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IE at Austin City Limits!
Austin. Texas. The city whose official slogan is, boldly, “The Live Music Capital of the World.” Insert heated debate…here. Just voted “Best Music Town” by the readers of Frommer’s Budget Travel, Austin boasts over 200 live music venues, in a metro area of just 1.7 million.
Interview: Gold Motel
Coming Home Rarely will anything be gained from watching someone struggle with technology. In terms of fulfillment, the experience ranks alongside teaching someone to whistle or trying to tickle yourself. But, as Gold Motel guitarist Eric Hehr repeatedly failed to connect to a conference call with IE and frontwoman Greta Morgan – who was beside […]
Interview: Daniel Lanois’ Black Dub
Take stripped-down organic pop, smoldering soulful vocals, and a decidedly Jamaican bent, all wrapped around the nucleus of multi-instrumentalist/super producer Daniel Lanois, and it’s easy to see why Black Dub‘s self-titled debut is just as alluring as it is ingenious.
Cover Story: Ronnie Wood
Stomp And Circumstance You want Ronnie Wood to be that kind of rock star: holed up in a stark white mansion, drifting aimlessly from room to room at 2 p.m. in a bathrobe and satin pajama bottoms spilling a glass of wine and yelling through the house to the wife he’s had for two weeks […]
Interview: Frightened Rabbit
Held Up For All To See Dig if you will the picture: Early evening on a pleasant Chicago day in August (which by definition is an anomaly) as throngs of people huddle in a space shaded by a canopy of trees and foliage found off of the beaten path near Grant Park. The last day […]
Hello, My Name Is Marty
Q&A With Marty Turco IE: Didn’t the Stars have a relationship with Pantera? Marty Turco: Yeah [chuckling]. Oh, yeah. [The Dallas Stars] still come out to [“Puck Off”] – they made up a Dallas Stars song. Pantera were around for the ’99 run, played with the boys. Been up to the house a couple times, […]
Caught In A Mosh: November 2010
So Much For Sleep You’re forgiven if you live in Green River, Wyoming, and don’t know the name Chris Black (above, left). If you call yourself a Chicagoan and consider yourself a headbanger, but aren’t, however, familiar with his 15 years in metal, then you’re a failure.
Dylan was young!
Just as a 69-year-old man named Bob Dylan rolls into the Riviera Theatre on Saturday, his record label digs up a body of work by someone of the same name and nearly 50-years younger.
The Books on CD come to town!
We have such fun with bandnames and titles at IE. Nothing tickled more than — riffing on an Epic/Legacy title — saying that The Clash live in Shea Stadium. And these Books! Gah-ha-ha-ha!
Bob Dylan was wrong
The wind’s all over the place today, so we might need a weatherman to tell us which way it’s really blowing. But we’ll get to The Witmark Demos later this week. On to our recs for Thursday!
Sleigh Bells preview!
Even by contemporary standards, when hyperbolic Internet hype and a splashy single can spell instant success, Sleigh Bells’ meteoric rise has been impressive.
Talk About The Blues Explosion
At long last, Majordomo/Shout Factory finishes trotting out the ’90s Jon Spencer Blues Explosion catalog, unveiling Orange and Acme with the loving care of actual, venerated blues recordings.
Throwback weekend!
Retro is in again! This weekend, we move back and forward, unconfined by time and space. Everything’s relative, anyway, so we feel no shame in not sticking to whatever it is we started this post talking about.
Deerhunter preview!
Deerhunter has a gift for turning clever sleights of hand into uniquely satisfying, often awe-inspiring, moments of feverish pop magic, and its discography is quickly gaining iconic status.
Win Chromeo tickets!
Win a chance for you and a guest to see Chromeo on the 30th at Congress Theatre!
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