Contest: See The Heavy At Double Door Tonight

We raved about The Heavy last time they landed in Chicago, and our prediction was spot-on. Here's what we said.

Coming on like Curtis Mayfield in a Mack truck, The Heavy are a UK-based fivesome that takes both their soul and their rock in equal doses. Frontman Swaby's vocals occupy that sweet spot between flawless falsetto and lascivious drawl. The band backs his sexy crooning with a melange of beats and instruments plucked from the '70s and shoved through a hip-hop shredder feeding directly into a tube-blown analog console. They can craft a suitably quiet come-on like "Girl" that dampens pants while delivering an honestly solid dose of soul, and then just as easily construct a massive wall of horns, caterwauling guitars, and thundering drums to propel a neu-Blaxploitation theme like "That Kind Of Man." Clothes will be shed at this show.

Enter after the jump for your chance to win one of a pair of tickets to tonight's show at Double Door. They don't make it here this often so we make sure to see them every chance we get! Enter quick though, the contest closes at 3 p.m. CST.

The Heavy plays tonight, July 7, at Double Door, 1572 N Milwaukee, 9 p.m., $8, 21+