Here's The Deep Dish On The Sounds For Thursday NightWhat you need to know about the folks playing the Liar's Club for the opening of the
Music With Meaning Festival.
Paper Bullets -
Paper Bullets get their name from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. But this punk rock trio is clearly much ado about something. Their
Ear Flaw self-titled debut release is great, full of cranked up concise compositions, but you want to see them live because it's not a gig, it's a show. (To hear them is to see them.) The leader of the band is Traci Trouble. Standing 6'1", she is a sweaty amazon goddess on stage with bass guitar slung low. You can't take your eyes off her. Playing both rhythm and lead guitar, Adam Kroos wields his axe like a tornado in a grain silo. It's everywhere at once and coming right at you. And Chis Ott on drums, often shirtless and sunglassed, is furious fits of sticks on skins. His is the rat a tat tat of a machine gun and the boom chick a boom of a Howitzer. Paper Bullets is the real deal. They're not posturing or posing. And they're not shooting blanks. (
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Altgeld Forgotten - After many nights of drunken band talk, former members of
Orefisaurus Jon, Lou, and Steve have finally gotten the band going. With the addition of Luke, whom they found crying himself to sleep in the gutter on more than one occasion, they are now Altgeld Forgotten.
Altgeld Forgotten is honored to play their
first show for
Music With Meaning. (
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DJs Spinning -
Eric Lab Rat,
Kelsey Snell and
Brandon Wetherbee all of Machine Media.
Want to know more? - Get your a** to Liar's Club and ask 'em.
Maybe You're Sleeping
Home Recording Project is like nothing you’ve heard before. At least consciously. Maybe in some of your more mellow, ocean-side dreams the Home Recording Project was playing in the background, but for the wide awake their music makes sleeping seem like an exploration.
The
Home Recording Project has been juxtaposing different forms of indie, experimental and down tempo for five years now and the current alliance seems to have jelled into intuitive, hazy entity. The band originally formed not in conjunction with a scene but with a disappointment toward the current punk and math rock scenes. What has manifest itself is a low-lying sound that they themselves describe as, “sleep deprivation and tears....lots and lots of tears.” That’s not to say that the music is depressing or at least it doesn’t have to be. It is introspective, mesmerizing, hallucinogenic.
The
Home Recording Project is an eclectic taste. They use their instruments for their art, because they view their music as art. They also use spaces to make their art. Shortly after they formed, the group had moved into a house together and began collecting recording equipment to document their sound. In the process of recording, the natural ambiance of the house and the neighborhood all seeped into the recording process and in fact helped spawn the name Home Recording Project.
The summer looks to be a busy one for the band. Besides
MWM7, they have a tour heading West, are deliberately searching for record distribution and also have some friendly collaborations in the works.
This Friday at the
South Union Arts Building Home Recording Project will bring their slow, swimming swish to you. As easy as it may be to think so, remember, this is not a dream, this is not a dream.
Are You Ready To Rock?This Thursday it's all set to blow. Music With Meaning 7 blasts off with a damn fine event.Who - Machine Media Presents
Paper Bullets,
Altgeld Forgotten and DJ sets from Machine Media Staffers.
What - A Kick-Butt Night of Musical Goodness
When - Thurs. June 1. 9 pm.
Where -
Liar's Club, 1655 W. Fullerton Ave.
Why - 2 bands, 3 DJs, all for a good cause. Come on...what more do you need? Oh...they usually have
$1 PBR on Thursdays!
Here is some junk close by the Liar's Club - like grub, pre-cocktail joints, a spot to get a Clown Suit- so you know where to go before the show.
30 shows in 30 days with over a hundred bands rocking the city. Sounds interesting - but what is it? Another reality show from VH1? Pitchfork Media’s latest live music attempt? Not quite. Who could pull off such a feet - lining up 30 eclectic musical events from Bridgeport to Lincoln Square, featuring sounds ranging from free-jazz to industrial? Meet
The Machine Media, a fresh-on-the-scene magazine with one publication under its belt and a newly designed website, all neat and tidy. The Machine Media is hosting this years
Music With Meaning 7, the eclectic festival that will stretch 30 events across the 30 days of June.
Music With Meaning is a project that was conceived six years ago in Oak Park by
Brandon Wetherbee, then a musically-obsessed high school student with a vision beyond his years. The first Music With Meaning was held at the Ernest Hemingway Museum in Oak Park on money that his mom had fronted him from their rent. Wetherbee made just enough money to pay her back and gain ample knowledge helping to keep the event running for the next six years. But never has the festival taken on such an ambitious tone.
Can 30 events in one month really come off with out a glitch? Wetherbee thinks so. Building off his past Music With Meaning endeavors and working countless hours to lineup bands, venues, sponsors, readings and hosts, commercial success has taken a back seat to the love of music. In the early stages his Music With Meaning events were a potpourri of bands thrown together with no regard to the flow of the individual show, but later Music With Meaning events focused more on having a successful turnout.
“I learned early on that I don't like the most commercially successful bands so after the first go at it I booked bands I didn't necessarily want to hear. Music with Meaning 6 and 7 are different because I've been booking bands I like again,” explains Wetherbee.
With a festival as extensive as this almost everyone can find an event with acts they like. Music With Meaning 7 features over 105 bands, readings from local music writers and an independent film night. The schedule features diverse sounds from local and national acts and venues range in size from small rooms to large clubs.
Setting up such a massive event may seem daunting, but
Music With Meaning 7 is not only an impressive event set to showcase distinctive music while helping a great cause, it might be the first event of its kind in Chicago.
“To my knowledge,” claims Wetherbee, “no one has been dumb enough.”
Dumb or not. Music With Meaning is shaping up to be a month that won’t soon be matched. With festivals like
Lollapalooza, Intonation and Pitchfork garnering the majority of the press for summer Indie-fests, Music With Meaning might not get the ink, but it will certainly bring the energy. There isn’t really a choice, you got to be energized to rock 30 plus events in 30 days.
Music With Meaing 7 - 30 plus events in 30 days. Hosted by
Machine Media.
Music With Meaning is more than great music. The events of MWM7 will benefit some great casues as well. One of those organizations that is being supported is
Rape Victims Advocates. Rape Victim Advocates (RVA) is an group that works mainly behind the scenes to support those who have been physically assualted.
RVA is an Illinois not-for-profit organization made up of many individuals with two primary goals: to assure that survivors of sexual assault are treated with dignity and compassion; and to affect changes in the way the legal system, medical institutions and society as a whole respond to survivors
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RVA has
many events happening in which you can support this good cause or you can come out to one of the 30+ Music With Meaning nights, hear some sweet music and help RVA make a positive change in the world.
What the Heck Is Music With Meaning?
Music With Meaning is a 30 day extravaganza of artistic enegry centerted around music. A project of
Machine Media, the month long event brings together an eclectic group of bands, writers, venues and organizations. The events start on Thursday June 1 at the
Lairs Club with
Paper Bullets and Altgeld Forgotten and continues all the way until Friday June 30th.
Watch for an article coming soon explaining the founders, origins and drive behind this city-wide musical madness.
