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Great Lake Swimmers preview
Great Lake Swimmers Schubas, Chicago Saturday, June 30, 2007 From an audio standpoint, it might feel like Great Lake Swimmers will have just blown into town on Saturday.
The Mooney Suzuki preview
The Mooney Suzuki Subterranean, Chicago Wednesday, July 4, 2007 It’d be a better world if we all took the tired-ass advice of ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, who is fond of saying “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Still, it’s hard to dredge up the kind of sympathy for The Mooney Suzuki we afford most […]
Buju Banton preview
Buju Banton African Caribbean Festival Of Life, Chicago Wednesday, July 4, 2007 While Sean Paul or Elephant Man may be more visible to American fans, when it comes to dancehall icon status, nobody can overshadow Buju Banton.
HotHouse Goes Cold
Chicago’s famed cultural institution, HotHouse, shuts the doors of its South Loop location at 31 E. Balbo Drive at the end of July. Monday’s announcement came on the heels of a settlement in the 2005 lawsuit the Center For International Performance And Exhibition filed against the building’s landlord.
Morningbell reviewed
Morningbell Through The Belly Of The Sea (self) Whether it’s the first of its kind can be left to the Talmuds. The fact is Morningbell’s third album connects back to those morbid books of yore: Choose Your Own Adventure.
Deftones live!
Deftones Riviera, Chicago Friday, June 15, 2007 For a fair amount of time, the Deftones were facing their share of setbacks. Frontman Chino Moreno’s battle with alcoholism while touring behind the group’s celebrated 2000 release, White Pony, was hardly a secret. And tensions were said to run high within the Deftones camp during 2003’s self-titled […]
Robert Earl Keen/Tift Merritt live!
Robert Earl Keen Joe’s, Chicago Saturday, June 16, 2007 Tift Merritt Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago Sunday, June 17, 2007 It goes without saying us hipsters in the upper Midwest prefer a more interesting brand of country music. But often shut out of our system are fringe players who aren’t radical enough for […]
Straylight Run reviewed
Straylight Run Metro, Chicago Thursday, June 14, 2007 It might seem like an imposing paradox, but Thursday night at the Metro Straylight Run demonstrated how to straddle the line between bombast or pomp and a clearly visible and always vulnerable staggering sense of earnestness.
Frampton comes alive!
Peter Frampton House Of Blues, Chicago Thursday, June 21, 2007 Has it really been nearly 32 years since Peter Frampton, bare-chested with long golden locks flowing, came Alive?
MOBfest Weekend
MOBfest Various Clubs, Chicagoland June 21 – 23, 2007 Yes, it’s the next-to-last weekend in June and that means local bands start coming out of the woodwork. MOBfest (Music Over Business) is a smorgasbord of artist showcases and an assortment of industry panels, all smashed into one alcohol-and-nicotine ride.
Dropping Daylight preview
Dropping Daylight House Of Blues, Chicago Monday, June 25, 2007 As pop punk bands continue to welcome high-speed guitar solos into their recordings — a technique frequently used to cover up thin songwriting — the guitar experiences a revival while the music regresses. Dropping Daylight think they have a solution for this.
Denny Daniels RIP
Denny Daniels, R.I.P. Dennis “Denny” Daniels, 60, a longtime member of local R&B outfit DeLuxury and occasional backing musician, died on June 15th in Naperville.
Southerly reviewed
Southerly Storyteller & The Gossip Columnist (Greyday) Krist Kruger commandeers every aspect of his vision for his pseudonym’s second album, a peculiarily brief exercise in bombast. Appearing: June 25th at The Note in Chicago.
Manchester Orchestra reviewed
Manchester Orchestra I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child (Favorite Gentlemen) Atlanta-born savant drops out to record, gets exalted indie rock plaudits, wears heart on sleeve — and isn’t Conor Oberst. Appearing: June 23rd at Metro in Chicago.
Tenderhooks reviewed
Tenderhooks Vidalia (Rock Snobs) Knoxville power pop experts Tenderhooks bop through the 10 songs on their debut with an eye fixed on Big Star.
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