Local Loft Episode 156

Capitol riots, lives rendered un normal by a sinister virus. Life is slowly beginning to return to pre-COVID conditions. Music soothes our minds and gets us in a more positive frame of mind. So relax your brain tissue and let your body groove to the totally original sounds of metal ,punk. prog rock alt-rock and power pop from around Chicagoland and Illinois with the podcast that always delivers the goods-via wi fi side pickup.

Given all the violent and sometimes deadly protesting that went on in Washington and last summer in Detroit and downtown Chicago, Wrong War, a punk quartet from the city's west side unleashes a verbal venom on their full length debut album, Fixed Against Forever. Two lightning fast, adrenaline powered cuts from it.

Vicious Attack is the latest local metal act to give the live stream concert experience a shot. I've got the scoop on where and when you can link up and safely rock with them online.

Hair Metal never completely died after bands like Motley Crue and Poison made it a mania in the mid to late eighties. New Lenox band Headwall surprisingly resurrected it with their own unique blend of power chords and the high pitched but detailed signing of Brent Rowader. A rock back eleven years ago this week, when the band crashed the radio airwaves of 105.5 The Kat.

Along with these, the sheer power of you headbanging to the tunage here crushes any virus mutations in it's path with:

Wrong War-Words Were Mere Words

Wrong War-We're Through

Sex Dream- Aren't You Happy You Are Mine?

Vicious Attack-Right To Remain Violent

Architects Of Ruin-We Bury Our Own

Macabre-Tea Cakes

Immortum-Open Wide

Headwall ( Brent Rowader interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-1/21/10)

Headwall-Take Me Back

Headwall-Don't Fly Away

Headwall-Falling Faster Than The Rain

Fist To The Sky (Mickey Murder interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-1/24/13)

Fist To The Sky-Another Lesson Learned

Fist To The Sky-Bad Karma