South Union Arts

::È stato un regalo gradito::
"il stato un regalo gradito" is an exhibition curated by South Union Arts staff Anna Cerniglia, Caitlin Arnold and Stacy Droege. It features a cluster of 30 artists including installations by Joseph Miller and Jenny Tsiakais. The roster includes artists such as Jason Lazarus, Jon Gitelson, Joe Suta, Damara the Destroyer and Chris Strong to compliment progressive students Kyle Harter, Terttu Uiboppu, Sarah McKemie and Brian Guido.
Throughout this versatile and eclectic collection of art, you will find creative and imaginative pieces. Through age range and experience, you will get to see progressive work spanning different generative and innovative minds.
Exhibition opens April 12 from 7pm-11pm at South Union Arts located at 1352 south Union, on the corner of union and 14th street
FRIDAY APRIL 18 9PM
ODAWAS (Jagjaguwar Records)
Like watching an avalanche crushing a Bavarian cottage or a man being attacked by a lion, listening to Odawas while nestled safely in your phono-womb is an exercise in tuning into sublime frequencies from safe carriage. That huge dial has never made your hands so child-like, that cookie jar so high. Odawas skirt the cliff's edge like Jack Nitzsche hanging Christmas lights on the shark cage, Neil Young stoking the campfire in his babylon treefort, or a Jandek aria in a black armband march.
ERIC CARBONARA
Eric Carbonara is a guitarist, composer, audio engineer and producer whose career spans over a decade of collaborations and solo work. Frequently using a rotating cast of monikers and aliases, Carbonara simply uses sound to interpret the world around him as he sees fit. His own recording studio, Nada Sound Studio, is both the catalyst and the mechanism through which Carbonara speaks. Recent years have revealed a departure from his psych/krautrock-influenced work (Jason Likes Science, The Cameras, The Molecules) to a kaleidoscopic realm of minimalism, electro-acoustic improvisation, free-noise guitar thrashing, the folk music of North Africa and Andalusia and Classical Hindustani music. In a sense, Eric Carbonara plays pidgin music, a language that is in between other languages-borrowing elements from its surroundings-it may be a language that only Eric speaks, but he speaks it well. A performance of his work may entail a solo Andalusian influenced guitar, electric guitar/drum duets, delay saturated atonal wine glass music, electro-acoustic synthesized improvisation and/or any combination of the above.
RESTING ROOSTER
Resting Rooster is freedom folk magic act from the Mid West. The band was born as an opera intermingling elements of Sam Shepard, Cormac McCarthy, Skip Spence, and John Fahey. The story followed a character named Rooster on a killing spree to the South West where he reevaluates his situation after being dosed with medicinal peyote by a native shaman. The opera never happened, we threw it into a pile of other failed projects, set it ablaze, and reevaluated our own situation. This is the product...
NICK SCHILLACE
Detroit-based acoustic guitarist Nick Schillace is in an Afrobeat big band and a post-rock duo. He composes, improvises and backs up singers in string and traditional ensembles. But he’s not a band guy. Sure, he did what you probably did in high school, answering friends’ calls for help with their projects and building his reputation as an electric guitar player. Nick kept it up through five years of journalism study, or long enough to realize that he really didn’t want his fate as a musician to rest on somebody else’s whim. He quit his bands, enrolled in music school, and began pouring every idea into six strings wound to wood.
SATURDAY APRIL 19 5PM
Special impromptu show moved from The Bottom Lounge!
THE COPYRIGHTS
The Copyrights play loud energetic punk with a definite Chicago influenced pop sound a la early 90’s Lookout! They deliver a refreshing jolt in the spirit of their storied processors in the punk underground.
THE STEINWAYS
DEAR LANDLORD
(ex-Rivethead, current Copyrights)
Adam and Brett play in the Copyrights, and Brad and Zack used to play in Rivethead. With their powers combined they make sweet jams together. SUGARFOOT
Beats and doo-wops hailed from the distance, Sugarfoot has come into existence.
