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Mastodon live!

Mastodon live!

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Mastodon Riviera, Chicago Saturday, May 12, 2007 Mastodon’s 2006 release, Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.), left a gigantic footprint in the heavy metal landscape, causing some to believe the Atlanta four-piece just might rock hard enough to propel the genre back into the collective consciousness. Even hailed by some as the savior of heavy metal, Mastodon […]

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Regina Spektor live!

Regina Spektor live!

| May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

Regina Spektor Riviera, Chicago Sunday, May 13, 2007 Regina Spektor’s sold-out performance at Riviera on Sunday night won’t go down as historic for either her, personally, or the grand annals of pop music. It did, however, poke a lot of holes into two primary genres. Click here for a Flickr gallery of Spektor from Sunday […]

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El-P live!

El-P live!

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

El-P Abbey Pub, Chicago Tuesday, May 8, 2007 The title of El-P’s new album, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux), says a lot about this Brooklyn native’s work ethic. Everything about the rapping producer’s dark, intricate hip-hop sounds like it was carefully crafted into the early a.m. hours . . . the same can […]

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Grand Champeen preview

Grand Champeen preview

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Grand Champeen Hideout, Chicago Thursday, May 17, 2007 Grand Champeen, it seems, aren’t fond of computers. At least not for recording purposes. Let us emphasize, because they sure do in their press materials, Grand Champeen’s Dial “T” For This was recorded and mixed directly to tape, and all sounds/instruments heard on the record were created […]

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All Smiles preview

All Smiles preview

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

All Smiles, Sea Wolf Empty Bottle, Chicago Saturday, May 19, 2007 Eschewing the ambitious prog and conceptual geekiness of Grandaddy, Jim Fairchild tries on shoes in a fictional store that would probably cater to George Harrison or Joe Pernice.

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Mice Parade preview

Mice Parade preview

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Mice Parade Schubas, Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2007 We aren’t sure what an actual parade of mice would sound like (unless Speedy Gonzalez was the grand marshall), but it would likely be pretty quiet. Probably a lot like Mice Parade the band.

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Paul Rodgers reviewed

Paul Rodgers reviewed

| May 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Paul Rodgers Live In Glasgow (Eagle) Riding the wave Queen unexpectedly put him on when they tapped him for their reunion tour, Paul Rodgers takes advantage with Live In Glasgow.

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Amy Winehouse live!

Amy Winehouse live!

| May 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

Amy Winehouse Vic Theatre, Chicago Thursday, May 3, 2007 Click here for more pics from the show To hear her voice is to assume Amy Winehouse is an Amazonian reincarnation of Ronnie Spector or Dinah Washington. But there she was, onstage at a sold-out Vic Theatre, a five-foot-nothing frame struggling to support her barely there […]

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Pics Galore!

Pics Galore!

| May 9, 2007

Hey look! More galleries! More shows means more pics. Click here to check out our new photo galleries for Heaven And Hell at Allstate Arena, Amy Winehouse at the Vic, and Jet at House Of Blues.

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Ben Gibbard live!

Ben Gibbard live!

| May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments

Ben Gibbard Metro, Chicago Friday, May 4, 2007 “Those guys were kind of obscure.” Such was the quip delivered onstage by Ben Gibbard during his Friday night, late show at the Metro, following a piano-only cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.” While obviously overly ironic, the statement very well could have applied to Gibbard’s full-band/day-job outfit, […]

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Heaven And Hell, Megadeth live!

Heaven And Hell, Megadeth live!

| May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments

Heaven And Hell, Megadeth Allstate Arena, Rosemont Saturday, May 5, 2007 Metalheads, you may want to turn away from your screen and not read the next paragraph. Words no heavy music fan wants to say or read will appear. This is your last warning.

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The Kooks, Illinois live!

The Kooks, Illinois live!

| May 9, 2007 | 5 Comments

The Kooks, Illinois Metro, Chicago Saturday, May 5, 2007 Watching The Kooks gratify a sold-out Metro on Saturday must have been what it was like to guard the French side of the Maginot Line in the early 1930s. Critics are lined up to shoot them down, but it probably won’t be enough to stem the […]

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Brandi Carlile preview

Brandi Carlile preview

| May 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

Brandi Carlile Schubas, Chicago May 11 to 13, 2007 Something must be in the water out in the Pacific Northwest because, in the wake of Neko Case, another beguiling songstress with aching vocals and a keen sense of melancholy arrives with a compelling sophomore effort.

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Coyote Bones preview

Coyote Bones preview

| May 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

Coyote Bones The Note, Chicago Saturday, May 12, 2007 Coyote Bones, the recording pseudonym for former Jet By Day members David Matysiak and Mason Brown, went with a gimmick for their debut album, and now must translate “on the road” to the road.

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Lifesavas preview

Lifesavas preview

| May 9, 2007 | 0 Comments

Lifesavas Subterranean, Chicago Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Portland-based hip-hop trio Lifesavas reemerge with the soundtrack to an aborted blaxploitation film, filling in the crevasses with an eclectic sampling of styles — all except the one you’d most expect.

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