South Africa's Make-Overs, a gnarly and noisy two-piece, arrived in Chicago to play Do-Division Festival at the very end of May, and after over two months of touring around the country, they play one more show tomorrow at the Hideout before heading back to their homeland. The explosive garage-punk band—Martinique Pelser on drums and vocals and Andreas Schonfeldt on guitar and vocals—who've released material on local label HoZac, have turned Chicago into their home base over the past nine weeks or so, living with Bric-a-Brac owners Nick Mayor and Jen Lemasters while not out on the road, and playing at any local venue they could, like Cole's, the Mutiny, and the Whistler.…
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