Local Loft Episode 418

"I wonder what we'll do when things go wrong. When we're halfway through our favourite song. We look up and the audience is gone."

"Will we feel a little bit obscure?" (One Chord Wonders-The Adverts, from the debut album, Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts. Released 2-17-78. Stiff Records-U.K.)

You, as part of an original Chicagoland Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock, or Power Pop must never accentuate the negative. how about what will we do when things go right! There will be bad nights on stage or in the studio. Rock on, when they happen and know that there is an audience who will be coming back for more, of their favorite songs from you as a solo artist or band. This podcast focuses on only the music product that goes right.

Chicago Deathcore Metal band Subcyst, will lay down the right pile driving, grinding groove to make a moshing audience, Saturday night stick around at The Forge In Joliet, and never be gone. The lyrical images may be depressing, but the coarse grunt vocal of singer Javier Guana has the fiery power to keep the crowd mesmerized. This band is very mainstream and impossible to fade into obscurity.  Javier and guitarist Rich Boersma join me. They're one of five Chicago area metal bands playing a local metal showcase gig, also featuring Next To Eternity, Reckless Redemption, Beheading The Icon, and Beneath The Hollow.

Tractor Boy whips up a punk hoedown at the record release show for their second full length album, Midwest Loud, the second weekend of Spring in Southwest Suburban McCook. Leftover Ice And Snow from a barbaric winter will be eradicated. Three prominent bands want to get rid of the painful memories of another familiar ICE at an Immigrant Support Benefit show, the first weekend of March at the legendary Oak Park record store, Val's Halla, including hardcore punk trio, Real Bad Real Fast . I have the scoop on both shows.

Rocking out of the ashes of the obscure progressive Joliet metal band Axis Of Time, the future was much brighter and heavier for Orinoco. Their second trip to The Kat 105.5 studio included new fierce screaming singer Anthony Guardiola, 14 years ago this week.

Whether just one, or a zillion distinctive chords reel in your audience, this original Chicagoland music soundtrack will strike an hour an fifteen-minute catchy chord:

Subcyst-A Malignant Gift

Subcyst-Death Wage

Reckless Redemption-State Of Decay

Real Bad Real Fast-Mouthpiece (Live at Livewire Lounge-1/16/26)

Convoy-Almost Lost My Mind

Bad Break-Retired Double Agent

MYLPH-Bio Jesus

Black Cat Heart Attack-A.D.D.

James The Boneless-Frozen Brain

Orinoco (2/18/12 Live in The Kat 105.5 studio)

Orinoco-The Antagonist

Orinoco-Seize The Night

Axis Of Time-The Walking Dead