Local Loft Episode 394

"Are you Mod? Are you a Skin? Are you Punk,or are you just faking?" (The Professionals-1980)

No fakers here, it's the real deal. The true Chicagoland metal, punk alternative rock and power pop scene.

While Pop Punk isn't the most realistic form of Punk, it still is worth discovering. No Better Today is a 4-piece Chicago band with just enough angst and rebellion to get a big crowd pogoing to their aggressive, upbeat music with unhappy lyrics and images. I talk with singer Daniel Branske and guitarist Luis Ortiz after they had an all ages crowd pogoing to the highest roof rafters at Tivoli Bowl in Downers Grove for the Now That's What I Call Pop Punk tour.

MYLPH have never played for a half a million strong audience, but the Chicago psychedelic metal band does a case of Rock Refreshment in their new song, which lays a bad mind trip on those old enough to remember when a colorful mind-altering chemical almost shut down the mammoth Woodstock music and Art Fair, fifty-six years ago this week. MYLPH joins Tractor Boy at Tivoli Bowl this Friday night, August 22nd.

No other music instrument screams throwback like the Sitar. Used by The Quiet Beatle, George Harrison, Endolstalgia worked the six string Indian string instrument into a fierce progressive hard rock sound. I interviewed them as they didn't have a packed crowd tripping all over each other, six years ago this week at Wire In Berwyn.

Now this is what we call original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop! The rock and roll call this time around is:

No Better Today-Dead Dreams

No Better Today-White Lies

Plastic Summer-Don't Wanna

MYLPH-Brown Acid/Starship 11

Tractor Boy-Big Medicine

Cheryl Rodey-Consistency

Colleen Wild-Worth It

Finding Ghosts-Anxious

Consume The Divide-The Hunt

Endolstalgia (interview from Wire in Berwyn 8/19/19 Local Loft Episode 109)

Endostalgia-Sign

Endostalgia-Rumbush