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![Twin Peaks @ Turner Hall [MKE] - 9/19/19](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6350538c4e985848148c1691/1669665235376-G4WCLA5R9847ROWT3EW7/TwinPeaksTurneHall_9-19-19%28%C2%A92019_Kevin+Hill%29-10.jpg)
Twin Peaks @ Turner Hall [MKE] - 9/19/19
For their new album Lookout Low, Chicago DIY heroes enlisted a producer - Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, White Denim, Ryan Adams) no less, for the first time in the career. The results are a shaggy, but not ragged, take on the garage rock this five-piece has spent the past nine years perfecting, that owes as much to 70's-era Rolling Stones as it does to Them or 13th Floor Elevators. If these songs are a more polished version of Twin Peaks than we've heard before, there's an undeniable energy crackling just under the surface of them. At Turner Hall in Milwaukee last week, that energy burst from the stage like lightning from a bottle onto a crowd who were there to give it right back in equal measure.
![Young Fathers @ Bottom Lounge [Chicago] - 11/19/2018](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6350538c4e985848148c1691/1669731607909-K8LBNMTRGHAA7JTWQOLY/2018-11-19_YoungFathers-%40AlexSchelldorf-1.jpg)
Young Fathers @ Bottom Lounge [Chicago] - 11/19/2018
A cold Monday and a late start time didn’t stop a crowd of 500 strong from spending a crisp hour or so with the Scottish trio, who combine hip-hop and rap, tribal percussion, anthemic vocals, and warm synths for an intriguing, utterly danceable mix.
![Daughters @ Beat Kitchen - 11/17/2018 [Chicago]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6350538c4e985848148c1691/1669732689158-PAQDQVAPM9B3NMJ2DSNS/Daughters-10.jpg)
Daughters @ Beat Kitchen - 11/17/2018 [Chicago]
At the first of two sold-out nights at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen, spastic noise rock outfit Daughters transported some 200 fans back to the mid-oughts. While the vast majority made it out of Beat Kitchen on this night unbloodied, none who entered the room left dry — either by their own body’s accord or the sweat of their fellow attendees.
![Cursive @ Thalia Hall - 11/15/2018 [Chicago]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6350538c4e985848148c1691/1669732971315-HN4OZ7I26KV5X0VDJ1JD/Cursive_111518_%C2%A9AlexSchelldorf-12.jpg)
Cursive @ Thalia Hall - 11/15/2018 [Chicago]
Cursive frontman Tim Kasher formerly called the Windy City home, which made the band’s return visit to Thalia Hall a homecoming after more than three years away.
And truly, what a Chicago-ass show it was.
Openers Meatwave and Campdogzz also hail from the 3rd largest city in America and set the tone for the evening, a night so teeming with the working spirit of the Midwest, one could practically taste the Malört in the air. Though Thalia felt a touch roomy–it was, after all, a brutally, unseasonably cold Thursday–fellow aged emos showed up despite their day jobs and an 8:30 show time to catch Cursive on their US tour in support of their new album Vitriola, the first out on the band’s own label, 15 Passenger.