About

Shalloboi started in 2001 as an alias for Tyler Ritter to play music under while he was still living in his hometown of Kansas City. After spending three years living in Portland, OR, Tyler and Stefanie relocated to Chicago in 2005. Shortly before this move, Stefanie officially joined the band (her first show was at the Knitting Factory in L.A., playing bass and singing).

Several albums and LPs have been recorded and released in the band's history: Blue-Eyed (2004), Invisible Against the Sun (2005), Petals (2006), Learning How to Crawl (2007), Down to Sleep (2008), Dandelions (2009), and All Hope is Blind (2010).

Two more records have been forming through recording sessions since the departure of the strings trio- one a single LP which will be called 'lost forever' and the other a sprawling double LP (which has been in the works intermittently since as early as Spring of 2006) that weaves 60s garage influences into their sound called 'chinese blue.'

Their most ambitious release to date is a series of 7" vinyl singles for which this Kickstarter project is raising the funds to release.