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A weekly dose of weird, "WeIrD SoNg Of ThE WeEk" presents you with Chicago's strangest, wonkiest, noisiest, most fun, intergalactic, icky, gooey songs one week at a time. Jacq and Frudy This week’s song: “Little Shell (Lousy Bitch),” a sweet, playful, anxiety-inducing collage of sounds, vocals, and tempos by Celebrity Go$$ip. You may know Jacq and Frudy, the duo who make up Celebrity Go$$ip, from a number of goings-on around the DIY scene in the city, but only recently have they begun performing together under the Celebrity Go$$ip moniker. “With Frudy, we just make music for fun; neither of us have any...

A weekly dose of weird, "WeIrD SoNg Of ThE WeEk" presents you with Chicago's strangest, wonkiest, noisiest, most fun, intergalactic, icky, gooey songs one week at a time. Photo Courtesy of the Artists Exeunt? Who are they? Where are they from? What we know: The mysterious group hails from Finland and has been popping up around the Chicago DIY scene lately playing shows at Charm School, The Observatory, and Subterranean among other venues, their faces concealed by masks, balaclavas, and electric-blue Morph Suits. Their music is disturbing, distorted, loud, and thoughtful. It is not beautiful music; it is the kind...

Photograph courtesy of the artists A weekly dose of weird, "WeIrD SoNg Of ThE WeEk" presents you with Chicago's strangest, wonkiest, noisiest, most fun, intergalactic, icky, gooey songs one week at a time.                   This week’s WeIrD sOnG oF tHe WeEk is brought to you by Boy Language, the side project of songwriters Joey Lucente and Joshua Grimes. By day, Joey and Joshua are members of the bands Wisconsin and Party Jacket respectively, but come night, Boy Language comes out to play. The “hawt duo” (Joey’s words) fused both of their love for...

A weekly dose of weird, "WeIrD SoNg Of ThE WeEk" presents you with Chicago's strangest, wonkiest, noisiest, most fun, intergalactic, icky, gooey songs one week at a time.  Photograph by Marissa KM This week's song is BLØØDH¥PE from Bloodhype's 11-track space trip of an album, After Dinner Mints.  Bloodhype is the project of Ohio transplant Maureen Neer. Started in Athens, Ohio, under what Neer details as "a disco ball and psychoactive dissociative substances," Bloodhype is her "end-of-the-night project," one that she quietly constructs in her bedroom to satisfy her warped brain. According to Neer, it is a fluid, ever-changing project that includes the collaboration of other...