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- Club , Chicago ; Deeohgee / Uncle Sexy / Harlem Natural — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; The String Cheese Incident — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Gerald McClendon` — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing Party — Saddle Up , Aurora ; The Sonder Bombs / Total Downer — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Bar — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; The Hecks / Glyders / Caroline Campbell / DJ TrakQwn — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Axel Boman / Madeline / Juan Izguerra — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Over The Rhine — SPACE , Evanston ; Spotlights / Birdhands / Underhand — Subterranean , Chicago ; Will Wilcox — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Ignited — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Yohan Experience — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Perpetual Flame — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Battle of The Drag — The Forge , Joliet ; Grammy U Showcase — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Hydro Afro / Kinky P — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Dave Smith — Zanies , Rosemont .
SATURDAY 29
DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Banda MS & Eden Muñoz — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Paul Wertico ' s Letter From Home / Alvin Cobb — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; April Wine / The Sweet — Arcada , St . Charles ; Magic Mischief Dinner ( 7pm ) — Arcada , St . Charles ; Electric Biscuit — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Taylor Swift Dance Party — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Fertility — Basecamp , Lisle ; Direct Hit !/ Decent Crimal — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheyrl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Fireworks / Pet Symmetry / Creeks / High Priest — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Sasha McVeigh — Bub City , Chicago ; Jen Fletecher & Reckoning — Bub City , Rosmont ; Nublu Band : Carlise Guy — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; South of 80 ! — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Kountry Wayne — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Renaissance-Renaiddance — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Melanie Fiona ( 6pm ) — City Winery , Chicago ; Peel / Timmy ' s Organism — Coles , Chicago ; August Burns Red / The Devil Wears Prada / Bleed from Within — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Glow in the Dark Flowers / Midwife / Desert Liminal — Constellation , Chicago ; Bell Bottom Bash - ' 60s Tribute — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Karaoke — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Lost Girls Vintage / Prom Night — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Evenflow , Geneva ; Family Show : Mr . Dave Music ( 10am ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Family Show : Mr . Dave Music ( 10am ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Six Spped Tranny / American Psychos — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Tim Cappello / DJ Greg Corner — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Paper Mache / Zach Brock — Green Mill , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Chicago ; Mississippi Heat — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Chicago ; Loudernow — Heroes West , Lemont ; Humbird — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Rustion Kelly — House of Blues , Chicago ; Nick Swardson — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Breakfast Club — Jamo ' s Live , Chicago ; Roosevelt UNIV . CCPA — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Last Class / C . H . E . F . — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Al Spears & Hurricance — Johnny Blitz , Westmont ; Weval / Moshun — Lincoln Hall ,
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Chicago ; The Gingers — Madcats , Palatine ; Eric Colburn — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Graham Nash — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Lateralus — Piazza , Aurora ; Mike Z — Pollyana Brewing , Lemont ; Gareth Emery — Prysm , Chicago ; Just The ' 80s — Q Bar , Darien ; Butter - A BTS Army Dance Party — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; The Summer Set / Grayscale / Taylor Acorn / High Wire — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Mound Builders / Pale Horseman / Lucifist — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; The String Cheese Incident — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Mathhew Skoller — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Miguel Mateos & Miguel Erentxun / Elefante — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; La La Land — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Ben Reilly / Pote Baby / Al-Doms — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Destroyer / Shana Cleveland — SPACE , Evanston ; Sunflower Headlights / Vultures !/ Marvin Stumbles — Subterranean , Chicago ; Whiskey Romance — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Hi Infidelity — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Perpetual Flame — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; K Pop Mixtape — The Forge , Joliet ; Mike Wheeler Band — Untitled , Chicago ; Kashmir — Venue , Aurora ; Eddie B — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Outline In Color / VRSTY / Discrepencies — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Indika / DJ G Sharp — Wild Hare , Chicago ; After Hours : Calvin Harris — Zanies , Chicago ; Al Snow — Zanies , Chicago ; Dave Smith — Zanies , Rosemont .
