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Vaudevileins
Empty Bottle
1035 N Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60622
Jan 14, 2020
8:30 PM CST
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Doors: 8:30PM // Show: 9:15PM $5 // 21+VAUDEVILEINSTERMINUS VICTORTHE JOY MACHINEBURNED OR BURIED----------Chicago’s VAUDEVILEINS is Jeff Julian (vox/guitar), Brennen Chouinard (drums/vox), and Bill Aldridge (bass), John Caparoon joins Vaudevileins on lead guitar. In 2016, the band released its second full-length recording, 'Magician,' which featured former lead guitarist Evan Mohler. “We think these are our best songs to date,“ said Julian, “and we’re really proud of the production and the finished product.”Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Slint and more are influential ingredients in the wall of sound recipe cooked up by Scott Kimble [Bass/Vocals], Don King [Guitar], and Terry Wathen [Drums]. More generally described as a blend of rock, alternative rock, and post-punk with a dash of shoegaze, TERMINUS VICTOR's music is both immediate and insidious.THE JOY MACHINE are an American band formed in Champaign, IL in 2018. The band is currently composed of singer/ guitarist Francis Wossom, bassist Cole Hieke, and drummer Mohammed. They have recently released an EP 'Atomic Theorem.' The bands sound has been described as “post-punk n’ roll hard math rock with garagedelic undertones,” which has been labeled “Omnicorn Rock."BURNED OR BURIED. The eternal question. Calm and submissive, or brazen with no thought of self. Detroit has several expats that have come to meet their match in Chicago. The melding of styles is a good Midwestern one. Former members of Quatre Tête, Chapstik, Dead Electric and ROM have formed a new sound. GarageRock meets angular Chicago rock.
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Vaudevileins Biography
Written during the pandemic and in the wake of its aftermath, the songs on Vaudevileins’ new album Lights Out explore darker themes, the sense of giving up, and inevitability—a reflection of 2020’s isolation and the era’s political and societal landscape.
Lights Out is the third album for Vaudevileins, whose members are Bill Aldridge (bass), Brennen Chouinard (drums/vox), Alex Jaskula (lead guitar), and Jeff Julian (vox/guitar). The band has roots in Chicago, Joliet, and Kankakee and also considers Champaign-Urbana a home away from home.
The eight-song album leans into the band’s signature energy, loud guitars, and memorable melodies, which started with 2011’s self-titled album, continued with a collection of EPs and singles, and solidified with 2016’s Magician. Lights Out spotlights themes of transitions and endings, mining the fears of not being understood even as the album underlines precisely who Vaudevileins is: “There’s not a lot of quiet on this record,” Julian says. “It’s a banger from beginning to end.”
The sense of heartbreak amid big guitars and driving beats is rooted in the album’s foundation—Julian wrote early drafts during the stay-at-home days of COVID.
“That’s the bulk of where this suite of songs comes from,” Julian says. “I was doing a bunch of streaming shows on Facebook and Twitch to pass the time, playing two-hour acoustic shows. I wrote a lot of material then.”
Once things opened up again, the band got back to work rehearsing, writing, and demoing songs before heading into the studio with Mark Wyman over the course of three sessions in 2022 and 2023 at ToneGood Studio in Urbana. They recorded the remainder of the album at Aldridge’s studio, Third City Sound in Joliet. Long-time collaborator Jeff Halland mixed and mastered Lights Out at his home studio in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Jaskula joined the quartet in fall 2021, and his influence, too, is notable on Lights Out.
“Anytime a new voice and perspective is added, it changes the way we approach songwriting, arranging, and even rehearsal,” Julian says. “He does things differently. It’s us, but with his fingerprints on it, and that’s awesome.”
The remaining three Vaudevileins—Chouinard, Aldridge, and Julian—have played together for nearly 15 years. That’s minus a 2018 hiatus and plus a handful of years with other bands: Chouinard and Julian played together in Chicagoland’s Deconstructing Jim from 2006-09, and Aldridge and Julian played in John Condron & the Benefit in 2009-10.
The album artwork for Lights Out is from Chicago-photographer-turned-Denver-transplant Susie Inverso, who photographed the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, which was seven months after Vaudevileins’ last album came out. Lights Out was released April 8, 2024, the same day as the most recent total solar eclipse.
“I guess we’re only releasing music on or near eclipses from here on out,” Julian says. “We didn’t intend for it to take this long; we’re busy and old and tired and slow. But we finished it, we think it’s good, and we’re excited for people to hear it.”
Read MoreLights Out is the third album for Vaudevileins, whose members are Bill Aldridge (bass), Brennen Chouinard (drums/vox), Alex Jaskula (lead guitar), and Jeff Julian (vox/guitar). The band has roots in Chicago, Joliet, and Kankakee and also considers Champaign-Urbana a home away from home.
The eight-song album leans into the band’s signature energy, loud guitars, and memorable melodies, which started with 2011’s self-titled album, continued with a collection of EPs and singles, and solidified with 2016’s Magician. Lights Out spotlights themes of transitions and endings, mining the fears of not being understood even as the album underlines precisely who Vaudevileins is: “There’s not a lot of quiet on this record,” Julian says. “It’s a banger from beginning to end.”
The sense of heartbreak amid big guitars and driving beats is rooted in the album’s foundation—Julian wrote early drafts during the stay-at-home days of COVID.
“That’s the bulk of where this suite of songs comes from,” Julian says. “I was doing a bunch of streaming shows on Facebook and Twitch to pass the time, playing two-hour acoustic shows. I wrote a lot of material then.”
Once things opened up again, the band got back to work rehearsing, writing, and demoing songs before heading into the studio with Mark Wyman over the course of three sessions in 2022 and 2023 at ToneGood Studio in Urbana. They recorded the remainder of the album at Aldridge’s studio, Third City Sound in Joliet. Long-time collaborator Jeff Halland mixed and mastered Lights Out at his home studio in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Jaskula joined the quartet in fall 2021, and his influence, too, is notable on Lights Out.
“Anytime a new voice and perspective is added, it changes the way we approach songwriting, arranging, and even rehearsal,” Julian says. “He does things differently. It’s us, but with his fingerprints on it, and that’s awesome.”
The remaining three Vaudevileins—Chouinard, Aldridge, and Julian—have played together for nearly 15 years. That’s minus a 2018 hiatus and plus a handful of years with other bands: Chouinard and Julian played together in Chicagoland’s Deconstructing Jim from 2006-09, and Aldridge and Julian played in John Condron & the Benefit in 2009-10.
The album artwork for Lights Out is from Chicago-photographer-turned-Denver-transplant Susie Inverso, who photographed the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, which was seven months after Vaudevileins’ last album came out. Lights Out was released April 8, 2024, the same day as the most recent total solar eclipse.
“I guess we’re only releasing music on or near eclipses from here on out,” Julian says. “We didn’t intend for it to take this long; we’re busy and old and tired and slow. But we finished it, we think it’s good, and we’re excited for people to hear it.”
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