New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
The Damn Choir is celebrating the video release for the song “Virginia” at The Hideout on Thursday, Sept. 8 (tonight!). "Virgina" comes from their forthcoming album You’re My Secret Called Fire, and if the video for "Noah" from that album is any example you won’t want to miss this one.
Casey Meehan has long been a mega support (and participant, remember Jitney) of the Chicago music scene. Six months ago we announced that he had launched an email mixtape club called Chicago Mixtape. The response to the club has been tremendous, and as a result Casey has announced a premium club level called K.O.K.O Club (Keep On Keeping On) today. This step is huge, and a realization of what Casey has been working towards for years. From an original fan of Rock Proper, a fan of Jitney, a fan of the Chicago Mixtape, we just want to say Congrats Casey!
You can check out the details here, and continue to support a true fan and supporter of Chicago music.
What does it take to get a random person or random music fan interested in hearing your music? For Jason Magicks (aka Magicks) it is simple, walk around music festivals carrying a box marked "Free Kittens". When someone inquires you open the box and they find shirts with your name on them and download codes for you music. Genius!
Magicks is an experimental audio engineer who has released two albums digitally through bandcamp and on cassette. His latest is available for free digitally and is called Triangles.
Paper Thick Walls are headlining at Schubas this Friday, Sept 2, to celebrate the release of their new video for the track "Orange Tree". The video is a tripping journey complete with animated campfire, and is perfect for this catchy campfire track. The video was premired this week by Playground Misnomer.
Dastardly and Madison’s Sleeping in the Aviary will also be performing on Friday at Schubas. The show begins at 9pm.
Madina Lake has released the first video, "Hey Superstar", from their upcoming third full-length album, World War III, which will be released through Razor & Tie on September 13th.
The album, in part, documents the pain that bassist Matthew Leone went through last year after being severally beaten trying to intervene in a domestic violence incident. The album also features contribution from Billy Corgan.
Madina Lake will be performing at Metro on September 17th.
Parallel Synchronized Randomness is the title of the debut album from Eight Bit Tiger. They’ve the style, the sound, the look, and even the Hugo Boss. These boys are going to be big!.
The album is dropping soon, but you can check out Eight Bit Tiger at Tonic Room on September 23rd.
Filmed on location back in July at The Beat Kitchen, Scissors have released the video for their cover of Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got To Do With It. The track will appear on their upcoming album.
The band will be performing a free acoustic show at Rockit Wrigley (3700 N. Clark) on September 1st at 9pm.
Tom Schreader recently released Egoiste, an all-analog recording recreated to sound like an electronic record, and is currently touring out west. He returns home on September 9th to perform at Subt. Below is the documentary "92 Tales" which is a celluloid recreation of writer’s block and features Chicago artists responding to Schraeder’s music.
The new album from Young Man, Ideas of Distance, is now available for preorder. You can also download the new single "Tired Eyes" from the album below.
Young Man will be performing at Subterranean on Sept. 16th with Grouplove.
Company of Thieves have canceled their August tour due to lead singer Genevieve being diagnosed with Mononucleosis. They are currently scheduled to perform in Dekalb on 9/10 at Egyptian Theatre, but it doesn’t look like that will happen. Here is the offical statement from the band. "We are working on rescheduling the dates for November. We hope you understand and hope we have your support. We can not tell you how much we miss all of you and can’t wait to make it back. Hope to see you at the rescheduled dates!"
You can check out their entire Summer Session with Last.fm here.
Ok Go and The Muppets, what’s not to love? This appears on the new album Muppets: The Green Album which was released yesterday. The album also features Andrew Bird singing "Bein’ Green".
