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Live Review: Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Text Mr. Nitetrotter  - May 12, 2010

Yesterday I had the opportunity to catch Chicago 80's noise punk legends Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.  If you haven't heard of them they were played with bands like Naked Raygun back in the 80s to mixed results, they were also labelmates of the Birthday Party and Flipper. You can buy their original LP Machines That Kill People for approximately 300 dollars on Ebay.

This was my third time catching Ono live. The other two times were in completely different settings of diy punk shows with the average crowd. This on the other hand was in the fancy cafe of the Museum right off of the Magnificent Mile.  I walked in a little late following the dark noise to see Ono frontman in a white gown and headdress performing a unique dance with a hundred yuppies paying complete attention. He freely roamed the room and even went outside the windows via a few loops around the revolving door to change dresses. He looked these people in the eye and was dead serious. The crowd was all sipping overpriced drinks as if they just got off their jobs in the loop stopping by at the museum for free Tuesdays. 

The show was part of a series of concerts with art displayed by Plastic Crime(Steve Krakow) who is the man behind the Secret History of Chicago Music comic strip series in the Chicago Reader among other amazing pyschedelic activities. He did well by picking out Ono to play this.

Each time I have seen Ono it has been totally different but always satisfying. This was the darkest and most fucked up I have witnessed them. It was also the most heavy, it sounded great in that room. The music backing up Travis' performance art is reminiscent of throbbing Gristle or something like that with their own flavor. You can tell there is a definite Chicago R&B influence and I can't get over the African Spiritual style of singing Travis does in the songs. He is 62 and still killing it! He is my favorite cross dressing front man EVER! If you have a chance to see them make sure you do it. They are certainly one of the Chicago's best kept secrets. 

Mondo Drag is rocking in Rock Island

Check out this video Jonny Bee Videos posted of our favorite QC rock band Mondo Drag at our favorite QC rock bar. Mondo Drag just had a new album come out on Alive.

Featured track: GG Tolltext

Our buddy GG Tolltext the keeper of Camp Bell on the south side sent us this track that features quite a few songs. Catch GG at Nitetrotter Fest. Enjoy and good nite!
FibProsody by GGTOLLTEXT

Plastic Crimewave and the Secret History of Chicago Music

Catch his art and some ONO tomorrow night at the Contemporary Art Museum in Chicago. It is part of a show displaying Steve's art and some of the musicians he features in the Secret History of Chicago Music which you can find in the Reader or sunday nights on Wgn Radio.

Meester Magpie - Live at Dr. Who's Warehouse of Ideas

Catch him at day 3 of NItetrotter Fest!

RYAT-Live NITETROTTER Session

Here is a video from our friends RYAT Recorded Live @ NITETROTTER Studios in East Moline,IL.

NITETROTTER Session-Lost Apparitions

Illustration Jorge Tapia/Sound Engineering Ian Harris/Text Suburban Legend

Lost Apparitions are some weird kids from somewhere in Iowa.There's a kick back, like a mule, kids freaking out that there's nothing they'll be able to do to not wind up like their old man or their mom. It's a wrestling match between old comforts and startlingly new revelations that creeps into their inquisitive head first and most often when such things happen.But this is the band's casa, a point of familiarity, where its sunny psychedelia comes home and usually stays in to roost. They refuse to find their little rabbit holes to duck into and just obsess and study and develop.They are the chronicles of whispers that flow from such deep recesses of a soul and a mind that just don't know what to do with them. It's as if we are witnessing the end of it all and the breathing is becoming thinner, we're not capable of cracking our eyes open much more and we're just seeing what's gonna happen next. Thanks for reading this asinine convoluted bullshit, & Good Nite.
Hey Zeus-Lost Appartions NITETROTTER Session by NITETROTTERS

Centaur Noir - "Fuck You Guyses Team"

El is a Sound of Joy Live

Check out this sweet live video of El is a Sound of Joy in Chicago, IL done by visual artist Ben Kolak

el is a sound of joy from Ben Kolak on Vimeo.