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AXEMEN play the title track off their 2009 Siltbreeze re-issue LP of 1984's Sleek Bott cassette "Big Cheap Motel" live in-store at Permanent Records, Chicago, Sat 28 Nov 2009.

•DINNER AND A SHOW: Saturday 11/28 chicagoreader.com/
Some of tonight's most promising events, paired with restaurants recommended by our critics.

Show:
AXEMEN If in the world of classic New Zealand underground rock the Chills' earnest pop represents the north pole and the Dead C's corrosive noise is the south, then the Axemen are the molten center of the earth—their shambling, stylistically promiscuous, and occasionally tuneful postpunk is like a bad case of planetary heartburn. In band histories they claim they formed for political reasons, but the recorded evidence suggests that they just wanted to get up everyone's noses. Their apex—or nadir, depending on your point of view—came in 1992, when they appeared on a children's TV show in drag and plugged a record called Peter Wang Pud.

Siltbreeze has reissued two early Axemen albums this year (a third is still forthcoming), and now guitarist Little Stevie McCabe and drummer Stu Kawowski are undertaking their first American tour. They've also got a new split seven-inch with Times New Viking, available only at shows, on which the two bands cover each other's songs.

Golden Birthday, Thunderbolt Pagoda, and David Diarrhea open. 9:30 PM, Rueben's Palace, 1620 N. Fairfield, rear building, $7 donation requested.

(At 6 PM today the Axemen play a free in-store at Permanent Records (1914 W. Chicago).
—Bill Meyer chicagoreader.com/

Dinner:
Borinquen, the "Home of the Jibaro," stakes its reputation on a dish its owner claims to have invented: the jibarito ("little hillbilly"), a garlicky sandwich with your choice of meat layered between two deep-fried slices of flattened green plantain. It's a greasy, unwieldy mess of a sandwich, but man, does it work. 1720 N. California, 773-227-6038

Limited edition of "Big Cheap Motel" rumoured to be SOLD OUT, check http://www.siltbreeze.com/axemen.htm

Permanent Records
1914 West Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622-8879
(773) 278-1744