Archive for April, 2008
The Wilders preview
The Wilders Old Town School Of Folk Music Friday, April 18, 2008 With an album title like Someone’s Got To Pay and a band name like The Wilders, you might be booking plans for Pizza Hut family night instead of heading down to the Old Town School. Well come on out, kids. There’s no danger […]
The Nadas preview
The Nadas Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Have you ever gorged on too much of something, a certain snack or drink, resulting in vomiting said something, resulting in not being able to eat/drink said something for a long time after? When I was a kid I did it with nacho cheese Doritos — couldn’t […]
Tift Merritt reviewed
Tift Merritt Another Country (Fantasy/Concord) As a country artist, Tift Merritt is unremarkable. That’s not an insult; it’s her career. You can go end-to-end on her third album and not once roll your eyes.
The Death Set reviewed
The Death Set Worldwide (Counter) If the Violent Femmes, Buzzcocks, and Faith No More have to meet somewhere, might as well be on Worldwide. Appearing: Friday, April 18th at Empty Bottle in Chicago.
Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend Metro, Chicago Sunday, April 6, 2008 Vampire Weekend rolled into a sold-out Metro on Sunday night – quite a jump from the quartet’s last local appearance at Schubas – but such is the result of the hype machine’s ever-churning gears.
White Denim preview
White Denim Metro, Chicago Friday, April 11, 2008 CDs? White Denim don’t need no stinkin’ CDs. This is the digital age, baby, where one year a band can release a few songs on the World Wide Web and the next they’re in the pages of Rolling Stone.
Sabbat preview
Sabbat Pearl Room, Mokena Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Before the Internet made obscure bands like Starz and Alcatrazz our favoritezzz, the rockers of the world grazed more or less on local feed. We listened to hometown Joes and touring acts who opened for these Joes, and we wrote off the bands Viacom swooped in to […]
Man Man preview
Man Man Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Philly avant-garde quintet Man Man provide the soundtrack to an eternity spent in hell or are the band most likely played at full volume in the confines of one of those deranged clown cars at the circus – it’s hard to determine which suits the […]
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin preview
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Empty Bottle, Chicago Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Mizzurah’s Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin paint in even softer tones on their sophomore album, and first for Champaign-based Polyvinyl Records.
American Music Club reviewed
American Music Club The Golden Age (Merge) The second American Music Club album since their 2004 revival shows what happens when someone wakes too early from their nap. Appearing: Saturday, April 12th at Schubas in Chicago.
The Grouch reviewed
The Grouch Show You The World (Legendary) If Murs is the star storyteller of California’s Living Legends hip-hop collective and Luckyiam the resident eccentric, then The Grouch is the crew’s laid-back everyman. With his umpteenth solo effort, this L.A.-based MC/producer is in his most meditative state and at times, most experimental.
Lo Fine reviewed
Lo Fine Not For Us Two (House In The Hills) Kevin O’Rourke, aka Lo Fine, sounds uncannily like Matthew Sweet, which does more for Not For Us Two than it should.
Shelby Lynne live!
Shelby Lynne Park West, Chicago Saturday, March 29, 2008 Since winning the Best New Artist Grammy in 2000 for I Am Shelby Lynne (her sixth album, natch — still mind boggling), Shelby Lynne seems to be wandering through the musical landscape in search of an identity. After the Memphis-soul vibe of I Am, she took […]
Ray Davies live!
Ray Davies Chicago Theatre, Chicago Tuesday, April 1, 2008 No one can ever credit Ray Davies as being a prolific solo songwriter: at age 63, he just turned in his second proper full-length offering, Working Man’s Café (New West). But for fans of his time in The Kinks, a fairly thin individual catalog meant spending […]
Kathleen Edwards preview
Kathleen Edwards Metro, Chicago Saturday, April 5, 2008 “But you have to see them live” should be a given. We hear it all the time, especially from publicists who can’t get anyone to see their bands based on the albums they’ve released. But with Kathleen Edwards it’s pure fact. In order to see how good […]
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