Head over to Decibel Magazine now for the premiere of “Poster Boys (Live),” the new live track and accompanying video from Chicago nu-roll unit Something Is Waiting, plus an interview with frontman Eddie Gobbo.
Stream it, here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/10/08/track-premiere-something-is-waiting-poster-boys-live/
Decibel reports: “Something Is Waiting don’t play it safe. The Chicago trio’s idea of a 2025 statement isn’t another studio single or flashy short-form clip — it’s a full-on live album, recorded without overdubs at The Empty Bottle and dropped like a brick through the windshield of our content-saturated world. Livelick (out October 24 on Learning Curve Records) documents the band as they are: raw, nasty, and locked in.”
Pre-order Livelick, here: https://somethingiswaiting.bandcamp.com/album/livelick
Pre-order Livelick, here: https://somethingiswaiting.bandcamp.com/album/livelick
Skating a line between Guns N’ Roses, Pantera, and Unsane, Something Is Waiting has been described by The Chicago Reader as “Sunset Strip swagger forged with a sonic sledgehammer of ‘90s metal” and by Kerrang! as the shrieky, sleazy crust-glam you crave.” To complicate matters further, Gobbo is a wildly creative lyricist who conjures surreal scenarios with the euphoric wordplay of a Beat poet. “Poster Boys,” he explains, is a song about posters that talk:
"‘Poster Boys’ was me in my bedroom back when I was 14 years old. The Rock posters. The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) posters. Everyone in music had their version of that same bedroom. They could look at the same poster and draw inspo for years. The attitude that oozed off of them was heavy. The main theme of that song, pretty surreal, is, one day you’re ‘talking’ to the poster, giving it your power and energy, then one day that shifts and the poster kinda starts talking back.”
The Livelick tracklist consists of all eight songs from 2023's Absolutely album, plus one song from each of the two preceding albums – 2019's Songs from the Sally Beauty Pavilion and 2016's The Something Is Waiting Band. The live soundboard audio was mixed by engineer (and former SIW bandmate) Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording (Weekend Nachos, Frail Body). In addition to the audio, the entire set was immortalized on video, with video editing handled by mastering engineer Blake Bickel (Bronson Arm).
Photo by Brian Santostefano
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