MK ULTRA

DECEMBER

SATURDAY DECEMBER 7
9:30 – 11:30 PM
MONTROSE SALOON
2933 W. MONTROSE AVE.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

SATURDAY DECEMBER 14
7:30 PM
HB JONES
555 S. YORK RD
ELMHURST, ILLINOIS
630-782-5669

SUNDAY DECEMBER 22
10:00 AM – NOON
THE LODGE
899 MAIN ST.
ANTIOCH, ILLINOIS
847-395-3373

SATURDAY DECEMBER 28
TIME TBA
CHALK
7414 MADISON ST.
FOREST PARK, ILLINOIS
708-366-3008
WITH MIKE REIDY & THE IL7

THE NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE @ WWW.PETEBERWICK.NET

PETE BERWICK & THE RENEGADES WILL BE REUNITING IN 2014 FOR SOME SHOWS.

PETE’S SONG “NUCLEAR BOY” WILL BE FEATURED ON “THE CARRIE DIARIES”
ON WGN (THE CW) ON DECEMBER 20.

www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-carrie-diaries/375407

PETE WILL BE FEATURED ON THE COVER OF A COOKBOOK COMING ON DECEMBER
www.jaythejoke.com

SOURCE: loudwire.com

Excited about Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen‘s upcoming graphic novel series? We are! That’s why we’ve got yet another exclusive on ‘Ministry: The Devil’s Chord – The Chronicles of Alien F. Jourgensen.’ The series promises to include many of Al Jourgensen’s real-life friends. Turns out that Sascha Konietzko of German industrial veterans KMFDM is one of those very people, and we’ve got the first look at Konietzko’s animated character.

The 13-issue comic book series is scheduled to premiere at Comic Con San Diego in July 2014. So far, we’ve exclusively premiered preliminary sketches of Alien F. Jourgensen, brought you a bizarre (as always) interview with both Al Jourgensen and an interview with ‘Devil’s Chord’ co-creator Sam Shearon. Now, we’re piling on more exclusive updates on the graphic novel with this picture of Sascha Konietzko along with what superpower he will be endowed with.

“I met with Sascha at his recent show in Pomona, CA and within minutes he enthusiastically began to tell me without prompt, how he’d want to appear, what he’ll have as ‘super-hero’ powers and what he’s not cool with,” says Sam Shearon. “He stated firmly that he wants nothing to do with Nazi UFO’s!… I didn’t have that planned or written in there anyway, but being German, he was quite adamant about not being connected to anything Nazi whatsoever! So I assured him this wouldn’t be written in there regardless and that he’s one of the ‘good’ guys alongside Alien F. Jourgensen.”

Shearon continues, “Sascha Konietzko will have the power to ‘drain’ other peoples powers… to ‘dis-able’ them. However this does not work on Al Jourgensen… quite the opposite in fact… Sascha will ‘give Al a boost,’ as Sascha put it with a proud smirk! Sascha will play an integral part in the story and will act as one of the major characters in the story… not so much as a sidekick, but more so as a fellow hero – similar vane to Marvel’s ‘X-Men’ characters. . . with ‘several’ heroes in play at once against ‘several’ enemies with a variety of powers and abilities.”

SOURCE: www.classicrockmagazine.com

Michael Monroe hasn’t spoken to Hanoi Rocks bandmate Andy McCoy since the band’s last show in 2008 – and insists he doesn’t have any reason to pick up the phone.

The vocalist is riding high with his solo outfit’s latest album Horns And Halos, released after he endured pressure to repeat the success of its forerunner Sensory Overdrive.

But veteran performer Monroe is looking firmly to the future, and doesn’t intend to look back at his first big band, which was “reborn” with guitarist McCoy in 2001.

He says: “Hanoi Rocks is finished. The rebirth felt right at the time and I’m glad we did it. I got to see what I could accomplish working with Andy as an equal partner, because he’d had a different attitude about me writing.

