Rehab at evilOlive

Another Monday, another Rehab. What has surely become one of Chicago’s most popular hipster weekly’s this week celebrated the birthday of infamous promoter Derek Berry (haha). The lineup was solid and the shots were plentiful. DJs Yello Fever, Willy Joy, Zebo, Mark Gert & Greg Corner hit the decks while Hollywood Holt filled in for the scheduled He Say, She Say who could not make it.

I’ve been tweaking my editing style of the nightlife shots lately.  Still a work in progress but I like the direction it’s going.  Was more than satisfied with the crop of photos from this specific night!  Let me know what you think.  Leave comments!  That’s one of the reasons I’ve been working on moving over to wordpress, after..

Yeah, like I said.. I liked a lot of them this time around!

Click the image below to see all the photos from Derek Berry’s birthday edition of Rehab!!..

Creme de la Creme / Flosstradamus

Jesse Lee got me involved in the Lava Saturday weekly named Creme de la Creme a while ago, though I’ve only had a chance to make it out twice so far. This night featured a DJ set from Nigel aka Hollywood Holt along with the usual Saturday shenanigans. Mano, Willy Joy & Chuck Inglish are some of the other weekly resident DJs.

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After an hour or so at Lava, Charlotte, Casey and myself headed over to Sonotheque for the monthly Flosstradamus party.  Josh and Curt were in town so they were there and behind the decks of the goofy Sonotheque DJ capsule.  Along with them Kyle aka Kid Color aka my Twitter stalker was playing some jams.

My new friend Ivy was also there, who I had just been introduced to by Richie Panic a week or two prior in San Francisco.  She came up and said hi and we both laughed at how crazy it was we ran into eachother.  You can see her blog over at grooveeffect.com

Click below to see all the photos from Lava Lounge and Sonotheque…

Black Friday: One-man bands and house party

You may know this dude Rory Lake from around town.. he’s been hosting shows, band battles and karaoke nights for quite some time and he’s quite the character. Anyway, he invited me to come out to this show at American Legion FDR Post (one of the coolest bars in town, btw) and film a little segment for the battle of the bands he’s putting on Dec 11-13 at Bottom Lounge, in which I will be judging one of the nights.

I have to admit when I heard the show this night featured two “one-man bands” I was mostly skeptical. In the end I’m more than glad I went! This dude named Magic from Iowa put on an interesting set with goofy carefree jams & jokes. The other performer was more than awesome. He’s from Chicago and goes by the name Lord of the Yum Yums.  I’ll def be checking him out again asap! Here’s a video from one of his previous shows…

After the show I headed over to my friends’ place at six corners for some fantastic day-after-Thanksgiving drinking. A few friends from out of town were in the building and it was in general a good time.

Click below to see all the pictures from Friday night…

No Age

So No Age was in town playing a corporate-funded free show at Reggie’s down on State and 21st or so.  I had never yet been there so I was kinda curious to check out the space.  Aside from hearing bad things from a metal-head I know, I thought the venue was pretty good personally.  They also have food, including 25 cent wings on Tuesdays!

As for the show, Titus Andronicus opened up.  I’d never heard of them prior and they put on a decent show themselves.  The best part about the night was that No Age played yet another show the same night over at AV-Aerie!  This ws perfect since I had to shoot the first show but desperately wanted to join into the faux No Age mosh pit.

You can see photos by me and a review from Miles Raymer over at ChicagoReader.com [here]

Click below to see all the photos from No Age!

Rain Check

Junior Prom

Rehab

Creme de la Creme

Making the Video: Cool Kids

West Fest