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Alkaline Trio
Also Playing: Screeching Weasel and The Arrivals
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Sun Oct 11
5:30 pm
http://congresschicago.frontgatetickets.com Alkaline Trio, Screeching Weasel, and The Arrivals at Congress Theater
As a standard-bearer for pop-punk in the ’90s—on the label for it, Lookout!—Screeching Weasel heavily influenced a generation of bands, most prominently Green Day. But the group never broke out, maybe because it peaked too early: 1991’s My Brain Hurts and 1993’s Anthem For A New Tomorrow remain unimpeachable classics of Ramones-derived pop-punk. Mercurial frontman Ben Weasel has broken up the band a few times, though Screeching Weasel hobbled through the late ’90s with a shifting line-up and increasingly reductive albums. After 2000’s lackluster Teen Punks In Heat, Weasel ended it again, and it looked like the breakup might stick—until he announced a reformation in March. Because of a falling out he had with co-founder John "Jughead" Pierson, the only other familiar name in this version of the band is guitarist/bassist Dan Vapid.
Congress Theater 2135 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL
As a standard-bearer for pop-punk in the ’90s—on the label for it, Lookout!—Screeching Weasel heavily influenced a generation of bands, most prominently Green Day. But the group never broke out, maybe because it peaked too early: 1991’s My Brain Hurts and 1993’s Anthem For A New Tomorrow remain unimpeachable classics of Ramones-derived pop-punk. Mercurial frontman Ben Weasel has broken up the band a few times, though Screeching Weasel hobbled through the late ’90s with a shifting line-up and increasingly reductive albums. After 2000’s lackluster Teen Punks In Heat, Weasel ended it again, and it looked like the breakup might stick—until he announced a reformation in March. Because of a falling out he had with co-founder John "Jughead" Pierson, the only other familiar name in this version of the band is guitarist/bassist Dan Vapid.
Updated 12/15/2011
