| August Music Calendar
Saturday August 2nd The Additives 10:00 Economically recorded in the spare room of an apartment, the five-song EP from the recently completed Chicago alt-country quartet focuses on bouncy beats and foghorn-bass vocals creating characters from simple situations, throwing in the occasional accordion (performed by a classically trained pianist) for good measure. Remarkably kinetic, the songs beg to be listened to all the way through; there is scarcely a wasted measure on the short but satisfying disc. Mastered by Studio Chicago and with professional packaging, the disc comes off as artistically lo-fi. Check out theadditives.com for a listen, as well as a video for the opening track of the album. — Ryan Cunningham, Recoil Magazine
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Saturday August 9th Jake LaBotz “Heartache transforms into profound albeit bleak wisdom on this acoustic
outing by bluesman/actor La Botz. From the abyss, he delivers stunners like “Depression
Brings Me Flowers,” “Hard to Love What You Kill” and “About
Who I Am,” which rank among the hardest-hitting, most poetic and melodic
songs he’s written...” |
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Saturday August 16th The Long Gone Lonesome Boys The first thing you notice about the Long Gone Lonesome Boys: tight, cutting vocals, spot-on harmonies and arrangements. The second thing: excellent songwriting. The third thing: It’s eerie how much these ‘brothers from different mothers’ sound alike. The LONG GONE LONESOME BOYS are John Milne, a California native, and Patrick Penney, a Georgia boy. They sound like brothers when they sing their beautiful alt-country songs together. If you like drinkin' songs, cheatin' songs, and great harmony singing you'll love these guys. Backing them up on mandolin/steel guitar are Chicago native Pat Keiner who also chimes in with wonderful tenor harmonies, Chicagoan Leslie Walle-Santos on drums, and Wisconsinite Jesse Woelfel on upright and electric bass. |
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Saturday August 23rd The Hoyle Brothers 10pm The Hoyle Brothers approach their music the way a preacher might prepare for a sermon: Reference the good Book, find a theme that resonates and deliver it with fire and passion.That's what makes The Hoyle Brothers so special. Their brand of genuine country music draws from the genre's deepest traditions--lyrics that speak universal truths, melody lines that melt your heart and two-step rhythms that make your boots scoot.The Hoyle Brothers didn't set out to reshape the country music landscape. |
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Saturday August 30th CC & W 10pm “A lively DUO that proves that artistically ‘less is more’, a contemporary weaving of punk, rock, and cowboy rhythm and blues. They stage a performance that entertains as well satisfies one’s musical hunger. |
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| September Music Calender
Saturday September 6th TBA -10pm |
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Saturday September 13th The Northside Southpaws 10pm Chicago’s premier all-left-handed, mandolin - guitar duo. They play archaic country, proto-grass, and obsolete ragtime on lefty resonator instruments. |
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Saturday September 20th Korey Quinn and the Comrades 10pm
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Saturday September 27th The Get Rites from Minneapolis MN 10pm Fresh, inspirational batch of country-blues-tinged material that melds, molds, and mixes all of those various influences with their own inimitable flair for lyrical intelligence, musical complexity, and soulful experimentation.
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Saturday October 4th The Corey Atkinson Band
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Saturday September 27th Dan Whitaker and the Shinebenders |
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