Local Loft Episode 255

Lots of presents in this podcast. As in present and accounted for. The roll call is the playlist. But every artist represented in the original Chicago area & Illinois metal, punk, alternative rock, & power pop scene figures into the gift of music that's given to you just by listening in every week.

Solar beams their way onto our cyberwaves from the Northwest Stateline region. The Rockford based band features the powerful, heartfelt singing of Stephanie Jennings. She joins me to share her gifted singing voice, which will captivate audiences (with a bluesy & intense mixture of power chords & hardcore metal) who'll see her and the band rock with Convoy, this Saturday at Big Basin Saloon in Channahon.

Veteran guitar shredder T.D. Clark of Aurora works vocals (not his own) into a new Christmas album Under Your Tree ,while one of the Boyzz from Illinoiz, Michael Tafoya, won't unwrap his past tuneage once again, in a pre-holiday gig with guitar virtuoso Gary Hoey, Thursday  night at Reggie's.

Tis the season for charitable gift giving. It was this week in 2017, when the annual 20 Bands Of Christmas was on at Wire in Berwyn. BringThe Fallout was hoping their gift of dark gothic hardcore metal would be widely accepted by a packed audience. We rock back to the mostly incognito five-man group of masked singers.

Along with all these, your mistle toe won't have any trouble shedding a few pounds of pine needles, as your ear lobes are pierced by the wax cleaning loudness of:

Solar-Depths Of Division (with Kevin James of Marks Of Gray)

Solar-Resilient

Marks Of Gray-Broken Bricks

Convoy-Silver Tongue Devil

Eugiene Grey & The Bad Habits-Eight46

T.D. Clark- Ho Ho Ho It's Christmas

Prison City Brigade-Shitty Presents

Nystrodamus-Even The Scale

Tafoya-Life

Bring The Fallout (Interview from Wire in Berwyn-12/28/17 Local Loft Episode 73)

Bring The Fallout-Blaak Army

Bring The Fallout-The Wise Words of Mr. Blaak