During the holidays, it’s easy to get hung up on the small stresses of the season (too many social obligations, too much mandatory shopping, not enough pizza) and end up taking health, hearth, and family for granted. This week a few local artists and labels are doing good deeds for folks who are missing some or all of those things.
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Chicago alt-country quintet Liza Day, named for their honey-voiced singer, have a summery sound and a serious early-70s Memphis classic-soul vibe on their 2012 EP, One for Courage. On Sun 12/8 they play this year’s Woman Power Holiday Show at Schubas with Diana & the Dishes and Lady Laura; tickets are $10, $15 in advance, and proceeds benefit local “supportive housing” agency Deborah’s Place, which describes its mission as “breaking the cycle of homelessness” for women in Chicago.
Local teenage emo dude Leor Miller has been uploading his raw ditties to Bandcamp since March, and last month his collection Pretty Angsty came out as a cassette on microlabel Bad Waves (which also recently released Mormon Toasterhead’s seriously strange emo album 97% Old). Miller plays a release show for Pretty Angsty on Fri 12/6; e-mail millerleor@gmail.com for details.