THE MIDWEST HACKERS
The Midwest Hackers use unconventional instrumentation to create haunting, ambient soundscapes that echo dreams and fantasy.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 8PM
Part of VERSION08 DARK MATTER: Performance ART Wig out! 8pm until 1am. $6 at the door.
VERSION08 Performances ::
MATTHEW NICHOLAS & ERIC WARNER (Fee Fi Fo Funambulist)
It's the big show beneath the ceiling of the big top where we find the Minotaur recreating the tightrope daring-do's of one, Karl Wallenda. Overcompensating for his lack of self completion as a singular being, the Minotaur now finds himself in a maze of personal repetition, but his tight wire dare-devilry routine is more than just a circus act. Under the eyes of the Ringmaster, a frustrated Burlesque Cheerleading Squad, and an over zealous journalist documenting every move, the Minotaur attempts to triumph all.
PARKER (Freakie Outtie)
Referencing peep shows and iPod commercials, Freakie Outie is a study in personal connectivity to pop music.
Live music: GYNOSLAYER MICHAEL PERKINS of FAR RAD PURE MAGICAL LOVE IS THE CAPRICORN'S
THURSDAY APRIL 24 8PM
MAN TRAVEL WELL
Sweeping sonics that fade to a hush and burst back with fervor without being assaulting. Crisp, clean instrumentation with chops.
HWY
Hwy is the brainchild of guitarist/singer Brent Fuscaldo (Mako Sica). The echoed vocals and surf/space-y guitar sounds more akin to an early-era Kranky artist than the more classic surf breed of the Ventures. There is an unpolished feel that makes it inherently Garage 60's pop because the melodies are so damned catchy but only as far as the stripped-down production will let them be. Live, he plays solo dividing his attention from skronking guitar solo instrumentals to vocal centerpieces but rarely both in any one song. Recently he joined forces with drummer Jim Sykes (Parts + Labor, Bully, I Love You) to record an album's length of songs at Shape Shoppe with engineer Griffin Rodriguez (Icy Demons, Need New Body, Bablicon). The results will be released next year and label home has not been decided yet. Four songs have been posted to the artist's myspace page.
SATURDAY APRIL 26 9PM
ECSTATIC SUNSHINE
Ecstatic Sunshine are an instrumental duo whose point, partly, is that there are things you can do with sound besides just experience feelings all the time. I am with it.
CEX
TIGER SAW (Kimchee Records)
Tiger Saw is from Newburyport, Massachusetts, a seaside town 40 miles to the north of Boston. Founding songwriter Dylan Metrano is the one constant in the band, although mainstays Juliet Nelson and JR Gallagher have accompanied him in the studio and in many a live setting since the year 2000. Sometimes Tiger Saw is just Dylan wandering through an audience singing with acoustic guitar in hand, and at other times as many as a dozen performers augment the live experience with cello, viola, piano, organ, drums, horns, and other assorted noisemakers. Tiger Saw specializes in the whisper, the waltz, and sweet songs that are jazz in concept, but not in execution. Metrano and his ever-growing band of friends and collaborators are impassioned about performing this music for people all over the world, sharing stories, playing campfires, and creating something special night after night.
CATHY CATHODIC ANNA VOGELZANG
WEDNESDAY APRIL 30 8PM
VOODOO ORGANIST
THURSDAY MAY 1 8PM
HOWARDS DILEMMA
One-man shows, robot references, synthetic beats, campy lyrics, a deadpan Devo-esque delivery… not surprisingly, what ties all these things together is an obscure philosophy reference. Each song introduces us to one of the many characters that Howard plays during his shows. Roboman sings “Am I human?”, while Dayv, the washed-up rock star, gives us “Look at me now.” Doctor Phaser contributes his own eponymous tune, and Sideshow Bernie, the master of ceremonies, brings us home with the Howard’s Dilemma theme song.
