Chicago post-punkers This Is Versailles have released a new video for their track “Robot Beach”. The song comes from the band’s debut self-titled EP and is vibrant and melodic. Bassist Caitlin Garibaldi takes on lead vocals as Jaisen Ehas gives his hardcore screams a rest, but the song maintains its raucous energy. Also, you just gotta love the disorganized, xylophone-fueled coda at the end. If your like me and really dig this clip, This Is Versaille have a brand new EP, titled Capital Punishment, which will drop tomorrow at their record release party at the Empty Bottle. Anyway, check out the rockin’ clip below:
Three I’m-still-recovering-from-that-epic-Rodeo-set-last-night reasons to flex in the mirror, kiss your biceps, and hop on over to the Empty Bottle tonight…
1. Berlin’s – like Germany – Stereo Total are totally from Germany. The thing is, they have a sense of humor and whimsy. Just listen to “I Wanna Be A Mama” on the that there Myspace and you’d swear they were Japanese kids with German accents. I can think of no better way of describing the overtly cute schtick going on here. I’m going to need to check their passports.
Chicago rockers Warm Ones sound a little hotter than their name on the first track from their latest release, Sprezzatura.
Warm One started out a few years back as a recording project for then-members of The Saps and the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir. This lead to the creation of the album Sprezzatura, which was released earlier this year and features contributions from Chicago heavyweights Brighton MA and The 1900s.
While the album is a diverse work featuring bluesy indie-rock takes to straight up pop tunes, our favorite is the buzzsaw attack of the album opener “Bacteriostatic”. Check it out: Warm Ones – “Bacteriostatic”.
Three I-guess-Blagojevich-was-telling-us-the-truth-the-whole-time-and-boy-do-we-have-egg-on-our-faces reasons to straighten your wig and jog on over to the Empty Bottle tonight…
1. Chicago’s Outer Minds have been praised here recently enough so I won’t go into great detail. But, they do play a mean hybrid of early early Rolling Stones and early early Pink Floyd and have just released a damn good tape on the ever popular Plustapes label so I’d say the stars are lining up for this here group. It might behoove you to check them out now, so when you’re 40, you can tell some 20-somethings about it and have them think you are pretentious. You’re welcome in advance.
Three and-now-the-weather-which-is-downright-pleasant-today reasons to roll your eyes at that weather related cop-out and defiantly head over to the Empty Bottle tonight…
1. It’s Monday. Thanks to the good folks at the Empty Bottle that doesn’t have to have the generic negativity Monday usually conjures up. For no money down, you can see Chicago’s own Paper Mice and their bass forward post-rock. I want to call them an unholy alliance of Mission Of Burma and Primus, but I feel invoking Primus is taboo these days. But…
Whew. Congrats, Chicago. You survived Lollapalooza 2010. Until next year or some such. Anyway, if you didn’t make it down to Grant Park last weekend, relive the madness in our complete wrap up of Lollapalooza’s Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
And just because the big two summer fests are done does not mean that there’s a shortage of shows this weekend in Chicago. This weekend we highlight Boris and Russian Circles at the Metro, Rabble Rabble at the Empty Bottle and more!
