Take It Off! Fasten Your Seatbelts As Chicago Takes Off with Lido Des Boyz at Park West on Sat., March 5
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#1037 • March 2, 2011 Take it off! Fasten your seatbelts as Chicago Takes Off with Lido des Boyz at Park West on Sat., March 5. page 3 Happy 5th Pubert chats anniversary to with Cut Copy. 3160. page 14 page 8 Sun. March 13 Sat. March 5 True Faith 80s Night The House of Santana Mon. March 14 Wed. March 9 Official MEN Afterparty MANaise Wed. March 16 Thursday, March 10 GLO Euro Pop Night Chicago Outfit Roller Derby Fundraiser An Underwater Rodeo BerlinChicago.com 954 W. Belmont WWW.WORLDSGREATESTBAR.COM That Guy by Kirk Williamson Another one from the archives! Check out dank woods? While there, I also ran into the owners this excerpt from my column in the October of two fantastic businesses, Equinox on Broadway 5, 2004 issue of Nightspots Magazine. and Cosmicafe on Montrose. Cosmicafe is coming up on their 1st anniversary. Stay tuned for more As I mentioned in last week’s missive, I have just details. returned from a mini-mini-mini-sabbatical in Michi- gan on the banks of Armiss Brook. I climbed trees, I Charlie at Charmers was in stitches when I told stoked fires, I forgot what it was to be the stressed him how I encountered a certain lady stripper who out little monster I can be from time to time. A left a bad taste. As she was giving me a lap dance, hardy thank you to Jim, for providing the roof over she swung her tits across my face, getting mineral my head. Luckily, Nightspots was still all over the oil all over my glasses. I thought I had cataracts or city to bring you the what’s what! something. I leaned over to my friend John and whispered in his ear, “I’ve got hooker grease all Bucks really did an amazing job this year with their over my glasses!” Speaking of Charmers, remember carnival. At final count, Dad told me that they had I’ll only turn 30 once. And it will be at Charmers raised well over $5,000 for DirectAid. This surpasses October 29. Bring a gift. I like gifts. last year’s numbers by at least $1,500. We’d all be [Editor’s note: Same goes for my upcoming 37th.] a bit better off in life with folks like the Bucks boys and girls on our side! [email protected] Had a great conversation with Tim at Clark’s about The very weird face I a great conversation about a great conversation... make sometimes while better than any blow job, eh? Well, most blow jobs. singing, on display here at Stonewall Inn. Photo by Craig Tom at Scot’s has promised me an invite to his Goldsmith place in So. Michigan to hang with the boys. Whatever will you all do with me in those deep, PUBLISHER Tracy Baim ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky nightspots MANAGING EDitor Kirk Williamson #1037 • March 2, 2011 ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Terri Klinsky, Kirk Williamson, Amy Matheny, Dave Ouano COVER NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE TPAN’S Lido des Boyz Rivendell Media 212-242-6863 Photo and design DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA by Dan Paterno Jean Albright OFFICE LOWER LEFT Meghan Streit Photo by Kirk PhotoGraphY LOWER RIGHT Mel Ferrand, Kat Fitzgerald, Kirk, Kizzy, Ryan Photo by Timothy Saccenti Kolodziej, Anthony Meade, Dave Ouano, DJ Res-5 CAST OF CHARACTERS Andrew Davis, Homer Marrs, Marc “Moose”Moder, Copyright 2011 Windy City Media Group/Lambda Publications Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back issues available for $3 per issue (postage included). 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While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make this newspaper possible, Nightspots/Windy www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com City Times cannot accept responsibility for advertising claims. [email protected] The Chicago Dragons have a ball at Ruck and Maul. SIDETRACK Photos by Anthony Meade Happy 5th anniversary. 