This Weekend In Music: Three To See
By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 18, 2013 6:00PM
The Sounds play Double Door on October 20. Photo by Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
Fuzz at Logan Square Auditorium
Fuzz is Charlie Moonheart, Ty Segall and Roland Cosio making a helluva ruckus. Rarely does a band live up to its name so perfectly, as the trio churns out heavy slabs of psychedelia, which should reverberate nicely off the walls of the echo chamber that is Logan Square Auditorium. The band's self-titled debut sounds like it was pulled from some alternate history of bootleg garage in the '60s—an undiscovered gem that spawned a whole movement of like-minded bands that never happened—and a rip in time and space has accidentally delivered this music to our doorstep. Our favorite tune on the new LP is the epic "Loose Sutures," a song that breaks down halfway through to reveal it's bones rattling and clattering about before rising back up with a huge wave of, you guessed it, fuzz.
Friday, October 18, at Logan Square Theater, 2539 N Kedzie, 8 p.m., $14, 17+
The Sounds at Double Door
The Sounds are ALWAYS a great time live and we expect their Chicago stop on this brief U.S. tour to be no different. They are building up to the release of their new album Weekend next Tuesday. Weekend is another solid collection of the new wave influenced dance rock these Swedes have built their reputation upon. To be honest, at this point we have no idea how they keep pulling new vibrancy and energy from this particular genre, but whatever they're doing they are doing right. Even if they didn't have a good album to stand upon, the show would be worth watching just to bask in the electrical presence of front-woman Maja Ivarsson, who owns the stage with a charisma worthy of arenas.
Sunday, October 20 at Double Door, 1572 N Milwaukee, 8 p.m., $20, 21+
Deltron 3030 at House Of Blues
Usually a ten year wait between albums often leads to a disappointing sequel, even when helmed by legends including Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien and Kid Koala. Luckily for everyone Deltron 3030's Deltron Event 2 is a worthy follow-up to their debut. Even without assists from folks like Damon Albarn of Blur and frequent Automator collaborator Mike Patton the album is a monster. The beats and rhymes perfectly weave together and the end result is a hip-hop masterpiece that manages to sound not of this time but of every time. We know, that sounds like an exaggeration, but it ain't.
Saturday October 19 at House Of Blues, 329 N Dearborn, 11:15 p.m., $30, 17+