Local Loft Episode 300

Three Hundred strong and still rocking.

The number of episodes is only as significant as the quality & quantity of original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop bands & artists who put forth the music that rocks a generation of listeners around the globe. 

Embers Rise has a solid melodic hard rock sound that was made for immediate worldwide radio airplay. Music that shows inspiration from Nickelback to Puddle Of Mudd. But can inspire a great many more generation of hard rock bands to follow. Singer/guitarist Ethan Barkman, lead guitarist Harrison Hoffman, & drummer Cory Nicolin join as they head to W.C. Social Club in West Chicago Friday November 10th. Their new single Hurricane, rocks with gale force across cyberspace.

Punk Rock Tacos will provide a more spicy, meaty & hard rocking alternative to the usual candy-coated costume party this Hallloween. #35 will be four days before the big trick or treat fest day at Cemitas Poblanas, The Horrids, Lombard's ultra spooky punk band, is headlining. Something fiendishly new from them, and a not so frozen in time update from power pop legends, Pezband is also on the LL #300 menu.

Chilling tales of a child abandoning beggar , and a mind ditching non island castaway, will be told again, by The Untold from the West Side of Chicago, who rocked more than spooked out a packed costumed crowd, five years ago this week at Wire in Berwyn. We rock back to it.

Open your ears, not your candy bag, and dig into the ear candy of the original Chicagoland soundtrack of:

Embers Rise-Hurricane

Embers Rise-Isolated

Alborn-Even Numbers

Surf Candy-Fall

The Horrids-Devil's Shoulder/Let Go

Green-Beaten Into Submission

The Insiders-35,000

Pezband-Stop, Wait A Minute (2023 version)

Cliff Johnson-On The River

The Untold (Interview From Wire In Berwyn 10/26/18 Local Loft Episode 89)

The Untold-The Lowly Beggar

The Untold-Castaway