HOT AS HELL

HOT FEVER

HOT FOR PREACHER

HOT FOR SKIPPY

HOT GARBAGE

It has been said that all rockabilly music sounds the same, but The Hot Rod Hucksters have been playing truly unique music since 2003. The band is comprised of four hard working guys from Chicago who call to mind an unholy amalgamation of Eddie Cochran, Johnny Burnette, The Cramps, and sometimes even the Stray Cats. Neo-Rockabilly, or whatever you want to label it, the music speaks for itself. The band’s loyal fans have seen them play with hard rocking psychobilly bands like Rocket 350 (Atlanta) and Big John Bates and the Voodoo Dollz (Vancouver), and traditional rock-a-billy bands like The Hi-Qs (Detroit), Cave Catt Sammy (Texas), The Riptones (Chicago), Lee rocker (of the Stray Cats), and Robert Gordon And The Gang They Couldn’t Hang (featuring Chris Spedding of Roxy Music, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols and Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats) and the Reverend Horton Heat!

In February 2005, the Hot Rod Hucksters released their seven song EP “Four Deuces and 3 Gears,” a title that references their passion for hot rods (all of the boys have at least two). The CD includes four original songs and three covers, and it reflects the band’s diverse influences from blues, classic and alternative country, surf, and of course, rockabilly and psychobilly. Their second disc released late in 2007, “Beer, Songs, and Mediocre Broads” features 12 songs that are sure to have you tapping your feet, spinning a wrench and dancing with your favorite gal.

HOTCHACHA

HOTEL AHEAD

Hotlips Messiah

HOTLIPS MESSIAH

HotLips Messiah is Chicago’s premier mutant rock band. They have been a fixture on the Chicago punk and mutant rock scene for a decade and played legendary venues such as the Lounge Ax and the Fireside Bowl. Large venues like the Congress Theatre, and dinky little holes in the wall like the Big Horse. They have played with bands as obscure as Phil A. Sheo & the Goods and with bands as huge as the Misfits. With classic original bands like the Avengers and the Germs and with modern inspired schizos the Rotten Fruits, the Urinal Mints and the Functional Blackouts. Musically, they are a tornado of noise, filth and ass-shaking melody and catchiness. Lyrically, they use science fiction and sleaze as a blunt metaphor for the INhuman condition mankind finds itself in today.

HOUSE OF NORMANDIE

Booking: Houseofnormandie@yahoo.com

HOW FAR TO AUSTIN

HOWIE & THE HOMOS GO GLAM!

HOWL

HUDSON FALCONS

HUMAN AFTERTASTE

The Human Aftertaste Corporation is the world’s only rock band & meat canning corporation in the universe! The company is ruled by CEO Big Lar and his sinister cohorts. Our heros, the Infotainment Crew have been tasked with spreading Human Aftertaste canned meat product to the world!

HUNTING ABROAD

HURRICANE GUMBO

Hurricane Gumbo is an eight-piece, Chicago-based band that combines zydeco, rhythm & blues, jazz and funk to produce a sound that can only be called one thing – Louisiana party music. With Hurricane Gumbo, the party never stops. That is why, one reviewer calls it “without a doubt, one of the best and liveliest party-bands anywhere”… because with Hurricane Gumbo, it’s All Mardi Gras, All of the time. Leave your underwear at home.

HURRICANE REGGAE BAND

Ranging from solo performances to a quartet to a full orchestra featuring brass and steel pan, prepare to experience a true Caribbean vibe, a total party package with reggae, soca, calypso, a little jazz and blues and a taste of real island culture.

HUSKY BURNETTE

The Blues are a religion and Brian “Husky” Burnette sho nuff preaches it. You can feel the testimony as he blends Mississippi Delta, Rock n Roll and Electric Blues. His music is gritty, soulful, southern, low-down and dirty. Husky, following in the family footsteps of rockabilly kings Johnny Burnette and Dorsey Burnette, has written and toured with several national artists over the years. Two of which that stand out are lead guitar for legendary singer/songwriter Roger Alan Wade and the supporting act on tour for Hank Williams III. He has shared the stage with many others such as Leon Russell, Guy Clark, T-Model Ford, Scott H. Biram, Emmylou Harris and The Legendary Shack Shakers.

HUSTLE SNEAKERS

HYPERPOTAMUS

HYPOCRISY

HYPOCRISY was formed in Ludvika, Stockholm by guitarist Peter Tägtgren in October 1991. As well as HYPOCRISY, Tägtgren has carved out a considerable and esteemed catalogue of work with other musical concerns such as the industrial solo concept PAIN, LOCKUP, THE ABYSS and BLOODBATH. He also does dual duty as a producer in constant demand, operating from his Abyss Studios base racking up recognition on the other side of the desk with acts such as CHILDREN OF BODOM, DIMMU BORGIR, THERION, CELTIC FROST, DARK FUNERAL, DESTRUCTION and IMMORTAL amongst many others.

