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If you’re inclined toward seeing guitarists who are widely considered to be among the best in the entire history of rock and roll, tickets go on sale tomorrow for Jeff Beck’s October 23 concert at the Chicago Theatre. 

Chicago-based power pop bands The Spindles and Go Time! will combine with Americana/pop band Falling Stars for a potent triple bill at Montrose Saloon this Saturday, August 20.

A previously unreleased album by The Smithereens is available for pre-order on Amazon. Now titled The Lost Album, it was recorded in 1993 when the iconic power pop band was between major label contracts and decided to create their own label. Somehow, the project fell through, and according to a Smithereens social media post, these 12 songs “have been unheard by the outside world until now.”

Illinois Vintage Fest will present a Vintage Market at the renowned music venue Thalia Hall in the Pilsen neighborhood this Sunday, August 21. The event is free, and will run from 10 am to 4:00 pm.

The next release in the Women Sing The Who series on Bandcamp  hasn’t been revealed yet but we do know it will arrive next Friday, August 26. The series is two for two so far with Carla Olson sounding ferocious on “I Can See For Miles” and Christy McWilson and The Picketts imaginatively reinventing “Baba O’Reilly.”

As noted in my post yesterday, the annual YippieFest is back to an in-person format, and will run tomorrow through Sunday at the Den Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue. YippieFest is a direct descendant of the freewheeling Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins Festival which was staged by the Mary-Arrchie Theatre for several years.

Nouvelle Vague, the French band that transformed punk classics by The Cure, Dead Kennedys, The Buzzcocks, and others into irresistible lounge songs on their 2004 debut, will be at the Empty Bottle in Chicago next Tuesday, August 23. Later efforts found the group transforming Devo’s “Just The Girl” into a rockabilly rave up and giving The English Beat’s “Mirror In The Bathroom” a bump and grind treatment. Marc Collin and Chrystabell from Strange As Angels are also on the bill that night.