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| Wednesday, May 16 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| JAPANESE ACTION COMIC PUNK- $10 IN ADVANCE AND $12 DAY OF SHOW |
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PEELANDER-Z Website
PEELANDER-Z, the Japanese Action Comic Punk Band based in NYC, was originally formed in 1998 by Peelander-Yellow, Peelander-Red, and Peelander-Blue, after meeting in New York City (although they'll tell you they're all from the Z area on the planet Peelander). Peelander-Green was welcomed in July 2008 after Blue left the band.
Peelander-Z has appeared at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, CMJ and SXSW, and played with artists such as Buckethead, Electric SIx, Particles, The Vibrators, and Guitar Wolf. Peelander-Z has also been featured on TV programs like VH1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade, Spike TV's MXC: Most Extreme Challenge, and Anime Network. They also often perform at Anime conventions and festivals all over the US, as well as at Kaiju Big Battel.
At their live show, you'll see the band in colorful costumes reminiscent of Japanese Animation, though they describe their outfit as their skin. Their shows guarantee intense audience participation and chance to exercise with the band. "Do human bowling with us. Do limbo dancing with us. Do karaoke competition with us. Hit our cowbell with us," says Yellow. " Don't be shy, give us your smile! We can beat your stress! See you at our show!"
One experience would capture you. Just pay attention to their coming activities.
ARC IMPULSE Website
Arc Impulse combines its members' eclectic musical backgrounds to create a force of orchestra and synth video game rock. If you think you've seen them before, you probably have. From 2004-2010, they played throughout the United States as the Spoony Bards, sharing billboard space with the likes of The Protomen, Steve Conte, Super 8 Bit Brothers, Peelander Z, Lemon Demon, and Video Games Live. But it was time for a change. You may have seen them before, but you haven't heard them before. Prepare for battle.
RAMOVA Website
"The B-movie bandits of Ramova shimmy and shout like a last defense against the giant, radioactive ants."
-Time Out Chicago
"Ramova plays raunchy-but-tight punk - and while countless other bands make a career of sounding like they're going to lapse into complete chaos at any moment, the Chicago trio makes it clear that it's always in control."
-the ONION
"Chicago's lovely garagistas"
-Time Out Chicago
"The three-piece slaughterhouse rock 'n' roll of Chicago minor threat Ramova kind of destroys everything in it's path, an assault on both your appreciation of modern garage rock and throwback, power chord brawls. Live, the band's downright loud and fun. On Tape, the band has an innocent, if destructive, charm that's unavoidable and immediate. And the band's "Genghis Khan" is the best song you'll ever hear titled after a Mongolian warmonger. Advice? Enjoy with whiskey or beer. Or both."
-New City Chicago
"Not a band to take a challenge of rock lightly...Thor and Dio smiled down approvingly from Valhalla as they shined their enchanted light of rock upon Ramova so that all might witness its glory… of rock"
-KEXP Seattle ..
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS:
1/2 Off ALL Appetizers
$4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails
$5 Long Island Iced Teas
$5 Herradura Margaritas
$3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts
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| Thursday, May 17 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| INDIE/FOLK/ROCK |
ALAR WAVEWebsite
ELLIOT STREET LUNATIC Website
Elliot Street Lunatic delivers their message of cosmic love from the starry skied depths of space. Their intergalactic voyage began with the discovery of the delay pedal. This band is able to give you the sound of the future without the aid of a delorean or the speed of 88 mph.
THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Website
THE CUTTHROAT DRIFTERS Website
The Cutthroat Drifters are quickly building a grassroots following with their own brand of classic rock and roll. Look for their first recordings in April, and catch one of their upcoming shows.
THURSDAYS SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Burgers & Sandwiches/w Fries $4 Bombs $5 Cabo Wabo $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Jack Daniels Cocktails $5 Moscow Mule $2.50 PBR tall boy cans *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Friday, May 18 • 5:30 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE HAPPY HOUR SHOW |
DASTARDLY SOLOWebsite
Dastardly is a Chicago outfit that plays americana music with just the right ratio of “sticky-sweet” to “fuckin’ shit up.” Every note is deliberate and controlled, but just barely masks an urgent and immediate sense of existential, frantic terror that must be slowly driving them mad.
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| Friday, May 18 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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ELECTRIC BOOGALOOWebsite
The Electric Boogaloo is a 6-piece funk/progressive/fusion band that has been evolving in the Chicagoland area since 2004. In this time, the band has created a concert experience that speaks to people of all ages and cultures. The music is visceral, yet intellectual, mixing complex arrangements and harmonies with funk inspired grooves and smooth textures. All of these qualities, as well as a penchant for improvisation lend The Electric Boogaloo an edge in today's music scene, opening channels for mutual exchange between the audience and the performer. Their compositional techniques illustrate a deviation from symmetrical "Rock" and "Pop" stylings, directly opposing the idea that there is a set formula for musical enjoyment. The Boogaloo strives to institute a paradigm shift within the "jam" genre by consistently changing the perception of how a band must operate and communicate with its audience.
THE DELTA SAINTS Website
It’s a fusion of traditional southern soul and funk-inspired power, all layered with furious harmonica lines that simultaneously tie the group together and threaten to tear it apart. As if the warm familiar melody of rootsy porch music has been plugged in and turned up, The Delta Saints are driving listeners from the comforting recline of their porch swings right to the edge of their seats.
BROWN BAG Website
Formed in Fall 2010, Brown Bag is a new, organic, rock band hailing from the South-Side of Chicago, Illinois. Influences include folk, punk, jazz and even electronic elements.
THE HEARD Website
FRIDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 price bottles of wine $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater $3 312 Bottles $7 Patron Shots
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| Saturday, May 19 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| WRECKING BALL PRODUCTION PRESENTS... G8 & NATO SMASHUP TIX $5 ADVANCE, $8 DAY OF SHOW |
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VOICE OF ADDICTIONWebsite
TURBO VAMPS! Website
We are a Punk Band From Chicago Illinois, we love what we do. We have been here since Winter 2005 and plan on working hard to get our music heard!
NOTHING TO GAIN Website
GIRAFFES EATING LIONS Website
FIGHTING FOR SCRAPS Website
Hard working blue collared punks Fighting For Scraps are a highly aggressive Melodic/Punk/Hardcore band from the south suburbs of Chicago. Fighting For Scrap's highly aggressive sound is loud and heavy. Fueled by explosive drumming, dynamic guitar riffs, thunderous bass lines and old school, raspy vocals, Fighting For Scraps pushes the boundaries of punk.
SATURDAY SPECIALS:
$4 Bloody's featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka
$3.50 Victoria Bottles
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| Sunday, May 20 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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APOLLO HOUSEWebsite
Features high energy performances with full band often cranked to 11, and a fiery blues sound pushing the speakers from start to finish. The sound is an amalgamation of predominately blues rock, acid rock, and classic rock influences funneled into original compositions. Compositions have been compared to anything from Hendrix to the White Stripes, and manage to seem contemporary while being a proud derivation of 70s rock.
