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PUDDLE OF MUDD, TRUST COMPANY, 30 SECONDS TO MARS Sold out. Sat 3/30, 2 PM, Tower Records, 383 Army Trail Rd., Bloomingdale. PHAMOUS PHACES Free in-store performance. Sat 3/30, 8 PM, Borders Books & Music, 1144 Lake, Oak Park. ‘NSYNC Thu 4/4 and Fri 4/5, 7:30 PM, Allstate Arena, 6920 Mannheim, Rosemont. 77 or 31.īOB MOULD Free in-store performance see Spot Check. 63.īOB MOULD, HER SPACE HOLIDAY All-ages shows (4/5 sold out) see Spot Check. Wed 4/3, 8 PM, Frick Center, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect, Elmhurst. Sun 4/7, 7 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. MILES ENSEMBLE with Jackie Allen & Glenda Zahra Baker, in a performance of America 1941: Songs, Literature, Politics. Fri 4/5, 8 PM, Frick Center, Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect, Elmhurst. LIL’ ROMEO Sat 4/6, 3 and 7 PM, New Regal Theater, 1665 E. Best of Chicago 2023: Music & Nightlife.Best of Chicago 2023: Sports & Recreation.Unfortunately, drummer Danny McClain passed away in 2011. Guitarist Chris Trull went on to join the bands Yowie and Terms who continue to push the limits of what a rock band can do. Bassist Darin Gray went on to perform with a wide range of artists, notably including Wilco guitarist Jeff Tweedy’s solo group and with Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche in the group On Fillmore. Sadly, they never continued their vision. Reportedly practice sessions lasted up to ten hours, and months of writing and rehearsing resulted in less than a minute of new material.
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“Grand Ulena masterfully bridge the gap between the uber-angular non-repetitive hyperstructuralism of the most rigid, martial modern classical composition and the traditional rock and roll power trio format while leaving everybody wondering what the hell just happened.”Īfter Gateway to Dignity Grand Ulena went into another series of intense writing and rehearsing sessions.
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The Flying Luttenbacher’s drummer Weasel Walter describes the sound of the album in this way: The amount of force power and precision they put into their playing (especially the drumming) is something seemingly from another world. It is an incredible document of a unique vision by three people completely committed to the concept. The album contains much of the same material that was performed live. In early 2003, they released their only studio album Gateway to Dignity which is today’s pick! It also happens to be one of my favorite rock albums of all time, so I’m kind of surprised it took me so long to make this an official PPP! They played Chicago pretty frequently and I was lucky enough to witness their astonishing music firsthand several times, including this show at The Fireside Bowl in November 2002: Their music was almost completely thorough composed with very little repetition.Īfter a period of very intense rehearsals, they hit the road. Their music may sound completely random and improvised, but this was far from the truth. Extended instrumental techniques forged into song.” Failed soloing combined with rigid riffery. Complex structures combined with complete and utter failure. Disjunct beats played under broken and jagged melodies. “Grand Ulena is disjunct rhythms played at high velocity.
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Their music is self described in the following ways, which I think is pretty accurate: Grand Ulena also consisted of drummer Danny McClain and guitarist Chris Trull. One of the projects he started after Dazzling Killmen was a very bizarre instrumental power trio of sorts called Grand Ulena. Their bassist, Darin Gray, was a huge part of their heavy sound. They broke up shortly after putting out their masterpiece Face of Collapse in 1995. Their hybrid of progressive rock, punk and jazz was highly influential if not exactly well known. Louis Missouri.ĭazzling Killmen was a big part of that scene. In the 1990s and early 2000s the Midwest was a breeding ground for a ton of math rock and progressive rock bands.