As I squeezed myself in between people at the music room at Schubas on Saturday night, I wished I had gotten to the last Tomorrow Never Knows show just a little earlier. Despite being only 10 minutes late, I had managed to miss part of the first band's set, and they were pretty fucking good. My friend remarked that they were like Beirut (with maybe a little bit of bump and grind), and I couldn't figure out why the vocalist sounded so familiar (I finally figured out that he reminded me of the guy from Chin Up Chin Up.). Anyway, I was enjoying them immensely, but they weren't selling music at the show, and so upon my return home on Monday night (I stayed in the city so I could watch both halves of "Che" in Lincoln Park monday afternoon) I googled Vacations Band. And then Vacations tomorrow never knows. I did find out that, not only is the vocalist from Chin Up Chin Up, so is the entire band. Still, I could not track down a web presence. Now, I'm a pretty patient fellow, but I really have no longer to make my way to the third google page looking for your band's website. For all I know, Vacations are too new to have a website (which seems like a bad business desicion now that the web is everything), but even so, in a search-engine driven world a band's name needs to be search-enginable. Vacations and Church (a Portland band that I spent hours tracking down and finally found here.) are actually pretty great names for bands; I just have trouble locating them among the thousands of listings for church and vacations that pop up on google.

The morale of the story? When you name your band, do a google search.