THE KUHLS Website
With Renee on keys and Grace on acoustic guitar and a Gretsch Electromatic, the Kuhls have created a sound that is unique, colored by distinct harmonies and true musicianship. The styles that influence their songwriting are diverse, ranging from 90s indie rock to folk singer-songwriters like John Prine and Ray Lamontagne to the best of 60s and 70s soul and rock. Based in Chicago, the Kuhls perform live frequently across the Midwest, visiting their hometown on a regular basis, as well as cities like Milwaukee and Indianapolis.
TINY MILES AND THE BIG KIDS Website
SUNDAY SPECIALS: $5 all you can eat Sloppy Joe's $13 Buckets of Miller & Bud Bottles (Mix & Match) $4 Guinness & Smithwicks drafts $4 Bloody's featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka $5 Ketel Cocktails $5 Captain Cocktails $2.50 Busch tall boy cans $2.00 Blatz, Hamm's, Old Milwaukee & Stroh's cans *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Monday, May 21 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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RACESWebsite
RACES exists as a result of artistic rebirth and personal rediscovery, but it all starts at a point in Wade Ryff’s life where motivation was at its most scarce. Disillusioned with music, beset with the bitter ending of a relationship with a real life witch and faced with the overwhelming stagnation of being a 23-year old in the sleepy suburban outpost of Van Nuys, during that time, Ryff wrote the pleading lyrics of “Big Broom” in the bathroom of his parents house. He explains the song’s message as “accepting that every ending is a new beginning, and even if we may have no control over when things are given or taken from us, we can always choose how to respond.”
Whether he realized it or not at the time, it would serve as a mission statement for a handful of musicians in the area who were also idling through their 20’s and desperate for a new beginning. Breanna Wood, Lucas Ventura, Devon Lee and Oliver Hild knew each other prior to RACES’ first show, played in bands together, and oh yeah, either had dated or were currently dating each other. Still, nothing could anticipate it all coming together for Year Of The Witch, a life-affirming document forged from the pain of a time when life feels most uncertain and coming out of it renewed.
In a mad dash, Ryff and Herberg got in touch with some of their old friends and bandmates and assembled a “dream team,” five additional musicians from around the area he admired, including Hild on bass, Herberg on guitar, Wood on keyboards, and Lee on vocals and percussion. Ventura would play drums for the second RACES show and they’d lose a backup vocalist who went to focus on her solo project (Ryff empathizes), but otherwise, RACES has remained exactly the same since that very first gig.
At its core, there are plenty of sad songs and waltzes – “The Knife,” “Walk Through The Fire” and “All For You” all have a melodic and lyrical directness befitting their origins as Ryff’s solo work. But as Ryff admits, “I didn’t want to play music that’s just a sappy guy on an acoustic guitar,” and RACES flesh them out to swoon with dramatic grandeur and earthen rusticity behind Ryff’s plaintive words. It’s a startling show of sophistication from a band who has only been together for less than two years. The ornate orchestration and vocal arrangements on the female-led counterpoint “Don’t Be Cruel” in particular owe their origins to Herberg’s background as a composer – he’s the one who brings Ryff’s Leonard Cohen fantasies to fruition. Quoth Ryff, “he’s our Brian Jones.”
But even with the speed at which RACES are going forward, they haven’t gotten complacent in the slightest – they’re already working out new material for their next album, which they hope will integrate more of the electronic textures they’ve been experimenting with and won’t be so much “about a girl,” as Ryff jokes. But their goals are still modest – maybe playing the Bowery Ballroom in New York, getting better as musicians, the sort of things deemed worthy to a band that isn’t looking to piggyback on any sort of hype cycle. But what do they hope for most of all? Ryff puts it best: “I’d rather get dropped and start back at the beginning than not have fun with these guys.” It’s a fitting mission statement for a band for whom every show feels as exciting as that very first one.
SIMPLE MACHINES Website
European transplant Samir Merchant, local Chicagoan Patrick Hiller, and California native Connor Lynch formed the first incarnation of Simple Machines in 2009, working out of Hyde Park. In the time since then, the trio has been writing material and honing their craft, as well as adding a keyboardist and a full time drummer to their line up.
Hinging their musical influences on such acts as Radiohead, Blur, Coldplay and Foo Fighters, Simple Machines work to create quality songs, never settling for anything less.
Spirit of the Shoreland (2011), is the band's first release, receiving good initial acclaim and establishing themselves into the local scene.
MONDAY SPECIALS:
$1 Tacos all day long
1/2 PRICE "All 25 DRAFT BEERS ON TAP"
$3 Finlandia Vodka Cocktails
$4 Maker's Mark
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| Tuesday, May 22 • 7:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 SHOW AT 7PM! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
BRITT DIGNAN BAND Website
BRITT DIGNAN is an accomplished singer/songwriter from the Southside of Chicago, with a unique take on music and drive to create something fresh and new. Playing music since the ripe old age of 7 he has fine tuned his craft to stand out amongst the modern music scene, writing and performing his originals all over the Chicagoland area. Britt's writing truly reflects the ups and downs that life throws our way. You can feel the emotion hanging on every word, there is no lie or stretch of truth in his songs. It’s refreshing in this day and age to see an artist who strives only to play and write what they want: "If it’s not something I feel reflects the way I see or hear music, I simply won’t play it. After all the only one I have to prove something to is myself and that’s only half the battle." - Britt Dignan. After being part of many bands around Chicago, Britt finally found a group of musicians who share the same drive and passion for music as he does, with the likes of: DAVE CAMPBELL, SAUL (SALTY)ORTEGA, SCOTT MAST, and MICHAEL DUFFY.
THE NUMBERS Website
The Numbers are an Alternative band hailing from the windy city of Chicago. With an excellent live show, and catchy tunes to groove to, The Numbers are steadily building an impressive fan base, and with recent play on local radio, their debut album Sunny Side Up promises to be only the beginning from the new Chicago staple.
BIG ANT'S JAM SESSION Website
Bring your BASS or HORN or GUITAR or STICKS or WHATEVER you play, and come sit in with some of Chicagos best . Big Ants Jam session is an open improv session play jazz, soul , punk , rock or whatever style of music is appropiate for the time at the time they play it. The everchanging band is curated by drummer, Anthony Capers.
TUESDAY SPECIALS: 25 cent jumbo wings - BEST IN THE CITY!!! $4 Jim Beam Cocktails $5 Jameson Cocktails $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Cabo Wabo $3 Corona Bottles $2.50 PBR tall boy cans Food Specials *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, May 23 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, May 23 • 7:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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PAT MCCURDYWebsite
Pat McCurdy is a musician who hails from Milwaukee and is finding a small but growing cult following across the country. In addition to playing in Milwaukee, he regularly plays all over Wisconsin, as well as northern Illinois (mainly Chicago) and Minneapolis.
