Three happy-go-lucky reasons to head to the Empty Bottle tonight:
1. It’s a Chicago band three-for! Opener’s Casual Encounter are making their Empty Bottle debut while Chicago mainstays Vee Dee and the Velcro Lewis Group round out the hometown-centric bill.
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By Ross Meyerson \ comments
Ex-Sonic Youth member, Wilco producer and Chicago experimental rocker Jim O’Rourke is set to release Visitors, a new solo effort of original material, on September 8 on Chicago’s Drag City label.
Additional details from Pitchfork.com:
According to the label, the record is more song-oriented than his excursions into avant-electronics (see: stuff like 2001’s I’m Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 2007’s collaboration with Merzbow and Carlos Giffoni, Electric Dress). It’s apparently more in line with O’Rourke’s somber instrumental LP Bad Timing than his sly pop records, Eureka and Insignificance.
By Richard Giraldi \ comments