Do Division Street Fest

Cheap beer, Ray-Bans and underground bands flood a stretch of Wicker Park pavement as Do Division looks to get through this season of shrinking summer-festival budgets by turning up the yuks. “America’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger hosts one side of the two-day bill, the stage booked by neighborhood PBRing hole the Empty Bottle. Seeing an uncomfortable comedian sweat through knee-slappers and awkward introductions to indie acts is—well, a lot like NBC’s late-night lineup. But totally worth the five bucks.

Local mash-up misfits the Hood Internet (Sat, 8:30pm) and YACHT (Sun, 8:30pm), a slutty spin on LCD Soundsystem’s irony-lectro, headline the Bottle end of the party. But there’re better bands lower in the lineup. Chicago garage gases CoCoComa (4pm) and metal instrumentalists Pelican (7pm) turn up the amps on Saturday. On Sunday, boogie rockers Earl Greyhound (2:30pm) set up two L.A. acts, Warpaint (4pm) and El Ten Eleven (5:30pm), a vocal-less duo of heavy double-necked-guitar and drum grooves. Warpaint, an all-girl quartet, is the gem here. A pinch of ’90s nostalgia flavors the band’s chiming, sidewinding guitar lines, gossamer vocals and witchy melodies.

House Call Entertainment, booker for Subterranean and Beat Kitchen, wrangles the west-end stage, leaning more on straight-up rock & roll. Second chances are a theme, too. Chin Up Chin Up members go Hawaiian in Vacations (Sat, 4:15pm), as Tim Kasher’s spin-off from Cursive, the Good Life (Sat, 7:40pm), proves the emo icon is just as apt to drown in a bottle of whiskey as scream into a microphone. Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons (Sun, 7:35pm) crowd-please with neo–Tom Petty power-pop. The Night Marchers (9pm), who tore up last year’s Wicker Park Fest, return to top off Saturday night, while former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell (9pm) closes the fest with country-fried bar riffs.

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