Location: Empty Bottle
Bands: J+J+J, Archaeology, and King Kong
Cost: FREE!
Drinks: $1.25 PBR
Things I missed to be there: I thought there was a show on the South Side was supposed to remember but there was no chatter about it on theinterweb so I couldn't figure it out
Reason for going: Needed to get out of the house
The free show tonight was like the geek hipster pride parade. It was as if every one of Chicago's administrative assistants, comic book artists, and effete-looking mountain men had gathered to hear the spaz-dance synthesizers of Schiller Park's J+J+J and King Kong, whose silly, warbled lyrics make them sound like a children's band version of postpunk and R&B.
Completing the fest was Chicago's Archaeology, who (somehow) did this really hard assed version of shoegazer indie rock. They were goofy motherfuckers, full of G.E. Smith O-faces, and it looked as though you could have broken the entire band into a screaming match by asking which album, exactly, did Radiohead sell out on, but they weren't afraid of ripping out some Thin Lizzy drumlines and guitar hero solos that was much dancier than the crowd was willing to admit (which doesn't say much, considering the show was at The Empty Bottle, where the crowd won't let their guard down for anyone less than Prince or, um, Girl Talk). As indie rock as they looked, and that I was willing to begrudge them, I liked Archaology. You could tell, watching the band, that there were some secret jazzbos writing the songs, and you could tell listening to tracks from their album, that they had owned all the same Rush albums as Mars Volta.
Next up on the agenda:
Tuesday - The Machine Media DJs at Delilah's
Wednesday - Plastic Crimewave Sound, Locrian, and the Detholz! at Spot 6
Thursday - A tough decision between The Mathematicians and Screamin Cyn-Cyn & the Pons at the Beat Kitchen [versus] Indian Jewelry and Clipd Beaks at Mister City
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