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Dumb Luck

Dumb Luck

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Da Muzicianz Da Muzicainz (TVT) Deduct two points if you think a project involving Ying Yang Twins’ D-Roc and his younger brothers sounds like something you’d buy.

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Good Riddance Reviewed

Good Riddance Reviewed

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Good Riddance My Republic (Fat Wreck Chords) Not your high schooler’s punk band; bring your dictionary to the pit, chillins.

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An Albatross Reviewed

An Albatross Reviewed

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

An Albatross Blessphemy (Of The Pearce-Beast Feastgiver And The Bear-Warp Kumite) (Ace Fu) Twenty-seven minutes of chaos, brought to you by the fine folks of An Albatross.

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The Del McCoury Band Reviewed

The Del McCoury Band Reviewed

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

The Del McCoury Band The Promised Land (McCoury Music) Bluegrass hero Del McCoury follows his Grammy win with his first gospel hybrid.

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Life In The Fast Lane

Life In The Fast Lane

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

No Speed Limit Sweet Virginia (Arhoolie) Sure, there are plenty of jokes waiting to be made about a Virginian bluegrass outfit with a 16-year-old singer.

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Chatham County Line Reviewed

Chatham County Line Reviewed

| June 28, 2006 | 0 Comments

Chatham County Line Speed Of The Whippoorwill (Yep Roc) Weathering a torrent of modern bluegrass releases, Chatham County Line draw on a folksier inspiration for their third album.

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Radiohead live!

Radiohead live!

| June 21, 2006 | 4 Comments

Radiohead Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Monday, June 19, 2006 It’s all too appropriate that one of their songs (“Like Spinning Plates”) would prove to be the perfect metaphor for Radiohead.

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Ringo Starr Live

Ringo Starr Live

| June 21, 2006 | 5 Comments

Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont Saturday, June 17, 2006 Chances are if Ringo Starr wasn’t a Beatle, he wouldn’t have come as far as he has today. Sure he has a flavorful personality, drums a consistent beat, and crafts relatively catchy tunes, but when compared to the outpourings of other former […]

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SSM Preview

SSM Preview

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

SSM Empty Bottle, Chicago Thursday, June 22, 2006 SSM. Sweaty Sex Magic? Satan’s Simple Muse, maybe? Sweet Supple Mangos, perhaps?

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MOBFest Preview

MOBFest Preview

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

MOBFest Various Venues, Chicagoland Thursday, June 22 to Saturday, June 24, 2006 How often does $90 get you access to 15 different Chicagoland music venues featuring, like, a billion bands?

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Fatboy Slim Hits

Fatboy Slim Hits

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder: The Greatest Hits (Astralwerks) Still a weapon of choice for countless sports arenas and TV producers, Fatboy Slim will go down as having produced some of the most marketable music of the past decade.

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Luna CD & DVD

Luna CD & DVD

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

Luna The Best Of Luna (CD)/Tell Me Do You Miss Me (DVD) (Rhino) Luna were never a love/hate band; they were give a shit/don’t give a shit. This sold-separately combo tells why.

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Mellowdrone half returns

Mellowdrone half returns

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

Mellowdrone Box (Red Ink/Columbia) Mellowdrone’s name sticks out in the IE office because of a valiant opening gig for Johnny Marr at Double Door a couple years ago and the subsequent littering of our floors with their EP by the now-defunct Artist Direct label.

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Venice Is Sinking

Venice Is Sinking

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

Venice Is Sinking Sorry About The Flowers (One Percent Press) Athens, Georgia, still pumps out the college rock bands, and it was only a matter of time before Venice Is Sinking, steeped in Galaxie 500, studied abroad.

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Tindersticks solo man

Tindersticks solo man

| June 21, 2006 | 0 Comments

Stuart A. Staples Leaving Songs (Too Pure) Stuart A. Staples, the former frontman for nightsongs maestros The Tindersticks, makes his Nick Cave-meets-Van Morrison debut.

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