Thu, Aug 11 - 7:30pm - $10

Due to illness, District 97 will NOT be performing tonight. We will instead be showing Live for the Ending Concert Film on the big screen after CHEER-ACCIDENT rocks the house. 

Mano is a heavy rock chimera breaking through beyond the gate, spewing flames from its neck, the inside of which is armored with scar tissue from infancy onwards. It has waited all its life for its righteous moment of power and is hell bent on annihilation. Completion is a vision bathed in embers; metamorphosing in an instant from middle eastern-grooves to tumultuous rock frenzies. The collective members of Mano push their razor-sharp tones to the limit in virtuosic group improvisation. At its core, Mano is a rock trio, but at its most barren, Mano brings the moment down to a simmer bustling with subterranean tension instituted largely in part by the [insert pretentious adjective] string section. A flute tops this most unholy concoction. The sonic tendencies invoke images of desolate sandscapes with the dusty copper only interrupted by the black of the ashen state of now dissolved life.

 Bad Forum consists of Larry Beers (Sonia Dada; Michael McDermott; Mavis Staples; Ulele, and Mucca Pazza) on drums, ace sound-man James Coffey (Dagnabbit; Urban Twang) on guitar, and Mitch Straeffer (Falstaff; Space Rhino; Motion to Fix; and Ziplock and the Body-bags) on bass. Formed By Coffey in 1999 from members of his favorite bands that he mixed for at numerous Chicago venues, the lineup has achieved a solid following of fans who enjoy the band’s unique instrumental rock. The music is based, according to Coffey, on jump blues and swing riffs, but quickly the band expanded from those beginnings into a type of experimental surf, with each player contributing to the compositions. Bad Forum consistently challenges the notion of what music is and can be."