the WHISTLER

Lineup:
James Davis, trumpet
Nic Bedard, bass
Karl Schwonik, drums

Live Jazz every Wednesday at The Whistler

Come get yr dance on with Kate & Rachel’s Old Style Show!
On the 2nd Friday of every month — songs from the 60’s and 70’s.

Sneak preview every Tuesday night from 12am-2am on WLUW 88.7 FM

Classic rock, pop & psychedelic jams
Second Saturdays

A mind blown is a mind shown! Join Permanent Records (your trusty local record store/label) for a night of eargasmic tunes and found films and videos. P-Rex owners, Liz and Lance spin the latest underground rock jams and rare dusties from their deep private collection. An exclusively vinyl exodus to the other side! Come on out and catch a buzz and a head full of fuzz. A set thick with the air of Spacemen 3, including artists that inspired them and the new school influenced by them. Psych, Noise Rock, Punk, Garage Rock, Weird Pop, Minimal Synth, and crates full of the in-betweens. Space out…
2nd Sunday of every month.

A Benefit for Coach House Sounds featuring:

7:30pm — ONO
8:30pm — Jason Behrends (Reading)
8:45pm — Moonrises
9:45pm — Brian Costello (Reading)
10:00pm — The Lesser Birds of Paradise


Moonrises “Hollow Watcher” (CHS Session)

The Lesser Birds of Paradise “Too Close To Call” (CHS Session)

Friday night dance party throw-down featuring a rotating cast of DJs from the forthcoming greatest radio station in Chicago, CHIRP (Chicago Independent Radio Project). Expect to hear a mix of everything from Soul to Hip Hop to Indie Rock bangers to Pop classics and beyond. It’s that Wooo Woooooooo!!! And we’re bringing it every time.

About the authors…

Tim Jones-Yelvington lives and writes in Chicago. His work has appeared in Sleepingfish, Annalemma, Pank, Keyhole, Monkeybicycle and others. He contributes to the group blog Big Other and maintains his personal blog Ejaculations of a Perverse Adult. With Megan Milks, he co-hosts Chicago’s “mostly Queer, mostly prose” reading series, Uncalled for Readings.

Brandon Will is a former puppeteer (at a Russian-run Detroit store-front theater; from which he was subsequently banished from) and moviemaker (of a ridiculously ambitious feature, Dadbot: The Movie). He currently works at a wonderful little independent bookstore and pursues a split-major in fiction writing and screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago. In the future he hopes to be a better man. His work was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He has love in his heart for everyone in this goddamned room.

Charlie Nadler lives and works in Chicago. He has written short fiction and humor for The Internet, and he plays guitar in a band called Blane Fonda.

Michael Czyzniejewski grew up in Chicago and now teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review. His stories have appeared in over fifty publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, StoryQuarterly, American Short Fiction, and The Southern Review. His debut collection, Elephants in Our Bedroom, was released by Dzanc Books in early 2009, and he is a 2010 NEA Literature Fellow in Fiction. Since 1989, he has also worked as a vendor at Wrigley Field, and this summer, he will live in Wrigleyville and work on a novel based on his experiences selling beer during Cubs games.

Also with Anne Valente and Amanda Marbais.

Using modern electronics and looping techniques to augment traditional instrumentation, local quartet A Light Sleeper combines percussive guitars with bright saxophones and hushed vocal harmonies to craft flowing epics that alternate between dark, moody atmospherics and breezy, abstract pop. The band has been floating along the periphery of the city’s experimental scene since 2005, and recently released their debut album Amicability on Chicago-based label Another New Calligraphy. The Daredevil Christopher Wright is three dudes from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In Deference to a Broken Back is the band’s debut full-length. Mixed by fellow Eau Claire friend, Justin Vernon of the acclaimed Bon Iver, each song offers a story, whether centered on the true events of a brother’s move to New England (“The East Coast”), or fictionalized as in the couple who have plans to be a playwright and stewardess (“Stewardess”). It is the depth in the mundane they prefer, “faith and rocks and slings and things”. The Daredevil Christopher Wright are the park bench overlooking a mighty river, the subtitles to a foreign film, and the back screen door left to slam shut on a summer day.

