We have a record coming out. Our debut. What's it like? Well, I have been looking for a description that would do it justice. Now, people say all sorts of things. Words, and words, and words, strung together, forming sentences, ideas. Journalists, avid fans, newsmakers, those checker-shirted hipsters at 'Leading On-Line Music Magazine.' It makes people smile, buy records, and dream. All is well. But these reviews do not often give full credit, or semblance for that matter, to the piece of music at hand. How can you know what La Scala's debut record is really like? How can you get the true essence, before you put your well earned money into the plough hardened hands of yet another Chicago band with Eastern European influnces?

Luckily, I have found a string of words, together, in a sentence, as they call it, that struck me off my chair. It fit perfectly. And who put these words to the collective consciousness? Why, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, of course! While in the practice of one of their daily harassments of the United States military in the Strait of Hormuz, one of their members, a learned man no doubt, put forth this phrase via a choppy radio transmission:

"I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes."

And there you have it. La Scala's The Harlequin, in words.

Our record comes out at our performance this Saturday, January 19th, at the Empty Bottle Chicago, with our good friends Bang Bang. It then hits stores/iTunes in late February. Thank you.