This week we’ve got another fantasy poster for a real gig! Writer and graphic designer Brian Shamie, who works for the Daily Herald and runs the site Chicago Sound Check, created this poster a year or so after the 2015 Troubled Hubble concert it depicts—the band’s first reunion date since breaking up in 2005. “I wasn’t able to make this Troubled Hubble show,” Shamie tells me via e-mail, “but about a year later, that line in the song [‘14,000 Things to Be Happy About’] was haunting me and I needed to get the vision out of my head.”
Not everybody can make a gig poster, of course, but it’s simple and free to take action through the website of the National Independent Venue Association—click here to tell your representatives to save our homegrown music ecosystems. And anybody with a few bucks to spare can support the out-of-work staffers at Chicago’s venues—here’s our list of fundraisers. Lastly, don’t forget record stores! The Reader has published a list of local stores that will let you shop remotely.
