Back in Action...You Tell Me!

By Lizz Kannenberg on Apr 30, 2007 4:15PM

Guess what’s back (and WAY better than ever)…? Yep, it’s You Tell Me, Chicagoist’s weekly, slightly-masochistic-yet-wildly-awesome column where we ask you the reader to give us the skinny on the under-the-radar shows that keep the people hopping around the city. We tried this a couple of weeks back and had a great suggestion, but realized YTM needed a bit of tune up to get into summer racing shape. Thanks to some seriously fine suggestions from readers, we’ve done some retooling and this baby is ready to purr. So, friends, start your band finding engines and give us the very best of what’s not getting the treatment in our fine town’s music journalism outlets, and we’ll check it out and report back weekly.

Just to refresh your heads, here are the You Tell Me Commandments:

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 (4/30) and next Monday (5/7).
2. We’re really looking for bands we’ve never heard of. Being the music-nerd-come-scensters 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.

So have at it, guys. What are we seeing this week?

Thanks to Jimmy Dietzen for the cool logo.