12/12/13: Mikal Cronin + Disappears: Two Shows, One Night

Mikal Cronin XRT [blog]

Disappears 2 [blog]

It's a rare opportunity to be able to see multiple great shows in one night. Sometimes you get lucky, like the few folks who, just last month, got to catch DIARRHEA PLANET destroy Beat Kitchen right before CROCODILES played an enthralling set of fuzz-pop goodness on our very stage.Well, friends, on Thursday, December 12 you have the opportunity to witness a jam-packed night of amazing live music. There will be two shows, pretty much back to back, taking place in venues that are merely three miles from one another. MIKAL CRONIN, who explored his more introspective side of garagey power-pop on this year's MCII, performs at Logan Square Auditorium mere hours before DISAPPEARS take our stage. Disappears are the Chicago-based space-drone-industrial-punk aliens, whose fourth LP in as many years simultaneously chilled and stole our hearts. They headline night one of kranky twenty, a four-day, multi-venue "festival" celebrating twenty years of Chicago's kranky Records. Over at LSA, newcomer punk thrashers BASIC CABLE and electro-skuzz dream-poppers YAWN open up, while drone-synth loop master LICHENS, aka ROBERT AA LOWE, and crushing drone-rockers IMPLODES open the kranky showcase.Tickets to both shows are still available, and if you buy one before doors, you can get $10 off your first cab ride that night with the mobile app Taxi Magic.Tickets: Mikal Cronin @ Logan Square AuditoriumTickets: Disappears @ Empty Bottle