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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 […]
The Hush Sound interview
Hush Sound Burbing Over The suburbs can be a dismal place to hang out from the teens to early 20s, but then again, they can also be the perfect grounds for a band hoping to beat the boredom. Though members of The Hush Sound had already experimented with other musical entities before teaming up, their […]
Iomos Marad interview
Iomos Marad Schooled “I call myself the social worker of rhymes.” These are the words of South Side native Iomos Marad (born Marcus Singleton), the MC who introduced himself to the public by rapping and drumming on CTA platforms. Ever since he officially entered the rap game with his anti-materialistic single, “Deep Rooted,” in 2000, […]
Psalm One interview
Psalm One Droppin’ Science “What was the question again?” Cristalle Bowen, known to hip-hop heads as Psalm One, asks this more than once while being interviewed in the Abbey Pub’s basement. It isn’t because the Englewood-raised rapper is absent minded. It’s more that, luckily for IE, she truly attempts to answer each question as thoroughly […]
Russian Circles interview
Russian Circles The Heavy To ask Mike Sullivan who his fans are is like asking him if he went to prom in high school. “We don’t get rabid young girls screaming at us because we’re hot dudes. That’s not the case, unfortunately,” he says. The 26-year-old guitarist of Chicago’s Russian Circles is the kind of […]
DVD Zone: January 2007
Little Miss Sunshine Fox Searchlight We’ve all been on road trips with the family. And, as one gets older, nine out of 10 people will probably tell you there’s hardly anything more taxing. That’s why the cross-country trek with the relatives is such fertile ground for filmmakers.
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