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Boredoms gig posters ought to read like circus announcements:

MARVEL! as four intrepid noise-makers from across the Pacific conjure up a rapturous, clangorous, 360-degree shitstorm, at once piercingly primitive and gleefully forward-looking!

STAND IN AWE! as Eye wields pitch-bending, glowing globules like a human theremin!

WITNESS! the living spider-woman Yoshimi, whose dextrous appendages handle drums, hi-hats, bass pedals, and progged-out synth all at once! Barefoot, even!

BEHOLD! the ridiculous seven-neck guitar tower that Eye plays like a freaking gong!

CHUCKLE! at the poor guy who has to stand behind the thing the whole while and constantly retune it!

So it was at Chicago's Congress Theater last night as Boredoms touched down in the home of their new label Thrill Jockey, with Soft Circle and labelmates Human Bell in tow, for a rare performance "in the round". By the end of this 90-odd minute set, both band and audience looked positively exhausted. And who could blame them? Cosmic catharsis is taxing, after all.

And speaking of Thrill Jockey and live Boredoms, we'd be remiss not to remind you that the label will deliver the all-live Super Roots 9 in the States April 8.

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Boredoms:

03-29 Boston, MA - Paradise *
03-30 New York, NY - Terminal 5 (in the round) #
04-02 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom #
04-03 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #

* with Northampton Wools (Thurston Moore and Bill Nace)
# with Soft Circle, Black Pus