Local Loft Episode 225

Nights and days are getting warmer, and another huge season of original Chicago Area and Illinois bands fires up more precision tuneage, and tears up stages across the region.

Chicago Hardcore rockers Whut? rock the house down at Cobra Lounge with a premo birthday bash for drummer Philly D (Denigirs). I'll talk with Greg (Pervert Bastard Scum-PBS) Charles about the June 3rd gig.

The music will be crunchy and faces will melt while delicious tacos melt in your mouth. For the eleventh Punk Rock Tacos in Villa Park on May 20th, Chicago's Affluent Bums and real Bad Real Fast put their unique stamp of a combo of punk pop and 50s style doo woop vocal harmonies on the stage of Cemitas Poblanas.

Veteran Roseland rock quintet M & R Rush get away from the glare of big downtown areas with their new EP, Goodbye City Lights. I have a preview before they play the new record start to finish at the opening show of their 22 For You tour, May 25th at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park.

Monsters and Ghosts can certainly scare up a haunting time. !3-Monsters scared up an intimate acoustic reboot of their hard edged alternative rock as the duo Sky Ghosts. Four years ago this week, I met up with singer Deb Sonzo and Guitarist Jamie Rhiani once again for their debut gig at Outtaspsce in Berwyn. We rock back to that.

Along with all this, you Spring (or rather pogo) forward to rockin good time ahead with the soundtrack of:

Whut?-Stone Trophies

Whut?-Punk Is Dead

Absent Mind-Reap What You Sow

Extraction Point-Best Served Cold (with Holly Smith of Hot Dang)

Consume the Divide-Words Of Wolves

Eve Black-The New Horizon

Mystery Actions-War Beat

Affluent Bums-Dead Letter Pile

Real Bad Real Fast-Drown The Rat

M & R Rush-Don't Stop

M & R Rush-Time Waits For No One

Sky Ghosts (Deb Sonzo and Jamie Rhiani interview from Outtaspace Berwyn-Local loft Episode 80- 5/9/18)

Sky Ghosts/13-Monsters-Heroine

!3-Monsters-The Bessemer Process