Columns
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 […]
Around Hear: August 2010
Local Band Reviews Bird Show Band‘s self-titled CD is flat-out bizarre at first, but for those willing to embrace its unconventional mixture of jazz, progressive rock, and synths, it’s one of the more alluring projects to come from the Amish Records catalog. Though the group is avant-garde at its most indulgent, the European undertones provide […]
Media: August 2010
Fear No Art, Chicago “I felt that there was nothing that went behind the scenes showing how human the process of making art is: its mistakes, conundrums, miracle moments, etc. I wanted to discover the artists behind the art, showing the human side, and thus making the arts more approachable for people,” says Elysabeth Alfano, […]
Sweet Home: August 2010
Bourbon At A Young Age As a child in New Orleans, Tovi Khali didn’t quite know what she wanted to be when she grew up, until she first glimpsed inside Bourbon Street blues clubs. “I’d be outside watching the singers and I knew I wanted to do that,” says Khali. “If it weren’t for the […]
Caught In A Mosh: August 2010
The Big Bore So I paid $18 to see The Big Four broadcast in June. The idea of going to the movies to watch a metal concert was a bit strange and spending nearly $20 to do so was plain dumb, but I had to. My gut tells me this thing eventually comes to The […]
Digital Divide: August 2010
The Runaways Sony Pictures As James Brown famously shouted, “This is a man’s world!” As far as the music business was concerned, he was right — until 1975, that is. That was the year Joan Jett and Sandy West teamed up to form the first successful all-girl rock band, The Runaways. Along with guitarist Lita […]
Gear: August 2010
George William Fullerton Fender Hall Of Fame Inductee Chicago’s Fullerton Avenue wasn’t named after him. But Leo Fender would not have succeeded without him. In the mid-1940s, as a seasoned artist and working musician with a budding interest in electronics, George Fullerton became friends with Fender.
Studiophile: August 2010
At Linder Avenue Recording in Roselle, producer/engineer Travis Brown blocked out dates with his project Saline to record material for their debut . . . Drummer Hannah Ford laid new tracks for the Bellevue Suite (above) single “Just Love” to be re-released later this summer; Dom Palmisano engineered.
Hello, My Name Is Paul
Q&A with Paul Weller IE: Are you gearing up for the England/ Algeria game? Paul Weller: Yeah. I’ll watch with me girlfriend tonight. Just be home.
File: July 2010
Rough Boys On the Monday after Blues Fest, Out The Box Records invited a select group to view a rough cut of White, Black & Blues at Film Row Cinema. John Anderson‘s film honors Chicago Blues Reunion members Barry Goldberg, Nick Gravenites, Harvey Mandel, and Corky Siegel,
Around Hear: July 2010
Local Band Reviews It seems only yesterday Canasta were youngsters joyfully tossing sand on the beachhead of local indie-pop. With The Fakeout, The Tease & The Breather, however, Matt Priest and Elizabeth Lindau’s band have matured not beyond recognition, but what used to be heartbroken odes to young loves lost have acquired desperation. Priest opens […]
Media: July 2010
Where Are They Now: Podcasts, Blog Posts, & Black Holes Local radio stations began jettisoning their high-priced talent in the late 2000s, when the new Portable People Meter ratings system showed that big names were no longer pulling in the big numbers. Now, it seems the days of the high-priced, well-loved, hyper-local radio personality are […]
Sweet Home: July 2010
Blues Baby The blues had a baby and it called her Shemekia. Nursed on her father Johnny “Clyde” Copeland’s legacy of throbbing, funk-filled blues and groomed on the nuanced belting of Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, and O.V. Wright, Shemekia Copeland represents the greatest contemporary blues hope since Stevie Ray Vaughan. At 31, she’s […]
Caught In A Mosh: July 2010
Death Warmed Over Experimentation is great in heavy metal. New sounds, new techniques, new styles . . . if done right and with the band’s roots in mind, results can be great. Even spectacular. (Read the Nachtmystium review in this month’s “Spins.”)
Digital Divide: July 2010
The Man With No Name Trilogy MGM For a good part of film history, the western genre always seemed curiously out of place. Not because it wasn’t worthy subject matter, but because the execution never seemed right. The settings, old-timey enough to be sure, but too clean, too pristine to be believable. The heroes and […]
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