call it Serengeti. I call it good writing. They have something to say. They think. It's going to be cool. I'm really excited about producing this record with my friends.

I'm having lots of fun writing some kick ass rock songs with The Timeout Drawer. I'm still teaching labs for audio students at Music Industry Workshop.

see you soon. Lots of love - Andy B

January 5th, 2007 - Happy New Year! My holidays were awesome. Now the holidays are over. Back to work!

HOLY !@!.@!.$&*!! The Playground

The Playground Recording Studio is fully back up and running. If you are at all familiar with us then you can imagine our excitement to be back at it full time. Keith Cleversley and I are making some additions to our gear and yes, the studio is even more dope.

Red Room Cinema mixes turned out great. Mostly instrumental (I know) emotional post rock. It's a beautiful record from some beautiful people.

Right now I'm mixing the Bones Brothers record. These guys are so awesome to work with. Lots of fun and laid back and tasteful. The mixes are going very well and we are adding some super cool overdubs. It's going to be an elegant classic rock record.

Serengeti will soon be in to do a rock, hip hop record. Or whatever you want to call it. I call it Serengeti. I call it good writing. They have something to say. They think. It's going to be cool. I'm really looking forward to producing this record with my friends.

Bonneville Flats will soon grace Playground with their old-timey, classic rock and honey tones. First a demo. Later a full length.

More big projects in the works for the near future.

I can fucking make anything happen!

Lots of love - andy b

December 5th, 2006 - Wow! Lots of big exciting news in my life. Just a glimpse for now. Keith Cleversley and I have fully re-opened The Playground Studio. Dreams are coming true! I recorded some vocals and guitars at Playground last weekend with Bones Brothers. We used our new Coles 4038 for Joe's vocals and the tracks sounded great! I also helped sing some backup vocals; gang-style. One of their songs needed organ, so I played that. Cool! The Bones Brothers record is really taking a nice shape. Red Room Cinema will soon be back at Playground to finish mixing their LP. These mixes are sounding great and will soon get even better. We have been so busy doing lots of great projects at Playground. More news soon.

October 19, 2006 - I'm excited to start mixing the new Red Room Cinema record at Playground. We will be working October 27th and 28th. The Bones Brothers record got off to a good start.

August 8, 2006 - I put a couple new Quanta songs up on the music page. Check them out. 3 good friends of mine who make up a cool band. Quanta had me mix and master their music at The Playground.

June 18, 2006 -

Check this out!
Thursday June 22nd, 2006- MPShows.com presents Don
Caballero with The Timeout Drawer, Bring Back the
Guns, and Black September. 9pm tickets are $10
The Note 1565 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, phone
773.489.0011
http://www.thenotechicago.com/
http://www.timeoutdrawer.com/
http://www.myspace.com/timeoutdrawer
Come support your friends in The Timeout Drawer at a
cool show. Come support live local music in Chicago.
What else do you really have to do?

May 28, 2006 -

'Facing Life: The Retrial of Evan Zimmerman' will be on A&E on Monday June 5, 2006. Tim Rutili (Califone, Red Red Meat) and I spent lots of long days working on the soundtrack for this interesting documentary.

The Timeout Drawer is playing a show in Chicago Friday June 9th, 2006 at Subterranean. We are playing with You Will Die and Bear Claw. Subterranean is at 2011 W. North Avenue in  Chicago, Il. The rock show starts at 10pm. Tiger Cried Beef sessions are going great. In two days we've got 4 songs all tracked and ready to mix. 

May 16, 2006 -

The Timeout Drawer tour was lots of fun. Since we returned home, I've kept busy mixing, mastering and recording projects. I'm about to finish a demo with a cool new Chicago band called Quanta. We have been mixing and mastering at Playground Studio. May 13 and 14 I did some more recording with Manishevitz for their forthcoming LP. I started teaching music recording and production labs at Music Industry Workshop. Teaching recording students is a blast! Tiger Cried Beef will be here in Chicago May 26th through May 29th to work on their new EP.

April 5, 2006 -

The Timeout Drawer has a new EP that will be available April 17, 2006. 'Alone' It's six awesome songs plus a cool video. Thanks to The Consumers Research and Development Label for another great release! We have shows coming up to support this record. Come have fun and rock with us!

