Summer Camp Music Fest Late Night Shows On Sale This Saturday! #SCamp13 #liveshowshots

ChiIL Live Shows has covered Summer Camp Music Festival for years.   We eagerly anticipate it each spring as the kick off to music fest season, and a rockin' camp out, party in the park every Memorial Day weekend!  

Click here or put SCamp12 in the side search bar for lots of our past coverage.

Check out a blast from the past right here with even more original coverage of past SCamps.

We've got loads of live show shots, characters in the crowds, band interviews and more.   We'll be posting even more unreleased 2012 footage and our must see lists as we count down to SCamp13.

Individual tickets for our Late Nights in the Red Barn presented by Technaflora Plant Products will go on sale this Saturday, March 23 at 10am CDT! You can purchase your Late Night tickets Saturday morning on our tickets page. There is a limited supply of tickets and they will go fast, so be sure to grab yours Saturday morning! Tickets are on a first come, first serve basis and will sell out quickly. Limit 2 tickets per order. All tickets are will call only, paperless tickets and will require an ID to pick up. No name transfers are allowed.

Late Night Shows in the Red Barn

Late Night Shows in the Red Barn are sponsored by Technaflora.

Friday, May 24th, 2013 – moe. and Yonder Mountain String Band

Saturday, May 25th, 2013 – STS9 and Big Gigantic + Griz + Gramatik

Sunday, May 26th, 2013 – Thievery Corporation and Zeds Dead

Artist Announcements 

Who is ready for some more Summer Camp 2013 artist announcements?
Our full artist announcement will be here Friday, March 29 at noon CDT, but check out our Facebook and Twitter for leaks next Wednesday and Thursday!

Ticket Price Increase

Also, 3-day passes will move up to the next price level ($200 +fees) April 20, 2013.

Buy Yours Now and SAVE!!

INCOMING: Las Guitarras TONIGHT at City Winery and More

Chi, IL Live Shows on Our Radar for the End of March



TONIGHT--CITY WINERY:

Chicago’s Las Guitarras de Espana will be playing City Winery on Thursday, March 21.

6pm doors/8pm start

all ages
$15-$20

This performance, with opening act Los Hombres Perdidos, will feature traditional and newly composed pieces with elements of Cuban, Indian and Spanish music as well as flamenco dance. Guest artists will include Sara Ranganthan (Indian veena), Wendy Clinard (flamenco dancer) and Andrew Bird collaborator Colin Bunn (Tres guitar).

Click here for tickets and show details.

http://www.lasguitarrasrocks.com/

http://www.carlobasilespanishguitarist.com/#!/home

HARD ROCK CAFE:

Common Shiner will share a bill with Cobalt & the Hired Guns, A Band Called Catch and The Empty Pockets at Hard Rock Café on Friday, April 12.   Show starts at 8:30pm.

Click here for more info and their full line up of shows. 





METRO: 

Jackpot Donnie will celebrate the release of their new EP, Mayday!, with a show at Metro on Friday, March 29. The band will be direct support for The Future Laureates and Molehill and The Scissors will open the show. (18+) $14 advance tickets.   Show starts at 8:30/8pm doors. 

Click here for tickets and full schedule. 



House of Blues:  
Badfish 

Saturday, March 30th  

We've shot this Sublime cover band numerous times, and their live shows are a rockin' good time.   Highly recommended!   Check back with ChiIL Live shows like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often.   We'll have a big photo and video feature on Badfish from their last Chicago appearance at Cubby Bear (including an on stage wedding proposal!!) before the 3/30 show.

