Archive for May, 2006
Todd. Just Todd.
Todd Come To Your House (Southern) London’s noisemongers do their best to cave your skull in with this violent-ass, death train of an album.
World’s Latest Violins
Violins Pink Water (Contraphonic) Michael Lyons, formerly of Clyde Federal, stokes the embers of Pavement and Luna.
Dead, Dead Heart
Dead Heart Bloom Dead Heart Bloom (KEI) Formerly of Phaser, Boris Skalsky locked himself in a room to write the songs that would become his nom de plume and debut album.
Shear Heart Attack
Shearwater Palo Santo (Misra) Okkervil River offshoot makes its bid for independence.
Stills Of The Night
The Stills Without Feathers (Vice) Before we get all misty-eyed about how The Stills mended their flaws heading into their second album, let’s get one thing straight: They needed to.
Run Like The Whirlwind
Whirlwind Heat Types Of Wood (Brille) One looks at the name and album cover of Types Of Wood and wonders, why can’t the music be this sharp?
I want candy
Candy Bars On Cutting Ti-Gers In Half And Understanding Narravation (New Granada) With a title such as this, you can expect either a dearth of people taking you seriously or more than you want.
First star I see tonight
Starlight Mints Drowatron (Barsuk) Was a time when Starlight Mints were hailed as knights at The Flaming Lips’ roundish table. Somehow, all identity has been drained.
Alkaline Trio, Against Me! Live
Alkaline Trio, Against Me! Metro, Chicago Thursday, May 4, 2006 Now that two-thirds of the band live outside Chicago, Alkaline Trio’s homecoming shows truly are homecomings. To celebrate the end of one leg of their latest tour, they spun off three sold-out shows at Metro with Against Me! and basked in the adulation as much […]
Chicago Rocks Preview
Chicago Rocks Abbey Pub & Metro, Chicago Friday May 12 & Saturday May 13, 2006 Two bones to pick with the Chicago hip-hip production team Molemen (Panik, Memo, and PNS): First, the name of their annual music festival: Chicago Rocks festival? To apply a Kevin Pollack/The Usual Suspects quote to the process of naming this […]
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
High School prom offers very few good memories for us. Dipshit DJs trying to teach the Chicken Dance, hours spent in an uncomfortable tux, a near concussion suffered during a “friendly” bout of jousting, and the never-came-to-be after-prom kegger that was thwarted by goody-goody parents.
The Goo Goo Dolls CD Review
The Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In (Warner Bros.) Well they’ve done it. Throwing their cards down and tearing off their disguises, The Goo Goo Dolls drop the charade and cover Supertramp.
Soil CD Review
Soil True Self (DRT) On their third release, Chicago metal band Soil try to overcome losing their record deal and their singer.
Lansing-Dreiden CD Review
Lansing-Dreiden The Dividing Island (Kemado) It’s too bad the phrase “chamber pop” applies to a different sort of music, because it would suit Lansing-Dreiden perhaps more literally.
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