Urban Lore: Take it to Your Grave illustration by Pete Ziegel
Embrace the macabre and send some ChiILs up your spine, Chi, IL! These story tellers are our kind of creeps.
STORIES YOU'D RATHER DIE WITH AND SECRETS
YOU'VE NEVER TOLD THIS MONTH'S THEME FOR
THE INCONVENIENCE PRESENTS URBAN LORE:
TAKE IT TO YOUR GRAVE
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 AT 10:30 P.M.
AT CHICAGO'S THEATER WIT
Stories that you would rather die with and secrets you have never told is the theme for the next installment of The Inconvenience Presents Urban Lore: Take it to Your Grave, Saturday, April 27 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago.
Be afraid - very, very afraid - when the city's coolest crew of lunatic storytellers comes out for this hot new late night monthly talk show with a twist, co-presented by Theater Wit and The Inconvenience. Doors open at 10:30 p.m. Show time is 11 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance/$8 at the door. Or save with a four-show flex pass to the series for only $20. For tickets, flex passes and information, visit TheaterWit.org or call 773.975.8150.
Enjoy a beverage or three from the Theater Wit bar while live storytellers share true tales of the weird and bizarre that can only happen in urban settings. Guest storytellers for Take it to Your Grave include Inconvenience company member Brian Rad and Theater Wit artistic director Jeremy Wechsler. Both will share all-true personal tales about life in the urban jungle that, until next Saturday, they had successfully repressed. Musical guest is Absolutely Not.
According to Chris Chmilek, Artistic Director of The Inconvenience, "The focus of The Inconvenience Presents... series with Theater Wit is to revisit the act of LIVE storytelling via a constantly-shifting, late-night, live multi-medium revue. We want each act to feel like a section of an old EC Horror Comics installment. Think Tales From the Crypt or the like."
Mark your calendar for the next editions of The Inconvenience Presents...series: Saturday, May 25 and June 29 at 10:30 p.m. Visit TheaterWit.org for updates.
More about The Inconvenience
The Inconvenience is a community of interdisciplinary artists who seek to create a new way of experiencing art through a collaboration of music, theatre, dance, fine art and celebration. In 2012, the company was named Best New Theatre by the Chicago Reader, and Best New Company by Chicago Magazine. The collective's most recent production, Ike Holter's Hit The Wall, about the 1969 Stonewall riots, wowed Chicago audiences in sold-out runs in 2012 at the Steppenwolf Garage and Theatre on the Lake, followed by a successful remount at New York's Barrow Street Theatre. For more information, visit theinconvenience.org.
More about Theater Wit
"A thrilling addition to Chicago's roster of theaters" (Chicago Tribune) and "a terrific place to see a show" (New City), the new Theater Wit is in its second season in its newly renovated home at 1229 W. Belmont Avenue in Chicago. Theater Wit inaugurated its brand new, $1.3 million venue in the former home of the Bailiwick Arts Centre in June 2010. The new Theater Wit boasts three intimate 99-seat performance spaces - the only theater in Chicago with such a configuration - plus a new box office, administrative offices, a beer, wine, spirits and coffee bar, and a cool, casual lobby.
Theater Wit has extended its current, critically acclaimed Midwest premiere of Completeness, playwright Itamar Moses' newest play about brainy grad students toggling in and out of love, through May 4. In addition to presenting its own productions, Theater Wit's three 99-seat theaters are booked with an eclectic slate of new plays and musicals by Chicago's most popular and accomplished off-Loop theater companies. To encourage cross-pollination, the company has introduced Chicago's first live theater, Netflix-like membership program. With a Theater Wit Membership, you can see as many plays as you want at Theater Wit, year round, for one low monthly fee of $36 ($22 for students).
Founded in 2004, Theater Wit's mission is to explore contemporary issues with wit and wisdom through new works and Chicago premieres. To purchase a Membership Program, Flex Pass, single tickets or for information about all 2012-2013 productions at Theater Wit, call 773.975.8150 or visit TheaterWit.org.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
ACT OUT: THE INCONVENIENCE PRESENTS URBAN LORE: TAKE IT TO YOUR GRAVE at Theater Wit 4/27
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
WIN Four Pairs of Tickets To Funky Meters, The Greyboy Allstars & More (18+) THIS Fri at The Congress #CIMMfest
ChiIL out with ChiIL Live Shows at The Congress Theater THIS Friday. We're giving away FOUR pairs of FREE tickets for the show through midnight Wednesday, 4/17. So enter like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often. (Thanks to Congress Theater and the fine folk over at Silver Wrapper & React for kickin' us tickets to give away.)
Click the Rafflecopter link below for your chance to win. Winners will be contacted by e-mail and listed here Thursday.
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Come get funked up Friday. With Funky Meters, Greyboy Allstars, JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound and more, all under one roof, it's sure to be a good time! ChiIL Live Shows will be there... will YOU?! We'll also be out covering all 4 days of CIMMfest, bringing you the best of rock n film.
