Local Loft Episode 200

One more century in the books...and on the cyberwaves. The number of episodes isn't important, it's the quantity and quality of music that really counts. There is so much of both from all over the Chicagoland and Illinois metal, punk, alternative, progressive and power pop scenes. A smokin' and rockin' good time is guaranteed for all.

 

On the smokin' end, Chicago bar metal rockers Pipe return, not to generate another bunch of requests for their Southern Fried Metal interpretation of Johnny Cash classic Country songs, but to unleash a new level of addictive rock with drug culture lyrics. I talk to drummer Paul Brodio about the new single the band will release in the coming months, and will unveil it when they open for Texas Hippie Coalition this Sunday at The Forge in Joliet.

You can't judge a band by the hairstyle. Comfort Scarcity moves further away from a classification of 80s hair metal with a blistering, restless, hard hitting new single.

Another Off Broadway reunion show is set for mid December. But something is missing. Something very big. The legendary Power Pop band from Oak Park will be without Cliff Johnson, the veteran rocker and singer who started it all. It's just a temporary absence. But Cliff won't Automatic-ally hit the stage with the band at Fitzgeralds in Berwyn, like he Stayed in Time with his treasured past in the Kat 105.5 studios eleven years ago this week. We'll rock back to that.

Along with these, your ears are getting hot and thumping like a pair of 200 watt subwoofers as you rock to:

Pipe-Burn the Weed

Pipe-Bridgeport Girls

Mudfish-Buffalo

Eyes Of Anguish-Shadows

Sinister Fate-Root Of All Evol

Comfort Scarcity-Restless

Praise The Fallen-Falling

Marks Of Gray-Caretaker

Orinoco-Dissolve

Stay Up All Night And Fight-Lady Of The Night

Death Of Self-Into The Sun

Pezband-Baby, It's Cold Outside

Cliff Johnson-Kickin' You Out

Cliff Johnson ( Interview In The Kat 105.5 studio-11/10/10)

Cliff Johnson-1-2-3

Off Broadway-Just In Time

Off Broadway-Bully Bully