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Das Boton, Lanterns, Blasted Diplomats
Price: $8
Bill Dolan, a driving force in Five Style and Heroic Doses in the 90s, is one of Chicago's most unaccountably underrated guitar heroes. After a few years on the coasts in the early aughts he came back to Illinois—his native Rockford, to be exact—in late 2005, and this new trio, Das Boton, is the second group he's recorded with since. The lineup features bassist Karl Ropp and Euphone drummer Ryan Rapsys, who was also Dolan's bandmate in Heroic Doses. Das Boton's recent eight-song debut, Soda Drip (Sixgunlover), is a keeper: its jittery, vivid instrumental rock is exactly the kind of stuff Chicago needs more of. Dolan is an eloquent musician, with a down-to-the-bone lyricism that cuts through the caffeinated energy of his no-wave-inflected big-city soul. Whether he speeds his playing up or slows it down, he can always create a downright cinematic sense of suspense, just by forcing you to wonder what those fingers will do next. This is the last Sunday of a monthlong weekly Hideout residency, and Tortoise drummer John Herndon—an on-again, off-again comrade of Dolan's since the Five Style days—is filling in for Rapsys. —Monica Kendrick
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Hideout
- Wicker Park/Bucktown 1354 W. Wabansia Ave.
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773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401
- hideoutchicago.com
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