Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Chicago Reader examines influential local act the Fuckin' Boneshakers - the band that spawned Vee Dee, Nobunny and Daily Void. • JBTV devoted an entire show to Chicago rockers Local H , which includes pulling out a ton of classic Local H videos. • What's the impact of DMB's Caravan fest, besides the [...]
Chicago garage-poppers Tyler John Tyler are dropping their debut full-length next Tuesday, October 26, and we've got your first listen. Tyler John Tyler formed early last year and features vocalist and guitarist Rebecca Valeriano-Flores, bassist Nathan Jerde (from The Ponys) and drummer Tom Cassling (from Daily Void). They recorded their new album last May at Strobe Sessions with help from The Ponys' Jered Gummere, and it will be released on Slow Fizz Records , which will also be the label's first ever release. Here's "Pleasentries", one of two singles from Tyler [...]
JEFF The Brotherhood | photo by BEKAH COPE Three so-top-secret-that-if-I-told-y ou-I-just-might-have-to-kill-y ou reasons to drop everything and head on over to the Empty Bottle tonight... 1. Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood have made an appearance on the big Daily Diversion show before, but aint no reason we can't spotlight their sweet maybe we'll call it flanged out grunge pop again. I mean, they've come up from Nashville to play for y'all so the least we can do is tell you they are rad and that you should go check them out. Am [...]
Sorting through submitted new music here at FMU has evolved into a much more daunting gig than it was years ago for a whole lot of reasons, first and foremost is confronting the multitude of sources available and having to filter it all, physical and the very growing well of digital material (which is now an increasing avenue for labels and artists to submit their sounds). In the immediate neighborhood, for example, we've got the plethora of free MP3's here on the blog (especially excited about seeing the recent avalanche of Tony Coulter's deep archives manifesting itself here), [...]
Rounding out the new batch of Sacred Bones EPs is a vile (in the best sense of the word) scrap of punk from Daily Void. The band's littered singles all over small labels like Florida's Dying and HoZac; and this EP runs through the same shit covered, death obsessed, violent tempered revue they've become synonymous with. The perfect soundtrack to scowling on the bus or standing in line at the post office; Daily Void feed on a kind of human misery that can only be observed in places like these. Rusted guitars that scratch out nothing even close to hooks, [...]
Extreme Noise Records has been holding down the punk rock scene in Minneapolis to its roots since it began 15 years years ago, and for their anniversary coming up they plan to reaffirm that to anyone who may have forgot! The reputable independent/co-op punk record shop has planned a 15th Anniversary concert itinerary at the Triple Rock Social Club that is sure to make any local crusty as giddy as a schoolgirl; for me, the biggest excitement from this recent announcement is knowing that the reunited crust-punk innovators of Amebix will be making an [...]
"That's my brotherhood? No! That's not my brotherhood. I gotta be a smaller fish in a bigger pond. It's time." -- Tom, swimming away from his pajama-clad peers in 2008 "I hit the wrong button! I hit the wrong button! The year's gonna be a disaster now!" -- Tom, ushering in the New Year with a not-so-supercaller "I've never met him, but he doesn't come across as a very savory character." -- Dave from Knoxville, enrolling Spike in a new club "Hey Eddie [...]
Identification Code 's 11 songs stem from the darkest corners of the the human mind, turning it's feeble imagination against itself in a cacophony dread-inducing noise. In doing so, they also form the basis of one of the most exciting punk albums in years and one that's ridiculously difficult to explain in text. The Daily Void's sound can be best described as the ultimate balancing act. Every element of their being is teetering recklessly on the edge between polar opposites and as soon as you get an idea of which side a particular song will plummet into, [...]
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