The Ethers

Playing a high-energy, fuzzy, and jumpy style of garage punk, Chicago's Ethers were formed by members of long-running area bands of a similar ilk, and their self-titled 2018 debut album is a briskly melodic blast of energy not far from territory staked out by bands like Royal Headache. Ethers formed in 2017, not long after the breakup of Bo Hansen's noise-punk band Heavy Times. He roped in the husband/wife team of guitarist Russell Calderwood, who had been a member of Heavy Times near the end and played in the manic psych group Radar Eyes, and organist Mary McKane (of garage ...