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An excerpt of "Girl Without a Planet" from "The Reincarnation of Luna" by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

It’s hard to believe it’s been twenty-five years since the rise of Chicago’s noted underground label Wax Trax! Records. The ground-breaking indie imprint kick-started the industrial movement and made a home for the likes of Ministry, KMFDM and Front 242. Wax Trax! also introduced the world to the hellish dance-rock of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. With a stage show of leather, spikes and lights, Thrill Kill mainmen Buzz McCoy and Groovie Mann wrought a horny brand—“horny” in this case meaning both demonically and hormonally charged—of sleazoid, mechanized death disco with pounding dance percussion and crashing guitars. While the group will perhaps always be best known for its 1994 crossover-hit “Sex On Wheels,” the group’s steady and solid catalog of albums boasts some of industrial’s finest moments. That legacy continues on 2005’s Gay, Black and Married (Rykodisc) which delved further into MLWTTKC’s patented abyss of dangerous drumbeats and dead-end debauchery. Dirty Sanchez opens the show.

Wednesday, March 1 at 7pm. Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. (852-3900). $13-$15.