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The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $3 Rio Grande Organic Lager, $3 Jack Daniels
  • 6pm free film - The Velvet Underground: Velvet Redux MCMXCIII (1993) (95Ms) Starring: John Cale, Moe Tucker, Sterling Morris, Lou Reed
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    Filmed live at the L’Olympia Theater in Paris, France over three nights in June (the 15th, 16th & 17th). The reunion show that was to spark a tour that quickly fell apart into egos, recrimination, and decades old feuds- I mean “artistic differences”. Check out Lou and the gang in top form rip through old classics like ‘Venus in Furs’, ‘Hey Mr. Rain’, Femme Fatale’, and ‘Heroin’, dreaming all the while of what could have been…


    The Ultimate Rock & Roll Jukebox

  • $3 Goose Island 312, $3 Maker’s Mark

  • Hard Country Wednesday - Bloodshot Records DJ Nan

  • $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, $2 Ten High Bourbon

  • American Metal Shop with Roadrunner Records’ DJ Scot Stiglich

  • Featuring Cheap Trick + Scars On Broadway CD Release Party
  • $2 Point Pale Ale Pints, $2 Canadian Club
  • 7pm free music movie - Cheap Trick Live at The Metro (1998)
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    I want you to want me… Great show recorded live right here at Metro in Chicago. (1998). 65 mins.


    Back Seat Bordello DJ Aaron spins Rock & Roll Americana

  • $2 Chang Beer, $2 Ancient Age Bourbon
  • 6pm Film - Blazing Magnum (1976) - Directed by Alberto de Martino.
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    In this violent grindhouse action thriller, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister – little did he know that she wasn’t so “innocent” as she was involved in a jewel heist – but he will find the killers no matter how the rules have to change. Starring: Martin Landau & Tisa Farrow.


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $3 Rio Grande Organic Lager, $3 Jack Daniels
  • 6pm Film - Killer Crocodile 2 (1990) - Directed by Giannetto de Rossi.
    Starring: Anthony Crenna, Debra Karr, Ennio Girolami, Tony de Nioa.
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    Those evil industrialist are at it again! The same folks who dumped toxic waste into the river of a beautiful Caribbean island now want to built a giant resort on the same toxic spot. Soon the giant spawn of the previous mutant crocodile shows up chomping on anyone who happens by. It is up to Kevin and Joe, with the aid of plucky news reporter Liza (Karr) to take out the deadly beast and stop the evil-doers for good! (82 mins)


    The Ultimate Rock & Roll Jukebox

  • $3 Goose Island 312, $3 Maker’s Mark

  • Psychobilly Wednesday - DJ Machetti

  • $2 PBR, $2 Old Crow Bourbon
  • Upstairs DJ Jimmy Hollywood

  • Rockin The Party DJ Michelle spins Rock & Pop

  • $2 Point Pale Ale Pints, $2 Canadian Club
  • 7pm free movie - Bloodied But Unbowed : Bloodshot Records’ Life In The Trenches (2006)
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    31 videos and live performances from the vast Bloodshot Records line-up, including Jon Langford and The Waco Brothers, Bobby Bare Jr., Wayne Hancock, Split Lip Rayfield +++. (120 mins)


    Bottom Lounge DJ Dan spins Brian Wilson’s B-day

  • $2 Chang Beer, $2 Ancient Age Bourborn
  • 6pm Film - Atlantis Interceptors (1983) - Directed by Ruggero Deodato.
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    This crazy Italian grindhouse masterpiece will have you pinned to your seat and laughing on the floor in equal intervals. It’s 1994 and the lost city of Atlantis resurfaces off the coast of Miami – Is it the end of the world? Mind blowing action sequences and great gore effects. Starring: Christopher Connelly & Tony King.


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $3 Rio Grande Organic Lager, $3 Jack Daniels
  • 6pm Film - Venom (1982) - Directed by Piers Haggard.
    Starring: Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Sterling Hayden, Sarah Miles.
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    A scaly terror is loose in an upscale London town home! A young boy, and reptile enthusiast, is inadvertently supplied with a deadly black mamba snake instead of the harmless garter snake he ordered from the local pet store. The snake gets loose and begins attacking the home’s residents. To add to the terror, a group of kidnappers steal into the home to swipe the kid for a big reward from the child’s wealthy grandfather. The police arrive in time to stop the kidnaping, but a stand off ensues with the cops outside, and the kidnappers and family inside the home – with the killer snake! (92 mins)


    Morrissey & The Smiths DJ Tony Celebrates 10 years of Spinning

  • $3 Goose Island 312, $3 Maker’s Mark

  • Greazy & Sleazy C&W DJ Jason Larsen

  • $2 PBR, $2 Old Crow Bourbon

  • Daddy-O Day DJ Chris features Norton Records for Father’s Day

  • $2 Chang, $2 Ancient Age Bourbon
  • 6pm Film - Sinai Commandos (1968) - Directed by Raphael Nussbaum.
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    Captain Uri Liman must lead a small group of soldiers in a vital mission to destroy a radra station during the Six-Day War, without being captured behind enemy lines – actual war footage is cut in to the film footage giving this odd grindhouse classic a true documentary feel. Starring: Robert Fuller & Esther Ullman.


