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Life In The Fast Lane
No Speed Limit Sweet Virginia (Arhoolie) Sure, there are plenty of jokes waiting to be made about a Virginian bluegrass outfit with a 16-year-old singer.
Chatham County Line Reviewed
Chatham County Line Speed Of The Whippoorwill (Yep Roc) Weathering a torrent of modern bluegrass releases, Chatham County Line draw on a folksier inspiration for their third album.
Radiohead live!
Radiohead Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Monday, June 19, 2006 It’s all too appropriate that one of their songs (“Like Spinning Platesâ€) would prove to be the perfect metaphor for Radiohead.
Ringo Starr Live
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont Saturday, June 17, 2006 Chances are if Ringo Starr wasn’t a Beatle, he wouldn’t have come as far as he has today. Sure he has a flavorful personality, drums a consistent beat, and crafts relatively catchy tunes, but when compared to the outpourings of other former […]
SSM Preview
SSM Empty Bottle, Chicago Thursday, June 22, 2006 SSM. Sweaty Sex Magic? Satan’s Simple Muse, maybe? Sweet Supple Mangos, perhaps?
MOBFest Preview
MOBFest Various Venues, Chicagoland Thursday, June 22 to Saturday, June 24, 2006 How often does $90 get you access to 15 different Chicagoland music venues featuring, like, a billion bands?
Fatboy Slim Hits
Fatboy Slim Why Try Harder: The Greatest Hits (Astralwerks) Still a weapon of choice for countless sports arenas and TV producers, Fatboy Slim will go down as having produced some of the most marketable music of the past decade.
Luna CD & DVD
Luna The Best Of Luna (CD)/Tell Me Do You Miss Me (DVD) (Rhino) Luna were never a love/hate band; they were give a shit/don’t give a shit. This sold-separately combo tells why.
Mellowdrone half returns
Mellowdrone Box (Red Ink/Columbia) Mellowdrone’s name sticks out in the IE office because of a valiant opening gig for Johnny Marr at Double Door a couple years ago and the subsequent littering of our floors with their EP by the now-defunct Artist Direct label.
Venice Is Sinking
Venice Is Sinking Sorry About The Flowers (One Percent Press) Athens, Georgia, still pumps out the college rock bands, and it was only a matter of time before Venice Is Sinking, steeped in Galaxie 500, studied abroad.
Tindersticks solo man
Stuart A. Staples Leaving Songs (Too Pure) Stuart A. Staples, the former frontman for nightsongs maestros The Tindersticks, makes his Nick Cave-meets-Van Morrison debut.
Radio 4 reviewed
Radio 4 Enemies Like This (Astralwerks) Every rock journalist in the Western hemisphere is wondering what the hell happened to Radio 4.
Mike Andrews preview
Mike Andrews Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Former Greyboy Allstars founder Mike Andrews is pretty well connected, but he’s still one miserable son of a bitch.
Battle For Bands
Vote For Lollapalooza’s Final Band The Lollapalooza organizers have devised an online vote to determine the final roster invitee for the festival, August 4th to 6th in Grant Park.
IN MUSIC WE TRUST
IN MUSIC WE TRUST The life of local musician Anthony Salazar, who died in May 2005, will be remembered and celebrated Sunday, June 25th with a special benefit show presented by chicagoCO-Lab, an online forum developed as a means for Chicagoland musicians to network.
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