The Kickback

Comprised of Billy Yost (vocals, guitar), Eamonn Donnelly (bass), Jonny Ifergan (guitar), and Ryan Farnham (drums), Chicago's The Kickback is a result of Billy's emigration to The Windy City from rural South Dakota in late 2009 and the subsequent Craigslist pleas seeking out band members. The group's music (with songs exploring journalists banding together in the early 1980s to battle the decline of print journalism through sheer ultra-violence to the emasculation of trying to protect the woman you love in a city you don't understand in a body you know is eventually going in the ground) have earned the group wide praise from Rolling Stone, Sound Opinions contributor Jim Derogatis, You Ain't No Picasso, the Chicago Tribune, and many more.

After a steady three years of touring and supporting acts like White Rabbits, Smith Westerns, Here We Go Magic, Telekinesis, Tokyo Police Club, The Districts, and Manic Street Preachers, the band have released their debut album, Sorry All Over The Place, produced by Spoon's Jim Eno, drawing praise from The Huffington Post, Consequence of Sound, and more. The Kickback are now back on the road in 2016, sharing their stellar and explosive performance across the country.

To document their travels, the band began recording their podcast, DISASTOUR, in December of 2010. With over 100 episodes, the show attempts to address the far-from-glamorized lives of a band on the road and the arrested development indicative of the lives they have chosen.