CHI, IL LIVE SHOWS--Milwaukee Ave. Arts Fest 7/20-22

LOGAN SQUARE ROCKS We love our hood and when it comes time for the  annual Milwaukee Ave. Arts Fest, so does everyone else. Check out the sweet line up below with some of ChiIL Live Shows top picks in red.   Festival Center Main Stage at Milwaukee & Logan Friday July 20 9:00 - Disappears 7:45 - The Mutts 6:30 - This Is Cinema 5:15 - Shannon Hayden Saturday July 21 9:00 - NOMO 7:45 - Loyal Divide 6:30 - Cains & Abels* 5:15 - Del Rey* 4:00 - Unicycle Loves You* 2:45 - Los Vicios De Papa* 1:30 - Rambos* 12:00 - Pinkalicious The Musical (Family) Sunday July 22 8:00 - Ana Tijoux 6:30 - My Gold Mask 5:15 - In Tall Buildings 4:00 - Eastern Blok 2:45 - Speck Mountain *presented by saki 1:30 - Las Guitarras de Espana 12:00 - Rhythm Revolution (Family)

Nomo Ana Tijoux * Chicago Mixtape   Showcase

Cole's Stage at Milwaukee & Belden Friday July 20 9:00 - Yolks 8:00 - Rabble Rabble 7:00 - Big Colour 6:00 - VILLAGE Saturday July 21 ALL FEMALE FRONTED SHOWCASE 9:00 - The Runnies 8:30 - Ruby yo 7:15 - Tyler Jon Tyler 6:45 - Trinity 5:45 - Moritat 4:45 - Blizzard babies 3:45 - Swimsuit addition 2:45 - Charming People 2:00 - Shugga Shug 1:00 - squish Sunday July 22 9:00 - Al Scorch 8:00 - Weepin Willows 7:00 - Laurance Peters 6:00 - Mike Musikanto 5:00 - Deadbeat

Hairpin Arts Center at 2800 N. Milwaukee presented by Tito's Handmade Vodka LIVE JAZZ PRESENTED BY ELASTIC ARTS AND CHICAGOMUSIC.ORG: Friday July 20 9:45 Vocalo DJ Collective After-Party Featuring Trancid with Shazam Bangles Saturday July 21 6:30 - 7:15 Josh Berman - cornet, Matt Schneider - guitar 7:45 - 8:30 Guillermo Gregorio - reeds, Jason Roebke - bass, Brian Labycz - electronics 9:00 - 9:45 Cameron Pfiffner - saxophone, Anton Hatwich - bass 9:45 Vocalo DJ Collective After-Party Featuring Jesse De La Pena with Charlie Sunday July 22 4:00 - 4:45 David Hernandez & Street Sounds 6:30 - 7:15 Jason Adasiewicz - vibraphone, Nate McBride - bass 7:45 - 8:30 Jim Baker - piano, Josh Abrams - bass 9:00 - 9:45 Mars Williams - saxophone, Kent Kessler - bass

Loyal Divide LIVE at Empty Bottle-Vinyl Release Party 11-4-11

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Loyal Divide rocked Empty Bottle Friday night, coming off a tour to promote their new, blue vinyl release, Bodice Ripper.    These newcomers are ones to watch.   Their high intensity, live show got the crowd going and their first release has been met enthusiastically by fans and critics alike.   

Click here for some of our past coverage, including their creative, stop animation, duct tape video.

Here's what their label, Kilo Records has to say about their boys & last Friday's show:

CHICAGO, IL

Local Pyshedeclic Rockers, Loyal Divide hit the stage this Friday at the cities best venue Empty Bottle, for their Bodice Ripper Vinyl Release Show.  Their much anticipated debut LP  was released on October 4th, via Kilo Records, and is available via iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, at your local record store, and more.  The band spent October celebrating with a full Midwest/East Coast Tour, and are returning to Chicago for their first venue performance since May.  Joining the group with be punk rockers Lasers & Fast & Shit, as well as Verma.  This night surely has on hand some of the best Chicago talent coming up in the city right now.

Vinyl includes a free CD with bonus track

For purchase information, future tour dates, etc. check out http://loyaldividemusic.com/