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Dedicated club-hoppers know that Chicago is one of the best cities for live music in America, and it often rocks harder than ever on New Year's Eve.

If you stayed at home leaving nasty anonymous comments on Nashville Cream instead of going out to shows this year, go ahead and kick yourself six times right now - and that's just for missing The Jesus Lizard .

When Liquids aren't so Liquid... Category: Physics Posted on: December 7, 2009 12:20 PM, by Ethan Siegel You don't understand.

At Jesus Lizard shows, David Yow becomes the physical property of the audience, but there's an unspoken contract that nobody touches the band.

The Big Pink - 'Dominos' AC/DC - 'War Machine' Messiah J & The Expert - 'Geography' Speech Debelle - 'The Key' The Crystal Method - 'Born Too Slow' Sweet Jane - 'You're Making This Hard' The Temptations - 'Papa Was A Rolling Stone' The Jesus Lizard - 'Trephination' Yeasayer - 'Ambling Alp' Rodrigo Y Gabriella live at The Electric Picnic 09: 'Diablo ...

My friend Jared pointed me in the direction of the Chunklet website, where he had come across this gem: Having Fun On Stage With Fugazi : Y'know, it's funny.

Following packed European and US dates, including shows with the legendary Jesus Lizard, & And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Cardiff's Future Of The Left return to the UK for a brief tour, with support from Tubelord, before leaving for Australia and New Zealand shows in December and January.

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Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: the Big Pink, the Jesus Lizard, Melt-Banana, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Municipal Waste, and more By Peter Margasak , Miles Raymer , Monica Kendrick , Bill Meyer , Kevin Warwick and Ann Sterzinger Music Picks archives>> friday27 click to enlarge Jennie Warren Crystal Antlers THE BIG PINK, CRYSTAL ANTLERS ...

"A lot of people who meet us are disappointed that we're such moderately intelligent, well-balanced, happy guys," Jesus Lizard bassist David Wm.

Seeing a Jesus Lizard live show was one of those experiences music fans of the 1990s just had to have.

Anyone who picked up this past week's dead-tree edition knows that it was our annual holiday guide --our all-encompassing reference book for what to get those omnipresent jerks in your life known as friends and family.

One of the great things about bands reuniting is that their records often get a makeover at the same time.

VIDEO: The Jesus Lizard, "Puss," live at the Paradise. Video by Mike Gill. "Get me something to stop the bleeding!" were the first words to come spilling out of David Yow's mouth as his recently reunited Jesus Lizard tore into the first song of their triumphant set last Saturday night at the Paradise.

Posted By: Armin Rosen For a noisy, obscure-outside-the-scene kind of art rocker, it's a situation fraught with danger and opportunity both: The crowd is primed for a rare and probably venue-wrecking set from some of the greatest rock 'n' roll ass-kickers of the past 20 years, and you've got to warm it up.

Actually, scratch that...I am sure we don't need another GG. But those bands can't hold a 5W bulb to the music of the Jesus Lizard , and Yow's the propellant that gets it all going.

Can we put to rest this Talmudic thing about band reunions? In the right circumstances, with the right people, they can be very, very good.

We all know how daunting - nay, obnoxious - it can be to find holiday gifts for the listener who has nearly everything.

As Bob Dylan was playing his first of three shows up in Washington Heights , The Jesus Lizard was tearing things up for the second night in a row at Irving Plaza much farther downtown.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A band walks into a bar. The singer pulls down his pants and wraps his penis around the mic stand.