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Shaman’s Harvest Reviewed
Shaman’s Harvest March Of The Bastards (Tribal) Talk about book covers: The front artwork, band name, and label apellation all give the hint Shaman’s Harvest are another run-of-the-mill metal act.
Asobi Seksu Reviewed
Asobi Seksu Citrus (Friendly Fire) Japan, colorful as the media make it out to be, can be a pretty fucked-up place. That’s why you have to begrudgingly accept the name Asobi Seksu. It roughly means “playful sex”; there’s nothing sexy about them.
Nitzer Ebb Reviewed
Nitzer Ebb Body Of Work/Body Rework: Remixes (Mute) Personal note where one doesn’t belong: Nitzer Ebb have scared me since I really knew I liked music. I played guitar, put “More Than Words” on tapes for 8th-grade make-out parties, but the yells of “Guns! Guns! Fire! Fire!” genuinely frightened me.
Arling & Cameron Reviewed
Arling & Cameron Hi-Fi Underground (Challenge) Hup Holland, hup. Dutch electro duo Arling & Cameron roll a 12-sided die.
ISIS show tonight!
Beat Kitchen has just announced ISIS will perform tonight, September 19th, at 10 p.m. following their gig last night opening for Tool. Tickets are $12; Yakuza opens.
Touch And Go Block Party Review
Touch And Go’s 25th Anniversary Hideout Block Party, Chicago September 8th through 10th, 2006 The weekend felt like the prom most of the graying punks never bothered to attend or a family reunion with more piercings and tattoos than a biker rally. Touch And Go, Chicago’s venerable independent record label, turned 25 years young and […]
Def Leppard & Journey live!
Journey, Def Leppard Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee Saturday, September 9, 2006 Look up “guilty pleasure” in the rock ‘n’ roll encyclopedia and it’s sure to include a host of ’80s-based arena rockers and hair metallers, including Journey and Def Leppard. The double bill indeed embodied that very idea, and while it compromises one’s cool to admit […]
Buckner/Bachmann preview
Richard Buckner, Eric Bachmann Schubas, Chicago Thursday, September 14, 2006 It’s a banner night at the ol’ Drink ‘Em Down Tap, where we specialize in torturing your frayed nerve endings while you imbibe the pain away. Masters Richard Buckner and Eric Bachmann have the floor.
PF Sloan preview
PF Sloan FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Thursday, September 14, 2006 Meet PF Sloan, one of the most important figures in music you don’t know.
Joe Purdy preview
Joe Purdy Schubas, Chicago Sunday, September 17, 2006 The boob tube has been good to Joe Purdy.
Guitar Center Drum Contest
Hit The Skins Rush drummer Neil Peart names his solos, which we find disturbingly pretentious. So promise us if you win Guitar Center’s Drum Off 2006 you won’t get a big head about it.
Bettie Serveert go acoustic
Bettie Serveert Bare Stripped Naked (Minty Fresh) Still toiling 14 years after creative peak *Palomine, Bettie Serveert scale down and go acoustic.
Mark Mallman reviewed
Mark Mallman Between The Devil And Middle C (Badman) If we can substitute “the devil” with “Elton John” and “Middle C” with “The Minus 5,” this is a fabulous title.
Helvetia reviewed
Helvetia The Clver North Wind (Static Cult) Purposely unfocused, Helvetia’s debut album wanders within the vast indie rock spectrum, never stopping anywhere for long.
Christine Fellows reviewed
Christine Fellows Paper Anniversary (Six Shooter) On her third album, Winnepegian songwriter Christine Fellows elevates above her homespun surroundings.
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