Shellac and Shannon Wright

On Sunday, September 4, The Community Center for the performing arts proudly welcomes Shellac. This show has been rescheduled from 2021. All original tickets will still be honored at the new date. 

Here are the latest words direct from the band:

Shellac of North America (you can call us Shellac, that's fine) is a minimalist hard rock band. Bob and Steve live in Chicago, both of them have wives and bicycles. Todd lives in Minneapolis with his wife, they have bicycles. We have been a proper band since, I don't know, like 1993. Todd and Steve played a little as a two-piece (casually, no shows or anything) starting in around 1990, then Bob joined and we started doing it for real, that was probably some time in 1992 and we haven't quit. Six or seven albums, some singles. Tour everywhere they'll have us, two weeks at a time. Really happy with how it's all worked out.

March 2020 started with a tour of the Midwest, then we canceled the end of it because holy shit there's a fucking global pandemic. We haven't all been in the same room since. Some zoom chats. Lots of texts. Had another album mostly done but haven't been able to wrap it up. We were gonna do that after the tour, but... Everything's been rescheduled a couple-tree times already.

Anyhow we're gonna finish that record sooner or later, you'll hear about it when the time comes. In the meantime we're going to do all the shows that got rescheduled as long as it's safe to play. God what a weird thing to have to think about. I mean we all know people who fucking died of this. We're not so horny to play that we'd do it if there was significant risk, but for the moment everything is on and we're looking forward to seeing everybody.

Oh yeah, Bob was in the Volcano Suns and is still in the Martha's Vineyard Ferries, he runs Chicago Mastering Service and cuts records for a living. Todd was in Rifle Sport and Breaking Circus, still in Brick Layer Cake, mostly teaches drumming and makes sharp investments. Plays golf when he can. Steve was in Big Black and Rapeman (ugh with that name already) and makes records for other people mostly at Electrical Audio. Steve won a World Series of Poker bracelet in Seven Card Stud in 2018, the same year Todd hit a hole-in-one. Bob has sailed solo around the horn. Top that!

(I made up the part about Bob sailing solo around the horn)

 

Steven Frank Albini - guitar (usually sings) b. 1962

Todd Stanford Trainer - drums (rarely sings) b. 1963

Robert Spurr Weston IV - bass (sometimes sings) b. 1965

Shannon Wright

Shannon Wright is an utterly distinctive songwriter coated in raw, indelible fury. Wright's songwriting hypnotizes, whether she's igniting her ravenous guitar, or swirling her remarkable trance-inducing piano, Wright's intensity draws you in and refuses to let up, therein lies the real beauty of her music.

Wright's voice penetrates to the heart. Its dynamics diffuse into a state close to amazement, leaving you helpless, rinsed and filled. But it's the strength of the great writers that draw you out to make you stronger. 

All of Wright's albums are different in character with a consistent unflinching honesty, this somber honesty marks her music's timeless quality and her indispensable discography.

Brimming with urgency on stage or recording, it is this ecstatic, intricate power that defines Wright's luminous live shows and her incandescent studio albums.

Tickets are $18 advance, $22 day of show

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