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by David Eldredge
Photo: Rotten Photography
Kickback
Only Bleeding
T
he Kickback have been generating
some good buzz locally for some years
now, and IE finally at down with three
members of the band– frontman/chief songwriter/guitarist
Billy
Yost,
lead
guitarist/keysman Jonny Ifergan and bassist
Eamonn Donnelly – in the NYC office of their
publicist in the midst of its showcase gigs at
the annual multi-day CMJ indie music extravaganza. The band's roots stretch much deeper
into the heartland – to Vermillion, South
Dakota, to be exact, where Billy and older
brother (and former drummer) Danny were
raised and cut their teeth in various bands in
their teens and into their college years.
Packing The Kickback name along with all
their other personal belongings in the first of
four vans to come, Billy and Danny moved to
Chicago in 2009 where, through the magic of
Craigslist, they found Jonny and Eamonn to
re-form The Kickback. So it's only natural to
start at the beginning with a question to Billy.
IE: Why did you choose to move to Chicago as
opposed to a closer big city like Minneapolis?
or break for the West Coast? Or, heaven forbid,
the musical hipster heaven of Brooklyn?
Billy: Two reasons, and probably the most
pressing was my girlfriend and now my wife
had accepted a job here a year prior and we
were tr 她