Hunx and his Punx

Chicago-based live music archivist/recording engineer/architectural acoustician Shimby McCreery has put together a collection of his works that were recorded at the Empty Bottle throughout the past two years…

“Though the Oakland-based thrift-store heartthrob’s latest album, , was a solo effort largely about personal catharsis and recorded without his Punx backing band, the garage-pop songs have a simple timelessness and filthy energy that’s totally irresistible when played live by a razor-sharp four-piece band (including Shannon Shawof Shannon and the Clams on bass) dressed like background actors from John Waters’s Cry-Baby…

Bowerbirds @ NYC’s Bowery Ballroom in 2010 (more by Laura Leebove) today in Chicago * CULT @ Berlin * Anna Fermin @ SPACE * Pulsar Quartet @ The Whistler * Bowerbirds, Dry The River @ Lincoln Hall * Mind Spiders, Magic Milk @ The Burlington * Housse de Racket, Rites, GlassLux @ Empty Bottle * Bottomless Pit, Police Teeth, Fake Limbs @ Quenchers * Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors, Nathan Angelo @ Schubas * The Flashbulb, Sich Mang, Widman, Time Nice @ Smart Bar * Kirkland, Lights Alive, The Flips, The Avantist @ Subterranean * Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds, How Far To Austin @ Martyrs * Rollo Tomasi, Werepire Day, Witch Feet, Jared Grabb @ Township * Jip, Circus Bear, She Speaks In Tongues, Names Divine @ Ultra Lounge * The Copyrights, Masked Intruder, Sore Subjects, Deth Warrant @ Beat Kitchen * Hunx And His Punx, Heavy Cream, The Artist Formally Known As Vince, Absolutely Not @ Double Door * Peter and the Test Tube Babies, I Love Rich, Modern Day Rippers, The Cenobites, Kobanes @ Reggie’s Bowerbirds and Dry The River play Lincoln Hall tonight…

Hunx @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn in September (more by Devan Council) Hunx (aka Seth Bogart), who released his first solo album Hairdresser Blues in February via Hardly Art, plays the Double Door tonight with His Punx and Heavy Cream, The Artist Formally Known As Vince, Absolutely Not…

Twilight Sad & Southpaw shirt @ Southpaw, 2009 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) today in NYC * Zoso @ Brooklyn Bowl * Ellen Band @ The Stone * New Beard @ Union Hall * Hearts & Bones @ Barbes * People’s Champ @ Barbes * Dub Is A Weapon @ Zebulon * Andrew Bird @ The Bell House * Delta Spirit @ Public Assembly * Melvin Van Peebles @ 92YTribeca * Railroad Earth @ Best Buy Theater * Ben Lee, David Berkeley @ City Winery * The Golden Filter (DJ set) @ Yotel * Rufus Wainwright’s “Prima Donna” @ BAM * Islands, Idiot Glee @ Le Poisson Rouge * Teitur, Marit Larsen @ Highline Ballroom * Bjork (Biophilia Live) @ Roseland Ballroom * Kill Lincoln, No Such Noise @ The Acheron * Jim Ivy presents The Fortune @ The Stone * Avan Lava, Chrome Canyon @ Mercury Lounge * Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater @ Bowery Ballroom * Mountains, Mike Wexler, Chris Forsyth @ Union Pool * Right On Dynamite, Boy Morgan, W/O @ Mercury Lounge * Absolutely Free, Mystery of Two, Bambara @ Death By Audio * Blood Orange, Physical Therapy (DJ set), D-Video @ Glasslands * Water Temples, Ancient Sky, Please Melt, Bovachevo @ Cake Shop * Lady Noise, Aster, Tim Coster, Omar Lords @ Secret Project Robot * Glasser, Roomful of Teeth (Ecstatic Music Festival) @ Merkin Concert Hall * Dave Harrington (DJ set), El Topo, Thunder & Lightning, Illumntr @ Pianos * Mad Juana, Brothers of Brazil, Brass Knuckle Evangelists @ Bowery Electric * The Twilight Sad, Forest Fire, Micah P…

Hunx at Knitting Factory in 2011 (more by Devan Council) Hunx (aka Seth Bogart) is planning to release his first solo album, Hairdresser Blues, on February 28 via Hardly Art…

Hunx brought his Punx back to NYC for a show at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn on Saturday night (9/17). Natural Child were one of the openers and that’s where our pictures begin (we missed Hunx’s new labelmates The Beets)…

Jim Jones Revue @ MHoW earlier on tour (more by Dana (Distortion) Yavin) today in Chicago * Followed By Static, I Love You @ Dust Bowl * The Mutations, Young Moons @ Crown Tap Room * Empire of the Sun, Miami Horror @ Congress Theater * Beethoven Festival 2011 @ Chicago Urban Art Society * Dinosaur Bones, Summer Girlfriends @ Beauty Bar (Free Show) * O’Death, Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship…

As previously mentioned, the wild and crazy Hunx and His Punx are playing a FREE show with Natural Child on Wednesday (September 14th) courtesy of Sailor Jerry…

DOWNLOAD: Hedgehog – Toy and 61 Festival (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Hedgehog – Waiting for the Last Bus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Royal Baths – Nikki Don’t (MP3) After surviving a couple minor major acts of nature, we deserve a long break…