Cap’n Jazz drummer Mike Kinsella, speaking exclusively to Gossip Wolf, reported that guitarist Victor Villareal purchased a watermelon for $4 and brought it to the band’s practice this past Saturday. No one ate any of it.
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The Girls Rock! Chicago rock camp completed its first session of the summer with a showcase of 17 kiddo bands at the Metro this past weekend. This is the first year that the weeklong day camp, where girls 8-16 learn about various aspects of being in a band, is running two sessions; the next one starts August 2. The Chicago camp is the fastest growing of the two dozen-ish girls’ rock camps in North America: it’s expanded from 16 campers to 150 since 2005, and organizers anticipate turning away as many applicants as they were able to accept for the August session. They’ve also added a program for girls interested in DJing. GRC is still looking for female volunteer counselors and helpers for the next session; musical knowledge helpful but not required. To find out how you can help hit girlsrockchicago.org.
In the past 28 years SoCal punk institution White Flag has played to audiences in Greenland and the Faroe Islands but never blasted ears in the good ol’ midwest. On July 17 they’ll make their Chicago debut at Abbey Pub with Tesco Vee’s Hate Police to celebrate the release of the long-awaited tome Vee has cowritten, Touch & Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine 1979-1983. The book includes interviews with members of the Fix, Negative Approach, and Necros, among many others, along with plenty of flyers and photos. It’s not the only punk book Vee has contributed to lately: he also wrote the forward to Why Be Something That You’re Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985, an oral history Revelation Records is releasing next week. That book too includes interviews with members of the Fix, Negative Approach, and Necros, among many others, along with plenty of flyers and photos.
