Run, don’t walk, to hear Running
Running has been around for a few years and is a band you are bound to see if you go to Chicago-area garage, noise or punk shows often enough. The...
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Strawberry Jacuzzi isn’t a lark
Though the members of Strawberry Jacuzzi may play in other bands, this musical side project is no less important. As the Logan Square-based quartet's co-founder, Nikita Word explains, the group...
Swaguerrilla has all the beats you want
Though his music career has taken Justin Mitchell far beyond the house parties where he got his start, he still finds that intimate communities are where he feels most at...
Impulsive Hearts born of restless ears
Impulsive Hearts is the brainchild of Danielle Sines, and like so many of the city's musical projects, it was born of house-bound winter boredom. After a single solo performance that...
Melkbelly moving up in very short time
Though together for only 11 months, Melkbelly's auspicious beginnings are charted on the band's debut album, "Pennsylvania," which is out this month. The quartet juxtaposes restless swaths of noisy rock...
A hyper-local gander at the sonic season to come
In the Sept. 7 Arts section, Tribune critics delivered their Fall music picks. In On The Town we went hyper-local to bring you a list of the shows by Chicago...
Fall Classic positioned to lose unheralded status
Fall Classic is one of the best unheralded bands in Chicago's rock scene, though the group's latest album, "Gospel," certainly has the power to change that status. A personal album...
Meat Wave serves a hunk of post punk
Meat Wave's band name might make you chuckle (or gag a little), but its sound is hardly a joke. The group's post-punk sounds a little mean, even, with its skronky,...
Whitney Johnson on sociology and ghosts
Whitney Johnson plays in a few different outfits around town (including Verma and Disappears side project E+), but this month she celebrates the release of a proper solo album as...
Shaking off stage fright, Gel Set turns into real art
Gel Set may have started as Laura Callier's one-woman joke band with nothing but songs about murder, but it has grown into a genuine expression of her art. Callier's sound...