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That’s Some Fucked Up Shit: Reggies returns to the roots of punk with two foul-mouthed favorites
In the late 1970s, when wearing a leather jacket and spiking your hair was still likely to get you heckled on the street (or worse), Johnny Rotten infamously wrote “I HATE” on a Pink Floyd T-shirt, wittingly creating a fashion-friendly manifesto for the movement. Punks in London set out to rebel against the pompous,... »
Best of the South Side 2008: Chinatown
Chicago’s Chinatown district has changed a substantial amount since the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the beginnings of a Chicago Chinatown were born. In the late 1800s, most of the Chinese immigrants in Chicago lived near Clark and Van Buren in downtown Chicago. However, Chinese-Americans faced substantial housing discrimination in Chicago, and established... »
The Lucky Ones: Mudhoney, the Fake Fictions, and Easy Action bring their genre-blending music to Reggies
Grunge, pop, and rock: these labels say surprisingly little about the bands playing this Friday at Reggies Rock Club. Mudhoney, an essential band of the 1990s Seattle grunge movement, has just released “The Lucky Ones,” a record that is consistent with the band’s history of incorporating different musical genres into their signature fuzzed-out sound.... »
A League of Their Own: The anarchic Anti-Nowhere League sounds off on its “American Tour”
The Anti-Nowhere League (ANWL) has been dedicated to the performance of noisy, obnoxious, unbearable, violent punk since the 1980s. The group’s first performance, and subsequent arrest, was at the 1980 carnival in Tunbridge Wells in its native England. ANWL has since formed followings of vehement haters and supporters among the public and “musicians.” The... »
Burn and Pillage: The Vandals take a bite out of an “Anarchy Burger”
Coming from a movement dominated by kids who are all attitude and no talent, The Vandals approach punk rock with a unique professionalism. The group, who will be playing at Reggies Rock Club this Friday, eschew the radical politics and scenester posturing of some of its contemporaries to focus instead on actually making music.... »
Reatard Sees Blood: Jay Reatard to play Reggies Rock Club
If you were into the high school punk scene, then you remember being fifteen, standing in the crowded and damp cinderblock basement of the latest local guitar-wielding, amp-trashing miniature punk gods. Armed with crazed distortion and murderous lyrics, these guys maniacally beckoned you to join their lo-fi anarchic utopia. There were no pretensions—just a... »
Back from Black: Finch brings their new, upbeat sound to Reggies
Finch’s career trajectory could easily be portrayed as constantly peaking before the payoff. The 2001 album “What It Is to Burn” was one of the earliest exemplars of the post-hardcore genre—laden with phased guitars and alternately melodic and tortured, open-throated vocals—that would later be labeled as “screamo,” but came out too early to capitalize... »
Like a Knife: 25 years on the edge with Japanese pop sensations
That a band like Shonen Knife can turn 25 is as sure a sign as any that innocent joy still exists in the universe. Despite a lifeless hometown music scene, and critics who wrote them off as either a mindless sugar rush or the Ramones of an alternate universe, Shonen Knife has been able... »
