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Finn’s Motel reviewed
Finn’s Motel Escape Velocity (Scat) Basement-based, 40-year-old classic rock singer-songwriter. Scat Records. Revolving-door policy on membership. Sound familiar?
Escape The Fate reviewed
Escape The Fate Dying Is Your Latest Fashion (Epitaph) Epitaph upstarts Escape The Fate yin and yang about stardom and punk purity.
Ensemble reviewed
Ensemble Ensemble (Fat Cat) One-man band Olivier Alary sculpts the latest Ensemble disc with help from Lou Barlow and Chan Marshall.
Bright Light Fever reviewed
Bright Light Fever Bright Light Fever Presents The Evening Owl (Stolen Transmission) Signed on the verge of breaking up, Bright Light Fever make the album The Killers would have made if they were into Hot Hot Heat.
The Blakhiv reviewed
The Blakhiv Any Way She Wants It (Lucid) Icelandic assailants The Blakhiv blast through five songs in little more than 10 minutes on their debut EP.
Hello Stranger reviewed
Hello Stranger Hello Stranger (Aeronaut) Just think: Instead of Paris Hilton, you could have had Juliette Commagere.
Anthony David reviewed
Anthony David The Red Clay Chronicles (Brash) Atlanta-based loverman Anthony David digs into the neo-soul crates for his aroused second album.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Strokes Live!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Strokes Charter One Pavilion, Chicago Thursday, September 14, 2006 Steady as he goes, Tom Petty’s inaugural appearance at the outdoor Charter One Pavilion on Thursday was as by the book as it gets — and exactly what you want from him.
Catfish Haven Live!
Catfish Haven Double Door, Chicago Saturday, September 16, 2006 Missing from the garage rock renaissance of the early millennium were great singers. Roky Erickson was as essential to 13th Floor Elevators as that nauseating electric jug, just as a sinewy Iggy Pop not only gave The Stooges unpredictibility, but also an unquantifiable grace. A rudimentary […]
World Music Fest Report
Sara Tavares, Cibelle, Natacha Atlas World Music Fest, Chicago September 2006 Hosting a bevy of quirky, globally hip, international acts shimmying across various stages, the Chicago World Music Festival kickstarted its opening weekend with style. After years of struggling with immigration challenges and skimpy attendance, the eighth annual festival seems to have hit its stride. […]
Gigantour Preview
Gigantour Congress Theatre, Chicago Friday, September 22, 2006 Metal fans have already had The Unholy Alliance tour, then Sounds Of The Underground, then Ozzfest, but Megadeth CEO Dave Mustaine hopes they have energy for just one more big show.
Celtic Frost Preview
Celtic Frost Vic Theatre Saturday, September 23, 2006 Before Tool, Isis, Neurosis, Entombed, and other unconventional metal groups — bands often coined “thinking man’s metal”– there was Celtic Frost.
Cursive, Ladyfingers (NE) Preview
Cursive, Ladyfingers (NE) Metro, Chicago Monday, September 25, 2006 It has been more than three years since Cursive’s last album, The Ugly Organ — an eternity for a band on the fringes of art rock.
The Sadies, Heavy Trash Preview
The Sadies, Heavy Trash Schubas, Chicago Saturday, September 23, 2006 Everyone involved in this performance is best known for something else, including Neko Case, Jon Langford, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Rodney Atkins Reviewed
Rodney Atkins If You’re Going Through Hell (Curb) The title track to this collection has been inescapable on country radio all summer, but what about the rest of Rodney Atkins’ game?
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