Oct. 16-18: Dethklok, Big Fan, Rain Machine
Rain Machine
FRIDAY
However you choose to classify Gossip’s dance-ready, punk-tinged music, the band has an undeniable energy that should make its concert at Metro a show-stopping way to end a week. If you prefer acoustic guitars, check out Rodrigo Y Gabriela at the Riviera. The guitar-playing duo layer a classical flamenco sound with metal influences. Over at AMC River East, drop in on the Chicago International Film Festival for Precious, a movie focused on the struggles of a morbidly obese teenager in '80s Harlem, which has been steadily gaining attention since its award-winning debut at Sundance. Here's Gossip getting glittery:
SATURDAY
Mastodon has consistently pushed its metal to produce an incredibly dense, complex sound. The band is worth checking out on its own, but tonight it shares a bill at the Aragon with Dethklok, the cartoon-animated band from the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse. Over at Double Door, Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio performs solo as Rain Machine, which sounds a lot like TVOTR—with more bells. Prop comic Gallagher doesn’t like to be known as the guy who smashes watermelons, but that’s the schtick most people identify him by. You can see what else he has to offer, by way of prop comedy and observations on the state of modern America, tonight at the Gennesse Theater. Check out a hardcore Dethlkok video:
SUNDAY
If you missed Patton Oswalt in the flesh at the Big Fan première a couple of weeks back, it’s not too late to catch him on celluloid at the Music Box. Oswalt plays the world’s most dedicated/delusional New York Giants fan, and gets himself into major legal trouble after stalking a player. Astro Boy, the film based on the manga and television series that pioneered and popularized anime, debuts nationally later this week, but catch it early at the Chicago International Film Festival. Elsewhere, the Old Town School Of Folk Music hosts Richie Havens, a soulful singer playing two shows in one evening. From Havens’ famed performance at Woodstock:
