Three are-the-Raiders-really-a-short-field-goal-miss-away-from-being-5-3-right-now reasons that (Yes, they are by the way) you should tighten your belt and lift yourself up by your bootstraps and head over to the Hungry Brain tonight…

1. True, the Hungry Brain sounds like one of those upper middle class “toy” stores that liberal parents love and, I assume, kids hate. Great, blocks with the founding fathers on them. But I digress. This evening is all about our friends at Coach House Sounds. Tonight they present us with BEVEL, the low key side project of Contraphonic’s Via Nuon. Low key it may be, but that doesn’t mean these sluggish tunes aren’t fully fleshed out and ready for your ear’s consumption.

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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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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.