Old Ages Show: The Effigies, Brenneis Hester

//---no times on events--- Old Ages Show is a concert series built for people who still love loud, original music but no longer need to prove they can stay out until 2 a.m. Veteran bands, early shows, reasonable volume, and a room full of people who came to actually hear the music. A cheeky nod to the all-ages shows we grew up with, Old Ages Show celebrates artists who are still writing, recording, and making a racket decades later. Maximum Rock-N-Roll. Minimum Bullshit. Formed in Chicago in 1980, The Effigies were one of the defining bands of the city’s first wave of punk and hardcore. Combining the urgency of hardcore with a muscular, distinctive sound that never fit neatly inside the genre, the band helped establish Chicago as a punk-rock city and influenced generations that followed. More than four decades later, The Effigies remain what they’ve always been: smart, uncompromising, and formidable live. https://effigies.com/ Brenneis Hester brings together two longtime songwriters with roots in the American punk underground. Michael Brenneis came out of Madison’s Juvenile Truth, whose recordings were produced by a young Butch Vig, while Eric Hester spent his early years with the Southwest-based Young Professionals, whose records charted on CMJ and whose sound critics dubbed “chainsaw pop.” Together, they turn those histories toward something new: melodic, guitar-driven rock built on sharp songwriting, loud guitars, and a shared belief that getting older is no reason to get quieter. https://brenneishester.com/