Local Loft Episode 233

Crank it up and feel the sonic blast! No need to light fuse and get away. Like a multi-colored 4th of July fireworks show, there's a wide assortment of Chicagoland and Illinois metal, pink, alternative rock, progressive rock and power pop that will dazzle and end will a huge bang (and many sonic booms).

Riff Fest, Saturday July 9th at Brauerhouse in Lombard will provide enough explosive guitar notes and chords to leave a lasting recoil after the loud assault of thrash and hardcore metal has ended, Chicago Doom Metal veterans Spillage are one of five local area bands who will rock the rafters to earth crumbling excess. I talk with guitarist Tony Spillman and four others of the six-man band before they tear it up onstage with A.D.D., Novembers Doom and two other acts.

Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club no longer keeps impatient fans at bay as the Frankfort power pop quartet unleashes Please Stand By, their fifth full length album. They go full tilt back to the era of high scores at penny arcades where pinball wizards worked their magic in an album sneak listen.

Not spaced out enough to avoid a running for top act on America's Got Talent, futuristic Chicago rock duo Monk 9 gave an out of this world intimate small gig at Reggie's Music Joint five years this week. I blasted off and crashed the party to interview them in a rock back.

Along with these, you're launched into cyberspace like a synchronized metronome rocket as your rock extreme to the bomb blast loud soundtrack of:

Spillage-Pharoah's Revenge

Spillage-Electric Exorcist

November's Doom-Devil's Light

Also Known As- A Perfect World

Thirty Pieces-I Am Thee All

Bishop's Daredevil Stunt Club-Silverball

Off Broadway-U.S. Girls

Monk 9 (Interview at Reggie's Music Joint-7/5/17 Local Loft Episode 62)

Monk 9-Leave Me Alone

Monk 9-Front Porch