The Day Has Come Quenchers Hosts Its Final Concert

      Beloved bar and venue Quenchers Saloon closes for good this weekend-its final day is Saturday, June 16. Local     bookers Phantom Note and MP Presents give     the old place a proper send-off on Friday, June 15, with a five-act show     billed as “Pharewell to Quenchers.” The lineup includes     local Saves the Day cover band Band From the Back Porch     (whose members also play in Space Blood, Laverne, Camo Hat, Santah, and Bev Rage & the Drinks, among others), ace Chicago postpunk duo Tinkerbelles, Rust Ring,    Bow & Spear, and Hi Ho.



  When Avantist dropped their debut LP in April, the    Reader called these punk-prog brothers “one of the best bands in     Chicago.” And they seem keen to keep proving it: in just four weeks, they     wrote and recorded the new EP Terasoma, and lead     single “Violence” bristles with slamming postpunk riffs. On Wednesday, June 20, Avantist celebrate at the Empty Bottle with    Mother Nature and new duo Djunah, aka     former Beat Drun Juel guitarist Donna Polydoros and drummer Nick Smalkowski     of Fake Limbs (who just went on hiatus).