Friday 30
TAKING BACK SUNDAY The video for Taking Back Sunday’s 2002 single “Cute Without the ‘E’ (Cut From the Team)”–a Fight Club takeoff in which guitarist Fred Mascherino is beat to a bloody, smiling pulp by a roomful of hotties wearing tight wifebeaters–still stands as the best example of emo’s pathological self-obsession and lurking misogyny. But Adam Lazarra nearly matches that feat with his girl-threatening lyrics and hysterical shrieks on “MakeDamnSure,” the first single from the band’s new album, Louder Now (Warner Brothers). Angels & Airwaves, Head Automatica, and the Subways open. 6:30 PM, Charter One Pavilion, Northerly Island at Burnham Harbor, 312-540-2000 or 312-559-1212, $25.50. All ages. –Miles Raymer
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NINE INCH NAILS, BAUHAUS In the space of about three months back in the early 90s, Trent Reznor went from opening for Peter Murphy to having Peter Murphy open for him, a true passing of the guttering goth-rock torch. Nowadays they’re both in full-on “elder statesman” mode, though Trent’s been doing his best to keep up with the kids–witness the online-remix arm of the With Teeth project and his predilection for fashionable opening acts like Death From Above 1979. Bauhaus, for their part, are reportedly playing several bona fide new songs this time around. So expect something old, something new, and–as Reznor’s latest recruit is Peaches–something relatively young and hot. Nine Inch Nails headlines, Bauhaus plays second, and Peaches opens. 7 PM, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, I-80 & Harlem, Tinley Park, 708-614-1616 or 312-559-1212, $20 lawn (buy three get one free), $28.50-$47.50 pavilion. All ages. –Brian Nemtusak
Monday 3
PRIESTESS Montreal was bound to spawn a band like this sooner or later: the more arch and artsy the indie scene, the more shameless its underbelly of gut rockers. The cover of Priestess’s first record, Hello Master (RCA), looks like it was swiped from a mid-80s Dio disc, but thankfully that’s not false advertising. There’s no ironic hipster winking in the music: the guitar solo on “Lay Down” sounds ripped clean from Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, for heaven’s sake. Priestess proudly invokes the magical era before hair metal or the thrash backlash it kicked off, when hard rock was still blues based and heroic. And had plenty of cowbell. Bible of the Devil headlines; the Resinators and Blackmaker open. 9 PM, Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee, 773-489-3160 or 312-559-1212, $8. –Monica Kendrick