Click here for HOB show details

PRONG Announce European Tour Dates #originalvideointerview #showshots

Prong LIVE at The Vogue, Indianapolis  Friday the 13th, July 2012 All photos and video by bonnie kenaz-mara © 2013 chiIL Live Shows  We caught Prong at Cobra Lounge in Chicago last year, right as Carved into Stone was released.    The last time we caught Prong, we road tripped down to Indy to see them play The Vogue with Clutch and Lionize. Check out our exclusive interview in Chicago with Tommy and Alexei below. Click here for our prior Prong coverage including more LIVE show shots. New York Metallers PRONG have confirmed that they will be heading over to Europe this Summer. The band is scheduled to play a handful of festival dates as well as a string of headline dates. Currently, the tour is scheduled to kick off June 23rd in Clisson, France at Hellfest and will run through July 14th in Serbia at Exit Fest. More dates are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. A complete list of dates can be found below. PRONG are touring in support of their latest release Carved into Stone which was released in 2012 on Long Branch Records. The album which is quintessentially PRONG, stretches into the band's earliest and dirtiest foundations on which the band was founded on to the present as a staple of today's post-metal and rock scenes. Carved Into Stone can be ordered from Amazon HERE. Be sure to check out the deluxe iTunes edition which features an exclusive bonus track which is a cover of the Rammstein track "Feuer Frei". PRONG's video for "Revenge...Best Served Cold" can be streamed HERE. Visit the PRONG online merch store HERE. PRONG European Tour: 6/23: Clisson, France @ Hellfest* 6/25: Luzern, Switzerland @ Schüür 6/26: Freiburg, Germany @ Café Atlantik 6/27: Manheim, Germany @ Alte Seilerei 6/28: Dessel, Belgium @ Graspop Metal Meeting* 6/29: Dordrecht, Holland @ Bibelot 6/30: Münster, Germany @ Sputnikhalle 7/12: Zlin, Czechoslovakia @ Masters of Rock* 7/14: Novi Sad, Serbia @ Exit Fest* *Denotes Festival Appearance* For more info visit: http://www.prongmusic.com  http://www.facebook.com/prongmusic  http://www.spv.de  http://www.longbranchrecords.com

The Heard Photo Recap Congress Theater #showshots #funk

all photos by bonnie kenaz-mara © 2013 chiIL Live Shows  

It was great to finally catch The Heard LIVE at The Congress opening for Slightly Stoopid and Tribal Seeds on 3/9.    They put on a rockin' live show and were fun to shoot.

The band will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of their weekly residency at Alive One on Thursday, March 28.   Come check 'em out!

Thursday March 28th / aliveOne Chicago - aliveOne One Year Anniversary Party! We’ll be celebrating The Heard and aliveOne’s one anniversary with fantastic lights, plenty of special guests, and like always, FREE FUNK!

aliveOne Thursday Residency

Every Thursday at aliveOne, 2683 N. Halsted. 10pm. Never a cover. $3 Three Floyds.  (21+)

Click here to check out The Heard's main site.

INCOMING: The Damn Choir at Beat Kitchen (21+) #indie folk

Before heading to Brooklyn to to record with Bryce Goggin (The Ramones, Akron Family, Antony and the Johnsons), The Damn Choir will support The Western and Model Stranger at Beat Kitchen on Friday, March 29th.

Chicago indie folk band The Damn Choir have a busy few months ahead.

The Damn Choir, which features former members of Catfish Haven and Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, will share a bill with The Western and Model Stranger at Beat Kitchen, 2100 W Belmont in Chicago, on Friday, March 29 and will be joined by beloved guitarist "Otis the Bearded Angel."

House Call Entertainment, Inc. Presents!!

The Western
/ Model Stranger / The Damn Choir / Bullet Called Life

Friday, Mar 29, 2013 9:00 PM CDT (8:30 PM Doors)
Beat Kitchen, Chicago, IL
21 years and over

The band has been demoing new material in Chicago (to follow up 2012's critically acclaimed You're My Secret Called Fire) and are planning on recording with producer/engineer Bryce Goggin this spring in Brooklyn.

Click here for advanced tickets.

Click here for ChiIL Live Shows past coverage including live show shots of The Damn Choir. 

Check out The Damn Choir's main site here.

If you read our fam friendly sister site, ChiIL Mama, we mention Beat Kitchen just about every week.   We're press sponsor for Beat Kitchen's Concerts for Kids Series, an acclaimed weekly showcase of kindie (kids' indie) bands in many genres.   We shoot live show video and stills there frequently, and give away free tickets to every kids' concert.   If you have rock tots, little folk, or punk kin from birth to 10, check it out.   We have a ton of ticket giveaways and rockin' original content.   

NEW RELEASE: Sermon For No One by Safe Haven #blues #bluegrass #folk #rock

Chicago’s Safe Haven (featuring members of The Hue and Falldown) just released Sermon For No One. 