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, May 24 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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M13Website
M13 is a 13 piece ensemble formed to to play fresh, original music and/or contemporary arrangements written by Aaron McEvers. It is comprised of professional musicians who bring their different backgrounds and skills to bear on music that is compositionally driven, and rendered with improvised sections. Though jazz is the backbone of this band, the group is unapologetically cross-genre and difficult to define with common analogies.
PSYCLES Website
THURSDAYS SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Burgers & Sandwiches/w Fries $4 Bombs $5 Cabo Wabo $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Jack Daniels Cocktails $5 Moscow Mule $2.50 PBR tall boy cans *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Friday, May 25 • 5:30 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE HAPPY HOUR SHOW |
DAVID PRUSINAWebsite
Black sheep, singer and songwriter, David Prusina takes a bare bones approach to his brand of country & folk music. Songs of travel, lost love and overindulgence abound as he attempts to bridge the gap between old and new. Prusina's songs are simple and honest...and if you're looking to buy him a drink...he'll have a vodka gimlet please.
FRIDAY SPECIALS:
1/2 price bottles of wine
$5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater
$3 312 Bottles
$7 Patron Shots
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| Friday, May 25 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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COLD COUNTRYWebsite
FOX THE CAT Website
Fox The Cat is an indie rock band that consists of five close friends, all residing in Chicago, IL. The band was formed in October of 2011. "Our good friend Alex, his cat's name is Fox." says lead guitarist, Abe. Deciding on a band name must be easy when you have cool friends with cool names for their pets. It seems as though things continued to come just as easily to them. Over the span of the last few weeks as they have been writing and recording their first three songs while finding their drummer to complete the band. Everything the band creates comes from a complete collaboration between their members. As of right now, this is just the beginning for Fox The Cat. Paul has hopped on board as their drummer joining Casey on vocals, Abe on lead guitar, Jimmy on rhythm guitar, and Luke on bass. They are working hard to get more of their catchy tunes out so stay tuned and we're sure you'll like what you hear.
THE WELCOME Website
WAVVY HANDS Website
Taking the impressive songwriting and unique style he honed in those other acts, he’s applied it to the songs Wavvy Hands brings to the world. Synth player Corey Densmore had also been involved in the local music scene for a while, but at another level. He has been booking shows in Mid-Michigan since 2007 and even organizes the annual music festival “Midwest Fest” in Mt. Pleasant every year.
FRIDAY SPECIALS:
1/2 price bottles of wine
$5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater
$3 312 Bottles
$7 Patron Shots
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| Saturday, May 26 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $10.00 |
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| HONKY TONK LEGEND!! |
BILLY DON BURNSWebsite
Billy Don Burns has been around the honky tonk for a lot of years. The Arkansas Native has been through the darkest forest that life could put in front of them and has emerged rougher, leaner and possessed of a talent so enormous it's a wonder a single body could posses it. With "Heros, Friends and other Troubled Souls". Burns pays solid tribute not only to his own hard road but to other heart sore folks who traveled it before him. Every song is a tremendous work of art aimed at those troubled souls he writes for. It's honest and often harsh but so brillantly constructed and performed, it'll blow you completely away.
COCHINO Y LOS PISTEROS Website
Back in the marshes of the Carolinas came an ooozzze of country pickin' stank the likes of which had never been seen before. Cochino needed a posse and slunk his way westward to Chicago and found The Pistoleros - a crazed bunch of lowdown scallywags and car thieves. The rest is history.
Hide yer wimmen.
GUTTERBILLY BOYS Website
Four miserable lonely souls decided to get away from shitty music and go back to basics. Two guitars, a stand up bass, a blazing banjo/mandolin, harmonica and a heart full of sorrow.
GANELLE & DONNY RAY Website
Ganelle Djarlo is a Country/Americana Singer/Songwriter who has performed and worked with music in many places all over the world from Nashville to New Zealand. Ganelle has been performing since the age of 3, and began songwriting at the young age of 14. Ganelle's songs are real and come straight from a woman's soul.
Donny Ray Reed is a Country Soul songwriter. Donny Ray has lived, traveled, and toured throughout Europe and the United States, and writes about the many unique experiences and people that he has come across on his path.
Ganelle and Donny Ray offer a truly unique and talent filled show by combining Ganelle's original Americana/Country songs, Donny Ray's original Country Soul songs, along with traditional country and soul covers from Patsy Cline to Willie Nelson to Dottie West to Ray Charles.
SATURDAY SPECIALS: $4 Bloody's featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka $3.50 Victoria Bottles
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| Sunday, May 27 • Ages 21+ |
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| CRAWFISH AND SOX! |
CRAWFISH BOIL!$30 includes all-u-can-eat crawfish with fixin's, White Sox ticket and bus ride to and from the game! Root on the Sox when the battle the Cleveland Indians and then enjoy the buffet after the game!
Not going to the game? Feast on crawfish for $20!
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| Sunday, May 27 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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THROUGH THE ROOTS Website
THROUGH THE ROOTS' uplifting music includes a tantalizing blend of reggae,
rock, and pop mixed with a vast array of ear pleasing guitar, drums and
keyboard/synth play to mesh with the band's catchy vocals, creating its unique
sounds. TTR excels in live performances, allowing its young and older fans to
truly experience the total musical package as the pumping crowd is wrapped into a high-energy, free-flowing show that leaves fans with a positive reaction.
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| Monday, May 28 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $10.00 |
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| TOUR SPONSORED BY METAL INSIDER! |
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GOES CUBEWebsite
Goes Cube has steadily gained attention as one of the most intense bands in both their hometown of New York City, and beyond. Their music is a brutal blend of metal, punk, and full-on rock, and is performed with an urgency rarely witnessed or experienced anymore. None of the members have any sort of formal or traditional training on their instruments, and as a result their music—from the dizzying and unexpected drum fills, bizarrely and lowly-tuned guitars, and unrelenting bass—has a singularity in its sound and structure that simply does not exist elsewhere. - SXSW
EXOTIC ANIMAL PETTING ZOO Website
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo is an experimental/prog/rock band from Crown Point, Indiana that was formed in 2004 by brothers Brandon and Stephen Carr. Their initial sound combines the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, and Sigur Rós.
ARBOGAST Website
Based in Chicago, IL arbogast played their first show on a frigid evening in February 2009 at the Metal Shaker with Aseethe and Shores of the Tundra. arbogast has maintained momentum playing numerous shows and sharing the stage with bands including East of the Wall, Bison BC, Gates of Slumber, Czar, Look What I Did, Across Tundras, Name, Tidal Arms and Admiral Browning.