Apr 14 2006 9:30P
 Beat Kitchen Chicago, IL
Apr 18 2006 10:00P
 Springwater Nashville, TN
Apr 19 2006 10:00P
 Caledonia Lounge Athens, GA
Apr 21 2006 10:00P
 New World Brewery Tampa Bay, FL
Apr 25 2006 10:00P
 New Brookland Tavern Columbia, SC
Apr 27 2006 10:00P
 The Velvet Lounge Washington, DC
Apr 28 2006 8:00P
 The Five Spot Philadelphia, PA
Apr 29 2006 10:00P
 The Knitting Factory Brooklyn, New York, NY

March 13, 2006 -

I added 2 of The Lavellas tracks on the music page. The Lavellas - 3 good guys. Together they make up a really cool band. I mixed and mastered their latest EP and will work with them more this year to complete their forthcoming LP. Check them out!

Last month I finished working on the soundtrack 'Facing Life:The Retrials of Evan Zimmerman' with Tim Rutili. This will air on A&E this year. I'm working on getting some more film soundtracks to work on.

The Timeout Drawer will tour in  April and May to support our new EP 'Alone'. We'll kick off our tour in Chicago at Beat Kitchen on April 14. Then we head south, east, and north. See ya!

February 3, 2006 - The Timeout Drawer has a show on Wednesday February 8, 2006 at Abbey Pub in Chicago, IL. You should come. It will be rockin' fun.  I've been working very hard recording and mixing a documentary soundtrack with Tim Rutili. It's a great story and will be on A&E. I've found that I like mixing soundtracks even more than music alone. Bring me your soundtrack project! Have you seen me on myspace?

January 11, 2006 - Happy New Year! We just finished The Lavellas EP at Playground Studio. It turned out real good. I'll post a song to the music page soon. The Timeout Drawer is playing with Paucity at Ten Bells in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday January 14, 2006. It will be rockin'!!@$#%#**  Speaking of The Timeout Drawer - you can see the video at the XLR8R site. I'm looking forward to doing some more work with Tim Rutili of Califone soon. We will be recording and mixing a soundtrack for a documentary.

November 22, 2005 - The Timeout Drawer show in East Lansing went great. We had lots of fun and hope to go play at Mac's Bar again in 2006.

November 15, 2005 - The Timeout Drawer is playing  at Mac's Bar in East Lansing, Michigan. Fri.Nov.18:  RAINER MARIA(polyvinyl), THE TIMEOUT DRAWER, Gaffa(from Germany), The Minor Fall

November 13, 2005 - The Timeout Drawer tour was awesome. See our tour diary at http://www.myspace.com/timeoutdrawer.

                                - I just got finished recording Califone for four days at Clava Studio. Califone's new record is going to be hot! It was a pleasure and an honor to work with these talented great humans again.

                                 - Wednesday November 16th Manishevitz will be at Clava with me at the console for two days. This will complete the tracking process for their forthcoming record.

                                 - I'm looking forward to finishing mixes with the Lavellas on November 29th. We're working at Playground Studio to complete their forthcoming EP.

October 2, 2005 - I'm going on the road with The Timeout Drawer soon. Here's some of our show dates

10/14/05 // Chicago IL // Reckless Records // 5:30pm // In-store performance
10/14/05 // Chicago IL // WNUR // 11:30pm // Chris and Jason DJ the NEW RECORD
10/15/05 // Chicago IL // Empty Bottle // Record Release Show. w/ Sterling
10/19/05 // Grand Rapids, MI // Ten Bells
10/20/05 // Detroit, MI // Magic Stick // w/ the Warlocks
10/21/05 // Columbus, OH // Oldfield's On High
10/23/05 // Pittsburgh, PA // Garfield Artworks
10/26/05 // Cambridge, MA // TT the Bears
10/27/05 // New York, NY // Tonic
10/31/05 // Washington, DC // Velvet Lounge w/ ilyAIMY, Even So, Nefrit El-Or
11/01/05 // Chapel Hill, NC // Nightlight
11/03/05 // Athens, GA // Caledonia Lounge
11/04/05 // Tampa, FL // New World Brewery
 

August 25, 2005 - I'm excited that I'll be doing some engineering on the upcoming new Manishevitz record.

                            The Corners sessions went really well. Great fun.

                            We will continue mixing The Lavellas project next week.

August 14, 2005 - Last week I started mixing some songs for  The Lavellas upcoming EP.  It's neat space pop rock.

                            We're off to a good start at The Playground.

                            I'm excited to start work on an EP with the band The Corners. This week we will be working at

                            Clava Recording Studio. The Corners are a cool band. Art pop inspired by classic rock.

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