Thursday plays Tuesday — competing with two other bills tonight for your concert attention
Thursday
With Touché Amoré, Basement and Cities Aviv, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, at RecordBar, all ages, $30
Post-hardcore powerhouse Thursday went on an indefinite hiatus in 2011. By the time the group announced a reunion in 2016, fans were champing at the bit to see the band live. Thursday is now on its first full U.S. tour since a string of reunion shows and festival appearances last year. Longtime pal Touché Amoré is one of the opening bands.
Although the members of Touché Amoré have grown used to accompanying Thursday, singer Jeremy Bolm still remembers becoming a fan. “They were definitely a pretty life-changing band for me,” Bolm says. “I was 18 years old when Full Collapse came out, and became pretty obsessed with it.”
Kyle
With Cousin Stizz, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, at the Granada, all ages, $20
Kyle’s 2013 mixtape, Beautiful Loser, included a song called “Fun,” on which he repeated the word over a dozen times for the chorus. It’s safe to say that Kyle is now having a lot more, well, you know. His latest single, “iSpy,” (featuring Lil Yachty), recently went platinum, and this tour with Cousin Stizz is selling out many markets.
In a recent interview with Idolator, Kyle did his best to assess his growing fanbase. “You ask anybody on the street, ‘Hey do you like feeling good?’ They aren’t like, nah. So I think that’s it: It’s feel good music, and we all want to feel good.”
The Obsessed
With Karma to Burn, Fatso Jetson and Inner Altar, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, at the Riot Room, 21 and older, $20
The third incarnation of Potomac, Maryland, heavy metal band the Obsessed is making its way back to Kansas City. Led by Scott “Wino” Weinrich — also of Saint Vitus — the band got back together last year for the first time since 1995 and has just released a new album on Relapse Records.
Kansas City proto-metal act Inner Altar is gearing up to record an LP soon and opens for the Obsessed on Tuesday. “I saw them last year and it was pretty tight,” says guitarist Neal Dyrkacz. “Wino is just as grizzled and angry-looking as ever but still has the chops to play and sing it out, so it was a really good show.”
G Herbo
With Loogey and Domineko, 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, at the Granada, all ages, $25
G Herbo — formerly known as Lil Herb — rose within the Chicago hip-hop scene several years ago, shortly after drill-music pioneer Chief Keef became a household name. Herbo employs drill’s violent language and gritty production but has been hailed as a much more lyrically talented MC than many of his peers.
Domineko will be part of the local support for G Herbo. Domineko hopes that Herbo’s fans can connect with some of his more high-energy cuts. He also often feels a better connection to Chicago artists than those on the coasts. “I feel like they can sorta understand what we going through,” Domineko says.
