For the fifth consecutive year, local bluegrass/country swing outfits Sunnyside Up and The Teflons will be providing the musical entertainment for the After-Brunch Bash at Fitzgerald's in Berwyn.
The family-friendly event, which will also feature a barn dance, is open to all ages with kid's tickets (ages 12 & under) priced at $2. Adult tickets are still a reasonable $12 for an afternoon of down-home entertainment. For tickets and more info, click here.
Midwest Hype is following up their sold-out record release show at Schuba's Tavern by supporting wildly popular Sublime tribute band Badfish at House of Blues Chicago on Saturday, Feb. 4. Scotty Don't and Full Service round out the bill. For tickets and more info click here.
Midwest Hype will be Radio One Chicago's in-studio guests on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7PM CST.
Singer-songwriter Jane Thatcher was making a name for herself on the Chicago folk/acoustic scene last year before she relocated to Salt Lake City to take care of a family matter. On Thursday, Jan. 26, she will return to the windy city to perform at The Hideout with Machine Gun Mojo and Liza Day.
Thatcher and her band, The Pretty Pleases, will be celebrating the release of a live EP and debuting a video directed by Roberto Serrini. For tickets and more info, check out this link.
Two weeks in, the Clip Art January/Practice Space residency at Schuba's Tavern has been drawing respectable crowds and getting lots of press.
Next Monday, Jan. 23, Clip Art will be joined by Briar Rabbit (pictured) and The Sometimes Family, a charming indie pop outfit that includes Clip Art's bassist, Steve Schuster.
For tickets and more info, click here.
A companion piece to last year's acclaimed Butterfly Revolutions, Vol. 1, BRV2 once again proves that The Luck of Eden Hall is one of the most underrated psych outfits in Chicago.
TLOEH has been knocking around the windy city on and off since the late 80s. At one time, they were headlining Metro and sharing stages with Material Issue, Green and other local luminaries. In the 90s, they could count Jim Derogatis and Billy Corgan as fans. Last year's BRV1 has received universal acclaim and radio airplay (including WLUW) all over the world.
Butterfly Revolutions Vol. 2 picks up nicely where Vol. 1 left off (quite literally with that album's final track, "Queen Anne's Lace"). BRV2 has all of that song's beautiful, spaced-out moodiness.
BRV2 opens with "Metropolis," a psychedelic ode to Fritz Lang's silent film masterpiece of the same name. By track four, the wonderful "North Hampton Woods," The Luck of Eden Hall is channeling the best elements of The Dandy Warhols, circa Come Down. The midpoint of the album, "Henrietta Lacks a Smile," is absolutely stunning; a melancholy, piano-driven charmer. "Revolutions," the shortest track on the record, recalls Love and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. The ultra cool "We Are Not Self Control" benefits from dream time vocals and warm, fuzzy guitar. Album closer "A Drop in the Ocean," is epic space rock in the vein of Spiritualized.
The Luck of Eden Hall will be appearing on the Razor & Die show on WLUW tomorrow (Jan. 13) at 5PM CST. The official record release for Butterfly Revolutions, Vol. 2 will take place at Abbey Pub on Friday, Jan. 20. Tickets and more info here.
Now in its fourth year, the Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival is an established entity in the windy city, bringing national acts to the Congress Theater and other local venues for a celebration of American roots music.
On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Congress will host headliners The Drive-By Truckers and Dawes, along with support courtesy of some of the best folk, alt-country and blues rock bands in Chicago.
Joining DBT and Dawes on the main stage will be folk troubadour Joe Pug, psych/blues outfit Bailiff and slick country rockers Van Ghost.
Side stage and balcony performers include the raucous Shams Band, soul-rock rebels Great Divide (pictured), Go Long Mule and the wonderful Paper Thick Walls.
For complete line-up, set times, tickets and more info, click here.
Photo by Brad MeeseAs previously reported, Chicago's Clip Art has a weekly residency at Schuba's Tavern this month. The "Practice Space" residency kicks off next Monday, Jan. 9, at 8PM and continues every Monday until the end of January. The first night includes support by folk-pop band Any Kind and the gloriously goofy Algebro. The show is ages 18+ and only $6!
Clip Art will be a special guest on WLUW's Radio One tomorrow night between 8-8:30 PM.
