This Saturday at the beautiful, ivy-infested University of Chicago campus, WHPK will host their annual Summer Breeze Festival. The local college station has been on the air since the late 40s and over the past decade they have hosted numerous subterrestrial bands, everything from the scum-gummy MOTO to the fiercely jagged KK Rampage, on their Pure Hype radio show. The festival, celebrating the arrival of the spring season and the approaching summer, features a carnival, an all night dance party, free food and a day time concert that includes an impressive line-up. Opening the event are Fake Fictions, a Chicago three-piece that seems to ride the edge of pop with fetching basslines slicing through perfectly glutted hooks and girl/dude vocal interplay that evokes a sound of cynical sweetness that appeals to both the self-effacing and party hat connoisseurs alike. Psychedelic Horseshit, from Columbus, Ohio are also appearing. Their mysterious wave of kaleidoscopic bedroom folk mashes up an entirely new sound reflecting some sort of muddy prism where only the darker shades get through, and the bubbly pastels are left out to rot. Next up is Vee Dee, the Chicago band know for their fuzzed, acrid, and tormented brand of psychedelia that is the prefect bridge between the prior act and fellow distortion benders, Plastic Crimewave Sound, who are also making an appearance. The the new princes of introspective bedroom spume, Pink Reason, who just recently returned from their Midwest tour with Clipd Beaks, will fit in perfectly. Although their live sets are almost completely deviant to their recorded material that lend melancholy comfort and proudly self-exposing doldrums, the maniacally jilting and intense live sets are truly a spectacle. The show starts at noon this Saturday and check out HERE for directions.
check out a clip of Pink Reason from their Chicago Show in February courtesy of NoBigThingChicago right here...
