Woolworthy was a rock band from Chicago, IL that formed in May 1995. The band's sound was often compared to The Replacements, Superchunk, Cheap Trick and Buffalo Tom, who the band also site as influences.

The original line-up of Rudy Gonzalez (vocals/guitar), Rick Uncapher (bass), Steve Vazquez (lead guitar/vocals) and Brian Belval (drums) met through ads in the Chicago Reader. Soon after, they began recording with Chuck Uchida and self-released their debut, self-titled CD in early 1997.

After adding Ian Lee on drums and Dave Lysien (Not Rebecca) on guitar/vocals, the band released the follow-up, "Sweet Second Place", in 1999 (recorded by Chuck Uchida and Matt Allison). The song "Leap Year" received some airplay on Chicago station Q101 after it was picked for the "Local 101: Vol. 2" radio compilation.

After a stint with Kevin Hoetger (Big Angry Fish) on drums, the band solidified a new line-up in 2000, adding Dave Suh (Emil Muzz, Caviar) on lead guitar/vocals and Mark Doyle (Loud Lucy, Verbow) on drums. The line-up quickly recorded the "Blasted Into Ashes" EP (recorded by Matt Allison and mixed by Doug McBride) and released it on Boss Tuneage Records in March 2001. The band toured the UK in support of the release and played hometown shows with Plain White T's, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Frogs, Mu330 and many more. In addition, the song "Pretty With Me" was featured in a Miller Genuine Draft ad campaign.

In 2002, the band released "Recycler", a 23 track retrospective CD gathering the bands out-of-print material and three new studio tracks (recorded by Ken Sluiter). After enlisting Alex Acevedo (Muchacha) to play guitar, the band toured Europe with The Pavers from Buffalo, NY (featuring Scott Reynolds ex-vocalist of punk legends ALL), toured the Midwest and played sold out shows supporting Unwritten Law, Sugarcult, Local H and Lucky Boys Confusion.

In June 2004 the band recorded 5 final tracks at Engine Studios, but after nearly 10 years they decided to call it a day. Woolworthy played its final show on January 28, 2005 at Chicago's Double Door, which featured all of the band's former guitar players.

Tip of the week: Tonight represents your last chance to see one of the city's longest-running bands play--after ten years, the lads in Woolworthy have decided to finish it all up. Once upon a time, I described Woolworthy as "sparkling Q101 material," and although it sounds--in retrospect--like I was slamming the boys, I didn't mean to. Formed from members of Loud Lucy, Caviar, and Verbow, Woolworthy's two records beg the question: just what does it take to make it in the music world? Sharp pop music set to an aggressive slant and with mile-wide hooks (think a less righteous, later-era 7 Seconds, or even Green Day to an extent) the band is a bit of a Chicago throwback, before the crystallization of the cold indie-rock world and before the no-abandon garage bands unified and started packing shows en mass. Woolworthy almost feels like the last of the golden-age dinosaurs, when bands like Material Issue were plugging out quirky pop with the hope of gaining national recognition. And it always felt like it would be around. But alas, after tonight, it is no more. Cheers, gentlemen, to a battle well fought.