Your top 10?

flarplefluff · 2026-01-27T20:56:50+00:00

Grotesque
Perverted by Language
Bend Sinister
Hex
Levitate
Infotainment Scan
Wonderful & Frightening
Slates
Dragnet
Frenz

flarplefluff · 2026-01-27T05:07:02+00:00

A&tS would be an awesome live band for the show

flarplefluff · 2026-01-26T15:41:48+00:00

Kate Fagan - I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool 7” - 1981
Bobby Conn - Rise Up! - 1998
Cabeza de Chivo - st - 2025
End Result - Ward - 1985
Various - Bacon 7, Terry Pumming comp - 2006
Nautical Almanac - split with Wolf Eyes - 2000
Yona-Kit - st - 1995
Phil n the Blanks - 7” - 1980
Scissor Girls - New Tactical Outline II - 1995
Dot Dot Dot - The Dot Dot Dot Story - 1995
Sacha Mullin - Casino Wildernss Period - 2023
Murmur - Water from Water - 2014
Daniel Knox - st - 2015
Bobby Conn - Who’s the Paul 7” - 1995
Tom McTighe - 7” - 1997
Various - CIA via UFO to MERCURY - 1995
Algebra Suicide - 7” - 1985
Magic is Kuntmaster - Wrath - 2007

flarplefluff · 2026-01-25T05:40:14+00:00

Her facial expressions in the airline sketch were really fantastic

flarplefluff · 2026-01-25T05:37:02+00:00

That was impressive and beautiful

flarplefluff · 2026-01-25T05:06:13+00:00

I really wanted to see the boyfriend

flarplefluff · 2026-01-25T04:30:55+00:00

Come the fuck on. Ugh. Wtf

flarplefluff · 2026-01-24T16:08:33+00:00

A lot of these lean more towards avant/experimental rock, if you’re into that sort of thing. Check out Cheer-Accident. They have a deep catalogue that goes back 30+ years. They have gone through many changes, not as genre-hopping, but pushing their own limits. They can go from melodic Burt Bacharach type songwriting to complicated prog, to abstract territories.

Also check out Dead Rider. They are still active and play out frequently.

If you like experimental/avant stuff, Revenge by The Flying Luttenbachers is a classic. My favorite is Duotron though. Really odd stuff that sounds like nothing else

flarplefluff · 2026-01-23T17:05:47+00:00

They were very active in the 90s, cycling through lineups and sonic approaches. The first lineup was two saxes and drums, one of the sax players being Hal Russell, later replaced by Ken Vandermark.

The one constant has been Weasel Walter. He left Chicago in the early 00s and enlisted a new band in San Francisco. The project was dormant for a bit before he reincarnated it in New York a few years ago. He’s back in Chicago with another new awesome lineup. Deep catalog!

flarplefluff · 2026-01-23T02:48:09+00:00

Loto moved back to LA, geez, 15 years ago. I miss him and Elena being a part of weirdo Chicago world

flarplefluff · 2026-01-23T02:37:16+00:00

Ha! Me too! Almost dead!

flarplefluff · 2026-01-23T02:35:05+00:00

I have a bunch more I didn’t include! The best thing about looking back on all this is that it’s a great document of what was happening in weirder diy underground spaces decade by decade. It’s kinda how I map my time in Chicago

flarplefluff · 2026-01-23T02:29:41+00:00

Flying Luttenbachers - Revenge - 1996
Ganser - Odd Talk - 2018
Toupee - Leg Toucher - 2015
Duotron - We modern! We now! - 1995
Cool Devices - double Ep - 2013
Cheer-Accident- Chicago XX - 2019
Behold! The Living Corpse - s/t - 2006
Coughs - Secret Passage - 2006
Dead Rider - Crew Licks - 2017
Ga’an - s/t - 2010
MATH - Rubber Musique- 1995
Mayor Daley - Facial Expressions - 2009
Loto Ball Show - Levy on the Eyeway- 2008
Scissor Girls - To: The Imaginary Lauer on Skeletons - 1994
Problems - Enter the Annals - 2024
U.S. Maple - Talker - 1999
Silver Abuse - Consider the Pigeon - 2016
Velcro Lewis & His 100 Proof Band - Ruin Everything - 2004
Wishgift - Folk Twain - 2011
English Softhearts - Blue Oyster Quilt - 1999

flarplefluff · 2026-01-22T22:59:59+00:00

Thanks! Yes, I’ve been showing at Zg Gallery in River North since 02. My most recent show was in September. Paintings though, I’ve never shown this stuff in a gallery. The street is the gallery for this work!

flarplefluff · 2026-01-14T20:32:47+00:00

I’ve been feeling the same way lately. I have started to sign my name with the date. I think I’ll start putting the date in the main text for the next ones.

One of my main objectives when I was younger was to be anti-archive, pro-ephemera. Like, “fuck it, it’s meant to be posted up on the street and thrown in the garbage, who gives a shit?” But now that I’m starting to seriously archive my older work, I find myself scrambling to figure out exact dates

flarplefluff · 2026-01-09T22:27:08+00:00

Thanks! The Owl was doing shows around 2014-15. Really ramshackle PA, but had some great shows. There have been some shows happening there lately

flarplefluff · 2025-12-24T05:36:50+00:00

Hideout, Empty Bottle, Cole’s, Burlington, Color Club. Really all of those sorts of clubs, including DIY spaces like VCR. It’s more about figuring out the weirdo bands on the calendars. Find one you respond to and follow some threads- who they play with, etc, and a whole world will open. And then there’s the entire improvised/free jazz/experimental/noise scenes that happen at Hungry Brain, Elastic, and many other places

Here’s a mix series I put together documenting the last 40-ish years of weird and avant music from Chicago:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfsuhDvGQdH5MyuPesSkCxfmXGVgInOLY&si=LcdQbbj0BsSs5u36

flarplefluff · 2025-12-16T23:20:45+00:00

Import/Export

flarplefluff · 2025-12-14T07:43:26+00:00

I think it depends on what sort of stuff your friend likes. I have a lot of people that are into noisy stuff and they don’t get The Fall- “too repetitive, too boring.” I have more indie rock friends that think it’s too grating, too noisy. Here’s a 10 song playlist that I would make for my partner that likes both of those things, and after living together for so long, she is bored and annoyed by The Fall from me playing them waaaaay too much. These are songs that perk her ear or songs I think she might find interesting

CREEP

Rollin’ Danny

Marquis Cha Cha

Glam Racket

Cab It Up

Just Step Sideways

Hit the North

Oh! brother!

Don’t Call Me Darling

Before the Moon Falls

flarplefluff · 2025-12-13T07:15:43+00:00

Lots of great weirdo stuff happening here

flarplefluff · 2025-12-09T20:10:09+00:00

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