I fell in love with a skateboard when I was about 12 and spent a decade in that violent love affair. That’s the family team that I spent the early years with. My older brother wears a bunny mask, strips to his underwear, and throws himself around on stages across the world singing catchy love songs in his band Nobunny, and he’s definitely the coolest person I’ve ever met. My Dad works on computers for an insurance company, plays in a Chicago Blues band, and was a member of a psychedelic rock band in SF in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and he’s the smartest guy I know. My Mom is a visual artist, a spiritual seeker and the prettiest woman in the world. What’s your background?īorn and raised in the city of Chicago, Illinois. He’s immensely talented, kind, sincere and always has a smile on his face. Devin is one of those guys that everyone just loves – no one ever has a bad word to say about Devin, nor should they. This month it’s Devin Champlin, a member of The Shadies, Gallus Brothers, and Country Hamms as well as a luthier at Camplin Guitars, his guitar repair shop. For a glimpse of the beautiful madness that awaits you there, hit the jump for a clip of Crudos playing the 2006 Southkore festival.Each month I have the pleasure of asking 11 questions of a special someone in the music community. I have no idea what Chitown Futbol’s capacity is, but with no advance ticketing and over 1,100 people already RSVP’d via the show’s Facebook page it would seem that showing up early would be a good idea.
Both shows are all ages, and both offer a slate of opening bands drawn from the aforementioned south side hardcore scene, with the later show featuring a set by Sin Orden, who in many ways picked up where Crudos left off and have subsequently become just as essential a part of that community. At the moment they’re preparing for a tour of South America, and before they head out they’re playing two shows on Saturday at Chitown Futbol, an indoor soccer facility in Pilsen. While the group officially broke up in 1998, they’ve reunited a few times over the past decade. (I remember hearing punks at the Fireside Bowl complaining that they couldn’t understand front man Martin Sorrondeguy’s lyrics because they were in Spanish.) But these days their legacy is arguably more relevant than that of the better known bands-while the north side punk scene is currently typified by the kind of painfully unadventurous bands that my colleague Brian Costello likes to call “ham and eggers,” there’s a vibrant, innovative (and almost entirely Latino) hardcore scene in Pilsen and Little Village that Crudos had a major role in establishing. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & RecreationĪccounts of the history of punk in Chicago tend to overlook Los Crudos, who arrived on the scene during a period when the most of the attention being paid to the city’s musical culture was focused on more commercially appealing indie rock acts, and whose aggressive identity politics could alienate even the largely white, supposedly radical-left hardcore community of the time.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.
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