I AM GHOST

I CAN HEAR MYSELF LEVITATE

What do you get when a Pulitzer Prize WInner, a Nobel Laureate, a Rhodes Scholar, and a Robot all get together and form a band?
This is a question I Fight Dragons would love to know the answer to, along with other important questions like, “what is purple, really?” and “how much brains could a zombiechuck chuck if a zombiechuck could exist a posteriori?”
In the meanwhile, I Fight Dragons content themselves with playing melodic rock-and-roll type music, which they integrate seamlessly with chiptune. For those of you not in the proverbial ‘know,’ ‘chiptune’ is new music created on ‘obsolete’ video game ‘soundcards’ such as the Nintendo Gameboy. Now you’re in the ‘know.’ Welcome. It’s nice here and the bathrooms are in the back to the left if you need them.
In the biographical sense, all 5 members of I Fight Dragons hail from Chicago. In the spiritual sense, they also hail from Chicago. However, in the metaphorical sense, only 4 of them hail from Chicago, while Packy hails from Outer Space (by way of Chicago).
I Fight Dragons are boldly questing forward on a sonic adventure toward total world domination. If that sounds a little intimidating, then they can scale it back a bit and focus on continental domination, or even just tri-county domination if that’s still a bit much for you.
The new I Fight Dragons album “KABOOM!” has a lot of capital letters, not to mention an exclamation point, which makes it very exhausting to pronounce, but quite invigorating to listen to. It is a Photo Finish / Atlantic Records release (wha!?!?), and serves as the culmination of their earlier sonic endeavors undertaken with their first two EPs, 2009’s “Cool Is Just A Number” and 2010’s “Welcome To The Breakdown.”

I KNOW EVERYTHING.

HEWHOCORRUPTS

HEXEN

HEY CHAMP

HEY NEGRITA

HEY THERE COWBOY

HEYDAY

HI JACK THE WORLD

HIFI HANDGRENADES

HIGH END TRIO

High Spirits

HIGH SPIRITS

100% High-Energy rock music from Chicago, USA!

HILLBILLY CASINO

HILLBILLY IDLE

Hillbilly Idle takes traditional Rockabilly, Country, Surf, and a little bit of Punk Rock – throw it all in to the blender, add a whole lot of Rum and turn it on high! This ain’t your Grandad’s Rockabilly!

Over the years, the band members’ musical credits include such bands as: Rebel Rousers, Sea Sick Crocodiles, Venus Flycats, The Bottletones, HiFi, and many many more…

Taking all their experience and putting it to work, these guys can’t be pinned down into one subcategory of the Rockabilly genre, and has proudly shared the stage with everyone from Wanda Jackson and Art Adams to Hillbilly Casino and The Phantom Rockers.

You can catch Hillbilly Idle’s explosive sounds at Kustom Car events all over Chicago. Highlight Kustom car events have included: Hunert Car Pileup, Barnyard Boogie, Blacktop Barons’ Roadblock, World of Wheels, Voodoo Larry’s Open house, Route 66 Car Show, and the list keeps growing..

Hillbilly Idle is well known to perform at Charity events accross the city helping to raise money for charities like: JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund), Katie’s Kids, Camp I Am Me (IFSA’s camp for child burn victims), Autism Speaks, Toys For Tots, as well as benefits for musicians Nick Curran & Daddy-O Grande (Los Straightjackets)!

HIMSELF

HINTER

HIRED GOONS

HIV+

HIZZONER THE MAYOR

HOLD EVERYTHING

HOLDING MERCURY

HOLIDAY HOUSE

HOLLOWPOINTS

HOLLOWS

HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD

HOLY GRAIL

Formed in Southern California in 2008 when vocalist James Paul Luna and drummer Tyler Meahl diverged from Pasadena metal squadron White Wizzard and teamed up with San Diegan guitar hero Eli Santana, the band was called Sorcerer until it became clear that the moniker didn’t quite capture the rarefied nature of the members’ collective talents. Sorcerer became Holy Grail. The band became so unstoppable that California just couldn’t contain them and now, like their spiritual forefathers in Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Dio, Holy Grail are poised to bring their hook-laden shred anthems to an arena near you.

Holy Grail are heavy metal personified, possessing a seemingly infinite arsenal of mind-blowing riffs, skyscraping vocal melodies and devastating drum dynamism. Not mention the kind of six-string acrobatics and straight-up power-shredding that would make Yngwie Malmsteen chuck the proverbial goat in sweep-picking solidarity. “We shred and we’re serious about it,” Luna offers. “This is not a tongue-in-cheek thing. It’s not throwback or retro. Holy Grail is a modern band with a new twist on the best of old-school metal with death metal riffs, modern breakdowns and power-metal singing. We just tried to pick stuff from all our favorite bands and make the best blend of metal we could.”

But don’t take our word for it—or Luna’s. The fine folks at Decibel magazine knew exactly what they were talking about when they hailed HOLY GRAIL as “the most exciting prefix-free metal band to come out of L.A. in the last two decades.” The esteemed editors at UK’s Metal Hammer nominated the gentlemen of the Grail for the magazine’s “Best New Band” award at their annual Golden Gods ceremony before Holy Grail even had an album out. But a certain tall, handsome genius over at Thrasher summed it up best when he proclaimed, “Holy Grail are the reason that heavy metal will never die.”

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

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