Archive for August, 2008
She & Him live
She & Him Park West, Chicago Tuesday, August 5, 2008 While most actress-stabs at musical careers usually fall flat (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lindsay Lohan, and most recently Scarlett Johansson), Zooey Deschanel (The Happening, Elf, and Almost Famous) manages to pull off the impossible by not only receiving heaping praise, but also garnering a following that […]
Racebannon preview
Racebannon Beat Kitchen, Chicago Friday, August 15, 2008 The rise of MP3s has precipitated the demise of album artwork. Rebelling against thumbnail incarceration, Kanye West’s Graduation used anime to hint at its electro contents, and Miley Cyrus’ Breakout distilled the oppression felt by teenage multi-millionaires. But rarely do you see anything as iconic as, say, […]
Hawthorne Heights preview
Hawthorne Heights Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI Saturday, August 16, 2008 Tragedy, strife, legal woes, and bitter divorces – all can lead to stellar artistic output. Just ask Bob Dylan. The brilliant Blood On The Tracks stemmed from Dylan’s wife Sara handing him divorce papers after little more than a decade of marriage. Sure, it’s […]
Faun Fables, Festival preview
Faun Fables | Festival Schubas | Empty Bottle, Chicago Friday, August 15 | Monday, August 18, 2008 Two psych folk groups, both female-fronted and predominantly female-filled, and each with some level of connection to Drag City (Faun Fables is on the label; Drag distributes Festival’s music) play Chicago within three days of each other. We’re […]
Scars On Broadway
Scars On Broadway Scars On Broadway (Interscope) He might not like it, but from here to forever, any music Daron Malakian creates outside of System Of A Down will be compared to that band. That band who, in less than a decade, scored five platinum records, three no. 1 records, and redefined the rules of […]
Chrome Division reviewed
Chrome Division Booze, Broads And Beelzebub (Nuclear Blast) If anyone in heavy metal deserves to kick back and have a good time, it’s Chrome Division guitarist Shagrath. His full-time job fronting Dimmu Borgir, after all, demands he be dead serious all the time about Satan, pentagrams, corpsepaint, The Lord Of The Rings, and hating your […]
Lollapalooza ’08 roundup!
Lollapalooza Grant Park, Chicago Friday, August 1 — Sunday, August 3, 2008 It takes a certain type of person to do the whole three-day festival thing. The lines, the prices, the sun . . . the portable toilets. It’s not easy, or always fun. Lucky for IE we have Andy Argyrakis, Jamie De’Medici, and Timothy […]
Lolla 2
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Dierks Bentley Perhaps Dierks Bentley missed the memo that Country Thunder festival was in Wisconsin (and last month no less) because when he showed up at Lollapalooza, he presented nothing but the slickest commercial packaging of the genre. Though the guy can make the ladies go wild (“Every Mile A Memory”) and […]
Lolla 3
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 Kid Sister Early in the day Sunday, Chicago rising star Kid Sister braved the brutal heat with Flosstradamus (with J2K on vocals and Autobot on the decks). Kid Sis bounded through an energetic set that was all dance moves and ridiculous banter. Despite her forthcoming debut, Dream Date, not dropping yet, she […]
Rod Stewart & Bryan Adams live!
Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams Sears Centre, Hoffman Estates Tuesday, August 5, 2008 If you think he’s sexy, Tuesday night’s Rod Stewart concert at the Sears Centre delivered enough ass-shaking, primping, and shimmying to salve any libido thirsting for a piece of the soccer enthusiast-turned-crooner. And if there was any doubt Stewart relishes his role as […]
Bodies Of Water preview
Bodies Of Water Schubas, Chicago Thursday, August 7, 2008 Call them a darker, more sinister companion to England’s the Magic Numbers, minus the whole brother/sister pairing, sunshine-on-your-shoulders attitude masking deeper scars.
Rue Royale preview
Rue Royale Schubas, Chicago Friday, August 8, 2008 Well Chicago, Rue Royale is leaving. Yep, less than a year after releasing its breathtaking debut full-length, the group bids farewell with this Schubas gig. But in all fairness, it was never really “ours,” anyway.
Amos Lee preview
Amos Lee Park West, Chicago Monday, August 11, 2008 Though it’s a prevalent theme on his newest record, Last Days At The Lodge, struggle hasn’t been much of factor in Amos Lee’s musical career so far. That’s not to trash talk Lee or brand him a dislikable silver spooner, only to say if he doesn’t […]
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