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Andy Brown / Jordan Baskin — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Bell Bottom Bash - ' 60s Musical — Arcada , St . Charles ; Luke Pytel Band / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Capital Vices / Bouquet / Dead / Awake / Demsfightinwords — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Big Doug Mercel — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Dirty Roses — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Ms . Anita Wilson — City Winery , Chicago ; Video Game Music DJ — Coles , Chicago ; Shi-An Costello Plays the Orient — Constellation , Chicago ; Ocean ' s Rat Pack ( 3pm ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Umberto Tozzi ( 7pm ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Seven Soul — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Chicago Skyliners / Bill O ' Connel — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Red Orchid Theatre 30th Anniversary Benefit — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Interrupters — House of Blues , Chicago ; Nick Swardson — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Blues Jam — Madcats , Palatine ; Jimarth Acoustic — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Graham Nash — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Singer Songwriter Showcase — Pollyana Brewing , Roselle ; Transviolet / Jagwar Twin — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Brunch — Skooter ' s , Shorewood ; Half Gringa / Pictoria Vark / Jessica Mindrum — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Cinthie / Michael Serafini / Sassmouth — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Jeremy Garrett — SPACE , Evanston ; Perpetual Flame ' s Kristin Hayes — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Dave Smith — Zanies , Chicago ; Chris Frangola — Zanies , Rosemont .
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The Sisters of Mercy continued from page 37 ‘ round and pick fruit . And the co-op belongs to a bigger organization with an even bigger warehouse , so then my fruit all gets packed up and distributed .
IE : How is your house appointed ? Spartan or dusty and cluttered , like 1313 Mockingbird Lane ? AE : The first thing I did was take all the sculptures off the walls , and then I took all the curtains down , took the curtain rails down , and I repainted everything completely white , with no pictures on the walls . It ’ s got a bit of a Japanese vibe to it , or maybe Mediterranean . But there is one picture I bought locally that I have up , but it ’ s a picture with bits of string and wood glued onto it , and it ’ s pretty fragile . But anyway , I took it down because it ’ s too fragile , and I don ’ t want the cleaning person to even try dusting it , basically .
IE : I don ’ t trust anyone who won ’ t drive five U . S . states over to purchase the last remaining rarity that will complete their particular set . What do you collect ? AE : Well , I ’ ve got a small collection of Afghan war rugs from the Soviet invasion times . I don ’ t know whether you can find pictures online , but it is definitely a thing because the Afghans tend to weave history into their carpets , as it happens . They don ’ t just do the ornamental , decorative stuff – they weave tanks , helicopters , and rocket-propelled grenades onto their stuff , and some of the rugs are long and thin , what we call runners . And some of
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them are normal carpet shapes , about the footprint of a compact car .
IE : I always wondered about the huge power behind your drum machine , Doktor Avalanche . But you started in music as a drummer , so percussion is very important to you , right ? AE : Yeah . I care about it . And actually , we haven ’ t changed the programming , but we ’ ve changed the sound a bit , inasmuch as we ’ ve got a new sound man these days , and the Doktor sounds meatier , which I think is an improvement . And I do care about percussion , and I like to adjust the hi-hats and the shakers , all the little metalwork things , by little ticks , backward and forwards . And you don ’ t hear the difference , but you feel the difference . People think if you ' ve got a drum machine – or you ’ re playing samples as if they were a drum machine – that everything is quantified , and it ’ s not . And what I ’ m saying is , it is possible to program feel .
IE : Well , we ’ ve had quite the discussion . It could probably go on forever . AE : When I talk to people , increasingly these days , they are people without general knowledge . So I talk to my cat . He likes being talked to , and for him , it ’ s as good as being stroked or cuddled . And he knows that it comes from a loving place . But when I talk to most people , they don ’ t perceive my voice in the same way at all . But hey – everybody likes a villain , right ?
And I think our recent songs are making it clearer that – never mind the author – even the narrator doesn ’ t want to be perceived as some cowering villain . Because sometimes he ’ s a proud villain !
Appearing June 6 at The Salt Shed , Chicago .
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