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Here's a new and very thorough interview with Leslie http://www.justincaseradio.com/prog-topics/prog-interviews/55-leslie-hubt-bydistrict-97-usa

For the holidays, we've slashed prices on our T-Shirts by 20% to just $15.99, AND all CD orders will ship signed!  This offer is good through December 17th.  ADDITIONALLY, ALL ORDERS OF $17.99 OR MORE WILL RECEIVE A FREE DOWNLOAD CODE FOR "LIVE AT ROSFEST": http://district97.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-rites-of-spring-official-soundtrack.  Just go to our online store at http://district97.net/store to take advantage.

We're unabashedly jumping on the Black Friday bandwagon and signing all CD orders that are made today: Friday, November 23rd.  It's a great gift for that music fan in your life with discriminating tastes!

Check out this cool interview with our guitarist, Jim Tashjian: http://puregrainaudio.com/interviews/gear-review-district-97-guitarist-and-backing-vocalist-jim-tashjian-on-his-suhr-m1-guitar#.UFScqLvd5k5.facebook

Check the Merch page, we are now taking pre-orders for the "Trouble With Machines" CD/DVD set, and there are a number of cool ways you can get it. We also have new shirts in!

HUGE NEWS!!!! John Wetton will be joining us as a special guest for our performance at Reggie's Rock Club on April 29th, we're so excited! John will be performing on our song, "The Perfect Young Man", as well as a surprise from his legendary back catalogue. Crimson fans are not gonna wanna miss this..More info on the shows Page. Tickets are here.

Our new CD "Trouble With Machines" is in the mixing stages, and Mr. John Wetton seems pretty excited about it! Here's what he had to say on his website about his contribution to it: Fans of this ' ere website, Chicago's District 97, and prog music in general will be delighted to hear D97's new album is at mixing stage---I just received a first mix from Jonathan this morning. My tenor is a foil to Leslie's innocent in TPYM, a prog/opera extravaganza. I turn out to be an utter cad---far from the perfect young man (the Brit cast as villain again?), I am ghastly.

OK, the sound quality's rough AND it's way ahead of the visual, but here's Kansas' frontman Steve Walsh introducing us on 9/23/2011 in Elkhart, IN:

Hard to believe, but CalProg was a year ago today, truly a seminal moment in D97 history. The entire show is available for download on Bandcamp. Our donation program (wherein you get your name in the liner notes of the new CD and other cool gifts), will be wrapping up once we finish the new CD, so act soon if you'd like to partake in that. Thanks to all who have thus far, you've been a HUGE help! Here's a video from that performance:

A sneak peek at what we're up to in the studio, at work on the next CD: