Wotta weekend!



Friday May 13
at
Subterranean
Tankboy and donewaiting.com present

Rock Star Club
Milk At Midnight (CD Release)
Miranda Sound (CD Release)
The Cells

Doors 8:30
Show 9:00
$8 cover

I have poured blood, sweat and tears into this line-up. No, I kid. Actually excellence comes easily when all the bands are this good. Rock Star Club remains one of the absolute best live acts in the city of Chicago. If you like your rock and/or roll loud, raunchy and emotice without being emo these guys are the real deal. Release their new EP is milk At Midnight and while I could gush over this trio for pages and pages on end suffice it to say that they play the kind of music that most of the Chicago indie scene wishes they could write. Miranda Sound are on tour and have been making their way to Chicago from Columus, OH and they contributed half the material to the first donewaiting.com album released earlier this year. This serves as the Chicago CD release. And, at the risk of repeating myself, these guys are another great live band. Opening are The Cells (yup, a great live band) and while their new CD isn’t out yet expect to hear a bunch of their terrific new material.

Seriously. If you go to rock shows to nod your head and clap half-heartedly for a band that’s too cool for school you should probably just skip this show. Everyone else? I’ll see you there.

Also, Chicagoist has very nice things to say about tonight's show.
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Saturday May 14
at
Bottom Lounge

Light FM
Textbook (CD Release)
The Strategy Game
The Assembly

Doors ?
Show 8:00
$8 cover

Okay, I have nothing professionally to do with this show but, on a personal level, it’s a doozy. Josiah of Light FM is up and moving to California (boo!) so this may well be the final show for Light FM as we know and love them. Also on the bill is Textbook and I can’t state just how strongly I love love love their new album. Come see what I’m talking about and buy your own copy. I’ve never seen The Strategy Game but they seem like nice enough fellows. And opening is The Assembly. I noticed that MPShows nicked my description of the band and put it on their web-site so here it is: Dave Suh of Woolworthy and Caviar is leading a new band and they’ve got songs that could urge thousands to jump up and down in unison while thrusting their Bics into the air at Reading Festival.