Photo from Safe Haven's FB Page

We've been diggin' what we've heard from Safe Haven.   Their tunes put me 

in the mood for summer festivals and back yard BBQs.   They've melded traditional blues, rock, alt country and other styles into something completely compelling and new, yet comfortably familiar.  

These locals are certainly worth a listen!

Safe Haven is a four piece band that can cover multiple genres in a single show. From blues based electric guitars riffs to mandolins and pedal steel this is a band that’s forging their own sound. True original song writing with elements of Blues, Folk, Rock, and Bluegrass separating them from the typical sound of a Chicago based band.

Check out their main site here for more tunes off Sermon for No One, video clips and more.

INCOMING: Black Flag Vs. Flag Tour Dates

Greg Ginn and Ron Reyes April 17, 1980  The Smiling Buddah / Vancouver BC, Canada Photo: bev davies  

BLACK FLAG has reformed and is in the process of putting finishing touches on a new album with founder Greg Ginn on guitar, Ron Reyes on vocals, Gregory Moore on drums and Dale Nixon on bass.

The one constant member throughout the history of BLACK FLAG, Ginn -- named  one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" -- defined the west coast punk sound and the DIY ethos of punk rock. Greg Ginn also currently plays with Good For You and Greg Ginn And The Royal We. 

Ron Reyes of Decline Of The Western Civilization fame was the BLACK FLAG vocalist from The Church / Jealous Again era. Reyes also currently plays guitar in Piggy.

Gregory Moore has played with Gone and BLACK FLAG (2003) and brings his relentless and driving drum style to the band.

Notorious for not touring, Dale Nixon never-the-less played bass on the My War album and is the author of iconic BLACK FLAG bass lines such as Jealous Again, Nervous Breakdown, Six Pack, TV Party, Revenge, Gimme Gimme Gimme etc... etc... While Dale has lent his skills to the new album, he is currently contractually obligated for a stint on Celebrity Rehab. Still, as he has always done in the past, he will continue to provide insight and spiritual guidance to the current bass player.

The seeds of this reformation were planted when Reyes invited Ginn to perform with him at his birthday party some two and half years ago. Needless to say -- the party was a blast and the two vowed at that time to work on some songs together. The fruition of those efforts will culminate in the release of the new album  later this year.

Far from being a one-time grab, this reformation has BLACK FLAG recording and touring extensively both in the US and abroad. 

BLACK FLAG are excited to announce that they will be headlining the RUHRPOTT RODEO in Hünxe, Germany on May 18th 2013. 

BLACK FLAG are excited to announce that they will be playing the UK's Hevy Fest on Sunday August 4th. Celebrating it's 5th year this summer, Hevy is a completely independent hardcore, punk and metal festival with over 80 bands across 4 stages. The iconic band will be returning to Britain for the first time in almost 30 years, making their only UK appearance of 2013 at the festival.

BLACK FLAG is headlining the Muddy Roots Music Festival in Tennessee, Saturday August 31st, 2013. Muddy Roots is 100% independent and promotes artists ranging from bluegrass, old country to punk rock and everything in between. 3 days of camping WITH 60 bands.

More festival and tour dates to be announced soon including BLACK FLAG US Tour Fall 2013. 

Black Flag -- 2013 Tour Dates (more TBA soon)

May 18 Hünxe, Germany - Ruhrpott Rodeo
June 08 Chicago, IL - Reggie's
June 09 Chicago, IL - Reggie's
June 13 - 16 Brooklyn, NY - Northside Festival 2013
August 04 Kent, UK - Hevy Fest
August 01 Viveiro, Spain - Resurrection Fest 2013
August 31 Cookville, Tennessee - Muddy Roots Music Festival

The other Black Flag reunion, touring under the name Flag, features Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Bill Stevenson, and Stephen Egerton.  They play 3 European festival dates then head back to the US for The Punk Rock Bowling Fest in Vegas.

Flag tour dates

DATE	CITY	VENUE
4/26	Munich, Germany	Monster Bash Festival
4/27	Berlin, German	Monster Bash Festival
4/28	Meerhout, Belgium	Groezrock Festival

5/24- 5/27

Las Vegas, NV

Punk Rock    Bowling Fest!