Woodland Creatures, lead by trumpeter Justin Walter. Debuting amazing original music for octet. Band members include: Justin Walter - trumpet, Eric Hall - guitar, Elliot Bergman - tenor, clarinet, Quin Kirtchner - drums, Rob Clearfield - rhodes, Dan Bennett - bari sax, Nick Broste - Trombone, Jake Vinsel - Bass. This is the debut show for this band, who’s full length album is to be released this spring.

Live jazz every Wednesday

Soul and funk music is rooted in Chicago. The music and all its forms, from the R&B-tinged early 1960s through the stepper-friendly early-1980s, is central to the city’s music history. The artists were here, the business certainly was here, and the records are still here, meant to be played and shared on nights like these.

The Whistler’s monthly soul party is curated by Jay Wells and features new performers for each installment, with a rotating cast of fans, collectors, amateurs and professionals, all friends via DJing funk and soul records. The Whistler Soul & Funk Party — 4th Friday of every month.

Movieoke: (verb) To perform a classic movie scene for an audience, karaoke-style. Ex: “Did you see Karen movieoke? She totally acted the shit out of that Big Lebowski scene.” Movieoke is literally karaoke with movie scenes instead of music. Performers don costumes, take the mic and act out the movie scenes playing on the big screen behind them. Think there won’t be something that suits your liking??? Think again. There are over 200 scenes to choose from. So, put on a costume and Movieoke! Presented by the Vintage Theater Collective; created and hosted by Katy Collins.

Movieoke is the 1st Monday of every month.

Curtis Ruptash and Phillip Hertz’s ongoing collaboration, known as Peabody & Sherman, makes a rare live appearance. The “Playdate” events are usually studio situations that they use as fodder for recorded collaborations, and have been limited to recording with members of Brooklyn’s Chimp Beams/Dub Nomads crew and performances at the BPM space on Kent St.

Tonight they break the mold with their first Chicago performance, ably abetted by long-time Chicago players Dan Bitney, D. Bayne and Jeff Parker, the latter two who have assisted them in their studio projects over the years.

The P&S rhythm section will lay down their usual selection of breaks-driven, blues-inflected, dubby Afro-funk and the side-men’s jazz credentials precede them.

The P&S recording project has released a number of EPs on their own Super Bro quasi-label; collaborations with producers Mari Ayabe, Aaron Schultz (DJ DRM), Mr Bambu, Bernd Jestram, and Steve Fisk. Ruptash, the bassist, and Hertz, the percussionist, both have long careers (separately) performing and recording with numerous indie and major label bands in the US, Canada, and the UK. They are currently finishing an EP titled, “All Your Bass Are Belong To Us”.

Friday night dance party throw-down featuring a rotating cast of DJs from the forthcoming greatest radio station in Chicago, CHIRP (Chicago Independent Radio Project). Expect to hear a mix of everything from Soul to Hip Hop to Indie Rock bangers to Pop classics and beyond. It’s that Wooo Woooooooo!!! And we’re bringing it every time. Tonight w/ DJs Kristin Marks & Michael Flavor

The Golden Horse Ranch Band’s 5-part harmonies and good-time stomping cowboy style is not to be missed. This 7-piece ensemble features mandolin, fiddle, upright bass, banjo, guitar, snare drum/washboard, and the occasional bassoon, played by a stellar group of musicians from a cross section of Chicago bands, such as Reds and Blue, Palliard, the Lawrence Peters Outfit, The 1900’s, Tangleweed, and everyone’s favorite marching band, Mucca Pazza.

The Golden Horse Ranch Band was founded in 2000 by Annie Coleman and Anthony Burton. Annie grew up calling square dancing at her family’s resort, The Golden Horse Ranch.

The Golden Horse Ranch Band plays on the 1st Sunday of every month.

Steel string ten-finger tapping guitar prodigy Andreas Kapsalis and nylon string Balkan folk guitarist Goran Ivanovic are fusing their Serbian and Greek folk music roots with modern, classical, world, jazz and beyond in this experimental duo. Highly Recommended!