It’s The Ike Reilly Podcastination!

Where's that boy's goddamn medicine?

By Blurt Staff

Ike Reilly, indie rock raconteur whose new album, "Hard Luck Stories," drops digitally November 24, has planned a special weekly podcast series.  As a lead-up to the release of the album, Reilly will be hosting "Where's my Goddamn Medicine?," which will be available for free download beginning TODAY, October 26^th on Reilly's website: www.ikereilly.net. It will be broadcast weekly from Libertyville, IL.

"Where's My Goddamn Medicine?" will preview many of the tracks from "Hard Luck Stories," of course, but Reilly hastens to add it will give fans a quirky introduction to the "friends, enemies, bankers, drug dealers, real estate agents, cheerleaders, high school students, teachers and coaches, family members, offspring, and all the other fucking freeloaders that live with me."  

Prior to the album release, Reilly will be appearing on November 9^th at the Improv Olympic "Armando Diaz Experience" as the "monologist" for the evening.  The cast will then improv off of Reilly's stories/songs for the show.  "Armando Diaz Experience" is iO's longest-running show and a landmark of comedy in Chicago.  Reilly will also be visiting the Improv Olympic Theater every Wednesday through November 18^th as part of the "TJ and Dave" show, where he will be kicking off each show by performing several tunes and telling stories.  Long-form improv masters TJ and Dave have been using Reilly's music to open their weekly shows for a long time.

Tour dates for Hard Luck Stories are tba for 2010, but he and his band The Ike Reilly Assassination will do a Thanksgiving Eve show Nov. 25 at First Avenue in Minneapolis and then a Chicago gig (Liberty Hall) on Dec. 11.