empty_bottle_front_jpg_595x325_crop_upscale_q85Three 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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jim_o_rourkeEx-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.

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