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File: March 2011
Austin Power Yes, the South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas has become something entirely different. Like MTV, SXSW doesn’t aspire to modesty. Miller Lite and Chevrolet are sponsors, Duran Duran and Duff McKagan will perform, and sxsw.com features an interview with “American Idol” runner-up (and holder of a major-label contract) Crystal Bowersox. There […]
Hello, My Name Is Gord
Q&A With Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie IE: How do you balance The Tragically Hip with your solo career? Gord Downie: I don’t really worry about balance. Just like anybody, I move from one thing to the other. I’m into the process of discovering things and chasing surprises.
Hello, My Name Is Ira
Q&A with Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan IE: Did the Wheel Of Chance [a device that will dictate the structure of this month’s Yo La Tengo tour] come out during your Hanukkah shows?
File: February 2011
It’s How You Clay The Game Coldplay may have shamelessly copied The Beatles’ military regalia at the 2009 Grammys, but Taylor Zitman can go one better – she hand-designed polymer clay miniatures of John, Paul, George, and Ringo
File: The Tops Pop Of 2010
The year in albums, songs, concerts, and geeks? All presented to you by the IE staff.
Hello, My Name Is Ryan & Dan
Q&A With Sleeping At Last IE: What inspired this “Yearbook” project? Ryan O’Neal: We were tired of the wait between records and it gives us more of an opportunity to make music. I heard an interview with [producer/film composer] Hans Zimmer who was talking about how being in a band means you talk about music […]
File: December 2010
Fair Is Life While the blues figures greatly into Cheat You Fair: The Story Of Maxwell Street, its own greatness wasn’t enough to save the fabled Chicago marketplace.
File: November 2010
In Da Club? We couldn’t find any local chapters at press time, a semi-disappointing discovery in a city that prides itself on its uprising and cliques. So, we cast our vote for someone to join the Music Monitor Network/Coalition Of Independent Music Stores’ “Metal Club,” a group of brick-and-mortar retailers pushing to build strong community […]
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, […]
File: October 2010
Dave Matthews Bang! When you dump a truckload of shit in the Chicago River, you answer to Samir! Clark Street belched a bummed-out “No way!” late last month when the FBI foiled a plot to kill Dave Matthews Band fans after the September 18th Wrigley Field show.
Hello, My Name Is Kevin
Q&A with Kevin Chalfant IE: You’ve been in a ton of bands over the years. Could you give us the official lineage? Kevin Chalfant: Well I started in Illinois in the late 1970s, went to California in the ’80s through mid-’90s and them came back to Illinois. In Illinois, one group was called The […]
File: September 2010
Throw It to Lucas Leafing through the photo album with even the most casual interest suggests Local H frontman Scott Lucas was once scowling when someone hit him on the back, thus sentencing him to a life term with a frown on his puss. Though his hardened demeanor – great for this fall’s prison fashions […]
Hello, My Name Is Jeff
Q&A with Jeff Daniels IE: Your musical ambitions seem pretty friendly and harmless. Jeff Daniels: I’m not trying to hurt anybody.
Hello, My Name Is Carl
Q&A with My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel IE: A lot of people might see your gentle solo album as an extreme reaction to My Morning Jacket’s classic rock gusto. Is it? Carl Broemel: I definitely don’t think of it that way. There are lots of things about MMJ that embrace the quiet and gentle, so […]
File: August 2010
New: The New New We all remember the consternation when Sergei Makarov took home the NHL’s 1990 rookie award at age 31. An age mandate was added (the Makarov Rule) and, incidentally, an Igor Makarov will be trying to make the Blackhawks this fall. Anyway, the Grammys has endured similar bouts of hand-wringing and finger-pointing […]
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