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Out Of Space, the annual festival created by the City of Evanston, WXRT, the SPACE music venue, and Canal Shores Golf Course, has announced the lineup for this summer’s event. Dawes and Lucius will get the long weekend of live entertainment started on July 27. Lord Huron, whose “Mine Forever” was one of the best new songs of the past few years, will perform on July 28 with Alice Crow Buckley as their opening act. The quirky and always engaging Regina Spektor plays July 29, along with opener Allison Russell; and the multi-faceted Andrew Bird wraps things up on Sunday, July 30, with Uwade as his opening act. Tickets are available through the official website.

Leroy Bocchieri, a local musician with a history of working with Shoes, enlisted the power pop band’s members to add some backing vocals to his new single “Last First Kiss.” Bocchieri currently performs under the name Joywire, and previously recorded as Day One. “Last First Kiss,” a melodic acoustic ballad about the pitfalls of romance, will be available on all streaming platforms on April 28. 

Chicago area power pop musician Herb Eimerman once recorded an album with Shoes member Jeff Murphy under the Beatles-flavored moniker Nerk Twins. Gavin Eimerman, Herb’s teenage grandson, recently released his fourth single, “No Reason To Feel.” It packs a harder punch than his previous efforts, with a driving beat carrying troubling lyrics such as “I can’t look at you the same way/Defaced, disgraced, beliefs to defy.” He offers a bit of consolation with “I’ll sing a prayer to the human kind/I’m just an archangel in disguise like a signal.” The single is available on Australian rocker/producer Joe Algeri’s Egomaniac Music Bandcamp page. Algeri and Herb Eimerman, who are members of the international power pop band The Britannicas, help out on drums and bass respectively, but this is definitely Gavin’s showcase.

Waco Brothers will be celebrating the release of their latest album The Men That God Forgot tomorrow and Thursday at The Hideout on Chicago’s north side. A recent review in the online No Depression Journal Of Roots Music noted, “this noble sextet draws on a wicked sense of humor, passion for the struggle against the establishment, and boundless empathy for the underdog, creating a big ruckus guaranteed to lift the soul.”

The recently formed power pop trio Triple features musicians who formerly performed with Tarpit and SpeedDuster on the indie Crank Records label. Their debut double single of “You’re A Star” and “No” impresses with sparse but energetic arrangements that showcase vocalist-guitarist Tiffany Seybert, bassist-vocalist Chris LeSueur, and drummer Jackson Wilson. They had a few gigs on the Chicago club scene in March, so here’s hoping they have more in the near future.

The Omnivore Recordings website has a special treat for Crosby, Stills and Nash fans with its Stephen Stills Live At Berkeley 1971 album. The 15 tracks include Stills performing “You Don’t Have To Cry” and The Lee Shore” with David Crosby, as well as a “49 Bye-Byes/For What It’s Worth” mashup. It’s available in CD and 2-LP formats.

This weekend will be the last chance to catch Tina: The Tina Turner Musical at the James M. Nederlander Theatre in downtown Chicago. In related news, Great Moments In Vinyl, a group of Chicago area musicians who frequently stage tribute shows, will perform Tina Turner songs at The Venue in Aurora on May 19.