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Tickets are now available for the Joey’s Song Freezing Man Festival taking place January 8 – 11, 2025 at the Majestic Theater in Madison, WI. Several well-known acts will take part in the charity event, which raises funds to help find treatments and cures for epilepsy. This year’s performers are Debbi and Vicki Peterson, Jane Wiedlin, Tracy Bonham, Belly, The Know-It-All Boyfriends, Cory Chisel, Letters To Cleo, Look Park, John Cowsill, Garbage, Against Me!, Kenny Hoopla, Freedy Johnstone, Portugal. The Man, Silversun Pickups, Heather Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, The Goo Goo Dolls, Sierra Swan, The Nielsen Trust, and Gina Volpe.

Chicago-based power pop musician Dolph Chaney will host the Working for Paper and for Iron - XTX - Girdle To The Globe event taking place at 7:00 pm tomorrow night at Montrose Saloon. Chaney will be joined by fellow XTC fans Karen Salmon, The Dry Look, Rent Party, Matt Tiegler, Eric Chial And Co., The Embryos, and Phil Yates. Montrose Saloon is located on the city’s north side.

Posies founding member and successful solo artist Ken Stringfellow will perform R.E.M. songs live online from his Seattle studio this Sunday morning. His Time As An Abstract program will start at 11:00 am PDT. Stringfellow will also share tales about the songs, based on his having performed with R.E.M. during concerts and recording sessions.

 

Sonic45, the self-proclaimed “Chicago-based new-wave quintet” led by sports broadcaster/musician/songwriter Len Kasper, will return to the Hey Nonny venue in Arlington Heights on November 24. The band’s second album, SuperSonic, has several standout songs, such as “You And I Are Stereo,” “Flying Away,” and the quite unnerving “The Phantom.” In addition to Kasper, the band features Matt Spiegel, Dag Juhlin, Gerald Dowd, and Liam Davis—all veterans of critically acclaimed Chicago area acts. Tickets for the Hey Nonny November 24 gig will be available soon.

Maxx McGathey, an adventurous composer/pianist with a fascination for cinematic and suspenseful ambience, has a record release party for his album Imaginary Eyes coming up this Friday at the Constellation venue at 3111 N. Western in Chicago. McGathey has 11 musicians helping him out on the album, so it should be interesting to see how this plays out in a live setting.