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| Tuesday, May 29 • 7:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 SHOW AT 7PM! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
EVERGREEN Website
Evergreen is a high energy jam band out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, blending the styles of rock, jazz, funk, bluegrass,ambient, and many more, through extensive live improvisation, for a totally unique sound
BIG ANT'S JAM SESSION Website
Bring your BASS or HORN or GUITAR or STICKS or WHATEVER you play, and come sit in with some of Chicagos best . Big Ants Jam session is an open improv session play jazz, soul , punk , rock or whatever style of music is appropiate for the time at the time they play it. The everchanging band is curated by drummer, Anthony Capers.
TUESDAY SPECIALS: 25 cent jumbo wings - BEST IN THE CITY!!! $4 Jim Beam Cocktails $5 Jameson Cocktails $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Cabo Wabo $3 Corona Bottles $2.50 PBR tall boy cans Food Specials *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, May 30 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
THE VOODOO FIX Website
Originally from Perth, WA, Australia, The Voodoo Fix is on their fourth national tour. Since 2007, the band has been constantly playing clubs, festivals, and college campuses, growing their fan base from coast to coast in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and New England. They are currently touring the East Coast full time and are recording songs for their fourth record.
The Voodoo Fip spent the Winter of 2011 in a remote mountain cabin, producing their debut LP, Not For Nothing. Recorded live and in three days, the album is a reflection of intense musical exploration with elements of rock, funk, and folk. To promote the release of Not For Nothing, The Voodoo Fix toured across the country playing free shows on organic farms to raise money for independent farmers in what became known as 'Tour-Ganic'. With dates throughout the East Coast and new releases soon to be announced, the Voodoo crew is busier than ever, delivering a fix everywhere they go.
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, May 31 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $8.00 |
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| CLASSIC ALBUMS |
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THE WHO "QUADROPHENIA" Website
THE REPLACMENTS "TIM" Website
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| Friday, June 1 • 5:30 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| AFTER WORK WITH JIMBO DELTA BLUES |
JIMBO DELTAWebsite
People who've seen a lot in the music business see something special in Jimbo-Delta... A longtime Chicago blues artist introduced Jimbo-Delta as "The Real Deal"... The Chicago Sun Times says... "Jimbo Delta, a k a Jim Parks, gives winks to the region his moniker suggests with clean resonator guitars and the vocal range of a young Johnny Cash. Parks considers himself to be true Americana, something the lazy river strings of his debut long player, "Hypnotized" (2002), certainly reflect. But new tunes in the works flash electric-guitar effects and pitter-patter blues beats. Either way, the man's got a knack for blending new sentiments with old traditions." Jimbo-Delta truly is authentic Americana Roots music.
FRIDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 price bottles of wine $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater $3 312 Bottles $7 Patron Shots
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| Friday, June 1 • 10:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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CORBIN MARSHWebsite
BEESON BROTHERS Website
A culmination of high energy blues, rock and funk music is what The Beeson Brothers bring to the stage. Enjoy deep driving bass lines, powerful drum rhythms, soulful organ & keys and cutting guitar lines with raw blues lyrics. The band thrives off of live performances and has been making itself a regular showcase in the midwest. Based out of Champaign, Illinois the band consists of four brothers that hail from the northern suburbs of Chicago. Ryne Beeson plays guitar and sings lead vocals, Myles Beeson is on drums and percussion, Drew Beeson can be found on keys, guitar, and vocals, and Callan Beeson is on bass, harmonica and vocals. Drawing from many past and modern influences, including genres of world music for their creative inspiration, the brothers have been writing and are preparing to lay down some original tracks in the coming months. Check out the bands website and online sources for more info on the brothers and an updated schedule of shows.
SHILOH Website
A six and sometimes seven piece of people who enjoy playing American music. Midwestern boys making midwestern noise.
FRIDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 price bottles of wine $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater $3 312 Bottles $7 Patron Shots
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| Saturday, June 2 • Ages 21+ |
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| PIG ROAST AND ROCK N ROLL! |
ROOFTOP PIG ROAST!$20 for ticket plus the pig roast! Just want to eat delicious swine? $10 for the Pig Roast buffet on the Reggies Rooftop Deck!
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| Saturday, June 2 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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HOT NERDS (SAN DIEGO)Website
Music for DORKS made by DORKS (members of Some Girls, All Leather)
MANIC ZAMBONI Website
Manic Zamboni offers further evidence that there's some malevolent nerdiness lurking in the practice spaces of Wisconsin, building songs as much on deviously timed noise squiggles as on deviously timed psych-metal riffs. For all the meetings of dub and math-rock that go on in the band's songs, a ballsy rhythm section makes it all pretty damn gratifying even for those who like their rock a little less convoluted.
PERFECTION Website
EVERY GIRL WANTS A BAD BOY THAT SOUNDS LIKE THIS...PERFECTION
SNAKEPARTY Website
SATURDAY SPECIALS: $4 Bloody's featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka $3.50 Victoria Bottles
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| Sunday, June 3 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $7.00 |
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| ROCKABILLY/PUNK |
TRACER BULLETWebsite
Taking the sounds of soul bathing them in the cleansing waters of the punk rock they grew up playing, Tracer Bullet has created a sound entirely their own.
One part manic energy and one part street soul the boys howl out a message designed to cross genre boundaries. With consistently danceable rhythms and high energy melodies Tracer Bullet paints a musical picture that will bring to mind the fantasy of watching Wilson Pickett sing with The Clash. So rub the sleep out from your eyes and Lookout! Here comes Tracer Bullet!
NIGHT BRIGADE Website
The Night Brigade formed in late 2008 in Normal, IL on the campus of Illinois State University out of a thriving DIY scene made up of drunken, sloppy, wild, packed shows in basements, kitchens and garages in several houses in the area. The DIY shows in Normal bring in touring bands from all over the country and it only makes sense for a few bands to come out of that environment, as well. The Night Brigade's debut E.P. was released in the summer of 2009, which was a busy year for the band, including a string of Ease Coast and Midwest dates, including a Warped Tour appearance and a couple of motorcycle rallies, including Sturgis, South Dakota as well as playing with The Bouncing Souls at their Home For The Holidays festival in Asbury Park, N.J. 2010 was a slow year for The Night Brigade, but with a fresh batch of songs that have yet to be released, some new transportation and way too much time off 2011 is shaping up to be a fun and busy year.
MODERN DAY RIPPERS Website
Get ready for the new shit babies. You thought you seen it all...you ain't seen nothin'. It's time to rip it up in a modern way, it's time to rip it up in the modern day, It's time for the MODERN DAY RIPPERS! Featuring members of Rotten Fruits, Hotlips Messiah, Turbo Vamps, and Brothers in Crime. You've been warned bitches.
