Indie imprint Curbside Splendor releases its first cassingle during Words + Music, October 16 at the Empty Bottle.
by Megan Thielking
Victor David Giron was a student at the U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign in the 90s when he cooked up the name Curbside Splendor for a hypothetical garage band. Now Giron operates a rising indie imprint under that name, and as its president and publisher he's preserved the press's musical roots (however tenuous), releasing books this year by Chicago band dudes Tim Kinsella and Brian Costello, and organizing a much-anticipated oral history due out next fall about the first 20-plus years of the Empty Bottle, where this reading/concert goes down.…[ Read more ]