    The Ultimate Rock & Roll Jukebox

  • $3 Goose Island 312, $3 Maker’s Mark

  • Psycho Country - DJs Joe Vor-Tech & Mr. Automatic

  • $2 PBR, $2 Old Crow Bourbon

  • Punk En Español - DJ Kres spins Spanish vs. English Punk

  • $2 Point Pale Ale, $2 Canadian Club
  • 7pm free movie - Frozen Ghosts (1990)
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    The world of Garage Rock captured in these early videos by bands like The Cynics, The Fleshtones, The Brood and The Jacklords. (72 mins)


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • Mod Chicago Record Swap with International Mod DJs (Noon-5pm)
  • New Holland Beer Tasting (Noon-5pm)
  • $3 Rio Grande Organic Lager, $3 Jack Daniels
  • Free 7pm movie - Killer Crocodile (1989) - Directed by Fabrizio de Angelis
    Starring: Anthony Crenna, Ann Douglas, Sherrie Rose, Van Johnson.
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    Evil industrialists dump toxic waste into the river creating a giant, killer, crocodile. To slake its growing hunger, it begins feeding on the residents of a small seaside community. A group of ecologists, lead by Kevin (Crenna), while out gathering water samples, come in contact with the killer croc. Soon they are engaged in a life and death struggle. (90 mins)


    Hard Country Wednesday - Bloodshot Records DJ Nan

  • $2 PBR, $2 Old Crow Bourbon

  • Shout at the Devil Metal Shop DJ Scot

  • $2 Point Pale Ale Pints, $2 Canadian Club
  • 7pm free movie - Jesus Lizard - Live (2007)
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    Infamous Chicago rock band captured live at the Venus de Milo in Boston in 1994 and at CBGB in 1992. This is the DVD release party. (65 mins)


    Maximum R&B DJ Pete Naton

  • $2 Chang, $2 Ancient Age Bourbon
  • 6pm film - Highway Racer (1977) - Directed Stelvio Massi. Starring: Angelo Infanti.
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    A man who wants to become the ultimate driver of his police force fails miserably, until he’s given driving lessons by his chief. He then goes out to stop the chief’s main rival bank robber - with one of the greatest chase scenes ever shot.


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $2 Warsteiner, $2 Jim Beam Rye Whiskey
  • 6pm Film - A Demon In My View (1992)
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    (110Ms) Directed by Petra Haffter.
    Starring: Anthony Perkins, Sophie Ward, Stratford Johns, Uwe Bohm.
    Anthony Perkins plays a former serial killer whose homicidal tendencies are reignited when a fellow tenant in his apartment building ruins one of his collectable mannequin dolls shattering his tenuous hold on reality. A great final performance by Perkins, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell.


    The Ultimate Rock & Roll Jukebox

  • $2 Labatt Blue, $2 Maker’s Mark

  • Psychobilly Wednesday - DJ Machetti

  • $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon Longnecks, $2 Ten High Bourbon

  • Metro Party DJs Kim & Michelle spin Rock & Roll

  • $2 Rebel Yell Bourbon, $2 Sleeman Cream Ale Pints
  • 7pm Film - Elvis Costello Live - A Case For Song (1996)
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    This fantastic assembly of live cuts shows Elvis at his best, performing with The Attractions, The Brodsky Quartet and The White City Septet — and rocking out with Pump It Up, Veronica, Watching The Detectives & more. (77 mins).


    Deal’s Gone Bad DJ Aaron

  • $2 Bavaria Dutch Beer Bottles, $2 Ancient Age Bourborn
  • 6pm Film - Track of the Vampire (1966)
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    This gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller surrounds a crazed Californian artist who seduces his models and then paints portraits of his beautiful models and then kills them. Starring: William Campbell, Marissa Mathes & Linda Saunders. Dir. Stephanie Rothman & Jack Hill. (80mins)


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $2 Warsteiner, $2 Jim Beam Rye Whiskey
  • 6pm Film - Temmink: The Ultimate Fight (1998)
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    (90Ms) Dir. Boris Paval Conen.
    Starring: Jack Wouterse, Jacob Derwig, Herman Gillis, Will van Kralingen.
    In the not so distant future, criminals with violent records are given the option of execution or to fight in bloody tournaments for the t.v. viewing pleasure of the general public. One such man is Temmink, but soon after he begins his tourney of violence he decides he has had enough and wants out.


    The Ultimate Rock & Roll Jukebox

  • $2 Labatt Blue, $2 Maker’s Mark

  • Greazy & Sleazy C&W DJ Jason Larsen features Hazil Adkins

  • $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon Longnecks, $2 Ten High Bourbon

  • Rockin & Rollin DJ Cookie

  • $2 Rebel Yell Bourbon, $2 Sleeman Cream Ale Pints
  • 7pm Film - Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing Live (2007)
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    This collection of live footage captures Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the greatest showmen in Rock & Roll history, doing all his classic cuts, many with help from a few friends — Buddy Guy, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and many more…. (85 mins.) Dir. Jim Gable.


    The Juke Box That Rocks

  • $2 Warsteiner, $2 Jim Beam Rye Whiskey
  • 6pm Film - Redball (1999)
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    A taut and tense thriller from the land down under. A child murdering serial-killer is loose in Melbourne. Detectives Walsh and Wilson (Brumpton & McClory) must find him, but their efforts are hampered by bickering superior officers, corrupt fellow officers and an indifferent public. Soon Detective Wilson starts to suspect a fellow officer of the killings! (91 mins)
    Directed by Jon Hewitt. Starring: Belinda McClory, John Brumpton, Frank Magree, Peter Docker.

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