"I've got Pices of April, but it's a morning in May" (Three Dog Night-1972)

There's more than just a piece, just a snippet of the Chicago area's original Metal, Punk, Alternative Rock and Power Pop scene. It's a full helping.

If there can be rock opera, why not Metal Opera. What Nomadic Structures, a five-piece Chicago metal band does musically is the closest thing. They're hoping the sophisticated arrangement of their music, complete with backing operatic female singers plays well enough to earn them a main stage spot on the 2025 return of Vans Warped Tour. The'll try out the mixture of Puccini and Pantera on a packed crowd at Cobra Lounge, right near the United Center, this Wednesday night, Co-headlining the show is The Human Trials, Darkhorse Collective and Lever. Singer and Guitarist James Landon Parker joins me to preview the Cobra gig and music video for the soon to be released track that is going up votes on the Ernie Ball Vans Warped Tour Battle Of The Bands website.

A.D.D. will command attention with their first new single in four years. The Lockport melodic hard rock band will premiere Blame on stage at The Forge in Joliet this Friday in a co-headlining gig with Chicago melodic hard Rock band Yet Again. Their new music video and single presents a dark state of human depression. I have the soundtrack.

From across the Illinois/Indiana state late came Gerhart. Not following the example of Mel Gibson, the five-man band exercised their freedom to rock into our Kat 105.5 studio, thirteen years ago this week. We rock back to it.

Assemble the musicians, singers and original Chicagoland music soundtrack we shall. It's conducted as follows:

Nomadic Structures-Odium

Nomadic Structures-Another Life

The Human Trials-World War Me

The Darkhorse Collective-Polyanthroponomia

Lever-Story Untold

Yet Again-Shadows

A.D.D.-So The Pain

Gerhart (interview in the Kat 105.5 studio-4/5/12)

Gerhart-Bringing Me Down

Gerhart-Living Through Perception

Gerhart-The Outsider