Black Eyes / Lifeguard / TALsounds
Sat, Mar 09
|Empty Bottle
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2024, 9:00 PM PST – Mar 10, 2024, 1:00 AM PST
Empty Bottle, 1035 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60622, USA
About the event
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+
Tickets: Friday, March 8th, 2024
Tickets: Saturday, March 9th, 2024
BLACK EYES
Following their triumphant run of 20th anniversary reunion shows, Black Eyes announce a headlining appearance at Pioneer Works.
The Dischord Records group formed in 2001 and quickly became notorious for their visceral, percussion-heavy live performances. With two drummers, two bassists, two vocalists, one guitarist bolstered by an array of auxiliary percussion, the five piece blended exuberantly danceable post punk with an abrasive, caustic wildness inspired in equal measure by hardcore, free jazz, and 20th century composition. Singers Hugh McElroy and Daniel Martin-McCormick wove breathless tirades around each other, building densely-layered lyrical deluges exploring trauma, the crisis of masculinity, queer sexuality, a post 9-11 political landscape and the early rumblings of 21st century fascism. Drummers Mike Kanin and Dan Caldas engineered a roiling rhythmic interplay that maintained a tight groove as often…