Here it is again, the annual Christmas rush, and the overhyped start of the most heart wrenching, stressful season of them all, winter. Pay no attention to those scary Winter Storm Warnings & Winter Weather Advisories while you're locked in to rocking out to a widespread accumulation of original Chicagoland & Illinois metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop. It's a gift of music well deserved any time of year.
No Jethro Tull in Jethro Tull. And NO Eugiene Grey in Lombard based alternative band Eugiene Grey & The Bad Habits...well that's what I thought. Singer Patrick Goray (phonetic pronunciation sounds like grey! or gray!) proves me wrong. So what's the self-secret behind the band's name? He calls in to tell me. It's no secret that this band's 90s style grunge is somewhere between 70s Kiss style hard rock, and 90s Pearl Jam. They will join veteran swamp rockers Convoy in a post Xmas gig, Friday, December 30th at Brauerhouse in their native Lombard.
There's something Dead-ly to the free form nature of Progressive hard rockers Wild Jesus & The Devil's Lettuce, who'll be Truckin' (Hint, Hint) to Liar's Club for a pre-Christmas show with Chicago doom metal band Wizzo (sounding more like Alice in Chains than Alice Cooper) Wednesday night.
Relatively unknown but starting to become one of the significant holiday music benefit events in the Chicago area, 20 Bands of Christmas at the former Wire in Berwyn showcased many different artists and genres. Six years ago this week, metalcore was front and center stage with Aurora's Known By Numbers. We rock back to that gifted night.
In addition, you're leaving out a nourishing music plate for a jolly old white bearded bowl full of jelly toy giver to rock out of his red suit and boots to by cranking up:
Eugiene Grey & The Bad Habits-Eight46
Eugiene Grey & The Bad Habits -Altered Beings
Convoy-Knocked Down
Wizzo-Hollow Earth
Wild Jesus & The Devil's Lettuce-Dragon Acid
M & R Rush-Bring Some Love
M & R Rush-Heavy Metal Christmas
Known By Numbers (interview from 20 Bands of Christmas at Wire In Berwyn Local Loft Episode 46 12/22/16)
Known By Numbers-Aphex
Known By Numbers-Cracks
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