Video: Mannequin Men at SXSW

Let's face it, the cover of The Mannequin Men's new album, "Lose Your Illusion, Too," is disturbing. But it fits the Chicago rockers' music pretty well. Like the folks on the cover, The Mannequin Men's music isn't pretty; to be honest, both their vocals and their instrumentals are ragged. They make up for that with the kind of raucous energy I haven't heard nearly often enough since the heyday of The Swell Maps. And if you follow my blog regularly, you know how much I love everything associated with the late Nikki Sudden. I've never caught [...]