3160 Photos by Kirk 8 nightspots March 2, 2011 DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE by Marc “Moose” Moder BRIDGING THE ROCK/DANCE GAP WITH SKRILLEX STONEWALL INN Karaoke AND strippers? Rock and dance have had a rather up and down, Cox/ Photos by Kirk Arquette relationship over the years. Rock music basically started out as “dance music” but as lines between black and white music became more distinct, with rock becoming more white and dance becoming more ethnic and gay through the ‘60s and into the ‘70s, there was a very wide line drawn by the disco era. Rock acts like The Rolling Stones, KISS, Blondie, Queen, and Rod Stewart tried to work in the rock beat to hit records, but failed cred, while disco acts like Donna Summer and The Village People tried rocking it, only to fail. After that, the cold war was on and disco was dead, leaving the burgeouning dance music of ‘80s keyboard bands far from rocking. In recent years acts like The Killers, Scissor Sisters and Linkin Park have lifted the unwritten ban on crossing dance and rock in a respectable, quality way. So the next step is for a full-on rocker to go full-on dance, with no reservations. Finally, Skrillex is going there. The project/band came out of the mind of guitarist Sonny Moore of the post-hardcore (think crappy bands from the Warped Tour) band From First to Last; with screaming frat boy vocals and bravado, it’s far from anything fun. However, his new EP, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (out now on Big Beat/Atlantic) is all fun for all. With a mix of straight up Jersey Shore house and British Dubstep, Sonny takes his guitar-influenced shredding and grinding and puts it to his mousepad creating a dirty, manipulating seduction of a record. Outside the grind, he even takes it mainstream dance for two delicious vocal tracks, “Without You Friends” and “All I Ask Of You” (not from Phantom!). And you really get your money’s worth on this one: On top of five great new tracks, you get remixes by Bare Noize, Zedd and Noisa that never break the mood of this prelude to Skrillex’s long-awaited full length CD. Maybe with this musical bridge we will draw a few more of those hot straight boys onto the dancefloor. 10 nightspots March 2, 2011 Na na na na na na na na, Parlour. Na na na na na na na na, Parlour. PARLOUR Photos by Kirk They be actin’ all crazy up in there. COCKTAIL Photos by Anthony Meade nightspots 11 March 2, 2011 Ongina gives great headdress. SPIN Photos by Pubert Hello, my eyes are up here. HYDRATE Photos by Anthony Meade Sat. March 5th • 2-6pm AT S I D E T R AC K T H E V I D E O BA R TWELFTH ANNUAL YOUR $10 DONATION BENEFITS: JOIN US AS JUDGE & JURY OF The Chicago Area Gay & Lesbian CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MORE THAN A DOZEN CHILI ENTRIES ® 33334499NN..HHaalslstetedd SSidideetrtaracckkCChhicicaaggoo.c.coomm join us on Cut Copy, the electronic band from Melbourne, Australia, have a new album called Zonoscope that just dropped and are heading to Chicago to perform it live. Nightspots Magazine talked to the guitarist Tim Hoey about the group. Cut, Print! Saccenti Timothy by Photo Nightspots Magazine: Hi, Tim. an interesting angle. We created want to open for people like Where in the world are you an album from start to finish and Lady Gaga, or Coldplay. Why calling from? the idea of this record was to is that? Tim Hoey: We actually just got create a new world and for us to TH: We were working on our back to Melbourne. We are just walk you in. record when they both asked. coming back from New York and We just really didn’t want any LA; it was kind of a whirlwind trip. NM: Does everyone in the other distractions. It would have group write the music? been interesting going on tour NM: That’s a long flight. TH: It kind of varies from album with Lady Gaga. It was never a TH: I think my head is still some to album, from song to song. personal thing, it just came down where over the ocean. I am very The ideas are usually born in the to timing and we really want to much jetlagged. studio in Melbourne. It wasn’t push our records and do our own like we were in an expensive touring. NM: The new album Zonoscope recording studio where we are is a different style for the constantly watching the clock. NM: She does have a specific group. We had a lot of freedom to work audience of mainly gays TH: Yeah, it’s like the whole on the album and not feel like we and girls. Are there any gay idea from the beginning was were under pressure.