Tobacco

Riot Fest kicked off its 2017 edition with sets from New Order, Ministry, Vic Mensa, X, Liars, The Hotelier, Death from Above, The Cribs, Tobacco, and more. We posted a recap and photos from Friday at Riot Fest, and here's a second set of pictures.

Also: Built to Spill, Buzzcocks, Gogol Bordello, The Queers, GBH, and still more.

Yesterday, Riot Fest announced its day-by-day lineups, added Danzig to the lineup, and revealed that the final two full-album sets would be announced...

The 2017 edition of Riot Fest happens September 15 - 17 in Chicago.

The new additions join the first Jawbreaker show in 21 years, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, New Order, Paramore, Prophets of Rage, Wu-Tang Clan, and more.

The annual multi-venue Chicago festival Tomorrow Never Knows returns this year from January 13-17, and as usual there's plenty of great stuff ...

photos & Black Moth Super Rainbow main man Tobacco (aka Tom Fec) brought his brand of fuzzed out weirdness to Lincoln Hall last Wednesday (9/17) in support of his third release, Ultima II Massage, which hit stores earlier this year via Ghostly...

This past Friday (6/28), Gapers Block, I Am Logan Square, and the Land and Sea Dept. hosted an official Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival afterparty with Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Tobacco at the Logan Square Auditorium...

Jeff Tweedy @ Maxwell's in 2010 (more by Chris Gersbeck) today in Chicago * Jeff Tweedy @ the Vic * Zola Jesus, Cult of Youth @ Empty Bottle * Chandeliers, On You, Windbreaker @ Hideout * John Wesley Harding @ Lincoln Hall (Early Show) * Tobacco, Beans, Shapers @ Lincoln Hall (Late Show) * Mike Watt & The Missingmen @ Schubas (Late Show) * The Damnwells, Harper Blynn, Howard Jennings @ SPACE * Loudon Wainwright III, Kim Richey @ Old Town School of Folk Music * Front 242, En Esch, Guenter Schulz @ Metro (Wax Trax Anniversary) * We Jam Econo: The Story Of The Minutemen Screening @ Schubas (Early Show) * Light Pollution, RYAT, Panda Riot, Joywheels, Billy Crystal Meth @ The Observatory Record Store Day 2011 is tomorrow...