Click here to order Congress tickets & for more show details
Click here for our coverage on CIMMfest 2013 including more official highlights
Monday, April 15, 2013
Clutch LIVE at House of Blues Chicago 4-12-13 #originalphotos #showshots
Photo Credit: Bonnie Kenaz-Mara for ChiIL Live Shows.com
Clutch 4-12-13 House of Blues, Chicago
We'll forgive them for skipping Chicago on the last tour. Clutch made it up to their Chi-town fans with an excellent, hard rockin', sold out show last Friday at The House of Blues. It was our pleasure to shoot stills and again catch them in action.
The set list was a sweet mix of old favs and new Earth Rocker Material which was extremely well received. Generally it take live crowds a while to warm up to new material, but Earth Rocker is so good, it's contagious. A good chunk of the crowd was already belting out the lyrics and even those who didn't know the new stuff yet were completely into it.
We scored a press preview of the album and it's been in heavy rotation here at ChiIL Live Shows. Clutch is a band that's been ahead of their time for twenty years, but the rest of the world seems to finally have caught up with their March release of, Earth Rocker.
We've been digging their vision & sound since the beginning, but there were comparatively few fans for years. Of course we didn't mind catching them at small venues like the Logan Auditorium and Cubby Bear, when few knew the name Clutch, but we don't mind sharing a good thing. And we love to see creative, talented people get the recognition they deserve.
Clutch has played metal their own way, completely unabashed, for years, not caring whether mainstream metal liked them or they achieved commercial success. Their diehard fans have always grocked the genius and enjoyed their music, despite their genre defying sound. Staying true to their own style and voice is at last paying off for Clutch.
CLUTCH's Earth Rocker
Enters Billboard Charts at #15!
In mid March, WEATHERMAKER MUSIC released the highly anticipated new studio album Earth Rocker from CLUTCH. Earth Rocker entered the Billboard Top 200 Charts at #15 marking the highest Billboard Chart debut in the band's storied career. The album came in at #1 on the Hard Music Chart and #3 on the Independent Album Chart.
In the UK
Earth Rocker charted at #50 on the Top 200 Album Chart, #3 on the Top Rock and Metal Albums Chart and #11 on the Top Independent album chart.
Earth Rocker is continuing to make an impact at radio. The album is #1 at CMJ Loud Rock, and their second single, "Crucial Velocity" was added to SiriusXM channels Octane, Liquid Metal and Faction.
The band has also released a lyric video for "Crucial Velocity". The video was done by animator James Appleton and can be viewed below.
"WEATHERMAKER MUSIC is thrilled with this result. The release campaign began 6 months ago. We executed on our worldwide plan by integrating touring, promotion, retail and digital marketing as well as Specialty/Metal and Active Rock radio campaigns in a perfect sequence. Our partners around the world backed us up. RED Music's extraordinary support made much of this possible. But in the end none of it would have been the same without this great album. CLUTCH is the quintessential American rock band!" says WEATHERMAKER MUSIC Label Manager Stefan Koster.
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Earth Rockeris available for purchase at the CLUTCH Merch Store.
CLUTCH is currently out on the Earth Rocker North American Tour. The tour runs through April 20th ending in Baltimore, MD. Supporting on the first leg is Orange Goblin, Lionize and Scorpion Child.
The second leg of the Earth Rocker North American tour was recently announced and will kick off May 1st in Richmond, VA and run through May 26th in San Antonio, TX. Support on this run comes from The Sword and Lionize.
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Earth Rocker World Tour
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Win 4 Free Tickets to CircEAU High-Seas Circus Adventure #giveaway #sponsored
ChiIL out with ChiIL Live Shows & family friendly circus arts from Chi-town's own CircEsteem!
Click here for your chance to WIN 4 FREE tickets ($64 value). Entries accepted through midnight 4/18.
(Disclosure: Thank to CircEsteem for providing the tickets for our giveaway. All opinions are our own.)
WHEN:
Saturday April 20th 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Sunday April 21th 2:00 p.m. Friday April 26th 7:30 p.m. Sunday April 28th 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Buy your tickets now for
CircEAU
A High-Seas Circus Adventure
April 20th, 21st, 26th & 28th
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CircEsteem, Chicago's largest youth circus, invites you to CircEsteem's CircEAU - a performance by the youth of CircEsteem, taking place April 20th, 21th, 26th, and 28th 2013 at Alternatives Inc., 4730 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60640.
CircEAU will take you on an undersea adventure including shimmering mermaids on the trapeze (including ChiIL Mama's own Sagezilla) and salty pirate clowns juggling.
Don't miss the chance to see CircEsteem's amazing performers. Tickets are going fast. Buy yours today!
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General admission is $16 for adults and $5 for children. Purchase two general admission adult tickets and receive a child's ticket free. VIP reserved seating is $35 and parking is available for $20. For tickets and more information please
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