Longface w/Bad History Month & Cairns

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Longface carry on Chicago’s long tradition of unorthodox Americana music that has no interest in capturing life in the city. The group’s latest record, Hillbilly Wit, alternates between buzzy rock songs, folky commentary on American woes and values, and noise-drenched freakouts that sound like the work of a band that’s snorted bath salts. The band is joined on this tour by a similarly singular opening act: Boston’s Bad History Month, a solo indie-rock project from songwriter Sean Bean, who fills the band’s new album Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism with intense, philosophically minded tales of existence and mortality. Bean has likened it to a self-help book, and while it’s a good deal more inscrutable than most anything you’d find on the shelves, it’s an album that does ultimately leave you feeling better about the world.