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Emmylou Harris reviewed

Emmylou Harris reviewed

| June 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

Emmylou Harris All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch) Emmylou Harris’ first solo album since 2003 relies mainly on covers, purposefully pointing back to her early solo albums — appropriate, then, that Brian Ahern produced it. Appearing: Saturday, June 14th at Morton Arboretum in Lisle.

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Wye Oak reviewed

Wye Oak reviewed

| June 11, 2008 | 0 Comments

Wye Oak If Children (Merge) Wye Oak’s namesake, a 460-year-old Maryland tree felled by a 2002 hurricane, will posthumously (postarborously?) base many a review for the young band. This won’t be one. But you’ll have to excuse the requisite Yo La Tengo references. Appearing: Saturday, June 14 at Hideout in Chicago.

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Bell X1 live!

Bell X1 live!

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Bell X1, Brooke Waggoner Empty Bottle, Chicago Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Back home, Ireland’s Bell X1 enjoy the prestige of being labeled a stadium act. On the band’s second American outing in only the last three months, the size of the rooms might be smaller than those normally afforded chart-topping artists — kinda like driving […]

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Centro-Matic preview

Centro-Matic preview

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Centro-Matic Schubas, Chicago Saturday, June 7, 2008 Sunday, June 8, 2008 Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson can’t have just one. Of anything. It’s right there in his halved band name, as if we’d mispronounce it Cen-TROM-a-tic otherwise. Two shows this weekend (but only one club). Alternating headlining slots with The M’s. Supporting a split release (Dual Hawks) […]

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Cyndi Lauper preview

Cyndi Lauper preview

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Cyndi Lauper Chicago Theatre, Chicago Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 girl-power anthem “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” lives on in both clubs and You Tube and has been known to blare from the hallway PA system of Chicago’s own Mother McAuley, the largest Catholic all-girls high school in the country, during its […]

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Tim Fite preview

Tim Fite preview

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Tim Fite Lakeshore Theater, Chicago Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Tim Fite certainly isn’t the first artist to attack Western culture, though he has kept his hands and conscience relatively clean. Artists from The MC5 to The Clash to Rage Against The Machine have looked silly by espousing rebellion and pointing fingers at the rest of […]

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RIP Bo Diddley

RIP Bo Diddley

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Bo Diddley Dies At 79 Bo Diddley, recently ranked third in our list of the 20 Greatest Chicago Guitarists Of All Time, died Monday, June 2nd, at his Florida home.

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Lauren Harris preview

Lauren Harris preview

| June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments

Lauren Harris Allstate Arena, Rosemont Wednesday, June 11, 2008 Opening a tour for Iron Maiden ain’t easy. It might not be as stressful as facing 30 minutes of continous (occasionally life-threatening) “SLAYEEEER!” screams, but tough nonetheless. Most Maiden fans, after all, don’t buy their concert tickets with discovering young, opening talent in mind. They want […]

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Hail Of Bullets reviewed

Hail Of Bullets reviewed

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Hail Of Bullets . . . Of Frost & War (Metal Blade) We’re more than a little embarrassed to admit if it came down to some sort of life-or-death quiz, we’d probably know more about the Ben Affleck/Josh Hartnett/Kate Beckinsale love triangle in Pearl Harbor than the actual events of Pearl Harbor and World War […]

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Edenbridge reviewed

Edenbridge reviewed

| June 4, 2008 | 0 Comments

Edenbridge Myearthdream (Napalm) Goofy heavy metal doesn’t bother us. It bugs a lot of headbangers, who somehow fail to see the humor imbedded in the DNA of the genre they worship, but not us. Austria’s Napalm Records understand, though, and in the last eight months have released some awesome, we’ll say “off-kilter” records, including Scottish […]

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