Tonight : Over 14 new bands are formed. Mines + Mystreater also playing...

Chicago : Tonight at Treasure Town, we draw 60+ musicians names from a hat. Those names will form over 14 new bands. Those new bands, they have 2 months to create a set of new music, to be played for you.

Welcome to the Chicago Sonic Consortium. This is not a new concept, as Cleveland had their "Lottery League", Milwaukee has "All Messed Up", and so forth, but with the amount of talent in this city, how could we not put this together? Come hang out at Treasure Town, as Mines, Mystreater, and Magic Ian will be playing for you as well. 9PM. Bring a few bucks for these fine folks, as gas is really quite stupid expensive. Be there!

Mines :


Mystreater :

Tonight : EYES AND TEETH - A Treasure Town art show.

UPDATE : Photos

Treasure Town, part of our 3-floor mecca of everything loud and beautiful, is having another art show. Those who have attended in the past know they're in for a treat. Tonight, a slew of spectacular artists will transform the spot yet again into God-knows-what. The beauty of these arts shows is that you never really know what you're in store for until you walk through those doors.

The last one housed a Double Dagger show in the basement, but upstairs you walked a hexagon filled wonderland, complete with insane circular centerpiece.

The musical stylings of Bomb Banks, Distractions, and Mayor Daley will add a little noise to the evening.

We rarely do event listings, only for special occasions, and this is that. These are always great, so we suggest you come. 9PM. Bring a donation for the bands, artists, and money to buy some cool shit. If you don't know where this is, and really can't find it, ask a mug.

2011 : A Year In (Video) Review - TRAILER

Oh, 2011. Instead of making some shitty list nobody agrees with, we're going to give you this instead. In classic "Best Of" fashion, you'll have it before 2012. The main track of this trailer is live, by the wonderful Chicago band OUTER MINDS. Bands to be included in this will be ONO, Cacaw, Mayor Daley, Running, Lechuguillas, Titus Andronicus, Ted Leo, Bad Drugs, Black Lips, Ty Segall, Cave, Rabble Rabble, Wume and more. It won't quite be a documentary. It won't quite be a footage dump. Just something fun and different for you all, which is always what we're after. It'll be in front of your eyes before 2012. Wait for it...

Watch : Bitchpork III #2 - Work/Death + Bad Drugs

Welcome to the second installment of our Bitchpork III video series.

Early in day one of the festival, a found-sound gospel sermon oozed out into Mortville. A grungy kid some of you probably know sat knees down, face into the floor, slamming his fists into the ground as the words entered his head....as if to let go of something troublesome to him. Not pictured, only background sound adding to the intensity. Work/Death is a solo noise project based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Bad Drugs are from Chicago, and you should go see them.

Watch : Double Dagger's final Chicago show...

What else can be said? Goodbye, Double Dagger. You were always there to jump all over us and manhandle everyone when we got docile. Treasure Town had a Hexagon themed art show on the same night, Black Ladies reunited. Hume played. It was held in the "meat locker" garage area where Eugenics Council played. Concerning this show, which was not only one of the wildest we've seen in that building, Double Dagger said : "The best words to describe tonight's show came from Bruce: "Chicago, you're like Baltimore, but bigger" That was one of thee wildest shows we've ever played. My head is covered in lumps and bruises and I couldn't be happier."

Gabe Deloach filmed the whole final tour. Expect a film soon.

Enjoy.



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Watch : Cartright live at Mortville...

A few years back, we were taking shots of whiskey at the Mopery, vibing to some dirty noise-rock, when a guy with an ultra-sweet beard came up and handed us a very home-made CD-R wrapped in yellow construction paper. "Take this, we're called Cartright...we're playing soon", he said. So we shoved it in our back pocket, gobbled down the rest of that whiskey, and as these fellows started to play, our eyes went wide and our faces went blank. It was phenomenal. It was unlike anything we had ever heard in that dark, dirty warehouse. Like a bucket of water to the face...more proof that our DIY scene wasn't just a bunch of doped up kids banging on sheets of metal. The thing is, their songs often involve driving, razor-sharp breakdowns with them all whooping and yelling their hearts out in unison, only to switch to a song like this that makes you want to hug your grandmother. It stuck with us ever since. We still jam that album often.

Texas natives Cartright came back, this time to Mortville, with eleven other acts to send off our boys in Lechuguillas. This one puts a lump in our throats. Enjoy :

Watch : PILE at Casa Donde last night...

...and go see them at MEMORIES tonight!

I thought you'd want to have a quick piece of this. Not too many videos of these folks.

This band is called PILE, and after combing through a Casa Donde show listing yesterday that included Mines, The Funs, and New Diet, we came across their bandcamp.

