Local Loft Episode 195

Aweful is really awesome. You dismiss the bad and focus on the good. It's all good here. And there's a better than  good chance that you'll find your favorite original local metal, punk, progressive or alternative rock or power pop band or artist among the diverse selections here, and every episode.

If modern metal really rocks you, you'll dig Atlanta Is Burning. The five piece melodic hardcore metal group from Chicago's far southwest side first formed with a purpose to reinterpret and set to music much of the scenes of the 1939 film classic, Gone With The Wind. But have left that fiery pat behind on the new album, Legacy, I talk with founder and drummer Keith Humphrey about the new release.

A Troubled situation can be a fun, rocking good time. It certainly is for Traci Trouble, the singer & frontwoman for Aweful. This punky trio started while Traci was singer for the spacy new wave punk band Hotlips Messiah. She will play her final live show with them this weekend at a special benefit gig. Traci joins me to talk about the instant success of Aweful and a new full length album they're in the process of releasing by this year's end.

Rosie Walker had the passionate and fierce vocal combination, that made her a prominent singer in the Chicago area metal scene, with False Hope Fades. A rock back to six years ago this week when I would witness her singing power at The Tree (soon to be The Forge) in Joliet.

Along with these, the seasons change, but your seasonal headbanging fever lingers, as your groove to:

Atlanta Is Burning-Atlas

Atlanta Is Burning-Lights

Slowburn-Waiting For You

Hotlips Messiah-Time To Drop The Bomb

Aweful-Not Enough

Aweful-Oh, Oh ,Oh

Mystery Actions-Mass Hysteria

Spillage-Electric Exorcist

Fierce Atmospheres- The Stain

False Hope Fades (Rosie Walker & Kham interview from The Tree in Joliet-10/16/16 Local Loft Episode 12)

False Hope Fades-Striven

False Hope Fades-Coward