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Erik Oldman April 30, 2021 Staff Picks

Mel’s Birthday List

Today we’re celebrating curator Melissa Flowers’ birthday. Mel has been working with Rock in Chicago since 2014, as a reviewer and also an occasional cohost of the original Rock In Chicago Show podcast.

Mel is also the bassist for Americana-Folk trio the Secret Lives and blackened hardcore group, Tides Cult. Check out the bands below. Starting in May, Mel will host an open mic at an art gallery very third Saturday. It’s an acoustic open mic encouraging acoustic artists, spoken word artists, poets, etc. to come out.


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For her birthday, Mel curated a 90-minute playlist of some of her favorite bands from many different scenes and genres from our area.

TrackArtist
Lonesome LowAl Scorch
SinaiaRussian Circles
Last Fair Deal Gone DownJon Langford
Apocalypse Now (& Later)Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers
She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)Robbie Fulks
Speedin’ NorthJoel Paterson
World DevourerLike Rats
ManifestAndrew Bird
One Way TicketROOKIE
CrystalThe Waterfall King
InfestationHarms Way
Shot in the HeadWeekend Nachos
Worth ItColleen Wild
Think About UAmero$
Give No MorePulchra Morte
Coma NoirThe Atlas Moth
StarsHum
Bron-Y-Aur StompDevil in a Woodpile
Alien With a Sleep Mask OnRatboys
Til We’re DeadGuardrail
Radio Coup D’etatEvil Engine
Remember the TakerThe Steepwater Band
The Unlimited Space Around UsFamily Groove Company
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  • The Secret Lives

    The Secret Lives

    The Secret Lives is an up and coming Americana/folk rock band out of the southwest suburbs of Chicago. TSL is comprised of Andy Victory, Rachel Darling, and Mel Flowers. The trio provide a unique Southern Gothic tinged Americana sound with powerful, engaging, and retrospective lyrical content.

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  • Tides Cult

    Tides Cult

    Purveying a furious brand of blackened hardcore, Chicago-based quintet Tides Cult tilts equal nod to black metal’s shrouded nocturne and hardcore’s pissed-off onslaught. Bucking all trendiness for authentic second-city grit, the band’s underground spirit reanimates the dead, shocks the living, and conjures anything and everything in between.

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