Tijuana Hercules is a long-running Chicago-based hillbilly trance group. A cross between boundary-busting blues and tangled psychedelic roots music, TH's groove has been known to cure dozens of maladies and prevent a few that have yet to be discovered by modern medicine. Fronted by singer/songwriter/guitarist John Vernon Forbes, the ever-evolving Tijuana Hercules has had many personnel changes, but the line-up has solidified over the past few years to create some of the band's strongest work to date. Joining Forbes is founding member Mike Young on junk percussion; Joe Patt on drums; Doug Abram on saxophone; Arman Mabry on bass; and Sam Crossland on keyboards. The band has released multiple recordings on BLACK PISCES RECORDINGS, SKIN GRAFT RECORDS, and BLOODSHOT RECORDS. www.tijuanahercules.com

Billy Catfish is a country-folk singer-songwriter and performance artist. He performs under various names - he's a bandleader of the notorious Fabulous Byurd Brains, he heads up modern garage rock greats Cheap Frills, he plays the role of Uncle Bob in a favorite Guided By Voices tribute act, he's done metal in the Gnarly Swordsmen, he's a guitarist / sideman for Beverly Hills Supper Club and Sistern, and he hasn't told us about whichever new band he's formed this week. He's been performing as Billy Catfish for more than 20 years, first leading the two-piece punk/blues unit Little Billy Catfish & The Sodapops, then heading up the Billy Catfish 3trio. After a short stint on the fringes of Chicago’s experimental rock scene, he formed psych rock band Lonesome Tumblers. He’s more recently performed with songwriter-folk outfits Painwater and The Pteradactyls, punk stallions Public Venom, noise outfit PINK TEEF, and indie rock group The Chauncers. Billy Catfish has performed throughout Ohio and Kentucky, up to Detroit and Chicago, down into Nashville and Memphis, over to New York, Jersey and into Philly, and plenty of other spots in-between. He’s released a string of cassettes, records and CDs all the way. “(Billy’s) music became more personal, deeper and full of honesty. It developed a serrated edge that tore at the very essences of all that ‘real’ surrounding him, varied in every approach to his music … like a lost document from Gram Parsons, Neil Young or Willie Nelson.” - Shawn Abnoxious, CityBeat “Dude, you fucking rock!” (Nick Oliveri, from Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss said that while shaking my hand)