Tonight at Czar Bar, the fashionists of Monkey Wrench Clothing take over the runway, and a quirky but very intriguing musical lineup takes over the PA.
First up, Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company -- a local honky tonk duo about whom we have had no shortage of good things to say -- gets the heartache locomotive chuggin' at 9 p.m.
Then, around 10, the Chicago band Skybox goes on. The band was formed some six years ago in Tempe, Arizona, with none other than the Dead Horse Sound Company man himself: Adam Lee's partner, Johnny Kenepaske, on bass. Johnny stayed with the band for two years, leaving prior to Skybox's relocation to Chi-town. Miles and miles away from the classic, swaggering country music purveyed by Adam and Johnny, Skybox deals in smart, bouncy, tightly composed indie pop that reminds me a bit of Koufax, mixed, at times, with a dash of the carnivalesque. Like I said: intriguing (though I don't get the name). Anyway, to borrow from the late great Reading Rainbow, you don't have to take my word for it. Stream Skybox's latest album in the player below.
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