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Alkaline Trio, Against Me! Live
Alkaline Trio, Against Me! Metro, Chicago Thursday, May 4, 2006 Now that two-thirds of the band live outside Chicago, Alkaline Trio’s homecoming shows truly are homecomings. To celebrate the end of one leg of their latest tour, they spun off three sold-out shows at Metro with Against Me! and basked in the adulation as much […]
Chicago Rocks Preview
Chicago Rocks Abbey Pub & Metro, Chicago Friday May 12 & Saturday May 13, 2006 Two bones to pick with the Chicago hip-hip production team Molemen (Panik, Memo, and PNS): First, the name of their annual music festival: Chicago Rocks festival? To apply a Kevin Pollack/The Usual Suspects quote to the process of naming this […]
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
High School prom offers very few good memories for us. Dipshit DJs trying to teach the Chicken Dance, hours spent in an uncomfortable tux, a near concussion suffered during a “friendly” bout of jousting, and the never-came-to-be after-prom kegger that was thwarted by goody-goody parents.
The Goo Goo Dolls CD Review
The Goo Goo Dolls Let Love In (Warner Bros.) Well they’ve done it. Throwing their cards down and tearing off their disguises, The Goo Goo Dolls drop the charade and cover Supertramp.
Soil CD Review
Soil True Self (DRT) On their third release, Chicago metal band Soil try to overcome losing their record deal and their singer.
Lansing-Dreiden CD Review
Lansing-Dreiden The Dividing Island (Kemado) It’s too bad the phrase “chamber pop” applies to a different sort of music, because it would suit Lansing-Dreiden perhaps more literally.
Stoley P.T. CD Review
Stoley P.T. Lesson #1 (In Music We Trust) Former Q101 DJ/Lupins frontman Stoley comes to us with his P(ower). (Trio).
Thee More Shallows CD Review
Thee More Shallows Monkey Vs. Shark (Turn) Tide-you-over EP from stark San Franciscans begins with a thwack.
Sugarplum Fairies CD Review
Sugarplum Fairies Country International Records (Starfish) Austrian duo Sugarplum Fairies aided by ex-Wilco man Ken Coomer craft Hapsburg-country.
Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints CD Review
Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints Kindermusik (Three Ring) Tom Thumb and his New England-based cohorts locked themselves into a Maine studio for this EP, and produced the sound of winter coats.
Riverboat Gamblers CD Review
Riverboat Gamblers To The Confusion Of Our Enemies (Volcom/East West) With all the casual, fancy-pantsin’ indie rockers roaming the slacker streets of Austin, Texas, it’s a surprise there aren’t more Riverboat Gamblers running amok.
Pretty Girls Make Graves preview
Pretty Girls Make Graves, Giant Drag Metro, Chicago Friday, May 5, 2006 Pretty Girls Make Graves’ third album is a reckoning of sorts for their fans. It’s a long road back to their early calling as a Murder City Devils side project, or as a spunky, female-fronted alternative to At The Drive-In. Élan Vital (Matador) […]
Dragonforce preview
Dragonforce Metro, Chicago Saturday, May 6, 2006 It takes a certain level of proficiency to be a U.K. metal band and sound continental. By gum, Dragonforce are at that level.
Duenow, Pay Later
Duenow Elbo Room, Chicago Saturday, March 6, 2006 Because Zach Duenow plays guitar and sings in the band that bears his last name, and his wife, Dorothea, is the group’s drummer, it’s a safe bet Duenow have and will receive far too many comparisons to a certain other (one-time) husband/wife, guitar/drums rock duo.
Kathy? A Go-Go?
Kathy Valentine Schubas, Chicago Saturday, May 6, 2006 Former Go-Go Kathy Valentine comes to Chicago with Blondie’s Clem Burke, the Bangles’ Abby Travis, and Jason DeCorse of Lo Mass Republic.
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