ChiIL Live Shows

Thursday, April 18, 2013

TONIGHT: Disappears at Lincoln Hall EP Release 4/20

DISAPPEARS

Photo Credit: Zoran Orlic

ChiIL Live Shows will be there tonight... will YOU?! We first discovered Disappears by accident at Lollapalooza. Enroute to some other act we came to a screeching halt as soon as we heard them and stayed the whole set! While we were there a bunch of other wanderers kept getting sucked in and asking "Who is that band?!" Since then we've been stalking them around Chi-town and enjoying their rise.

Check back like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often. We'll have Lincoln Hall show shots up shortly. And if you're 21+ get out and see them LIVE at Lincoln Hall tonight.

Disappears will be bringing their high intensity live show and swirling brand of drone-y psych rock to Chicago TONIGHT, Thursday, April 18th at Lincoln Hall. The repetitive, pummeling beat that snakes through their newest EP, Kone, highlights the band's post-punk, experimental guitar-driven style and elevates the sound to the next level.

The Quietus describe the fervency of the title track, "Kone (Edit)" as "echoed howls over a circular, sparse post-punk core, one which feels like it's barely keeping a torrent of motorik fury at bay. As the track closes, the dissonant noise rears up again, only this time its a controlled feedback-storm, eventually coming into its own as the other instruments fall out, leaving it hanging there, a quivering, metallic spectre."

Kone will be out April 20th with new material to follow later this year, but for now, check out Disappears in person for a night of fierce electricity.

Check out the Disappears hypnotic and melodic video for the title and main track "Kone (Edit)" from their forthcoming EP to be released April 20th.

Watch The Video on Self-Titled Magazine

"Kone (Edit)" was recently premiere on UK site The Quietus, who call the ten minute epic an "incantatory, long-form cut, and one that promises big things from the band's next album," with a surging "torrent of motorik fury" that gets leveled out towards the end as the "dissonant noise rears up again, only this time its a controlled feedback-storm, eventually coming into its own as the other instruments fall out, leaving it hanging there, a quivering, metallic spectre."

Disappears, known for their mesmerizing and electric live shows are about to hit the road for a run of US dates, be sure to catch them. All dates are listed below.

What makes people respond to something? Is it honesty? Anyone can be true, say what makes sense to them - talk about how they feel. It’s especially tricky to answer this question in a world where it’s never been easier to be heard, but never been harder to get anyone to listen.

It can be confusing doing something when it’s all you know. It means you are constantly sacrificing, whatever it is, to try and get someone to see things your way. It’s personal and it’s a message not everyone will receive. Friendships disintegrate, patterns becoming habits and everyday you wake up the world you know is different. Still, we make ways to relate with people, we search out meaning and make sense of our surroundings.

These are themes Disappears have been working out since their formation in 2008. Over the course of three full lengths in three years for the esteemed Kranky imprint, Disappears have taken the raw energy and intensity of post-punk and filtered it into the repetition of dub and minimalism.

With the recent and amicable departure of Steve Shelly, Disappears return with the Kone EP, 30+ minutes of new music that asks the listener to do something rare these days – listen. Abstract and experimental, Disappears use the 12” format to it’s full potential – take chances and get weird. Recorded in Chicago at Minbal and mixed in Dallas by John Congleton, Kone takes every opportunity to stretch out into the void and roar.

Following the April 16th release date, Disappears will be touring the US this Spring as they put the finishing touches on their new LP to be released later 2013.

Kone Tracklisting /

1. Kone
2. Kontakt
3. Kone (Edit)

Spring 2013 Tour Dates /

4.18.13 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
4.19.13 - Turf Club - St. Paul, MN
4.20.13 - Gardner Lounge Grinnell College - Grinnell, IA
4.24.13 - Brillobox - Pittsburgh, PA
4.25.13 - Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY
4.26.13 - Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia
4.27.13 - MOTR Pub - Cincinnati, OH
5.17.13 - Bootleg Bar - Los Angeles, CA
5.18.13 - Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco, CA

Links /

Disappears Official Site

Disappears On Twitter

Disappears On Facebook

ACT OUT: THE INCONVENIENCE PRESENTS URBAN LORE: TAKE IT TO YOUR GRAVE at Theater Wit 4/27

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.

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.

If you didn't catch our original interview with frontman, Neil Fallon, check it out here.

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 addition to the impressive chart positions stateside, the band continues their global domination entering the German Top 100 Media Control Chart at #71.

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.

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 1^st in Richmond, VA and run through May 26^th in San Antonio, TX. Support on this run comes from The Sword and Lionize.