Thursday December 27
Empty Bottle
1035 N. Western Ave.
9:00 pm
In addition to biking quite a bit, I also play bass, so I am breaking from bike related posts(not that i have been very attentive to those) to put out a promotion for my band The Getouts.
Maybe you didn’t get that BB gun or pony you wanted for x-mas, but we have a new CD for you “How to Save a Drowning Horse”.
After numerous misstarts and disappearing sound engineers a CD is nowcomplete and shrink wrapped. To celebrate we are playing this Thursday December 27 at the EmptyBottle with the excellent Penthouse Sweets and Outlaw Family Band. Comeon by and wash that fruitcake taste from your mouth.
From the Chicago Reader:
I love a band that can evoke the comforts of a greasy spoon in music, and this local quartet is among the few to nail it. The house speciality is guitar—bluesy guitar, boogie guitar, slide-y guitar, Keef-y guitar, and Skynyrdyffyc guitar, all chopped up and cooked in a steaming omelet with a side of sausage and a slop of hot sauce. But that’s not all there is to eat: singer-guitarist Andy Matzdorf (the group’s only constant member) has a little Jeffrey Lee Pierce in him and an accent swiped from one of the Van Zant brothers. Tonight the Getouts celebrate their 11-track debut, How to Save a Drowning Horse, on their own label, Fort Awesome, named after their rehearsal space and studio. Penthouse Sweets and the Outlaw Family Band open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401, $7. —Monica Kendrick
From Timeout Magazine:
The Getouts’ MySpace page describes them as “rock/Americana/garage,” and that’s a surprisingly accurate description of their sound on their self-titled, self-released album. Their version of Americana isn’t terribly distinguished, but when they cross over to the garage side, they have a remarkable sense of dynamics, not doing the usual lame Cramps/Rev. Heat/Monomen imitations that others in the same field do. They’re not quite there yet, but these guys are clearly onto something.
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