It's still your life during wartime

Five years ago this week (January 29, 2003), Mother Hubbard and I started Life During Wartime in the basement of Wicker Park's Double Door. Two kids (certainly not DJs at the time), some basic equipment, a stack of records, a few catchy slogans and the goal of making people dance. A party for the people by the people. We've done it almost twice a month (or more) ever since and it only seems to get better and better with each party. Sure a lot has changed (and much has stayed the same) but the important thing to remember here is that YOU SHOULD DANCE.

Thanks, Chicago, we couldn't/wouldn't do it without you...



Special thanks to ALL the bands and DJs we've showcased, performed with and/or welcomed in and outside of Chicago. In no particular order and certainly not a complete list...

Soulwax/2ManyDJs, Kid Sister, The Presets, Flosstradamus, Hollywood Holt & Mano, J2K, Walter Meego, Eamon Harkin, Rok One (of The Bangers), Treasure Fingers, Daisy O, Sweatshop Labor DJs, Tigercity, Matt ROAN (of Dance Party Magic), Mister Wolf, Lauren Flax, Office, Diamonds (of The Glamour), Trancid (of Dark Wave Disco), JDH & Dave P (of Fixed & Making Time), Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Popstatic, Konsept, Major Taylor, Cut Copy, The Hood Internet, May Or May Not (as Daft Punk), Muscles, Sovietpanda (of Too Much Love), Of Montreal, New Order, James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem), Electric Six, Junior Senior, The Go! Team, Tilly & The Wall, Cold War Kids, Kampfire Killaz, Sybris, Apteka, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Professor Murder, The Gossip, Voxtrot, Sunset Rubdown, MOBY, The Rapture, Tommie Sunshine, Bloc Party, The Ponys, Baby Teeth, Bobby Conn, Bang! Bang!, New Black, Lying In States, Pelican, Russian Circles, The Killer, Dead To Fall, Hewhocorrupts, Holy Roman Empire, The Changes, The Redwalls, The M's, The Prairie Cartel, Troubled Hubble, VHS or Beta, Elefant, Radio 4, Har Mar Superstar, Codebreaker, Mahjongg, Watchers, People Noise, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Joggers, The Flesh, Bling Kong, U.S.E., I Am the World Trade Center, James Chance & the Fibbs, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Rainer Maria, Travis Morrison (of Dismemberment Plan), Tom Vek and you.

RSVP HERE for a VIP Bushmills hosted bar from 9-11PM and join us tomorrow night at Darkroom as we step into another 5 year run. Boing!



XOXO, Bald Eagle