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I thoroughly enjoy every opportunity to watch Chicago suburbanite hooligans, The Orwells show off their performance skills and their new music video is a prime opportunity to get the front screen experience.


Weird, loud, melodic, throbbing, thrashing, pleading-screeching musical fun. The video for "The Righteous One" grows in simple and clean chaos mirroring the music of the song.
Watch below and party on.

Advance Notice:Julie Ruin - TheQueers - The Orwells

Julie Ruin: Kathleen Hanna's newest project, Julie Ruin, will be stopping by Chicago as apart of their North American Tour. The group will be performing tracks from their debut LP, Run Fast, which was released last September from Dischord Records. Catch them at Lincoln Hall on April 9th. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (1/17/14).

I'll catch you there Grrls and Boys.

Julie Ruin - Oh Come One 

The Queers: With influences like the Screaching Weasels, Black Flag, and The Ramones, The Queers bring familiar high energy powered fast tempos, acompanied by harmonized cries, and an infectously melodic style that they have been perfecting for over 30 years now. The long standing Pop Punk group will very appropriately be playing their 1993 sophomore album, Love Songs for the Retarded, at Township on February 14th. Advance tickets are on sale now. 

The Queers - Ursula Finally Has Tits 

The Orwells: As Chicago boy's The Orwells work to put the finishing touches on their next studio album, they plan on keeping busy this winter with a number of U.S. and U.K. tour dates. After sharing some stage time with the Arctic Monkeys, The Orwells will visit home for a peformance at Lincoln Hall with friends Twin Peaks on April 1st. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (1/17) at noon. 

Check out some of the boys new tunes from their latest EPs: Other Voice EP (free download) & Who Needs You  (full stream) 

The Orwells - Dirty Sheets 

In Case you Haven't Heard

The Orwells

The Orwells are:
Mario CUOMO: Vocals 
Grant BRINNER: Bass 
Henry BRINNER: Drums
Dominick CORSO: Guitar 
Baby CHUCK: Guitar 

The Orwells are so much more than five 17 year old guys from Elmherst, playing the typical Garage Rock influenced breed of Punk Rock. The band provides an energy that is reminiscent of 1970's New York Punk hybrid with muddled yet intent filled glam-grungesque lyrical stylings that unknowingly entrance you into steady head bangin'. Embodying everything from punk, blues and soul, to grunge, new wave, and glam, The Orwells commit to playing what they want and not what you expect to hear. As vox man Mario says during an interview for Chicago's Consequence of Sound's Rock it Out Blog, "we're not really going for anything...we're just doing what sounds right to us." To be put simply, they play their version of Rock 'n' Roll and give a big EFF YOU to anyone who doesn't care for it. 


And it seems to be working.

Staying loyal to their Chicago scene is a big part of what makes the Orwells what they are. They decided that making it first in Chicago was priority numero uno, because going anywhere else, isn't being true to who they are.  An admirable (but sometimes viewed as idiodic) trait. 

For example-- Baby CHUCK on sticking it out in the Chicago scene: "being loyal to your home and to your city is a big thing for us" 

These boys know what they are doing. Their hometown start hasn't stopped them from making themselves a force to be reckoned with. These guys have gone from suburban basement shows, to local shows at joints like The Empty Bottle and Beat Kitchen to headlining a West Coast Tour! They've been picked up by L.A. record label Autumn Tone Records and released their first full LP Remember When (click if you want to snag the album) on  August 7, 2012. The album not only received recognition locally, but has even made it to the indie mother land of Pitchfork. 

Although they will be away touring for a while the boys are making sure to wrap up their tour in Chicago at the Beat Kitchen on March 23rd. Grab your tickets while you can!

If March is just too far away for you, get your Orwells fix by checking out this recent Audiotree performance.

If you are anything like me this will be on repeat until March slowly makes its way here. 

ENJOY HEADBANGERS and SWING DANCERS. ENJOY. 

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