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Music
The Homosexuals w/ Plastic Crimewave Sound

When

Thursday Nov 6, 2008 (9pm)

Where
The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773.227.4433)
Price
$12
Details
http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
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If the Homosexuals were on a bill with the Kinks during the British Invasion, they may have turned a few heads with their name and their aggressive sound, but they wouldn't have been entirely out of place. Their fuzzed-out guitars and snotty vocals have earned them labels such as pre-post-punk (huh?), and their subtly experimental instrumentation has garnered comparisons to Wire and mid-period Clash, but the trio's unapologetically pop "oohs" and "aahs" — and their affinity for blues riffs, pianos, and mandolins — might put a geriatric Ray Davies at ease. You might call the 30-year-old band proto-pre-Brit-pop-punk, but then frontman Bruno Wizard would have to smack you (and he would).

Gerry Mak