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List of Bands that Should Be on MFT But Are Not, Yet!
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Started by jebbanner. Last reply by CraiGrrr 10 hours ago.

MFT Record Club idea
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Started by jebbanner. Last reply by jebbanner May 12.

Best Albums of 2007
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Started by jebbanner. Last reply by Bill Cameron May 10.

Official Walking Ruins reunion show anticipation thread
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Started by Steve Bouton. Last reply by CraiGrrr 10 hours ago.

Ok, how about some rules for this thing?
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Started by jebbanner. Last reply by Tony Reitz May 9.

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My Old Kentucky Blog

Things You Should Do This Weekend...

Photo Recap : Josh Ritter at The Music Mill : 051508

Pop Dee-Lite : NKOTB Reunion : Not the Right Stuff

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Pop Dee-Lite : Interview with Blondfire

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Copy, Right?

Look for the rainbow in every storm.

Yeah, I'm alive.

Please don't stop the music.

Like the sun, chasing all of the rain away.

There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem (or Hinsdale) next year.

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Welcome to Musical Family Tree- Indiana MP3 Archive and Online Community

Our dear friend LonPaul Ellrich has passed away this week. We have started a page to capture your stories and memories of LP so that we can archive them for his family, in particular his son Rupert. Please take a minute to stop by and tell your story. We will miss you LP, you were deeply loved by all of us.
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Welcome to the new Musical Family Tree, an online community focused on documenting the past and present Indiana music scene. On this site you will find 1000s of MP3s (free) by 100s of current and past bands. Also, there is an amazing amount of user added content including pictures, fliers, stories, videos, etc.

Please create an account (all accounts are subject to approval), add some videos, photos or music and take part in the conversation.

NOTE: Please only post content (MP3s, Videos, Photos), that are by you or that you have permission to post. The purpose of this site is to promote music with Indiana origins so try to stay true to that vision.

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I uploaded more scans into the Fliers and Setlists 2 Album, including a Hello Strangers ticket from a show at Wild Beet, and an invitation to the Groovetruck Christmas show that was the first appearance of the final Margot lineup and the first Hoti show. There is also a scan of Juliana Hatfields lyrics for one of the new Blake Babies songs from their 12/31/99 show at Second Story in Bloomington.

Posted by Chris Menkhaus on May 17th, 2008 at 12:00am — 2 Comments (Add)

Part Five: My career as an engineer, Marvin P, Strippers and Pere Ubu (1985)

I actually wrote this a few weeks ago.. pressed send and got some sort of error. My first instinct today is to write the whole thing in MS-Word and then copy/paste it over here.... I had spent my senior year trying to figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life... well.. maybe that's not true.. maybe I just didn't care. I really can't remember what I was thinking. I took a bunch of college level courses during my last year at Carmel. Scored really high on my SATs.. and began gett… Continue

Posted by Steven Pratt on May 16th, 2008 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Rockit's Famous Pizza-A Business is Reborn or (why didn't I see that coming?)

Never get into business with someone you're not sure about. I always had a sneaking suspicion that Frank was a fraud. In the couple of weeks after Johnny Rockit's opened, evidence began accumulating. Incontrovertible evidence. Mountains of it. I mean, I had always taken Frank's stories with a grain of salt, but my confidence in them containing even a grain of truth was starti… Continue

Posted by BURD on May 15th, 2008 at 10:05pm — 24 Comments (Add)

How MFT Got Started or LP's 2 Gifts

With the passing of LonPaul, I've spent the last week sorta putting everything together. Trying to figure out how everything that "is" came to be. So I wanted to tell the story of how this site got started. Somehow this little project has become something I could never have imagined. So this is really the story of two gifts from LonPaul. I have told some of you part of this story over the past few days. I hadn't connected all the dots until well after the initial shock. So here are some dots. L… Continue

Posted by jebbanner on May 15th, 2008 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Holly's Haunted House: The Enigma of Eighth Street

Many people have been writing about the parties and the wonderful combinations of roommates in their respective houses during the 80’s and 90s. I was never much of a partier and was somewhat of an outsider to most social circles, mainly because I was raising a kid and I worked two jobs for a long while and didn’t really have the opportunity to go out and socialize. The few people who hung out with me know about my very strange house on West 8th Street, just across the street from what is now Gir… Continue

Posted by Holly on May 15th, 2008 at 6:00pm — 9 Comments (Add)

Autumn 1984 part 1 - The Ricky's months

There has been so much crazy great stuff on this site already that I now post with a certain degree of self-awareness. Reading Stephen Canner's Your Real Dad post is like reading some weird parallel history of me if I had been a couple of years older. Totally fascinating. Anyway, onwards to more nostalgia! Note: For reference, the post before this discusses my gradual discovery of hardcore and hearing about this band called Jody Foster's Army, I had just missed seeing them in Texas. Remember,… Continue

Posted by Steve Bouton on May 15th, 2008 at 12:59am — 23 Comments (Add)

the past and the life that keeps being lived

It's been a strange time on the MFT here. I keep trying to get my sea-legs, I guess. In some groups I'm looking backward, pretty far, 20 years or so. In other groups, I'm looking at 10 years. And then in the present life keeps happening, whether I'm ready for it or not. I almost feel like I'm living all these different ages at once. I don't have anything insightful to say. It's just kind of disorienting. I also can't believe how the tone of everything changed so quickly (at least for me). Of co… Continue

Posted by Lesley Brown on May 15th, 2008 at 12:22am — 3 Comments (Add)

The Your Real Dad Story

As mentioned in the last post, in September of 1983 Dave d'Eath and I found ourselves with a gig at a WQAX Street Dance but no band. We'd been improvising sort of post-punk guitar/bass/vocals stuff, sometimes with the help of tape loops and radio static, and had thought that it'd be interesting to do some of this stuff live, so this gig was the perfect chance. I called Nathan Sturm, at that time still living in the dorms at Ashton, pitched the idea to him and he agreed to play drums. On the day… Continue

Posted by Stephen Lee Canner on May 13th, 2008 at 11:30pm — 16 Comments (Add)

On my way to Indiana.

I'm sitting in the airport looking forward to a red eye flight. Another friend of mine named Paul died this year. There was no funeral, no grieving with loved ones. Grief hung in my heart for weeks until I had some dreams that let me say goodbye. This morning I came to school feeling very heavy and alone in my grief.(Tobin my partner knew him but not well) I decided that I didn't have to be. I talked to my principle and found a flight. I have had my share of death these past few years. This year… Continue

Posted by Karen Applegate on May 13th, 2008 at 11:08pm — 2 Comments (Add)

Part 17: Double Date (Fall 1988)

In the fall of 1988 I moved in to a small two-bedroom ground floor apartment in working class Union Square, Somerville, with my friend Bob Weston, the bassist for the Volcano Suns. The apartment was a converted store front, and the floor slanted to such a degree that you could set a marble at the northwest corner of the living room and it would roll at a good clip to the southeast corner. My room abutted the very busy Summer Street, and the family that inhabited the apartment across the narrow a… Continue

Posted by John P. Strohm on May 13th, 2008 at 3:30pm — 11 Comments (Add)