Like its New York predecessor in the late 70s, Chicago’s mid- and late-90s no-wave scene scrambled the accepted precepts of rock and jazz to create addictively noisy, thoughtfully bent, and crassly hilarious music. Its bands included the Flying Luttenbachers, the Scissor Girls, Math, Duotron, Lake of Dracula, and Dot Dot Dot, many of whom shared members. They gigged at long-gone venues such as Czar Bar, Milk of Burgundy, and the Magnatroid, but within a few years most had fallen apart. On Saturday, May 4, the Co-Prosperity Sphere hosts “Chicago No Wave,” with performances by Bobby Conn, 0th, DJ Le Deuce, former Scissor Girls front woman Azita, and the reanimated Flying Luttenbachers (who recently released the brutally excellent Shattered Dimension), plus a reunion set by D.O.G. (anchored by Joaquin de la Puente). An on-site art exhibit will include work by photographer Jim Newberry, filmmaker Shane Bugbee, Jodie Mecanic of Math, Kelly Kuvo of the Scissor Girls, and Rose of Zeek Sheck; Lumpen Magazine will have new zines of 90s show flyers and other ephemera.
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