Gossip guitarist Nathan Howdeshell has been releasing a trickle of CD-Rs and singles on his Fast Weapons label since 2003, but he’s ramping up plans to issue vinyl and fanzines. One of the first new items on the schedule is an LP from Howdeshell’s side project Sleetmute Nightmute.
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Summer Sessions on the Square, the Logan Square community concert series that takes place under the Illinois Centennial Monument, begins a second season on June 26. Shows featuring west-side bands run 5:30-8:30 PM on the last Saturday of the month. “We’ll have more music from kids and teens, and we’re expanding the musical genres past our heavily rock and Latin season last year,” booker Morgan Thoryk told Gossip Wolf. Also, “this year we’re hosting a DJ night after each show at the Crown Tap Room.” The kickoff features music from the Chicago Stone Lightning Band and Afro Zep and a performance by the Boom Crack! teen dance company.
On May 18, Hefty Records founder John Hughes III put out a stylistically disparate new album of electronica, Reset the Warehouse, a co-release with 1320 Records, the imprint run by Sound Tribe Sector 9. Billed simply to “John Hughes” and featuring an eclectic array of guests, including Chicago jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell and Maurizio Guarini of Italian splatter-film soundtrackers Goblin, the LP was recorded at Hughes’s own HFT Studio.
Bottomless Pit, the local rock ‘n’ roll band featuring former members of Silkworm and Seam, just sent their new album off to be mastered at Abbey Road. The band will release the yet-untitled disc under their own imprint in the fall.
