Local Loft Episode 266

No Exits here, just a lot of ways in. It's another all access pass into the always diverse, opportunity filled Chicago area metal, punk, alternative rock & power pop scene. The play button on your phone, PC or laptop is your paid toll, your electronic fingerprint identification. Proceed through cyberspace and rock on.

Soaked in depressing lyrics, but a happy, upbeat driving sound, Lifting Curses out of the northwest side of Chicago will lay its debut EP, Pistanthrophobia, on the world this Friday, March 3rd. Singer David Bovyn joins to talk about the records lyrical not so lovey dovey impact and melodic music before they headline Metal Monkey Brewing in Romeoville, Friday, March 10th.

You''ll be once again granted complete entry into Chicago's longtime ultimate Punk establishment, Exit on North Avenue. It gets the ultimate makeover, & grand reopening May 4th-7th. I'll share the band lineup that will grant you entry into the massive gathering.

Smoking their way onto the Wire in Berwyn stage, Pipe permeated the western suburban air with peaceful protests & a hard rocking soundtrack which had audiences dancing and tripping together in unison. We rock back to when this foursome had a packed crowd mentally & spiritually grooving out to a post hippy atmospheric soundtrack.

Along with these, you're firing February from your duty roster, and making it your priority to employ an original Chicagoland original music soundtrack for the daily mosh workout, as you March onward to another calendar month with:

Lifting Curses-Twominutesunderwater

Lifting Curses-Glossolalia

Machin-4leon

Pure Intention-Punk Rock Warlord

The Brokedowns-Osama Van Halen

Machete Moses- (Featuring Robert Bloodworth of Catapult The Propaganda) Blood Inc.

Catapult The Propaganda-Hollowed

Cliff Johnson-If You Can Live (alternative version)

John Condron & The Benefit-Blurred

Mimi Betinis-Romance Me

Vortis-Black Void

Pipe (interview from Wire In Berwyn 3/3/18 Local Loft Episode 76)

Pipe-Call You Out

Pipe-Down In The Smoke