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Blue Water Grill 520 N. Dearborn: Fri 9/16, 7 PM, Shawn Salmon Trio with Michelle Thomas. 312-777-1400. Festivals Numbers Cafe Mestizo 2123 S. Ashland: NUMBERS San Francisco’s Numbers have spent half a Sundays, 6-9 PM, jam session with Nicole decade specializing in post-no-wave dementia, releasing Mitchell, David Boykin, Karl E.H. albums that are all high-velocity herky-jerky beats, chicken- Seigfried, and Mike Reed. scratch guitar, and sputtering, out-of-whack synths. I can’t Adventures in 312-942-0095. blame them for wanting to change their sound, but on their new record, We’re Animals (), they seem to Cafe Mud 1936 Maple, Evanston: think maturity requires acting like a bunch of geezers. They’ve Thursdays, 8 PM, Orb. 847-733-9904. cut their hyperactive tempos in half, and while there are still Modern Music some noisy keyboard wheezes and slashing guitars, their inept Chicago Hot Glass 1250 N. Central Park: attempts at writing actual melodies reveal Indra Dunis’s Mon 9/19, 8 PM, D. Bayne Septet. 773-394- inability to carry a tune. You know things are bad when your 3252. Copresented by British music magazine the Wire , this festival features five nights of best songs sound like bad Slits covers. This show is part of music at the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, and three film screenings at the Gene Estrojam; see page 22 for a complete schedule. King Cobra Coq d’Or Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton F : Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. The Bottle shows are $15, and a pass good for all five and Limited Express (Has Gone?) open. a 10 PM, Bottom Piano bar and restaurant. Fridays, 7 PM, costs $60; for more information call 773-276-3600 or 800-594-8499. Lounge, 3206 N. Wilton, 773-975-0505 or 866-468-3401, $10, 18+. —Peter Margasak Marc Pompe. 312-932-4623. Inferno (see the Treatment), Eats Tapes, SUNDAY18 Akron/Family, Harris Eisenstadt’s the , THE ORGAN If you say some- Cosmicafe 1944 W. Montrose: Thu 9/22, 8 Soul and Gone (see the Treatment) c body’s new album is way more gay than the last one, PM, Tom McCarthy Trio F . 773-728-2233. Gene Siskel Film Center it’s hardly ever a compliment. But Indigo Girl AMY RAY has 5:00 “Tony Conrad Filmworks” curated FRIDAY23 dedicated her second solo disc, Prom (Daemon), entirely to Davenport’s Piano Bar & Cabaret by Andrew Lampert & Jim O’Rourke 1383 N. Milwaukee: Wed 9/21, 8 PM, questions of queer identity—and this record isn’t just gay, it’s (see Movies) Empty Bottle fiercely, fantastically gay. It’s about the drama and tumult of Barbara Johnson, Willie Pickens. 773-278- 1830. 9:00 Isolee, Henry Grimes, William high school and coming out, and its narratives are set in rural Basinski, Daniel Higgs and suburban Georgia, deep in the Bible Belt, at about the WEDNESDAY21 time Ray first fell in love with another woman. Over punked- Dee’s Mandarin Restaurant 1114 W. up bar-band riffs and sweet-toned, melodic fuzz blasts that Armitage: Fridays and Wednesdays, 7 PM, Empty Bottle SATURDAY24 recall the Breeders, she sings in fearless first person about her Birdhouse Quartet. 773-477-1500. 9:00 Red Krayola; Mandarin Movie c ; life and her friends’ lives, sometimes speaking as a teenager Diverse; Hisham Bharoocha, Tyondai Empty Bottle and sometimes as her 41-year-old self, looking back with all Family Den 8948 S. Stony Island: Sundays, Braxton & Robert Lowe 9:00 Earth, Gang Gang Dance, Pita, the compassion and love she’s learned. “Rural Faggot” is a 6-10 PM, Crosswind hosts a jam session Ghislain Poirier warmhearted anthem for some of her young neighbors in F . 