King Pignacious brings his “Modern-Day Multimedia Rock Opera” back to The Viaduct Theater this Saturday, Sept. 4th with the Four Star Brass Band!
Tickets for each night are only $10 and one-third of that will help CHIRP in the fight for excellence in independent radio. Don’t miss it!
3111 N Western Ave.
Doors at 9pm. Show at 10pm. 21+
V Sparks, Fifth Story, Just Married, The Rainy Saturdays
Abbey Pub : 8:30pm, 21+
Jookabox, Truman & His Trophy
Beat Kitchen : 9:30pm
Disco Biscuits, Jay Electronica, Orchard Lounge
Congress Theater: 9pm
Make sure to mark your calendar for this Friday at Metro for what will be a great night of music as Gapers Block and Chirp Radio welcome The Hudson Branch, Camera, Reds and Blue, and My My My for an 18+ show at 9:00pm on Sept. 3rd.
Print out a copy of the attached picture (or go to http://j.mp/cBwtty for a copy) and present it at the door OR sign up for text alerts from Metro and show your text message from the blast they will send out before the show in order to get free admission before 9:00pm or discount admission after 9:00pm!
Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska in the mid-1980s, before the existence of the Internet and MP3 players, meant you had to look a little harder to find new and interesting pop music. Fortunately I had a sister who was plugged in to the few places in town where one could find new stuff that wasn’t featured on Casey Kasem’s Top 40. One day she got hold of two albums on cassette tapes that I dutifully sponged off of her and that introduced me to the brilliant synth-pop of Thomas Morgan Robertson, a.k.a. Thomas Dolby.
In these days of ubiquitous electronic equipment, it’s easy to forget there was a time when it wasn’t possible to just push a button and have coherent sounds (or songs, or albums) come pouring out. Digital sounds didn’t come off the shelf; they had to be built from the ground up and made into something useable, hopefully by someone who knows what they’re doing, musically and technically. Dolby was one of those people. His skills enabled him to make two of the best pop albums to come out of the New Wave era.
“The Golden Age of Wireless” was originally released in 1982. Dolby’s biggest and only hit in America was this album’s first track, “She Blinded Me with Science,” a jumpy, expertly crafted techie love song with an accompanying video that was the exact kind of computer-pop that commercial radio and MTV could use to usher in the electronic age. In the U.S., the song and video quickly relegated Dolby with other symbols of ‘80s “nerd” culture like the band Devo and the movies Revenge of the Nerds and Weird Science.
Gapers Block & Chirp Radio welcome The Hudson Branch, Camera, Reds and Blue, and My My My
to Metro for an 18+ show at 9:00pm on Sept. 3rd.
Doors open at 8:00pm. Admission is free before 9:00pm or $6 after 9:00pm if you print out a copy of the attached picture and present it at the door OR sign up for text alerts from Metro and show your text message from the blast they will send out before the show.
The work of the Chicago Independent Radio Project is supported in part by a generous grant from the Crossroads Fund. More information at crossroadsfund.org.
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