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Tractor BoyHighway JunkHotLips MessiahKobanes
Fri, 14 Mar, 8:30 PM CDT
Doors open
7:30 PM CDT
Reggies Music Joint
2105 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616
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Description
Reggies Music Joint
Friday, March 14th
7:30pm doors | 8:30pm show | $10adv/$12dos | 21+
Tractor Boy
Highway Junk
HotLips Messiah
Kobanes
Event Information
Age Limit
21+

Punk
Tractor Boy
Tractor Boy
Punk
Based in the sleepy suburbs just west of Chicago, Tractor Boy is a 27 year old band in the making. Drummer/Singer Mike and Singer/Bassist Steve have been playing together on and off since the mid-1990’s, amid other projects, collaborations and the global war on terror. The two recently encountered a remarkable force of nature named Raul, who fills out the trio by shredding harder than any modern guitar player ever could. With a combined weight of over 700 lbs., the band is easily the heaviest rock band in the Midwest, possibly even the world. With songs about conspiracy theories, war, post-traumatic stress disorder, horror/fiction and beer, the band covers a wide berth of subject matter. Blended up in chugging guitars, blistering solo’s, and a relentlessly crushing rhythm section, the words are spit out by voices that are equal parts James Hetfield and John Fogerty. They are the sonic equivalent of a Combine Harvester, a throwback to the rock gods of old, but still tinged with modern ideals. Tractor Boy are the band you never knew you desperately needed in your life, but they have been here waiting all along. Get in.

Punk
Kobanes
Kobanes
Punk
The kids know what’s up and, all of a sudden, the kids are really into The Kobanes, with T-shirts and other merch cropping up en masse. A split label Japanese release to coincide with one of the band’s infamous Japanese tours, Japan Invasion is a very solid, mainline pop punk album. Taking 1990s silliness to new peaks with songs about loved ones smelling each other’s feces, suburban ghettos, dicks, and drugs, The Kobanes’ lyrics are gleefully apolitical, mean-spirited, and downright asinine. And that’s a compliment! Driving, Queers-inspired riffs dominate the mix, with geek-tinged vocals maintaining a spirited, tongue-in-ass-cheek vibe. A higher end byproduct of a dwindling subgenre, Japan Invasion happily invaded this aging pop punker’s heavy rotation. There’s even a cover of “Fan Mail” included for Dickies fans. Plus, any album that starts with a dialog sample from Class of Nuke ’em High is okay by me. –Art Ettinger