AL & THE BLACK CATS Website
Al & the Black Cats is an American Rock n Roll band that combines much of the flare and musicianship of 50's Rockabilly music with the speed and attitude of Punk Rock.
SUNDAY SPECIALS: $5 all you can eat Sloppy Joe's $13 Buckets of Miller & Bud Bottles (Mix & Match) $4 Guinness & Smithwicks drafts $4 Bloody's featuring Absolut Peppar Vodka $5 Ketel Cocktails $5 Captain Cocktails $2.50 Busch tall boy cans $2.00 Blatz, Hamm's, Old Milwaukee & Stroh's cans *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Tuesday, June 5 • 3:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE ACOUSTIC SHOW ON THE ROOFTOP! |
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KRISTEN FORD Website
ANNA RAE Website
MATTHEW WYLDER
MARK GILL
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| Tuesday, June 5 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
BLAYER POINT-DU-JOUR & ROCKERS GALORE Website
Blayer Point-du-jour is a seasoned multi-instrumentalist based out of Philadelphia that creates Reggae/Hip Hop/Pop.
TUESDAY SPECIALS: 25 cent jumbo wings - BEST IN THE CITY!!! $4 Jim Beam Cocktails $5 Jameson Cocktails $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Cabo Wabo $3 Corona Bottles $2.50 PBR tall boy cans Food Specials *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, June 6 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, June 7 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| SOUL/BLUES/POP |
CHRIS TIRITILLIWebsite
Chris is a Chicago musician spreading a message of positivity through his music. His' songwriting blends soul/blues/pop with the likes of John Mayer/John Legend, and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix/SRV. Check him out...
Chris has appeared on WGN's Morning Television show and continues to play many venues throughout Chicago including House of Blues, Metro, Double Door, Martyrs, Subterranean, Beat Kitchen, Elbo Room, Reggies and Festivals including Stompkee Festival, Hertiage Fest & Woodridge Jubilee.
Chris has recently released his second record, "Continue To Continue" ... check it out!
You can also hear Chris' first release, "Spiritlike Essentials" recorded and produced by Alan Evans of Soulive.
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| Friday, June 8 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $10.00 |
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| 2ND ANNUAL CHICAGO WOMEN IN THE BLUES FESTIVAL AFTER-PARTY |
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WOMEN IN THE BLUES!Website Listen
A bevy of blues-belting bombshells take center stage in this high-energy blues review, featuring a rotating roster of Chicagoland's top female blues performers. The show is dedicated to the memories of the original great blues women of Chicago.
This year's show will include Holle Thee Maxwell, Peaches Staten, Vivian Vance Kelly, Tracee Adams, Ramblin' Rose, Dia Madden, Sweet Bev Perron, plus Chicago Blues Challenge Winners Liz Mandeville and Donna Herula.
Joan Gand, keyboardist, hosts with her band Blue Road.
FRIDAY SPECIALS:
1/2 price bottles of wine
$5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater
$3 312 Bottles
$7 Patron Shots
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| Saturday, June 9 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $15.00 |
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| DELMARK RECORDS BLUES BLOWOUT AND THROWDOWN |
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THE ROCKIN' JOHNNY BAND CD RELEASE FOR 'GRIM REAPER'
STUDEBAKER JOHNS' MAXWELL STREET KINGS Website
Super rare appearance by critically acclaimed group with one of the top blues CD's for 2011.
JIMMY BURNS WITH ROCKIN' JOHNNY REUNION SET Website
Singer, guitarist, and songwriter, Jimmy Burns is a contemporary bluesman who combines his Delta roots with R&B and soul to come up with a sound uniquely his own. Burns is a charismatic performer with an expressive, soulful, voice and a melodic guitar style to match.
EDDIE TAYLOR JR'S WESTSIDE GUITAR SHOWCASE A true Chicago treasure keeping the Chicago blues tradition alive.
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| Monday, June 11 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| DEAD BUNDY & THE NEATS NEATS |
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DEAD BUNDY & THE NEATS NEATSWebsite
A fuckin' winter-land-psycho-band.
JOHN LAMANTIA Website
John Lamantia, of local Chicago duo Drinkin' Doubles: A dynamic duo of rock 'n roll goodness and soulful song writing. We play the ones you know and the ones you want to know more about. Rockabilly, alt country, and our own special sauce called Soulbilly mixing the best of soul and rock 'n roll.
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| Tuesday, June 12 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
MOJO STONE Website
This band is the real deal, a true down home southern band despite their current location in L.A.. Modern acts should take note of Mojo Stone and get re-aquainted with their roots.
TUESDAY SPECIALS: 25 cent jumbo wings - BEST IN THE CITY!!! $4 Jim Beam Cocktails $5 Jameson Cocktails $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Cabo Wabo $3 Corona Bottles $2.50 PBR tall boy cans Food Specials *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, June 13 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, June 14 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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TANTRIC PICASSOWebsite
Tantric Picasso is a six piece rock revivalist group with a new age metaphysical twist. Their ability to infuse blues and psychedelia into screaming guitar riffs, driving drums and grooving bass is an experience reminiscent of the 60's era. The dynamical set lists range from harmonica and banjo, acoustic folk ballads to electronic beats that keep us dancing.This is a high energy group that delivers a powerful performance that is engaging to watch and romantic to be apart of.
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| Thursday, June 14 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $10.00 |
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| The Split Livers featuring Danny Barnes (BAD LIVERS) and Wayne Gottstine (SPLITLIP RAYFIELD) |
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THE SPLIT LIVERSThe Split Livers is a collaborative project between two of the most influential musicians in the alternative/acoustic punk bluegrass scene.
Danny is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and genre-bending artists of his craft, Barnes' musical interests are both varied and adventurous, and he incorporates that versatility into a progressive approach to an instrument that is musically polarizing and steeped in tradition. Although he demonstrates an appreciation for the history of the bluegrass, country, and folk music from which the banjo's reputation was born, his inventive take is what truly separates him from his contemporaries…using the banjo as his ‘weapon of choice’ to play non-traditional music like rock, fusion, and jazz with electronic percussion and loop elements.
Wayne and Split Lip Rayfield have carved out their own genre of music with their unique sound and instrumentation. Often described as a mix of bluegrass and country with an accent of metal Split Lip Rayfield has been a pioneer on the music scene, bending musical genres and crossing countless boundaries of musical expectations.
Together Danny and Wayne bring you an experience like nothing else - Danny and Wayne are joining forces to bring you some classic songs from each of their band's repertoire while also blazing new trails (expect a to see an album release in the near future) that will change the face of music, yet again.
BENTON HARBOR LUNCHBOX Website
A Benton Harbor Lunchbox is amateur-radio parlance for a transmitter/receiver made by the Heathkit Co. of Benton Harbor, MI, in the early 1960s. Brilliant in its simplicity, intuitive, and fully functional, it harnesses the power of the airwaves to bring all the lonesome souls together.Inspired by the rudimentary technology that is their namesake, this Chicago-based group makes music with a similar purpose: To transmit and receive the collective consciousness, sometimes emotionally, sometimes cerebrally, and sometimes viscerally, like a kick to the crotch. Their literate, unpretentious, and undomesticated homage to the American underground speaks for itself-- and hopefully to you.