So we listened....and listened...and listened...and suddenly we had realized we went through every album fucking twice, and it was time to go to the goddamn thing. Mines are great. Bill Satek from Lechuguillas sings pop songs with Andrew from Tiger Hatchery. The Funs are a stellar as shit two-piece rock band. New Diet started things off right. Treasure Town was pumping smoke from a smoke machine in from a hole in their ceiling. You will see more video from this show.

Enjoy :

AIDS Walk + Run Benefit this SATURDAY w/ Paper Mice, Call Me Lightning, Lechuguillas, and more!!!

Alright folks, bringing it hard for this one.

***D. REM is holding an AIDS Walk & Run fundraiser!!!!!***

RAFFLE PRIZES... (raffle: $2/ticket or 20 for $20)

#1 of 65 "The Last Mopery Show" Poster

+ SKATEBOARD DECK by Ryan Duggan (Hated Skateboards)

prints and art from Ryan Duggan, Grimes, and more!

Handlebar + Lula Cafe gift certificates!

Tattoo / piercing gift certificates

Fine quality liquor

+ MORE!


Some will be silent auctioned, some will be raffled off.

THIS WILL BE EVAN'S LAST SHOW WITH SNACKS. SEND HIM OFF RIGHT.

Just don't ask me where those blood stains came from :

PAPER MICE
http://www.myspace.com/papermice

CALL ME LIGHTNING
http://www.myspace.com/callmelightning

LECHUGUILLAS
http://www.lechuguillas.com/music.html

MAGIC MILK
http://www.myspace.com/magicmilk

SNACKS
http://www.dothesnacks.tumblr.com/

UNMANNED SHIP
http://www.myspace.com/unmannedship


9PM. (REALLY. 9PM. SERIOUSLY.) SATURDAY AUGUST 20TH.

TREASURE TOWN.

E-mail us for the address.

$5. Help the AIDS jam and throw more if you want! No jerks. Come and ruin your hearing to all killer, no filler.

Best drummer on the planet award will go to who gets the most sheer screams of joy.

See you Saturday.

BITCHPORK III : Some words, photos, and a teaser trailer...

48 bands. 20 touring acts. Three days. Bitchpork III happened. Some insanely dedicated and talented folks made it happen, and for that I hope anyone who attended is very grateful for. We're still in a cryogenic sleep chamber trying to heal.

We decided to skip that other festival entirely, and that decision was reinforced every day with some of the best things we'll see all year. Three days of sweat-lodge, mopery-style heat, and pretty much every single imaginable music genre covered.

I still have no idea how my body even functioned on a normal level after that first full day. It just went into auto-pilot and said "well, if this is what you're fucking doing to me, I guess i'll get used to it." We filmed at least a song from all but two bands. Warhammer 48K made everyone go nuts. Ono made people cry. Bad Drugs surely gave everyone some nice bruises. Mahjonng...Running....Mayor Daley...Bobby Conn...Lechuguillas...Fat Worm of Error...Radar Eyes.....these are just a handful of the bands who turned in great performances. Really, if you didn't like something, all you had to do was wait 20 minutes and chances are an entirely new genre would be pounding away.

Some of the best performances came early in the day when just a handful of people were there. Toilet, Ami Dang. Work/Death, Andy Cigarettes, Cloud Becomes Your Hand and more had a little room to move around in each 100 degree corner. Such a huge array of amazing talent. It really gave the spectrum of how much cool shit everyone is doing these days.

There was usually very little time between sets, but unlike more poorly run or larger festivals, the environment we were in made for one of the most hauntingly beautiful, ear-splitting, well-ran three days of music one could ever hope for . Truly staggering in scope, and an absolute success with what they tried to do, which was give you a no-bullshit three part block of raw fucking tunes. The small scale gave the ability to see EVERYTHING, really, so that's just what we did. This is a festival for people who like music. Who like actually seeing it. An experience.

After countless hours of gentle to brutal sets from across the country, it ended with an alien, acid-nightmare-freak-out cluster fuck called called Turtle Powder. We're talking GIANT, awesome fucking alien heads, people. "alien karaoke" , from the future! Warped squeals of vocals, Hugely loud pounding rhythm, with hilariously twisted background video. The thing would've surely make art-school snobs and dub-step kids cry and lose all hope of doing anything remotely this cool.

View (literally) a HUNDRED more photos, and tag all of these wonderful people.

More soon. Stick around.
















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Listen to SNACKS full set at the Treasure Town BBQ 2011.

The Mutiny show was REALLY fun.

Such a great line-up. Great turn-out. Thank you!

Best show I will throw in a long, long time.

on top of it....

Treasure Town had the first BBQ of hopefully many. It's line-up?

