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Oneida Preview

Oneida Preview

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Oneida Schubas, Chicago Saturday, July 15, 2006 Having altered course slightly but retained complexity, Oneida’s latest album release party has extra reason to celebrate.

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Peaches Preview

Peaches Preview

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Peaches Vic, Chicago Monday, July 17, 2006 Raunchy MC continues trend of writing decent songs, but f’n awesome album titles.

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Petticoat, Petticoat Preview

Petticoat, Petticoat Preview

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Petticoat, Petticoat Corduroy’s, Chicago Monday, July 17, 2006 Quick! Get Scotland Yard Gospel Choir down to Corduroy’s! Petticoat, Petticoat have a hand in their jar!

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Greg Graffin Preview

Greg Graffin Preview

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Greg Graffin Beat Kitchen, Chicago Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin proves deep down inside, he’s a big softy.

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Diana Ross Reviewed

Diana Ross Reviewed

| July 12, 2006 | 119 Comments

Diana Ross Blue (Motown) A lost standards album from 1972 finally gets its release.

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Krak Music

Krak Music

| July 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

CX Kidtronik Krak Attack (Sound Ink) Atlanta hip-hop O.D.J. makes his personal debut and wastes little time establishing how f’d up he can get.

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Ta Smallz Reviewed

Ta Smallz Reviewed

| July 12, 2006 | 2 Comments

Ta Smallz Having My Way (Life Entertainment) When you need to print your name’s pronunciation on the cover of your CD, you’re gonna find problems.

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Slow Learner Reviewed

Slow Learner Reviewed

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Slow Learner In Their Time They Are Magnificent (self-released) Greg Dulli friend and Ani DiFranco beau Mike Napolitano bows as Slow Learner.

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Greg Laswell Reviewed

Greg Laswell Reviewed

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

Greg Laswell Through Toledo (Vanguard) Greg Laswell could have left “High And Low” off his sophomore album and no one would have said a word about Coldplay. Not a fucking word.

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The Evening Episode Reviewed

The Evening Episode Reviewed

| July 12, 2006 | 0 Comments

The Evening Episode The Physicist Has Known Sin (Slowdance) After a series of tests, you might find trip-hop/schleptronica to be slow, a sedative, and an encumbrence on the motor functions.

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IE Has Moved!

IE Has Moved!

| July 6, 2006 | 0 Comments

Please note our new Chicago office address: 657 W. Lake Street Suite A Chicago, IL 60661 Our new phone numbers are 312-930-9333 (Editorial); 312-930-9363 (Advertising).

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Maxi Priest reviewed

Maxi Priest reviewed

| July 6, 2006 | 0 Comments

Maxi Priest, Baby Cham, Calypso Rose Washington Park, Chicago Sunday, July 2, 2006 Always a good barometer of what’s hot and what’s not in the Caribbean community, the 15th annual African Caribbean Festival Of Life served up an interesting array of classic icons, crossover masters, and hardcore artists. Each proved their relevance and popularity with […]

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Priestess preview

Priestess preview

| July 6, 2006 | 0 Comments

Priestess Double Door, Chicago Thursday, July 6, 2006 Metal . . . hip?

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The Hush Sound preview

The Hush Sound preview

| July 6, 2006 | 0 Comments

The Hush Sound House Of Blues, Chicago Friday, July 7, 2006 Buried on a bill with pop punk upstarts Panic! At The Disco and mad cabaret unravelings by Dresden Dolls, Chicago’s The Hush Sound bow with Like Vines.

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Monty Are I previewed

Monty Are I previewed

| July 6, 2006 | 0 Comments

Monty Are I Beat Kitchen, Chicago Tuesday, July 11, 2006 You may have known them once as simply Monty, trademarks be damned. Now with the grammarically defiant Monty Are I, the Rhode Island prog punk quintet drop an ambitious, soaring debut.

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