Mucca Pazza photo by Eric Harvey Brown
This weekend is lookin’ pretty, awfully, and horribly slim, but never fear, the Empty Bottle and the Hideout save the day(s) with a couple of solid shows. On FRIDAY Chicago’s favorite 30-piece marching band Mucca Pazza team up with the punkish curiosities of Paper Mice to transform the Empty Bottle (10 PM, $12) into an animated circus extravaganza; and you might as well stay in the area because The Windy City Soul Club continue their monthly residency the next night, aiming to spin all your favorites from Motown and beyond for a vinyl incited dance party (10 PM, $5). Also on SATURDAY is the record release party for husband/wife duo My Gold Mask at the Hideout (9 PM, $8) along with personal favorites, the always theatrical, the ever so eerie, and the all-encompassing of alt. country anguish– The Bitter Tears. And if you must see a show on SUNDAY head back to the Hideout for Das Boton (9 PM, $8). I’ve never listened to this band, but they were a Reader CC and there aren’t any other shows that look enticing, so there you have it.
About music. 