QUINGO
CHRISTMAS BRIDE
BUOYANT SEA
SUNGLASSES
HOLLOWS
BRAIN IDEA
BRET KOONTZ
SNACKS

... We were there for 8 hours.

Snacks. SNACKS. Do you know them now? A crazy talented group of super nice people. They played my benefit show. They have another band called CLOSE HITS who just played the victory show. Equally great. Better? Go see them both and decide for yourself.

These fine fellows were not to be missed. Arrival at 6 o' clock they said. Snacks (the band) at 7! Given the amount of bands, I obliged, knewing it would be just as entertaining to hang out for a bit, regardless of start time.

After cutting and squeezing some limes for Ms. Litteral, tequila shots, good conversations, I realized it was going to be a long night. The show itself was diverse enough to satisfy any sort of musical urge you could dream up.

Snacks took the stage at, oh...9:30?

Keep an eye on that Bandcamp page. More coming. Listen to CAVE, OBITS and LIGHTNING BOLT while you're there.

This was how the huge night kicked off. Enjoy :



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CLOSE HITZ

Double dose of White Mystery tonight! "New Garage Explosion" film screening! Cacaw @ Mortville!

Whoaaaa, mannnn! Today is a RAGER!

Spend your 4/20 with your favorite red-headed Chicago duo, White Mystery! They're releasing their second full-length, "BLOOD AND VENOM", so they're having a huge double-show party with some great bands opening up each show! BUY THE RECORD! We have it! It's awesome! It'll pair well with these times.

They're playing TWO shows at Pancho's (2200 N. California Ave) this evening!

The first show is all ages, starts at 6PM and amazing openers CLOSE HITS and LOOSE DUDES start your Wednesday off right.

Set 2 is 21+ and begins at 10:30 with openers RABBLE RABBLE and SLUSHY!


SCION is throwing a VICE party!

Century Centre Cinemas for the screening of Vice's New Garage Explosion: In Love with These Times. You NEED TO RSVP for free entry, but entry is not guaranteed with RSVP. Get there early to ensure a seat.

About the film :

After a brief nod to garage's humble beginnings amongst American youth in Detroit during the 1960s and its contribution and influence on '80s punk, New Garage Explosion!!: In Love With These Times focuses on the scintillating present. As it pans trans-nationally, the camera profiles artists like the late Jay Reatard, Black Lips, The Dirtbombs, Thee Oh Sees, Smith Westerns, Vivian Girls and many more in an attempt to understand not only the exponential ascent of garage rock's popularity but the reason these people feel so passionately about it. A wide-eyed glimpse into a musical movement, the film is as much about the music as it is about the people contributing to the distinct scenes of the San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, New York, Memphis, Atlanta, and Portland garage communities.

VBS directors Joseph Patel and Aaron Brown worked with producer/journalist Mike McGonigal to offer a particularly in depth examination of a multi-dimensional and often misunderstood slice of popular culture unfolding in front of us. New Garage Explosion!!: In Love With These Times is a candid snapshot of this magically vibrant moment in rock history, inspirational and brimming with DIY purity.

4/20/11 7pm-9pm
Century Centre Cinema
2828 N. Clark St.
Century Shopping Center
Chicago, IL 60657



Last, but certainly not least, your favorite pipe-bomb, black-out inducing warehouse is seriously bringing it tonight :

WITCH HAT

SUPERSONIC PISS

MAYOR DALEY

CACAW

DJ RYON

Dude. Duuuuuude.

Get out your house tonight!

HUGE thank you's to the donors of the past few days :

EDIT : JUST BROKE 50% of the goal due to a ***HUGE*** donation from Andrew Nicolaou!!!!! ANDREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The CLAMS!!
Mauricio Dangond!
Rebekah at Betta Promotions!
John Lombardo
and SAMORAMA!

We're getting Gossip Wolf'd, so pick up a Chicago Reader late this afternoon, or tommorow.

So stoked for Saturday.

I can't say it enough : None of this would have happened without YOU.

Please TAKE A LOOK! and if you're into it, share! donate!

Much love,

jy

Treasure Town Art Show + Mortville GPK

On a lighter note, the last Treasure Town art show, related to No Era / No context seemed, to me, a huge success. Swarms of people, bands, and lovers of the weird attended the already twisted psychedelic vision that is the entity as a whole.

Treasure Town / Mortville already looks like the hideout of Hackers mixed with the hideout of the Turtles. When you had hundreds of pieces of paintings, sculptures, figures / other craziness, it only deepens the beautifully nightmarish scene.

One of the coolest art / music / madness installations i've ever seen.

Everybody I talked to enjoyed themselves, and with good reason...take a look :

NITETROTTER TV :


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UPDATE : 3/27 ::: PHOTOS :












...more to come.