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Krak Music
CX Kidtronik Krak Attack (Sound Ink) Atlanta hip-hop O.D.J. makes his personal debut and wastes little time establishing how f’d up he can get.
Ta Smallz Reviewed
Ta Smallz Having My Way (Life Entertainment) When you need to print your name’s pronunciation on the cover of your CD, you’re gonna find problems.
Slow Learner Reviewed
Slow Learner In Their Time They Are Magnificent (self-released) Greg Dulli friend and Ani DiFranco beau Mike Napolitano bows as Slow Learner.
Greg Laswell Reviewed
Greg Laswell Through Toledo (Vanguard) Greg Laswell could have left “High And Low” off his sophomore album and no one would have said a word about Coldplay. Not a fucking word.
The Evening Episode Reviewed
The Evening Episode The Physicist Has Known Sin (Slowdance) After a series of tests, you might find trip-hop/schleptronica to be slow, a sedative, and an encumbrence on the motor functions.
IE Has Moved!
Please note our new Chicago office address: 657 W. Lake Street Suite A Chicago, IL 60661 Our new phone numbers are 312-930-9333 (Editorial); 312-930-9363 (Advertising).
Maxi Priest reviewed
Maxi Priest, Baby Cham, Calypso Rose Washington Park, Chicago Sunday, July 2, 2006 Always a good barometer of what’s hot and what’s not in the Caribbean community, the 15th annual African Caribbean Festival Of Life served up an interesting array of classic icons, crossover masters, and hardcore artists. Each proved their relevance and popularity with […]
The Hush Sound preview
The Hush Sound House Of Blues, Chicago Friday, July 7, 2006 Buried on a bill with pop punk upstarts Panic! At The Disco and mad cabaret unravelings by Dresden Dolls, Chicago’s The Hush Sound bow with Like Vines.
Monty Are I previewed
Monty Are I Beat Kitchen, Chicago Tuesday, July 11, 2006 You may have known them once as simply Monty, trademarks be damned. Now with the grammarically defiant Monty Are I, the Rhode Island prog punk quintet drop an ambitious, soaring debut.
Learn To Write!
Chart Topping Songwriter To Host Chicago Workshop Jason Blume, who has written or co-written songs for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Colin Raye, will be in the Chicago area on Saturday, July 15th for a writing workshop.
Replacements anthologized
The Replacements Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements (Sire/Reprise/Rhino) Touted as the first compilation featuring both The Replacements’ label careers, Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? concentrates a little too heavily on their serious side.
Dinosaur reissues
Dinosaur Jr. Green Mind/Where You Been (Reprise/Rhino) Aiding in Merge’s reissuance of the early, SST Dinosaur albums, Rhino finishes the job.
Evangelicals reviewed
Evangelicals So Gone (Misra) Norman, Oklahoma’s Evangelicals have little in common with the college football powerhouse in their hometown and, culturally for the villa, couldn’t have come any soooner.
Kooks singles reviewed
The Kooks “Eddie’s Gun”/”Naive” (Virgin UK) They’re already crowning a successor to Arctic Monkeys in the U.K.
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