Closing Party and Festival Awards

Finally join us at our closing party as we give out awards for the best films of the festival. The party starts at 10pm at The Bottom Lounge. “Big Buildings” will be the band playing tonight.

The foundations for the gritty lo-fi Chicago rock quintet Big Buildings began back in the late ‘90’s when childhood friends Matt Maloney (vocals, guitar) and Michael Wood (vocals, guitar) furiously exchanged four-track cassette tapes via post. In early 2001, Maloney, then playing in a variety of San Francisco bands, paid Wood a visit in Chicago to bash out an eight-song demo. Maloney relocated to Chicago in early 2002 and the initial trio of Big Buildings began playing the club circuit. 2007 found Big Buildings transitioning to a five-man line-up, and the band recorded its fourth release Wampum (2008, Stars/No Stars), an increasingly catchy slice of murky psychedelic rock, recorded almost entirely by the band to 4-track cassette.