DS Show Review & Gallery: Night 1 of Sounds of the Street Festival with Piñata Protest, Get Dead, Noogy, Shitizen, and more. (Chicago 02.10.2023)

Reggies Rock Club once against hosted the Sounds of the Street Festival. As the name of the 2 night event suggests, the lineup was dominated by street punk bands, with a dose of Oi! and other subgenres in the mix for good measure. There were nine bands on the first night’s bill. Here were some of the highlights. At the top of the night’s bill was Piñata Protest out of San Antonio, TX. Partly through the use of the accordion and a Merenque Guira, the band fuses traditional Tex-Mex music with punk for its own unique sound. Though it had been a long evening, Piñata Protest’s highly spirited performance provided the crowd a much-needed shot of rhythmic adrenaline. The group whipped up the crowd and left exhausted fans, old and new in its wake. Bay area punks Get Dead loaded u...

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