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Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths live!
Beres Hammond, Marcia Griffiths House Of Blues Sunday, January 14, 2007 Dancehall reggae, with its rough riddims and often explicit lyrics continues to dominate Jamaica’s music scene but for evidence that singer-songwriters still command influence, one only needs to turn to Beres Hammond.
Daedelus Preview
Daedelus Smart Bar, Chicago Thursday, January 18, 2007 Sonotheque, Chicago Friday, January 19, 2007 Someone might want to tell DJ/producer Daedelus that myspace.com/daedelus is already spoken for, so he might want to make sure any mention of it is removed from his press materials.
Go Motion Preview
Go Motion Bar Vertigo, Chicago Saturday, January 20, 2007 Judging by their press pictures, Go Motion, like most of their dance rock, nu wave peers, are fairly attractive fellas.
Terror Preview
Terror Knights Of Columbus, Arlington Heights Tuesday, January 23rd, 2006 While aiming toward “Headbanger’s Ball” and touring with Perish, who are on Nuclear Blast Records, Terror are a hardcore punk band at the core, with chunky metal riffage for window dressing.
The Head Set Reviewed
The Head Set Way Past Used (Businessman Businessman) Economical guitar work, the occasional bowed instrument, and crashing drums turn vocalist Jordan Blaugrund into a stumbling, impassioned drunk on The Head Set’s debut.
God Forbid preview
God Forbid, Mnemic Pearl Room, Mokena Saturday, January 13, 2007 Meet God Forbid, the other New Wave Of American Heavy Metal band with God in their name.
Kim Taylor preview
Kim Taylor Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Singer-songwriter Kim Taylor’s second album, I Feel Like A Fading Light, is a desperate, clawing affair pitting venom against an ambient, reverbed soundtrack.
The Comfies preview
The Comfies The Abbey, Chicago Wednesday, January 17, 2006 The Comfies want to link their sound and collegiate lounge wear to match their moniker, as if to say “Our songs will fit just right, like that worn sweatshirt you can’t bear to throw away.” Pictures of the boys clad in matching blue pajamas complete with […]
Asteroid No. 4 reviewed
The Asteroid No.4 An Amazing Dream (Rainbow Quartz) Veterans of the Psychedelphia scene in the City Of Brotherly Love, The Asteroid No. 4 return to their reverby fetish and drop out of the space/time continuum somewhere on the ’80s road to Britpop.
Buddy Guy’s Legends moving
Buddy Guy’s Legends To Move According to an Associated Press report published this morning, Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy announced his namesake club will move by June. Speaking from the stage Thursday, January 4th, at the beginning of his annual month-long residency, Guy reportedly told the audience Columbia College bought the space for a new […]
Red Monroe Preview
Red Monroe Schubas, Chicago Thursday, January 4, 2007 Red Monroe, apparently, think the less you know about them, the better.
Shitake Monkey Reviewed
Shitake Monkey Street Beef (Outlook) Shitake Monkey wonder halfway through their debut, “We wanna know if you can go hard/’cuz for the Monkey it ain’t never been hard.” That last bit is misleading because Street Beef spends its entire time barely concealing its boner.
Cover Story: Essential Local Albums ’96-’06
The 25 Essential Local Albums Of The Last 10 Years The January 2001 Illinois Entertainer cover story was “25 Essential Local Albums,” a difficult task if there ever was. Prone to being picked apart. No Little Walter? Elmore James? Technically, Donny Hathaway was born here. Herbie Hancock completely changed jazz in his own way, but […]
File: January 2007
THE BEST OF 2006 Here’s our staff’s lists of the best the past year had to offer in albums, singles, concerts, and DVDs!
Headlights interview
Headlights And Then There Were Three Somewhere along the path less traveled most people get turned around, detoured, or just get off altogether. For Erin Fein, 24, of indie pop group Headlights, after the breakup of the band’s prior incarnation, she almost became one of those people. “The last year before Absinthe Blind broke up […]
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