Remember when hardcore was fun and positive? Explode And Make Up do. Why? Cuz they’re old. Cuz they remember a time before eyeliner, tight black jeans, studded belts, and online whoring were part of the genre’s essentials. Lifetime basement shows? Explode And Make Up were there. Mailing demos back and forth? Been there, done that. Getting picked on at school for wearing a Circle Jerks shirt? Not in 2009, buddy. Featuring members and ex-members of 88 Fingers Louie, The Methadones, The Bomb, The Story So Far,and Tomorrows Gone, you can bet these guys aren’t gonna whine about high school and ex-girlfriends. Listen to “The Crew” and “Can I Say” and then come on over!
EXPLODE AND MAKE UP
EYEDEA & ABILITIES
EYES
EYES SET TO KILL
Formed in 2003 by the Rodriguez sisters, Eyes Set To Kill’s passionate music connected with fans early on and led them to becoming one of MySpace.com’s top unsigned screamo bands in 2006. The group signed with BreakSilence/Suburban Noize Records the following year and release three critically acclaimed studio efforts – 2008’s Reach, 2009’s The World Outside and 2011’s Broken Frames.
Enjoy The Massacre joined together as the name “In Dying Dreams” in March of 2005. After a year of touring and playing local shows as In Dying Dreams, the band decided a new musical direction and new band name was needed. In 2006 they adopted the name “Enjoy the Massacre”, the band started out with their careers playing on the road, selling t-shirts and other merchandise away from home. Enjoy the Massacre was founded with the goal not only to create heavy aggressive music, but to add harmony and other instrumentation to create a unique sound not heard in today’s musical groups. Enjoy The Massacre constantly strives to become a successful band by combining talents not created by one person alone, but all of the 5 members combined. Enjoy The Massacre also draws musical inspiration not only from Hardcore music, but from other genres of music as well, such as Punk, Metal, Hip Hop, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock, etc. Another aspect that makes Enjoy The Massacre stand out from other groups is the intense stage performance that they deliver, no matter how many in attendance. Enjoy The Massacre will always deliver the same aggressive live show every time. It has been said Enjoy The Massacre’s stage show is unmatched and the energy at a show is contagious, arousing music lovers from all musical backgrounds. With breakdowns, hip-hop beats, and metal influenced parts, it is very easy for any music lover to get into Enjoy The Massacre’s music. ETM has always had the reputation of working very hard to achieve success, and has come a long way from having nothing in hand, to becoming one of Midwest America’s most celebrated bands. Enjoy The Massacre’s debut cd “In Time You Will Understand” is out now on Duckphone Records.
Chicago performance art group Environmental Encroachmnet (EE) uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments, parades, processions, shows, artist marching band encroachments and art happenings. .. EE combines a costumed marching band with multi-media stage performance antics including dancers, hooping, juggling and skits. EE wants people to interact, be a part, be curious, dance, play. ..
ENVIRONMENTAL ENCROACHMENT
Chicago-based performance art group Environmental Encroachment (EE) uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments, parades, processions, shows, punk artist marching band encroachments and art happenings.
EE combines a costumed marching band with multi-media stage performance antics, including dancers, hooping, juggling and skits. EE encourages people to interact, be a part, be curious, dance, play.
EE can expand to the size of your event – stage shows, mobile experiences, children’s shows, Holiday events, street busking, tactical comic encroachments, festivals, rituals, ceremonies, vaudevillian skits, electric and acoustic music jams, funerals and births.
Erick Deshaun Dorris (“EDD”) is a musician based out of Chicago. He was most recently involved in the soul-rock band, The Bored of Education, and is a member with the educational-theater company Barrel of Monkeys. His music has been described as Soul, Jazz, Baroque and “show-tunes on crack”.
I grew up on a farm outside St. Louisville, Ohio. At 22, I rode out with a beat up van and $200, bound for Chicago. I met Kilian Sweeney there. In the winter of 2009, we formed 3 Tons with Dan Smykowski and Ivan Stankowicz. We built a muscled sound with country roots and the hard drive of the city.
There is no irony here. Just, straight ahead songs from a transplanted country boy.
-Erin Edmister
ERIN EDMISTER AND THREE TONS
Erin Edmister has been hollering lyrics and strumming his acoustic guitar through the American Songbook and his striking original songs since 2014 at Bernice’s Tavern, in Bridgeport.
It was at this highly esteemed dive bar that Edmister, and long time guitarist/collaborator, Kilian Sweeney, first encountered Joey Werner’s pounding drums and Brian Tredup’s sultry bass. Soon, the four fused their original sounds together to create a rocking country ruckus: Erin Edmister and Three Tons.
With this new line-up and a fresh record out in January 2018, this group will surely charm you with vibrant harmonies, lively tunes, and a hell of a good time!
Eske is a 4 piece that started in the fall 0f 99’ Lou and Migs met while doing time at Farragut H.S. Brian and Rob met there a few years later. we played our first show February 2001, the rest is history.