TUMBLING BONES Website
"The twenty-somethings who make up the trio - Peter Winne, Jake Hoffman, and Sam McDougle - have been callousing their hands and pushing their vocal chords for years as they’ve toured, recorded, and breathed traditional folk music. Their lucid take on old American music has taken them them from street-performing in Copenhagen and Berlin to venues along the east coast to an acclaimed 2007 performance on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Their debut album Risk Not Your Soul (2011) reached the top ten on the Roots Music Report's folk radio chart, and they recently finished tracking a second record set to release in June."
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| Friday, June 15 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| JOHNNY ROGER ALBUM RELEASE SHOW |
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JOHNNY ROGER Website
Influenced by surf, metal and psychedelia, Johnny Roger takes cues from all three, mixes 'em up, and arrives at a sound that pays homage to each, but doesn't sound like any of them. Fueled on beer, car exhaust and horror and martial arts films, they write songs that hit on just the right mix of power and melody. Armed with attitude, talent and twin-reverb amps, they'll soon bring the rock to a venue near you.
THE HEAVIES Website
the rock bands call us a surf band, the surf bands call us a rock band.....we are the HEAVIES!!! BIG drums-FAT bass-STINGING guitars...check us out and be overcome by a tsunami of sound! Christmas 1999: Jason and I were talking about music and got on the subject of surf-instro and both expressed interest in playing it. Three months later we started getting together at his place and learned about 15-20 songs with me playing rhythm and him on lead. We looked for about 18 months for a drummer and bass player with no luck. Jay knew Jim from some job sites they had worked at and asked him to play drums with us. The 3 of us started practicing regularly in the spring of '02 in Jim's parents' garage while we kept looking for a bass player. Jim's Dad thought the stuff we were playing sounded great and started learning the bass lines. We played our first "show" labor day weekend 2002 at a 3-band birthday party as a 4-piece. Two months later, his dad passed the bass duties on to Jim's brother, who moved to California and soon the revolving door started. After 4 years and 7 different bass players we decided to become a 3 piece and Jay and I switch between bass and guitar during sets.
THE ALLEGIANCE Website
Formed in late 2009 in Joliet, IL these seasoned rockers have four different backgrounds that created a whole new sound for the Rock genre. This band is known as THE ALLEGIANCE:
Scott: "BassplayinMoFO" (Bass)- a former guitarist turned Bass guitar madman. Heavily influenced by early punk and alternative. Look for him somewhere OTHER than the stage.
Keith: "V-ROD" (Drummer)- behind the kit on and off since age 2. This busy kicking rocker has a style all his own. Early '80s and alternative are his fav flav's. Always a comedian.
Brian: "Face" (guitar)- a closet guitarist for 15 years. A diverse mix of influences from "old school" metal, alternative with a "bluesy" feeling. The newbie to the music scene but, no slouch.
Ben: "Shanks" (frontman, guitar)- The newest and most awaited member to The Allegiance. This brilliant 5 year music vet was born of punk and metal, but peppered with some classic training. Diverse vocals and guitar work that melt your heart or tear out of your chest. Energy, spontaneity, and commanding of your attention.
DUCK Website
FRIDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 price bottles of wine $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater $3 312 Bottles $7 Patron Shots
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| Saturday, June 16 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $8.00 |
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BOOM CHICKWebsite
Friday night loft party. Summer heat. Youth gather for connection & reverberation. Close your eyes. Forget what year it is. The song is telling a story. Someone is grabbing you, swaying step in step. Tremelo swirls. You are on the floor, kissing. Melodies & emotions rise & fall. Surf breeze & a desert moon. Animal eyes sparkle in the midnight forest. You feel the beat of the big drum through the floor. Your friends help you up, you are dancing again.
Boom Chick is Frank Hoier on guitar & vocals and Moselle Spiller on drums. Formed in Brooklyn, NY Sept 2009, their sound is a reflection of their ecstatic love for early American rock & roll, surf guitar, early country music & Delta blues. They have released one album to date, Show Pony and as of February, 2012 a 7" single Shake Can Well. Since 2010 Boom Chick has completed 4 full American tours. Beginning February 2012 a 3 month tour will again bring them to every corner of America.
THE SEXISTS Website
The shoes of a giant green ogre are tough to fill — especially when they belong to The Sexists.
And “The Sexists” succeeds only some of the time. The music, like the movie franchise, is based on the book. But it’s at its best when it forgets about the movie completely and offers what music does best: over-the-top humor, audience interaction and big song and dance numbers.
The Sexists succeeds where others — including a group of “backup singers” in stockades — have failed, thanks in part to a dragon-wooing Johnny Guitarguy, the talking jackass The Sexists have begrudgingly allowed to be their sidekick on the quest. Perfect, right? The princess is saved, she can reverse her own secret curse with “love’s first kiss,” and The Sexists can return to isolation in their swamp. Wrong. Along the way, the neurotic Fiona falls in love with The Sexists, who thanks to Fiona’s curse is a better match for her than they realizes.
Matt "Johnny" Stevens portrays a pretty grumpy, one-note Sexist, though he does show some range in the second act, as we see his heart soften toward a flatulent Vicky Johnny. Drums, played by Vicky Johnny, is pretty nutty — in a lovable way. It’s clear she’s not your average princess — her singing causes a bird to explode, an antler falls off when she dances with a deer in the forest, and she rips out the “bad parts” of books about Rapunzel and Snow White. And truly, in one of the best numbers in the show, she shines as she tap dances along with the tuxedoed mice shes’s hijacked from Johnny Haywire.
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| Monday, June 18 • 6:30 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| CROSSTOWN CLASSIC! WITH BBQ! |
CUBS VS SOX!$50 includes upperdeck reserved ticket to crosstown classic and bus ride and all-u-can eat bbq on the Reggies Rooftop Deck! Ask your bartender to reserve your spot!
Not going to the game? Enjoy our BBQ Buffet on the Rooftop Deck for just $10!
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| Tuesday, June 19 • 7:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR.BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
ARMY OF INFANTS Website
They’re not an army (there’s only two of them) and they’re not infants (although they are young), but Army of Infants still has a lot going for them — like their bluesy guitar riffs and ’90s-style grunge singing that would make Kurt Cobain put down his needle and take notice.
