M’s come to rock, support boozing on Dillo Day
Indie rockers embrace students, fear raccoons. By CRYSTAL NICHOLSON
It wasn’t until their interview with PLAY that the members of Chicago indie rock band The M’s became aware that performing on Dillo Day means they’ll be playing for hundreds of extremely drunk students.
“The college student has been stigmatized — we look at images in the media such as ‘The Real Cancun,'” said vocalist and guitar player Josh Chicoine. “To be playing (Dillo Day) is perpetuating that stereotype. But it’s perpetuating it in a really fun way. I’m really hungover right now and who is to say if it’s bad or good to play to a bunch of drunk people when you yourself are really drunk?”
At first listen, The M’s appear to be a drop in the ocean of budding alternative bands in the fashion of The Strokes or Jet, with strong influences from The Kinks and The Beatles.