
Alright, Chicagoistas, we’ve got a bone to pick with you. We hemmed and hawed, we stayed up nights wrestling with it … but per your request, we resurrected a bigger better faster more version of our new-and-unheralded, interactive music column called You Tell Me. Next, we charged you guys with finding the cream amongst crap. We thought the first round went pretty well, but we didn’t get many workable suggestions last week. What gives, yo?
So here’s the question at hand: do you want the power? Do you want to tell Chicagoist what to do and where to be? Of course you do, so get to it!
A reminder on the rules of You Tell Me:
1. The show must be happening in the calendar week of the post. For instance, this week we’re looking for stuff that’s going down between today (5/8) (5/7) and next Monday (5/14).
2. We’re really looking for bands we’ve never heard of. Being the music-nerd-come-scenesters that we pretend to be, we’ve heard of a lot of bands. So really dig deep here kids, and give some love to that great blues trio you heard at the Smoke Daddy or to your little brother’s grunge revival band. We’re ready and willing to give any and every artist a shot at Chicagoist stardom.
Don’t let us down, Chicago hip/scene/yup – sters.



For instance, this week we’re looking for stuff that’s going down between today (5/8) and next Monday (5/14).
Isn't today the 7th? Or did I wake up in a horribly mundane episode of "Early Edition"?
"Its" ass not "It's" ass.
The Otis Problem, a band best described as Big Star meets Hank Williams and Social Distortion at a party hosted by Lonnie Brooks, will have its CD release party Saturday, May 12, at Wise Fools' Pub on Lincoln Avenue.
The opening band is Awesome Gary, and the show starts at nine. The Otis Problem will be selling copies of its new CD, "Places in Between."
The band's website is myspace.com/theotisproblem
Thanks for the suggestion, Martin.
Thanks for the good-natured corrections, all.
lk
B1G T1me is playing at The Note, 1565 N. Milwaukee.
Thursday, May 10, 9:00pm
They describe their sound as "Tom Waits on American Bandstand."
www.myspace.com/readyforb1gt1me
A wonderful, eclectic psychedelic group called The Good Old Fashioned Sinners is headlining the Subterranean this Thursday night (5/10). I think it's a $7 cover.
Think of Hella, the MC5 and Brian Jonestown Massacre all shaken up. It's great stuff, worth checking out. The longer psych/blues renditions cause proper freak-outs.