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Sinead O’Connor live
Sinead O’Connor Vic Theatre, Chicago Tuesday, November 29, 2005 With a fiercely defiant attitude and a powerful voice to match, Sinead O’Connor may be one of the most interesting female artists in the modern rock world. From her refusal to perform following the “Star Spangled Banner” to her much maligned tearing apart a picture of […]
Deadboy & The Elephantmen preview
Deadboy & The Elephantmen Schubas, Chicago Saturday, November 10, 2005 Deadboy & The Elephantmen are most recognized by lead man Dax Riggs of former heavyweight metal outfit Acid Bath. Or maybe you recall the short-lived Agents Of Oblivion. Either way, Riggs’ new project Deadboy & The Elephantmen isn’t a predictable move based on his musical […]
Blood On The Wall, Psychic Ills preview
Blood On The Wall, Psychic Ills Empty Bottle, Chicago Thursday, December 8, 2005 It’s hard to tell from here what we’ll be saying 2005 was the “year of” in the rock perspective. The Arcade Fire, maybe. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah were the default hype-band in a calendar lacking them, metal’s resurgence lay dormant in […]
Beatallica preview
Beatallica Subterranean, Chicago Saturday, December 10, 2005 Combining Metallica and The Beatles into one big pot of bubbling, bloody, pop and thrash metal? Can you believe nobody though of this before?
Drowning Pool preview
Drowning Pool Pearl Room, Mokena Thursday, December 8, 2005 Drowning Pool are currently in the studio working on a new album, their third since joining Wind-Up in the early 2000s. That really isn’t news. But what is newsworthy is that the as-yet-untitled release will be their third . . . with as many singers.
Shinedown CD review
Shinedown Us And Them (Atlantic) Whosever idea it was to begin metal albums with childrens voices doesn’t matter. It’s the copycats who deserve death.
Sevendust CD review
Sevendust Next (WineDark) Next finds Sevendust dealing with the departure of guitarist David Lowering, and standing still.
Ringworm CD review
Ringworm Justice Replaced By Revenge (Victory) Cleveland metal heroes find their favorite early-’90s Slayer and Pantera albums, mash away.
Propagandhi CD review
Propagandhi Potemkin City Limits (Fat Wreck Chords) Sometimes we remember the dumbest shit. Can’t recall the issue, but in the early ’90s, someone wrote to R.I.P. complaining Anthrax weren’t metal, but punk.
The Morning After Girls CD review
The Morning After Girls Prelude: EP’s 1 & 2 (Rainbow Quartz) Nirvana had a dreadful, dreadful effect on music.
I Am Ghost CD review
I Am Ghost We Are Always Searching (Epitaph) Of all the bands missing from the “For Fans Of” sticker on I Am Ghosts’ debut, one sticks out: Queensrÿche.
Living Things CD review
LIVING THINGS Ahead Of The Lions (Jive) Living Things very well may have recorded the best rock album of 2003. But outside of critics who received advances of Black Skies In Broad Daylight or those who may have gotten their hands on the import, few heard the album because the band’s then label, Dreamworks, dissolved, […]
Patti Smith CD review
Patti Smith Horses/Horses (Arista/Columbia/Legacy) “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/but not mine.” They tried to fuck with this seminal release a bit, but those are still the opening lines. Patti Smith was already a minor star when the New York punk bands were starting their revolution, but their macho credo remains hers, nonetheless. Deconstructing Them’s and […]
Let It Shine
What’s a beatnik?” My young friend Emily, a Medill senior, asked me recently. We were discussing Halloween costumes, and I mentioned that back in the late ’50s I loved to dress up as a beatnik on Halloween: tight black clothes, heavy black eyeliner, and long black hair (courtesy of my mother’s long black scarf). Beatniks […]
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