MYSTECHS
Founded in 1998 as a halfway normal, female-fronted trip hop duo in the mold of Portishead, Mystechs underwent several lineup changes and countless stylistic mutations before becoming the bizzare, genre-jumping electro-punk Frankenstein it is today. Derek Dziak and Emil Hyde have just completed the band's ninth album, a heavy metal magnum opus entitled Hot Tub O' Blood. They will be touring the United States and Spain in the summer of 2007, joined on some dates by vocalist Susan Kim. Taking their cues from Fugazi and early Bad Religion, the band plays all-ages venues whenever possible
BEARRIES
Bearries is a three piece number from Chicago. These kids may not pack a bundle of impressive rendering techniques and post production know how, but they can make you fucking dance. Influences include zombies, time traveling, and parties. They're deep like that.
SATURDAY MAY 10 9PM
it's a jubileigh!
JASON ANDERSON (formerly Wolf Colonel)
At the awkward stages of life in which most of the music-obsessed exist, it is unusual for art to be a mirror image of ourselves. Maybe because artists are typically a little older and have guitars they think their role is to create music that floats over reality, but Jason Anderson reveals that the musician is indeed no higher than the listener. Wielding such embarrassingly familiar phrases as "totally" and "fuckin' rip one," as well as the sentimentality of, well, a K Records artist, Anderson (formerly known as Wolf Colonel) lets the quirks in young people shine through. In so doing, Anderson walks the anorexiacally thin line between coming off as either a passionate guy who is okay with who he is, or a huge loser. That's sort of the point, though; we're all huge losers. But once you're okay with it, the lush piano, delicate duets, and high school bro-down feel sound that much better. Anderson's dorky phrasings ("I'd drive like 3,000 miles"), full-ranged vocal energy, and, let's face it, boyish charm are overwhelmingly captivating.
KID YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS (ex Troubled Hubble)
Talk about a Midwestern supergroup: Andrew and Nate Lanthrum are former members of Troubled Hubble, before their split in September 2005. Corey Wills is a full-time member of Illinois dance-pop trio Inspector Owl. Jim Hanke hails from Milwaukee and fronts the group El Oso. Nina Jones is a classically-trained pianist and has some instrumental music online under the name Blue Girl.
STRAND OF OAKS
A Hoosier transplanted to the coal highlands of Northeast Pennsylvania, Timothy Showalter has nested in fertile musical soil. Taking cues from luminaries such as Nebraska-Era Bruce Springsteen and a burgeoning Neil Young, Showalter extends a musical gesture and searches to find modesty in the midst of confusion, addressing insecurities and settling existential debt with a simple and beautiful delivery. The personification of a midwestern Grandfather's advice, his songs smack with hard truth and poignant severity.
FRIDAY MAY 16 9PM
Join us for the premier of the film Animal City: Baby Nation. It is a short 16mm film made by the band! Click here for trailer !
ANIMAL CITY
Acoustic and minimalist electric guitar with catchy riffs, Animal City have a dancy pop rock groove.
JAMIE MILLER NATHAN XANDER
Nathan Xander operates as a solitary project with his base in Chicago, Illinois and his heart in, his home town, Union City, Pennsylvania. An active writer and musician, Nathan has written and recorded nearly sixty original tracks over the last one and a half years.
FRIDAY MAY 23 9PM
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE HARMS WAY (members of Few and the Proud)
SATURDAY MAY 24 9PM
TEN-SPEED
Melody driven pop, through-composed and/or still-figure songs which utilize improvisation, rubato and chaos for constant renewal.
SATURDAY MAY 31 9PM
THE GREAT WHITE JENKINS
ATHENS
Athens is a musical project that blends rock, folk, Latin, soul, blues, your mom, and world music to produce a distinct, wide-ranging sound. Their commitment to creating unique live experience and maintaining an ever-evolving catalog of poignant, personal and worldly songs has made them one of Chicago's most exciting up-and-coming bands.
SATURDAY JUNE 7 9PM
SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE
RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM
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