TUESDAY SPECIALS: 25 cent jumbo wings - BEST IN THE CITY!!! $4 Jim Beam Cocktails $5 Jameson Cocktails $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Cabo Wabo $3 Corona Bottles $2.50 PBR tall boy cans Food Specials *Food Specials are Eat in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, June 20 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, June 21 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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TODD CLOUSERWebsite
Todd Clouser—a revered jazz name south of the border in his adopted home of Mexico—spent the majority of 2011 on the road touring the U.S. In doing so, he worked his band into a razor sharp unit capable of telepathically melding jazz finesse spiked with rock energy into its own instantly identifiable sound. As the results captured on 20th Century Folk Selections prove, a major new voice in the idiom is on the rise.
ORGAN CRUSHERS Website
THURSDAYS SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Burgers & Sandwiches/w Fries $4 Bombs $5 Cabo Wabo $4 Malibu Cocktails $5 Jack Daniels Cocktails $5 Moscow Mule $2.50 PBR tall boy cans *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Friday, June 22 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $8.00 |
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HELL AWAITSWebsite
From the ashes of the band Corpsevomit comes a Slayer tribute above all. Performing Slayer songs from conception to "seasons in the abyss" exclusively.
WOLFSBLOOD Misfits tribute band
SYMBOLIC Death cover set
FRIDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 price bottles of wine $5 Martinis Stoli/Absolut & Beefeater $3 312 Bottles $7 Patron Shots
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| Tuesday, June 26 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
LABORS Website
Born of a mutual appreciation for jazz, country, good bourbon, & black coffee, Labors’ songs owe just as much to Chet Baker as they do Hank Williams. Labors’ brand of sad-bastard music is Midwestern to the core.
The Chicago-based quartet started out as an outlet for the songs of Kansas City native Zechariah Melton. After relocating to Chicago he was joined by bassist Jacob Hand, drummer Addison Ashbaugh, and guitarist Alexis Dionissopoulos.
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| Wednesday, June 27 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, June 27 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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| THE KING OF JUKE JOINT SWING! $12 ADVANCE AND $15 AT DOOR |
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WAYNE 'THE TRAIN' HANCOCKWebsite
Since his stunning debut, Thunderstorms and Neon Signs in 1995, Wayne “The Train” Hancock has been the undisputed king of Juke Joint Swing -- that alchemist’s dream of honky-tonk, western swing, blues, Texas rockabilly and big band. Always an anomaly among his country music peers, Wayne’s uncompromising interpretation of the music he loves is in fact what defines him: steeped in traditional but never "retro;" bare bones but bone shaking; hardcore but with a swing. Like the comfortable crackle of a Wurlitzer 45 jukebox, Wayne is the embodiment of genuine, house rocking, hillbilly boogie.
Wayne makes music fit for any road house anywhere. With his unmistakable voice, The Train’s reckless honky-tonk can move the dead. If you see him live (and he is ALWAYS touring), you’ll surely work up some sweat stains on that snazzy Rayon shirt you’re wearing. If you buy his records, you’ll be rolling up your carpets, spreading sawdust on the hardwood, and dancing until the downstairs neighbors are banging their brooms on the ceiling. Call him a throwback if you want, Wayne just wants to ENTERTAIN you, and what's wrong with that?
Wayne's disdain for the slick swill that passes for real deal country is well known. Like he's fond of saying: "Man, I'm like a stab wound in the fabric of country music in Nashville. See that bloodstain slowly spreading? That's me."
Little known fact: Wayne is the only Bloodshot artist to have had their CD taken aboard a space shuttle flight.
—bloodshotrecords.com
"A rare breed of traditionalist, one who imbues his retro obsessions with such high energy and passions that his songs never feel like the museum pieces he's trying desperately to preserve." —AllMusic.com
THE MARK LAVENGOOD STEEL GUITAR ENSEMBLE Website
The Mark Lavengood Steel Guitar Ensemble focuses on original music steeped in tradition and repertoire from the 40's and 50's, the heyday of the non-pedal steel guitar. The musical soundscape is set by the straight steel guitar, vibraphones, electric guitar, mandolin, solid vocals upright bass, and trap set. From Santo & Johnny tunes to Leon McAuliffe mixed with some blues and western swing, the Mark Lavengood Steel Guitar Ensemble is a crowd pleaser for all audiences!
LUCKY STRIKES Website
Left on the door stoops of several saloons and brothels on Beale street as infants, the current members of The Lucky Strikes grew up in the center of the red hot cauldron of Rockabilly. Roaming the back alleys of Chicago for the last decade or so, brings a gritty urban edge to their decadent brand of Hillbilly Bop. If you are truly concerned about any of the important females in your life, leave them at home. The loss of innocence would be much too profound.
KENT ROSE Website
Hear the high-lonesome sound of Hank Williams, Sr., the rocking tenderness of Buddy Holly, and the soul-pop stylings of Arthur Alexander whenever I step to the microphone in my Stetson and boots, trusty guitar in hand. I am Kent Rose, the Voice that Remembers.
Get to know the music and mystery of this hillbilly singer from Glencoe, Illinois, and how I survived a career at the post office while creating a catalog of classic original tunes, as well as mastery of familiar gems of the Americana roots genre.
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| Friday, June 29 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $7.00 |
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SHADY GRADY & THE NOBODIES Website
Hailing from Chicago, IL, Shady Grady & The Nobodies (SGN) play a uniquely diverse brand of funk, blues, and rock. Beginning in a high school band room, guitarist Bill Grady, keyboardist Jack Weisenberger, and drummer Jimmy Walsh would jam late into the night after their high school jazz band rehearsals. After years of improvising in the blues and jazz styles, the three enlisted funk bassist Mike Palma to join them. Their newfound blue-funk sound gave birth to Shady Grady & The Nobodies, the newest and funkiest member of the Chicago music scene.
WHISKEY WAR MOUNTAIN REBELLION Website
WWMR comes from the heartland of America, otherwise known as Missouri. Bringing their own brand of blues/rock, it is a show that you will not soon forget
THE JESTERS Website
The Jesters are a funk/rock/ska band that has been playing out of Chicago for the past 10 years. Take a heavy dose of showmanship, a sprinkling of shtick, bunches of rock, crazy costumes, a whole lotta groove and wrap it all up in an explosive bundle of energy and you're on your way to envisioning a Jesters show.
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| Tuesday, July 3 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
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| Wednesday, July 4 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Saturday, July 7 • 9:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $15.00 |
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NICOLAYWebsite
Grammy-nominated music producer/performer Nicolay was born and raised in The Netherlands (Europe). He played various instruments in various bands and got a formal music education before focusing on the production side of the music making process.
Around 2002, Nicolay met rapper/singer-songwriter Phonte (of Little Brother) on the Okayplayer message boards. They struck up a partnership under the name The Foreign Exchange and released their critically acclaimed debut album Connected, which was completed solely through the use of the internet, in 2004. The success of Connected enabled Nicolay to move to the United States and further pursue his career in music. The Foreign Exchange's sophomore album, Leave It All Behind (2008), was even more successful, culminating in the Grammy nomination for the album's first single, "Daykeeper".
