VAX WALLO REVIEWS
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Mark Vignaroli, Kingdom Kilpatrick, Erik DeBat

Vax Wallo Reviews

Illinois Entertainer - Around Here March 2004

Vax Wallo's six song EP, 3 Can Keep A Secret forgoes the most obvious musical structure for a free-form, trance-inducing style that relies heavily on repetition of hooks and vocals. The band touts itself as "conjuring the spirit of the Velvet Underground," but this offering more accurately conjures the spirit of The Butthole Surfer's experimental compositions.
- By Jason Scales - Staff Writer

Chicago Reader - Spot Check February 2002

Vax Wallo 2/15, DoubleDoor; 2/23, Prodigal Son. This local band, comprising a self-described former juvenile delinquent, a former door-to-door proselytizer, a former graffiti artist, and a couple less notorious chicago musicians, seem better poised to make real people rock than most. Their self-released EP, My Best Fiend, shows alot of promise--the songs, tinged with a stoner-goth smokiness, hang like scarecrow clothes on a frame work that sounds like it's going to collapse at any minute but never does, and a scruffy anarchy pushes through the seams.
- By Monica Kendrick - Music Editor

Chicago Sun-Times - Weekend Plus Club Hopping October 2000

The Bellrays, Kimball-Roeser Effect, Vax Wallo, 10/14, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport. Conjuring the spirit of the Velvet Underground, Vax Wallo is making primal rock 'n' roll with an appeal is broad enough for old-school punks and lyric-driven intellectuals alike. The minimalist Chicago group is fronted by vocalist Kingdom Kilpatrick, whose onstage gyrations are juxtaposed with noirish, intensely personal lyrics, is complemented by the Knitting Factory-style guitar of Erik DeBat.
- By Jeff Johnson - Features Editor

Illinois Entertainer - Around Here July 2000

The spirit of The Feelies lives on in Vax Wallo. Lots of rumbling, propulsive rhythm beds, herky-jerky guitar lines, and delivery by singer Kingdom Kilpatrick - Vax Wallo's five-song EP, Feed The Pleasure is a pretty nifty introduction to this local foursome. Once out of the garage and onto a stage, this is the kind of minimalist rock that taps directly into your head-bobbing nerve.
- By Michacl C. Harris - Editor