Milwaukee’s beer-soaked punks play at the Empty Bottle tonight.
Tag: Blackout Fest
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Bric-a-Brac co-owner helps breathe new life into defunct Italian garage-rock record label
Italian label SSLD Records is back with the help of local Nick Mayor.
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Getting blacked out on the Blackout Fest gig poster
This week’s gig poster was designed by local artist Ryan Duggan for the HoZac Records Blackout Fest.
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12 O’Clock Track: The power-pop strut of ‘Twilley Don’t Mind’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is the title track from the Dwight Twilley Band’s power-pop classic Twilley Don’t Mind.
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HoZac nation
A tale of four record labels: HoZac’s healthy catalog of rock, garage, and scuzz
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HoZac’s got junk in the trunk
A HoZac comp of one-off bands, another Smith Westerns record, and a Dylan cover with Tim Heidecker
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Chicago’s most memorable live rock of 2011
From Zath at the Hideout in April to Cacaw at Treasure Town in October
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Mickey polish their nasty glam till it shines
In the Reader‘s Best of Chicago issue last year, I wrote that I hoped the next “Chicago sound” would turn out to be glammy garage, pointing out two reasons it might: the already ascendant Smith Westerns and the yet-to-be-discovered Mickey. At the time Mickey had only released a criminally overlooked single on HoZac, “She’s So […]
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Steve Cataldo of the Nervous Eaters speaks to Ross Fisher of the Brides
The rockers talk Boston in the 70s, smelling like fish, and independent record labels.