Students in the Intonation Music Workshop and MusicianCorps Chicago, organizations that provide instruction for young local musicians, have put together an outdoor music festival for kids, The Stars of Tomorrow Summer Spectacular. At this free daylong show, organized to celebrate the end of the school year, the bill features Intonation mainstays like Trace, the Pop Tots, and all-girl teen R & B group Fatal Attraction (in a new lineup), plus half a dozen other kid bands. Sponsored by the Chicago Park District, the festival is Saturday, June 12, from noon to 5 at Fosco Park Playground, 1312 S. Racine; it’s free.
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Local avant guitarist David Daniell has a new album, Knoxville, being mastered this week; it’s a live recording of an impromptu set at the 2009 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville with Daniell, Christian Fennesz, and drummer Tony Buck of Australian band the Necks improvising. Daniell tells Gossip Wolf the album is slated for a September release on Thrill Jockey.
More Jawbreaker reissues are on the way, says drummer Adam Pfahler, who has been putting out the band’s work on his Blackball label since its demise. Pfahler told Gossip Wolf this week that he has now acquired the band’s entire catalog and will be offering remastered versions of Bivouac and 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (which was recorded in Chicago) with extra tracks and rarities. Unlike every other reissue in the history of contemporary punkdom, they do not presage a reunion. A documentary about Jawbreaker is several years into production, courtesy of the team behind the Minutemen documentary We Jam Econo.
