Pelican

Three cheers for the weekend! Lot’s of great acts will descend on our many rad venues including Twin Shadow at Lincoln Hall, Pelican at The Empty Bottle and much more.

Snap yo fingers and let’s get to it.

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Frankie Rose

Three you-don’t-have-to-sleep-all-day-champ reasons to get up and get down to the Empty Bottle tonight…

1. Brooklyn’s garage pop songstress and nomadic drummer Frankie Rose already has a pretty fantastic rock resume. Rose was a member of such buzzworthy bands as Vivian Girls, Dum Dum Girls and later Crystal Stilts. Rose struck out on her own in 2009 under the moniker Frankie Rose and the Outs, creating sparkly spacey pop music that twinkles and buzzes with each serious guitar rhythm and thudding drum beat.

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Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • The Tribune’s Christopher Borrelli explores the history of one of Chicago’s best known music clubs The Hideout.
• • Speaking of The Hideout, WindyCityRock.net’s Andrew Hertzberg reviews this past weekend’s Hideout Block Party.
• • Meanwhile, TimeOut Chicago has a short review and a meat-heavy photo gallery of the first annual Rock and Roll Pig Roast.
• • Yakuza/Bloodiest frontman Bruce Lamont interviews the Swans’ Michael Gira for the Reader during their stop at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge last week.
• • Gonzo Chicago has an audio of full sets from Mayor Daley and Bad Drugs during their rager at the Empty Bottle last week.

Asobi Seksu

It’s the autumnal equinox, Charlie Brown! In celebration of the first real day of fall, we’ve got a fine selection of shows for your weekend party planning. We’re talking up The Hideout Block Party, Deerhoof, Asobi Seksu and much more!

Come on. Feel the Illinoise, already!

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After completing some home improvements earlier this year, beloved Ukrainian Village venue The Empty Bottle is now auctioning off pieces of its old bathroom walls and hardwood floors for charity tonight.

The Bottle is hosting “Pee It Forward: Protect Your Liver, Protect Your Table – An Empty Bottle ‘Art Coaster Auction’” beginning at 6:30 p.m. to raise money for the American Liver Foundation.

Up for auction is a limited number of coasters (a set of four each) made from hacked up pieces of the Bottle itself. Not enticed yet? Check out this description from the event’s Facebook page:

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Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• • NPR is now streaming the new Wilco album, The Whole Love.
• • Jim DeRogatis has another installment of the highly entertaining The Vortis Diaries on his WBEZ blog that details their problematic gig earlier this month at Subterranean.
• • Greg Kot profiles local R&B/hip hop/jazz up-and-comers Kids These Days for the Chicago Tribune.
• • WindyCityRock.net reviews last week’s BRAIDS and Painted Palms show at the Empty Bottle.
• • Gonzo Chicago has a sweet, sweet video of Music Tapes’ Julian Koster and Robby Cuchiarro performing the song “Spare the Dark Streets” in an alley behind the Bottom Lounge last week.

And now three reasons to jet on over to the Empty Bottle tonight for the final night of Permanent Records’ five-year anniversary celebrations….

1. Bad Drugs are quite the noisy band. This local outfit churns out brutally abrasive, grinding noisecore (I think) yet somehow does manage to let some melody bubble to its clamorous top. The cleverly titled “Ga’an Fishin’” (which I assume is named after the Chicago psych group), is quite the cacophony until a demented circus riff at its center. On “Go Ghost,” the band goes in a more hardcore direction with lightning riffs and sledgehammer changes.

2. Mayor Daley, not to be confuse with Chicago’s former Mayor, offers a more sludgy approach. The distortion-soaked riffs are tension filled. But the band also sprinkles in art-pop dynamics such as on the the crooked pop-guitar movement on “Choices,” which keeps things interesting as Mayor Daley’s aural assaults are quite lengthy.

3. Finally, coming all the way from Oakland, are High Castle. These scuzz-punks bring out schzophrenic riffage on top of a tight, punky snare sound.

9:30 p.m. Monday, 9/19. Empty Bottle. 21+. FREE!