Need More Air!
Chicago ' s headbanging Open Air festival is back with a star-studded line-up for a second year on Friday, July 14, Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview. The three-day music, craft beer and Gourmet Man Food festival will feature over 40 performances, including legendary rock artists Ozzy Osbourne, KISS and Korn, along with Rob Zombie, Slayer, Godsmack, Stone Sour, Megadeth( read our cover interview with Dave Mustaine on page 22), Lamb Of God, Seether, Meshuggah, Anthrax, Clutch, Body Count, and many more. In addition to three days of nonstop rock, Chicago Open Air’ s celebration of everything loud will also include Gourmet Man Food, featuring local and regional midwest cuisine, the Headbangers Bier Hall, highlighting top brews from the region, other entertainment and fan experiences, and will be hosted by SiriusXM’ s Jose Mangin. Ticket pricing at press time( chicagoopenair. com) showed individual tickets starting at $ 60 at Bowl Level. Four Packs in the Bowl at
$ 99 are really sweet deal. Bowl tickets for all 3 days start at $ 130, while big spenders can get a VIP Ticket for $ 400. Prices of course are subject to change and getting tickets early in the month will increase your odds of getting a better spot.
Three-Day Passes go on sale today( 4 / 19) at N
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Riotous Feast
The quirky and brilliant management crew at Riot Fest have joined forces with the pop-up restaurateurs who came up with Wicker Park ' s Saved By The Max diner at 1941 W. North Ave. to launch The Riot Feast for 3 months, beginning on July 8th. According to the folks at Riot Fest, " the full menu will be revealed in time, like a finely-aged festival lineup," however they can reveal " that they ' ve retained Saved By The Max’ s critically-acclaimed executive chef Brian Fisher( Schwa, Entente) in the kitchen, and he’ s not coming out until The Riot Feast has a full menu of hearty, family-style Riot Fest-infused delights." At 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights, Riot Feast " will be transforming the place into something else. Something darker. Something more mysterious. Something hazier. Something freakier." Like any limited-time event you ' ll need to get tickets in advance to achieve the full experience. Management says " don’ t worry, the tickets include a bigass meal " from a nationally acclaimed chef. Get tickets now at https:// theriotfeast. tocktix. com /
Disco Demolition Revisted
Photo courtesy of Paul Natkin It started as an off-beat baseball promotion called“ Teen Night” designed to sell tickets at
Comiskey Park and gain listeners for a 97.9 FM The Loop – until it devolved into one of the most infamous events in Chicago’ s rich baseball history. Disco Demolition Night exploded on July 12, 1979 in the middle of a White Sox doubleheader and it remains one of the city’ s weirdest moments. Inspired by the book by Steve Dahl, with journalist Dave
Steve Dahl, 1979
Hoekstra and photographer Paul Natkin, the exhibit uses video footage, artifacts, interviews, memorabilia, and photographs by Natkin to examine the culture and the music. It ' s all ' s displayed at the Elmhurst History Museum( 120 E. Park Ave.) through October 8th.
Hello, My Name is Ali
UB40- Ali Campbell center
It was a pop-cultural inevitability. Arguably, one of the most definitive numbers from British reggae outfit UB40 is“ Red Red Wine,” its lilting cover of the old Neil Diamond chestnut from its chart-topping 1983 covers disc, Labour of Love. Both abroad and in America, the delightful track helped to break the band, which went on to sell over 70 million albums, to date. And now, three decades on, the group recently teamed with Eminent Life vintners in England to introduce its own official Red Red Wine UB40, a Bordeaux Superieur that – according to frontman Ali Campbell – is as pleasing to the palate as the song that inspired it.“ We got together with a guy called Jerome at Eminent Life, and that’ s where you can get it – online at eminentlife. co. uk,” he reveals.“ It’ s a cross between Murdoch and Sauvignon Blanc grapes, and it’ s a very, very fine wine. So we do have our own Red Red Wine now – we launched it over Christmas at the Arts Club in London, which is all very arty.” It’ s a nice ray of optimistic sunshine in an otherwise overcast past few years for the man – who just happens to be one of the greatest vocal stylists in modern music – after he departed UB40 Mach One in 2008 over managerial disputes, followed by keyboardist Mickey Virtue the same year, and co-vocalist Astro in 2013. Led by Campbell’ s brother and guitarist Robin, the group continued performing under the original name, until Campbell, Virtue, and Astro decided to reclaim their legacy and reunite under the banner of UB40, featuring Ali, Astro, and Mickey.“ So people know they’ re getting the real deal,” Campbell says.
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Al Jourgensen of Ministry
Uncle Al ' s Jewelry
It ' s a long-way from his Old Style " Everyday Is Halloween " commercials but Ministry ' s Al Jourgensen has always been an entrepreneur. According to Blabbermouth. net " London, U. K.-based custom jewelry company Seventh Circle Artworks has teamed up with the godfathers of industrial metal Ministry to bring you the official Ministry ring and pendant. Both the ring and pendant feature the iconic " anarchy ' M logo, and are available to preorder, priced starting at $ 150."
Alex Palmer from Seventh Circle Artworks told the press " As a longtime fan of Ministry from when I first got into ' heavy ' music back in the early ' 90s, this release is hugely exciting for me on a personal level as much as anything else. To be able to add such a genuinely legendary band to the ever-growing Seventh Circle Artworks list of collaborations is a major achievement." The company has also offered jewelry lines from Corrosion Of Conformity, The Skull and Weedeater. Visit www. seventhcircleartworks. com for info.
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