773-734-8545. THURSDAY22 Georgia, who use homophobia to mask their confusion: “By this time next year / You’ll know you’re queer / It’ll all be OK 50 Yard Line 69 E. 75th: Music at SUNDAY25 / It’ll all be clear / You’ll run away from home / But not to be 6 PM. Sundays, 8 PM, open jam session Gene Siskel Film Center alone.” On her previous solo outing, Stag, Ray got help from with Corey Wilkes, Robert “Baabe” 8:00 “Tony Conrad Filmworks” curated Gene Siskel Film Center , but for Prom she’s backed by both the Irving III, Charles “Rick” Heath, Josh by Andrew Lampert & Jim O’Rourke 5:00 NorNoise (see Movies) (see Movies) Birmingham garage band Nineteen Forty-Five and a cast of Ramo. Thu 9/22, Dwayne Armstrong. Empty Bottle dyke-punk icons, including guitarist and 773-846-0005. Empty Bottle 9:00 Four Tet, Khanate, Hot Chip, bassist (from ) and drummer Kate 9:00 Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Phill Niblock Schellenbach (from Luscious Jackson). For this show Ray will FitzGerald’s 6615 Roosevelt, be backed by Bleyle, drummer Will Lochamy of Nineteen Berwyn: Sun 9/18, 6 PM, John Burnett Forty-Five, and Les Nuby of Verbena on guitar. Orchestra. Wed 9/21, 8 PM, Rob Parton’s Lots of people seem to have decided that THE Jazz Tech Big Band. 708-788-2118 or Carlos Latalladi spin mambo, salsa, cha- F : Mondays, 8:30 PM, Daniel Huber & ORGAN is all about the 80s: this dude-free quintet from cha, bachata, and merengue. Ivan Martirena with Joel Styzens. 312-559-1212. Vancouver has attracted an unceasing stream of Smiths and Wednesdays, 9 PM, Bill Porter Orchestra 773-525-7313. New Order comparisons since releasing its debut full-length, (preceded by dance lessons with Manny Gale Street Inn 4914 N. Milwaukee: Grab That Gun (Mint), late last year. (The band’s current Lopez at 8:15 PM). 773-395-0066. Gunz Bavarian Haus 4128 N. Lincoln: Fridays, 7 PM, Tom Muellner Trio. release is a seven-inch on Go Metric with one new song, “Let Tuesdays, 9:30 PM, Ten Cats F . the Bells Ring.”) Ashley Webber’s nimble bass lines do sound a 773-725-1300. Green Mill 4802 N. Broadway: Fri 9/16, 773-472-4287. little like Peter Hook’s, and guitarist Deborah Cohen is big 9 PM, and Sat 9/17, 8 PM, Ernest into the popular death-disco combo of delay pedal and mini- Gallery Cabaret 2020 N. Oakley: Music at Dawkins’s Live the Spirit Band. Fridays, Hotti Biscotti 3545 W. Fullerton: Sat 9/17, malist skronking—but unlike more fashionable revivalists 10 PM on weekends, 9 PM on weeknights. 1:30-4 AM, Green Mill Quartet F . 10 PM, Eric Leonardson, Bob Perkins F . (Radio 4, Interpol, the Killers), the Organ doesn’t just jumble Mon 9/19, Brian O’Hern & the Model Saturdays, midnight-5 AM, Sabertooth Tuesdays, 8 PM, Jim Baker/Steve Hunt/Brian cynically deployed signifiers (skinny ties, art-school polemics, Citizens Big Band. 773-489-5471. Organ Quartet. Sun 9/18, 11 PM, Sean Sandstrom/Mars Williams F . Tue 9/20, 11 pre-Prozac journal entries, guys in eyeliner). These ladies Harris Trio. Mon 9/19, 9 PM, Patricia PM, Dave Rempis. 773-772-9970. actually have solid songs and a mature, democratic sound, Germania Place 108 W. Germania Place: Barber Quartet. Tue 9/20, 9 PM, Deep with no one element carrying the show—and no one nostalgic Thu 9/22, 7 PM, Nestor Torres & Shunzo Blue Organ Trio. Wednesdays, 9 PM, Jazz Showcase 59 W. Grand: Music at 9 reference can sum up what they do. Ohno. 312.573.1968. Kurt Elling Quartet. Wed 9/21, 2 AM, and 11 PM Fridays and Saturdays; 4, 8, and Ray headlines, the Reputation plays fourth, and the Frank Catalano Quartet. Thursdays, 9 10 PM Sundays; 8 and 10 PM Tuesdays Organ plays third; the Reptoids and 8 Inch Betsy open. This Green Dolphin Street 2200 N. Ashland: PM, Alan Gresik’s Swing Shift Orchestra. through Thursdays. Fri 9/16 through Sun show is part of Estrojam; for a complete schedule see page 22. Sun 9/18, 8 PM, Chris Greene Quartet F . 773-878-5552. 9/18, Nicholas Payton Quartet. Tue 9/20 a 6 PM, Bottom Lounge, 3206 N. Wilton, 773-975-0505 or Tuesdays, 6 PM, Jose Valdes Trio F ; 9 through Thu 9/22, Junior Mance Trio. 312- 866-468-3401, $14, 18+. —Jessica Hopper PM, Edgar Marroquin, Luis Rivera, and Griffin’s Public House 2710 N. Halsted 670-2473. CHICAGO READER | SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 | SECTION THREE 55