“We made three good albums, but it ran its course. It wasn’t fun any more so we put it to bed.”

He describes the last run of shows, which took place in home town Helsinki in 2008, as an unforgettable experience. “To be honest I was relieved it was over, but I was a little emotional for the fans. At the underage shows especially, the kids were crying as we gained a whole new generation of fans. That was moving.”

As far as Monroe is concerned, that was the end of the band and his partnership with McCoy. “I haven’t seen him or spoken to him since the last farewell gig,” he admits. “There’s no reason to. It was a working relationship – it wasn’t like I had fun hanging around with him.

“It’s not like I don’t like him; but we just haven’t any reason to be in touch. He’s doing his thing, I’m doing my thing and I wish him the best.”

Monroe’s current thing, Horns And Halos, is his first album to feature guitarist Dregen, who’s currently temporarily out of the band while he promotes his debut solo record. The Backyard Babies man replaced Ginger Wildheart, who’d been part of the band for Sensory Overdrive.

“It crossed my mind that there would be a lot of expectation after the success of Sensory Overdrive,” Monroe allows. “But there’s no point trying to recreate the same album. We wanted to move on and make a new record with Dregen on board. We just decided to write some music and it started to come together nicely.

“I feel we’ve grown into a really tight unit. We didn’t suffer any pressure because this has become its own thing. It’s funny, Hanoi Rocks had a band name; now I’m playing as MIchael Monroe, which sounds solo, but it’s more of a band situation than there ever was.”

A Finnish book about Hanoi Rocks’ exploits is to be published in English, and the vocalist predicts it’ll draw an appropriate line under the band’s history. “All Those Wasted Years has been translated and it will be out here soon. It’s the first true story about the band – and with Andy being such an exaggerator it’s crazy. He makes up stuff, even in real life!”

Add atheists to the groups putting up holiday displays at Daley Plaza.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has set up a big, neon “‘A’ Is for Atheists” display at Daley Plaza, between a giant Hanukkah menorah and a Nativity scene.

Signs explaining the display say it’s to celebrate the pagan holiday of the winter solstice, “the birth of the unconquered sun,” but also the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution, “which reminds us there can be no freedom OF religion, without having freedom FROM religion in government.”

“If the government is going to open up a public forum to religion, then it has to permit the non-religious — nearly 20 percent of our nation today — to express our point of view as well,” said Dan Barker, the group’s co-president.

According to Tom Cara, director of the Metropolitan Chicago Chapter of the foundation, an attorney for the group worked to secure a place for the display at Daley Plaza. The group simply filed for a permit to put up the display last spring, and it was reviewed and approved in October for a period from Nov. 26 to Dec. 29, mayoral spokesman Tom Alexander said.

Similar displays have gone up this season at the Illinois capital in Springfield and the Wisconsin capital in Madison, where the foundation is based.

The winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, occurs Dec. 21, while the Bill of Rights was ratified on Dec. 15, 1791.

While this is the first year for the atheist display, a Nativity scene has been erected each year at Daley Plaza for nearly three decades after surviving legal challenges.

Pete Berwick @ Montrose Saloon- Chicago, Illinois Dec 7
2933 W. Montrose Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
773-463-7663

ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, ERIMHA Reggie’s Rock Club, 1/26, 7:30 PM.

JEFF AUSTIN & THE HERE & NOW City Winery, 3/7, 7:30 and 10:30 PM, on sale Thu 12/5, noon.

BAD VEINS Beat Kitchen, 1/25, 6 PM, all-ages.

BASTILLE Riviera Theatre, 3/31, 7:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Sat 12/7, 10 AM.

ANDREW BELLE, DIANE BIRCH Lincoln Hall, 3/5, 8 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

CLINT BLACK North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, 3/28, 8 PM.

BLACK ANGELS Park West, 2/5, 8 PM, on sale Sat 12/7, 10 AM.

