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Musician and illustrator Archer Prewitt was created and raised in Frankfort, KY, heading to attend artwork college in Kansas Town. There he co-founded the Coctails, a now-legendary quartet whose eclectic, Martin Denny-inspired kitsch-pop predated the lounge revival motion by a great half-decade; the music group relocated to Chicago in 1991, …
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THE OCEAN and Cake certainly are a post-rock supergroup of sorts, made up of luminaries through the Chicago independent scene. The music group can be led by vocalist/guitarist Sam Prekop, who, alongside bassist Eric Claridge, was an alumnus from the often brilliant Shrimp Fishing boat. From then on group’s dissolution, …
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Progenitors from the lounge revival motion, kitsch-pop symbols the Coctails formed in Kansas Town in 1989; producing their debut at a location memorial clad in coordinating yellow tuxedos filled with maroon bowties. The group (performers/multi-instrumentalists Archer Prewitt, Tag Greenberg, John Upchurch, and Barry Phipps) forged a distinctive, eclectic sound celebrating …
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