Local Loft Episode 254

All fired up, and ready to blaze across cyberspace again. The trailblazers in the original Chicago area and Illinois punk, metal, alternative rock and power pop scene. Okay, not every artist here is the new hottest breakthrough act. But the music they produce will generate many repeated listenings to make them a hot commodity in your music collection. 

With a name like Heet Deth, you might expect a band with a lot of smoke pots, fog machines and onstage explosive fireworks. The Chicago duo of drummer Julia Bard, and guitarist/singer Lalia Eskin makes speakers sizzle and smoke with an intense, excessively screamy blend of hot distorted guitar walls, and ear bleeding vocal screeching on their full-length debut, Hooray. They play their last show of 2022 this Thursday at Cole's Bar in Logan Square, and both join me to preview the gig.

Tis the season to again give the gift of local music. The Chicago metal community will give you a full helping, if you help them make a needy child's Christmas special, by donating a new toy for under the tree. Metal Fest 4 benefits Toys For Tots with a holiday show at Livewire Lounge. I'll spoil the surprise, and reveal the band lineup, including Spring Grove's Luna In Sanguinem.

Punk Pop is known for being upbeat, melodic, and aggressive. New Lenox band Jaded lost none of their poppy aggression in an acoustic setting at The Kat 105.5 studios, eleven years ago this week, We rock back to it.

Along with these, you'll be pogoing like a red nosed reindeer skipping through a blinding blizzard, as I lay a heavy dumping of original Chicago area music on you by:

Heet Deth-Big Bang Boom

Heet Deth-Planet Of The Apes

The Breathing Light-Falling Dove

Solar-Come To Light

Convoy-In The Mouth Of Madness

Cannibal Abortion-Severed Arm Masturbation

Moonbreath-Ascension

The Kind- When You Rock (1981 360 Records 45 mix)

Cliff Johnson/Mimi Betinis-Christmas Everyday

Jaded (interview in The Kat 105.5 studio-12/1/11)

Jaded-Something Better (acoustic in The Kat 105.5 studio)

Jaded-Tonight (acoustic in The Kat 105.5 studio)

Jaded-It Really Shouldn't Be That Hard