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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I did the work so y’all don’t have to.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Made a “meme” for the show tonight. Daddy’s Boy at 9pm, IBW, 6186 N. Northwest Hwy.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Two shows 6 days apart at the same spot what a world. Daddy’s Boy - 4/3 Blank Banker - 4/9 Illuminated Brew Works, get there while you can! ps - did you know I can make extremely low effort flyers for gigs here are two of them.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

One more gig to wrap up the year. Dead Milkmen and instrumental Beasties cover sets. 12/19 at IBW.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Daddy’s Boy hits EA to make a record in 8 days, and you can hear us play the whole thing* in a garage tonight. DM for address. *It’s 11 songs and 18 minutes of music.

Flyer telling people about Daddy’s Boy playing with Erica Dawn Lyle, Robot Civil War, and Techniques in Advanced Sounding in a garage in Chicago tonight, 11/7.

DM for address.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Woke up thinking about this some more. Let’s get into it.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

FL / BB show runs kicking off with a combined show this month at IBW.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

For the real heads - send me your address and I’ll drop one in the mail this weekend.

Bumper stickers that say “If this van’s a rockin’, it’s because I’m crushing double stuf Oreos and listening to the new album by Water Damage.”

The sticker has a clip art image of a minivan on it.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Future Living has one of our patented “1 show in Kzoo/1 show in Chicago” weekends. There will be an ice cream truck in Kalamazoo and nothing in Chicago.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

FUTURE LIVING heads east in August. BLANK BANKER heads west in September.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

DT’s hammer and the truest words spoken and rock and roll.

David Thomas’s hammer at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Two heaters of gigs this next week. DB at the Empty Bottle on Monday, FL at Bell’s on Saturday.

Daddy’s Boy with Nylon and Cel Ray at the Empty Bottle on Monday, 3/24. Free!

Future Living with Beatrix and Shai-Li on Saturday 3/29 at Bell’s in Kalamazoo. $10!

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

DB at the Empty Bottle on 3/24. Free Monday!

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And here’s Dezzy and Peggy making some faces.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Maximum repetition, minimal deviation.”

A screen-grab of a Property Brothers episode entitled “Water Damage”, presumably a tribute to the only band from Austin this century who matters.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Early Future Living record release showdown at the Empty Bottle tonight, alongside Stomatopod and the Goblins. 9pm for those that want to brave the cold. Grab an LP weeks before we put it on the internet!

A box of records by the Chicago/Kalamazoo-based group Future Living.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Test pressing day kicks ass. Love to celebrate Test Pressing Day.

Test pressing for a new album by Future Living.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Heck of a time to get to get to silentco-op.bandcamp.com/merch and grab some LPs. Heavy drone? Gotcha. Experimental tape music? You bet. A record that sounds like Polvo shredding on “Can’t Buy A Thrill”? Yeah, that’s the new BLANK BANKER LP.

A dog sleeping in front of the three Silent Co-Op LPs that are out in the world. She’s dreaming about eating Popeye’s.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Some more photos. The idea was to take one of Jury’s aluminum builds but remove the body aspect of it, simplify the controls (tone knob, no volume), and make it as light/small as possible so you could fit 4 of them in a keyboard case.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Sometimes you have an idea, so you talk to your bud who is building instruments and say “What if we built this thing? Here it is on a napkin” - and then the damn thing actually gets BUILT.

A drone instrument called “the Homer” built by my friend Chris Jury of Washington state.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

What to expect when @puzmi.bsky.social and I play together in Madison this weekend. communicationmadison.com/events/neal-...

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Happy to report that Kim Thayil told the audience at the Geddy Lee book reading to listen to “October File.”

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Seriously, this would look so much more bad ass than a shirt that says “A Tribute to Wendel, the Drum Machine from 1980’s Landmark Album ‘Gaucho.’”

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Fulfilling a dream of Daddy’s Boy playing an all ages matinee at a library tomorrow. Did I mention free donuts and a SOCK DRIVE? 1pm, Saturday.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

It’s Bandcamp Friday. LPs of “Erosional / Depositional” are getting kind words said about them, and the “HIGH FREQUENCY DISEASE” shirt was recently complemented by an audiologist, so I think I’ve done my part. What a day to buy some records! nealmarkowski.bandcamp.com/album/erosio...

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

This is why we keep everything, even the CDs. Also, who ever else has a framed photo of Bruce Anderson has to start a band with me, that’s the rules.

Photo of U2 box set. Framed photos of Bruce Anderson from MX-80 Sound behind it.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Well, they also put the damn moon out here too.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

One reason - these buddies are nowhere to be found.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

“Pretty sure we still have time to record our Suicide version of “Powderfinger” if we want.”

Photograph of the control room of a recording studio in Chicago, IL.

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

New record out today. Link here - nealmarkowskileeketch.bandcamp.com/… Also received two bags on Montreal bagels and a hat, so I’m gonna say it’s a big day for all of us.

Two bags of Montreal bagels and a hat in the passenger seat of my car.

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