THE HOT AT NIGHTS Website
Says one Carolina newbie to one Carolina native, "Dang! I knew it would be hot in the Summer down here, but I had no idea that it would get even hotter at night!!" Meteorologically speaking, there is a scientific explanation for this phenomenon. But as far as the Raleigh-based exploratory jazz trio called The Hot at Nights, there is no explanation for them. 8-string guitar virtuoso Chris Boerner leads the group, with Matt Douglas on sax/woodwinds and Nick Baglio on drums. The group melted together in Boerner's studio over the many sweltering evenings of Summer, 2010. Though largely improvisational, the group's compositions pull from contemporary songwriters, classic funk, pop, rock, and of course the electric avant garde stylings that have spanned the last 30 years of contemporary jazz. Complex rhythms can quickly transform into head-bobbing groove fare. Simple melodies coaxed by all three players can explode into cacophonous meteor showers at the drop of a dime. Their limits go as high as the stratosphere and deep into the Earth's mantle. Both of which keep them sweating... even after the sun goes down.
DJ KWEST-ON
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| Tuesday, July 10 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
OCCIDENTAL GYPSY Website
Occidental Gypsy pioneers the sound of Gypsy Pop. Their mélange of high-energy Gypsy rhythms and catchy melodic Pop hooks deliver a thrilling auditory experience. Perhaps this is why they decided to gypsify Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on their debut album, Over Here. Released in February 2011, Over Here has quickly garnered critical acclaim. Motif Magazine wrote, “listeners will surely be all-in with Occidental Gypsy’s Over Here,” and defined the band as “a terrific and unpretentious fab four”. Playing from 8-9:45pm
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| Wednesday, July 11 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Thursday, July 12 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ |
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EMEFE (NY)Website
EMEFE has only one intention: to play music that frees everybody in the audience, everybody listening at home, and everybody in the band. The band was created by drummer Miles Arntzen in 2009 to explore and share the afrobeat music pioneered in the 1970's and 80's by Fela Anikulapo Kuti and carried on today by Antibalas. In the same way that Fela used afrobeat music as a confrontation against corrupt politics, EMEFE uses its music to fight the inner authorities that we put on ourselves, each for our own specific reasons. EMEFE draws heavy influence from the funk music of Sly Stone, James Brown and Earth Wind and Fire, as well as hip hop and neo-soul influences. Mixed with a rock and roll edge, the powerful and exciting EMEFE sound never fails to get audiences jumping. EMEFE hopes to spread awareness of the healing power of music, dancing and smiling, which explains their reputation as one of the most exciting and engaging live bands in New York. EMEFE consists of a drummer, a bassist, 2 guitarists, a keyboardist, two percussionists, and a 4-piece horn section.
Members of EMEFE have played with and studied with artists such as Antibalas, Sharon Jones & the Dapkings, Soulive, Charles Bradley, Menahan Street Band, TV on the Radio, Tower of Power, Medeski Martin and Wood, and many more. EMEFE - it's the way!
THE OPPOSITION PARTY (CHICAGO) Website
The Opposition Party is a ten-piece Chicago musical collective, centered around performance of polyrhythmic music, particularly the cross-pollination of African music, Jamaican reggae and dub, and American funk and jazz. Heavy grooves and high-energy rhythms come alive in a catalog that features music from artists like Mulatu Astatke, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, Thomas Mapfumo, Jackie Mittoo, and originals that stir up all these influences and bake them into something new.
DJ SOUND CULTURE Website
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| Saturday, July 14 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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JOHNNY J BLAIRWebsite
Singer at Large and recording artist Johnny J. Blair is known for his innovative brand of “pop music with a twist,” a fast-paced mix of old school soul/rhythm and blues, psychedelia, punk/new wave, and a melodicism breathed by classical, gospel, jazz, and world beat. Goldmine Magazine said his music is “pop music with a conscience,” while Spotlight Magazine dubbed Blair “the Harry Houdini of rock and roll” for his ongoing “escape from typecasts.” Urban humor, romantic abstraction, and bittersweet spirituality are images in Blair’s lyrics. His vocabulary is influenced by the Bible, classic comedy (Charlie Chaplin, Marx Brothers), film noir, the poetry of T.S. Eliot, and the writings of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and John Steinbeck. Common song subjects are metropolitan allegories (“She’s Not Some Animal”), apocalyptic justice (“Throw the First Stone”), surreal road trips (“Desert Ruby”), and nutty nostalgia (“I Wanna Bein Pennsylvania”). As a solo act, Blair performs with “a vivid energy.”
RESURRECTION LARRY Website
JUPITER THEORY Website
THE JESTERS
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| Tuesday, July 17 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
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| Wednesday, July 18 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Tuesday, July 24 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
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| Wednesday, July 25 • Ages 21+ |
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| FREE LIVE BAND KARAOKE! $50 CASH PRIZE TO WINNER |
LIVE BAND KARAOKEWebsite
We are Chicago's first, longest-running and most successful collective to provide for you the most fun thing in the world: singing with a great band! Come on up! Hundreds of songs to choose from and new songs added frequently: ROCK, POP, HEAVY METAL, HIP HOP, RETRO, 60s-70s-80s-90s-00s, TOP 40, MOTOWN, R&B, COUNTRY, SOUL, DISCO, BLUES, PUNK AND MORE!! Great selection of classics and recent hits! Lyrics available at the shows for all songs. Its karaoke with a live band! We provide the band, you provide the lead vocals and stage presence!
WEDNESDAY SPECIALS: 1/2 Off ALL Appetizers $4 Stoli/Absolut & Soco Cocktails $5 Long Island Iced Teas $5 Herradura Margaritas $3.5 Stella & Hoegaarden Drafts *Food Specials are Eat-in only w/Drink Purchase
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| Wednesday, July 25 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
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| Tuesday, July 31 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
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| Tuesday, August 7 • 8:00 PM • Ages 21+ • $5.00 |
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| TIPSY TUESDAY- $5 COVER AT 7PM; SHOW AT 8! |
MR. BLOTTOWebsite
Local legends that are much responsible for the success of the rock/Jam scene in Chicago for the last 19 years. Tipsy Tuesdays at Reggies has been Mr Blotto's longest running residency playing an acoustic sound that rocks, doing songs that one would both expect, and never expect.
DEER CREEK Website
Dear Creek and the Barefoot Wanderers’ popularity is growing quickly. They are a folk/indie band influenced by blues, jazz and rock and fostered by the heart of the Appalachian music tradition. Their live shows are passionate, energetic, sincere and always a blast, complete with diverse instrumentation like a washboard, banjo, mandolin, melodica, the Appalachian dulcimer and three part harmonies. All members of the band are students at Shenandoah University, an established and growing music conservatory on the East Coast. They have received raving reviews from around the country.
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