Local Loft Episode 340

Are you punk, metal, alternative rock or power pop? Pick a genre and bring along a hearty music appetite. 

I've scared up another crunchy great time. The Chicago area music menu is loaded and ready to nourish your diverse music tastes. Svengoolie won't drop in for a guest appearance, but the city whose existence he laughably questions on every one of his Saturday night classic horror film retrospectives, will (everyone say sarcastically, BURR-WINN!)

Acton's Dictum got a hometown crowd pogoing toward the highest rafters, with a Saturday Night bash at their hometown bar, The Outtaspace in Berwyn. They didn't hold back on an irreverent old school Oi Punk style. I talk with singer/songwriter & guitarist Matt Durica, guitarist Paul Crowe, bassist Dave Leffel and Drummer Rich Richert. This gig was a nice brash warmup, for their outdoor stage tear up, Saturday, August 10th at the third outdoor Punk Rock Taco's show in Villa Park.

That will also feature the surreal presence of 13-Monsters. Flamboyant singer Deb Sonzo will entice a mosh heavy crowd into an intimate trance. Sounding somewhere between 60s psychedelic jam band and 90s hardcore punk grunge act is MMB, Mike Michilak Band, whose latest single takes us all on a blazing space ship trip around the galaxy. 

With a name like Endostalgia, there was bound to be a trippy lava lamp mental image involved. The Chicago band combines the pastoral tye dye t-shirt nature of the Woodstock era with the sloppy guitar distortion of 90s grunge. They laid this mixture on a crowd of old and young music lovers at Wire in Berwyn, five years ago this week. We rock back to it.

Crank this one ultra loud, and drown out the excessive decibel, ear lobe shattering sound of the hum of the diesel engine of the Metra BNSF trains. It's the Berwyn and all points north, west and east sound of original punk, metal, alternative rock and power pop from:

Acton's Dictum-Racist Neighbors

Acton's Dictum-Propaganda

Lost Dead-Love And Hate

MMB (Mike Michilak Band)-Starshine

13-Monsters-Never Let You Go (Live from Cairo Bar in West Chicago)

Backlash-Sleight Of Hand

Advorsa-Blood Moon

Endostaligia (interview from Wire in Berwyn 8/6/19 Local Loft Episode 109)

Endosatalgia-Sign

Endostalgia-Rumbush