BREATHE CAROLINA Subterranean, 3/27, 6:15 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

LORINE CHIA Reggie’s Rock Club, 1/24, 7:30 PM.

COM TRUISE Lincoln Hall, 2/14, 10 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

COUNTRY THUNDER: JASON ALDEAN, MIRANDA LAMBERT, BRANTLEY GILBERT, AND OTHERS Country Thunder East, Twin Lakes, 7/24-27.

THE FRAY House of Blues, 1/21, 8 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, 10 AM.

ICED EARTH, SABATON House of Blues, 4/6, 8 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, 10 AM.

JOURNEY, STEVE MILLER BAND, TOWER OF POWER First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, 7/12, 6:45 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, 10 AM.

ANGELIQUE KIDJO City Winery, 2/11, 8 PM, on sale Thu 12/5, noon.

LADY GAGA United Center, 7/11, 7:30 PM, on sale Mon 12/9, 10 AM.

LILY & MADELEINE Schubas, 1/26, 7 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, DISAPPEARS Lincoln Hall, 2/20, 9 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

MARITIME Subterranean, 1/11, 8:30 PM.

DUSTY MCFLY Reggie’s Rock Club, 1/23, 8 PM.

NATIVE Township, 2/15, 7:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 12/6, 10 AM.

ONE DIRECTION Soldier Field, 8/29, 7 PM, all-ages, on sale Sat 12/7, 10 AM.

RICHIE RAMONE Mayne Stage, 2/27, 8 PM.

ANDREW RIPP, JUDAH THE LION Lincoln Hall, 2/13, 7:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

SAINTSENECA Empty Bottle, 3/7, 9:30 PM, on sale Wed 12/4, 10 AM.

RICK SPRINGFIELD North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, 3/6, 7:30 PM.

SPYRO GYRA North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie, 2/28, 8 PM.

STONE SOUR House of Blues, 1/28, 7:30 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, 10 AM.

RICHARD THOMPSON, TEDDY THOMPSON City Winery, 2/24-26, 8 PM, on sale Thu 12/5, noon.

WE ARE THE IN CROWD, WILLIAM BECKETT Bottom Lounge, 2/28, 5:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

WILD CUB Subterranean, 2/8, 8 PM, all-ages, on sale Sat 12/7, 10 AM.

XIU XIU Schubas, 3/7, 10 PM, on sale Fri 12/6, noon.

ALEX AIONO Wire, Berwyn, Berwyn, 12/12, 7 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 11/29, 10 AM.

BRING ME THE HORIZON, OF MICE & MEN House of Blues, 2/18-19, 5 PM, all-ages.

CROWBAR Cobra Lounge, 12/31, 8:30 PM.

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS, ESCONDIDO Concord Music Hall, 1/18, 8:30 PM.

MAYER HAWTHORNE, QUADRON Park West, 2/14, 8 PM.

MANOWAR Concord Music Hall, 2/8, 7 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 11/29, noon.

OCCULTATION, HOUSE OF ATREUS LiveWire Lounge, 12/7, 9 PM.
PARAMORE, ROBIN THICKE, ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, FLO RIDA United Center, 12/9, 7:30 PM, all-ages.

QUILT Empty Bottle, 2/6, 9 PM.

RUSTED ROOT, DONNA THE BUFFALO Concord Music Hall, 1/25, 8:30 PM.

SCREAMING FEMALES Hideout, 1/30, 9 PM; 1/31, 10 PM.

SCOTT STAPP House of Blues, 3/26, 8 PM.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Concord Music Hall, 1/17, 9 PM.

TOY Beat Kitchen, 1/16, 8:30 PM, on sale Fri 11/29, 10 AM.

TRANSIT, HIT THE LIGHTS Beat Kitchen, 2/9, 7 PM, on sale Mon 12/2, noon.

UPDATED LISTINGS

HAIM Riviera Theatre, 5/17, 8 PM, all-ages, moved from the Vic.