It’s been five years since Horizontal Action magazine threw the last Blackout, a festival that over its six-year run became one of America’s most spectacular showcases of garage rock and binge drinking. But on May 27 and 28, HoZac Records is bringing the party back, and Gossip Wolf has the scoop on the lineup! A source in HoZac’s upper-level management confirms that out-of-towners Nobunny, the Spits, Idle Times, K-Holes, and Reading Rainbow will play, as will locals the Brides, Mickey, Heavy Times, Outer Minds, and Radar Eyes. The source also hinted that one of the headliners will be a beloved Australian band. That could mean HoZac recording artists and cool girls Super Wild Horses, but it could also mean . . . AC/DC! For those about to rock, we salute you!
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Tyler Jon Tyler front woman Rebecca Flores tells Gossip Wolf the band is about to embark on its first tour. The garage-pop trio will head east at the end of April, with dates in D.C., Philly, and the Big Apple. To get a hairy earful of their music, just turn on a TV! Showtime’s Shameless, a family drama set in Chicago, recently featured a cut from the band’s 2009 Trouble In Mind seven-inch, “Faster Than Light.” It soundtracks a bittersweet scene where some young ‘uns wrap up a stay in jail by getting picked up outside a cop shop. A song by trouble-making kids in a show about trouble-making kids? That’s some shameless synchronicity!
Sometimes this Wolf likes to check out the hot canines strutting around Wicker Park’s dog run. Gossip Wolf keeps it real for domesticated ass—we have needs! Don’t judge! Anyway, during our last cruise, we totally peeped half of Lungfish, vocalist Daniel Higgs and guitarist Asa Osborne, kicking it with Dan’s magic beard! Higgs was in town to sing with Swedish band Skull Defekts, whose current tour stops at the Hideout on Thursday. Osborne’s mystical drone group, Zomes, opens for the whole tour, doubling its Lungfish quotient. Those bands sound fine and all, but we’d like to petition Higgs and Osborne to get cranking on a new Lungfish album. This Wolf already has the title: I’m in Love With a Schnauzer. You’re welcome, Lungfish!
