Local Loft Episode 272

" What do I know about Rock N Roll. I'm just an old geezer!"

 

Old doesn't always mean outdated. While the focus of every Local Loft episode is about new & fresh original Chicago area metal, punk, alternative & power pop, new music is sometimes played by an aging bunch of rockers. Despite their wrinkled, grey haired physical appearance, some of them still have a lot to offer in winning over new & younger audiences. The Chicago comedic punk band Geezer Senior will have veterans & young ones pogoing with equal energy, while chowing down & a heaping plate of ground beef & hard shells at Punk Rock Tacos 25, this Saturday, spend your hard earned (hopefully Federal tax refund) money on admission into Exit Saloon in the Southwest of Chicago suburb of Summit to check out Geezer Senior, Cuddle Riot ( see Local Loft #270) The Turdles & Anger. Singer Jack Geezer joins me to preview the not totally geriatric fun time.

Recalling the old but still very relevant days of 80's Hair Metal & Pop Metal, Ex Veilside frontman Tony Engel & drummer Ron Thomas lay The New Normal, from the not totally MTV decade band Block Chain Coalition. it's powerful enough to make you miss an original reunion opportunity from a certain L.A. veteran glam metal band, who are shouting not at the devil, but each other in a court room over unfairly kicking out their longtime guitar hero. I'll also dish out the not so Dirt-y details of the first ever South Side Metal fest, way South of Chicago in Lansing.

Ear blistering hardcore metal did not have you writing in pain from too much headbanging when you rocked with Oak Forest's One Steel Wound. I first introduced their sadistic grind core to Kat 105.5 listeners ten years ago this week.

Along with these, you'll be moshing your way towards a fountain of youth, as you musically drench your ear hairs in the sonic ripples of:

Geezer Senior-Take Your Guns Away

Geezer Senior-Ghost Bike

Anger-Listen Up, Man

Block Chain Coalition-Caught In The Undertow

Veilside-Change Your Mind

Kobanes-Back To The Hospital

The Unswept-Gonna Split

Convoy-We Are The Ones

Furthest From The Light-Sedation

One Steel Wound (Brandon Castillo & Dan Reitz interview in The Kat 105.5 studio- 4/11/13)

One Steel Wound-Sadistic
One Steel Wound-The New Beginning