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Artist The Bitter Tears

Chicago's The Bitter Tears seek out the fault lines in humanity's soul and build teetering vaudevillian playhouses across them. Live, the band often dresses and acts like a gang of surrealist train-hoppers, blurring cracked, cryptic humor into the abyss-gazing lyrics and half-off-the-rails twang of the songs on this year's Jam Tarts In The Jakehouse. At a certain point, The Bitter Tears almost defy a crowd to discern what's funny and what's just plain dark. 

Updated 11/02/2009

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