Welcome to the official website of Essex Chanel (pronounced Ess-sex Sha-nell)! To get started, listen to some music in the Fan Favorites section. Many albums are available for FREE download in the music section. Enjoy! Purchase the latest release Dancing at Weddings or other albums here
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9.27.2008 Videos from the 7.30 Schuba's Show on YouTube!!!!! The whole show from Schuba's is up on Travis's YouTube! To see all the videos click for the show wrap-up here. Make sure to check out the 3 new songs (Skinny Dippin', Already in Heaven, & I Know You Didn't Think About) that are from the upcoming album Love is Proximity. 18 new videos total! And a poem by Thax Douglas! Up at The Summer Salts website you can see Travis playing with his other band, The Summer Salts the same night!
Did you think that was it? Of course not! Uploaded also are mp3s of each song as well as the full show and The Dancing at Weddings section all together so you don't have to piece it together.
9.27.2008 FREE SONG FROM ESSEX CHANEL Another song has been released for The Album is Dead, called "Love Birds." Listen to it and download it here.
9.27.2008 Essex Chanel part of a sampler through Limewire.com! And it's FREE! Essex Chanel is part of a LimeWire.com Disk Sampler: "The latest edition of our Ear to the Ground series is a Free Tour of the current CHICAGO music scene. Playing tour guide this... time around is Matt Rucins, booker for venerable Chicago venue Schuba's. Helping out with some editorial on each artist are our friends at Chicago Innerview, a go-to source for info about Windy City music events. Stuck out there in the middle, Chicago doesn't get the attention it deserves. We hope this collection fixes that."
The Sampler is available for FREEhere. Make sure you download some of the other great artists that are a part of this! They also had a nice little writeup about Essex Chanel - see the press section for more.
7.31.2008 The Schuba's show went great! Thax Douglas wrote a poem about "Get up and dance" and read it! Here's some pictures from Christopher Hiltz. Dancers! 100 FREE sampler CDs! See the show wrap-up here. Videos and audio to come soon. Mentioned on tonybreed.com.
6.17.2008
FREE SAMPLER CD @ NEXT ESSEX CHANEL SHOW! July 30th, Essex Chanel will be playing it's next show. Essex Chanel is offering a FREE sampler CD for the first 100 people in the door. The sampler CD will contain a variety of songs from Essex Chanel’s 7 albums and other projects, as well as some previously unreleased material.
Essex Chanel will be expanding the live full-band set list at this show. They’ll perform many Essex Chanel classic songs, tracks from the upcoming album “Love is Proximity,” as well as doing a full rendition of the self-released LP, “Dancing at Weddings.”
5.9.2008 Get Up and Dance Music Video Released! See it above or on Travis's YouTube. Directed by Charles Borowicz over at AncMovies. Check out the press release here. If you'd like to get a DVD of the video, it's $5 (including shipping) & signed by Travis. There is also a poster available for $10 (including shipping). The 11x17 poster has 160 still shots photographed by Charles Borowicz during the filming of the video. It's pretty sharp. Will also sign the poster upon request.
4.8.2008 Dancing at Weddings is up on Amazon.com! You can now purchase the album digitally!
3.17.2008 Essex Chanel on The SoupyGato Show! Essex Chanel is going to be on The SoupyGato Show #133! The SoupyGato show is a podcast for independent artists. This show will be posted March 23, 2008. There are several ways to listen to the SoupyGato Show – the easiest is to visit the website: www.soupygato.com – or subscribe to the show by visiting here -- and it will download to your Itunes, Ipod, etc.
3.13.2008 Dancing at Weddings CD release show video! Essex Chanel's Dancing at Weddings CD release show Video is complete! You can download hi-res version of all the songs, including the whole show here. You can also see the videos on Travis's YouTube here.
2.28.2008 Essex Chanel on XM Satellite Radio! Xm Radio's Radio Unsigned Radar Report featured Essex Chanel's song American Dream!
2.4.2008 Christopher Hiltz put up some photos from the Schuba's show on his flickr.Thanks Chris!
2.3.2008
Schubas Show Wrap-Up
Thanks to everyone who was able to come out on Friday at Schuba's! The show was a lot of fun! I'd like to thank Mike Rice, Mike Regan, Micah Trivisonno, & Stephen Dranger for helping out and making it possible to play Dancing at Weddings live! Christopher Hiltz took pictures of the show, and Patrick Willi took video, and I'll let you know when the stuff is up. Sid Sower took photos and reviewed the show (see comment below). I'd also like to thank the whole Schuba's staff.
2.3.2008
Essex Chanel on TooMuchRock.com
Sid Sower from TooMuchRock.com has posted some pictures & a review of the Schuba's show. Thanks Sid! See them here.
1.30.2008
Essex Chanel on Gapers Block
Kara Lugar from Gapers Block took some time to review Essex Chanel's album Dancing at Weddings. Read the review in the press section or at the Gapers Block website here.
1.30.2008
Essex Chanel on WXRT
Essex Chanel got it's first play on a major radio station this week! Richard Milne played Essex Chanel's song Get Up and Dance, from Dancing at Weddings, on his show Local Anesthetic.
1.23.2008
New Song for The Album is Dead!
A new song has been released for The Album is Dead called I'll be there (if you want me to). Listen
to it here.
1.2.2008
Essex Chanel Live Videos! Videos from the show at South Union Arts have been added to the video section! You can download them or watch them via YouTube. See all the videos of the show here.
Thanks to Patrick Willi for filming the show!
1.2.2008
My Cat covers Essex Chanel! Stephen Dranger's solo project, My Cat, has covered the Essex Chanel song Man, the Mid-Twenties Suck Sometimes. Listen to the My Cat's recording here, and the original here.
