Features
Cover Story: Death Cab For Cutie
Death Cab For Cutie By The Time We Get To Lollapalooza When Lollapalooza returns to Grant Park from August 4th through 6th, last year’s attendees will note a few subtle changes: an extra day and a billion more attractions.
Lollapalooza preview
Lollapalooza Grant Park, Chicago Friday, August 4th through Sunday August 6th, 2006 Conflicting Interests: Worst Time Crunches Friday, 11:45 a.m. — Deadboy & The Elephantmen vs. Sound Team: Right off the bat (almost)! Jeff Buckley fanatics will be amazed by Deadboy (Dax Riggs) while anyone who would rather wake up to something with a beat […]
Smokey Robinson interview
Smokey Robinson Life Of The Party Smokey Robinson, the man Bob Dylan famously called “America’s greatest living poet,” has had an impact on music like few others. He wrote such classics as “Shop Around,” “Tears Of A Clown,” “I Second That Emotion,” and “Going To A Go-Go” and, with Berry Gordy, made Motown Records successful. […]
Los Lobos Interview
Los Lobos Five Horse Town From humble beginnings in East Los Angeles to four Grammys, worldwide recognition to critical respect, Los Lobos — and, by extension, its multi-instrumentalist members Steve Berlin, Louie Perez, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, and Cesar Rosas — have lived that part of the Great American Dream we hold most dear. To […]
Jurassic 5 interview
Jurassic 5 Adrenaline Rush Jurassic 5 are arguably the most popular act to come out of the L.A. underground — specifically the open mic night movement at the Good Life Café. Appearing: 9/1 at House Of Blues (329 N. Dearborn) in Chicago.
Say Hi To Your Mom Interview
Say Hi To Your Mom Interview With A Vampire (Fan) Robots and vampires aren’t only the domain of the movies or sci-fi conventions, though it’s unlikely the first place you’d look is a Say Hi To Your Mom record. Comically sincere and endearingly eccentric, for four albums Eric Elbogen, the man behind the moniker, has […]
Get Your Band Into Street Festivals
Street Smarts: Getting Your Band Into The Festivals By Jill Haverkamp Almost every summer weekend there’s live music being blasted on all sides of Chicago. Street festivals are a cheap, fun way to see a variety of musical acts. And for the bands lucky enough to land a slot on a festival lineup, it can […]
Lollapalooza preview 3
page [ 1 ] [ 2 ] 3 NO OFFENSE TO THE COMPETITION, BUT MISS THESE AT YOUR OWN RISK: Friday, 3:30 p.m. — Jeremy Enigk: The reclusive former Sunny Day Real Estate frontman has his second-ever solo album arriving in October, and it’s every bit as epic as his former band’s second phase. World […]
Cover Story: Ministry
Ministry Allied Forces According to his publicist, legendary Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen wasn’t up for doing a lot of interviews to promote his new album and summer tour. But Illinois Entertainer? He wanted to talk to us. That was worrisome. Appearing: 7/1-2 at House Of Blues (329 N. Dearborn) in Chicago.
Scott H. Biram feature
Scott H. Biram Road Tested There’s a point during “18 Wheeler Fever,” one of 14 songs on Scott H. Biram’s new record, Graveyard Shift (Bloodshot), where the Texan admits “Well it’s been sung about a thousand times/that old song about a truck driver’s life.” Appearing: 7/21 at Abbey Pub (3420 W. Grace) in Chicago.
Rhymefest feature
Rhymefest Keeps His Head Up Rhymefest is no ass-kisser. In addition to having come up in the formerly overlooked Chicago market, his refusal to bow to anyone in the music industry is largely why it has taken this animated MC so long to get heard. It also explains why he has been fired from most […]
The Futureheads Feature
The Futureheads Born A’Sunder At first glance, every musician residing in Sunderland, England is in one of three bands: The Futureheads, Field Music, and Maximo Park. (Actually, it isn’t true, and Sunderland has veritable pop music pedigree up there in the shadows of Newcastle, including Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry and Eurythmic Dave Stewart). But, as […]
Tim O’Reagan feature
Tim O’Reagan Full Frontal Despite their personnel issues and disabling encounters with the vast and varied exigencies of the record industry, The Jayhawks produced, both live and on record, perhaps the most consistently fine pop music of their era (with or without Mark Olson).
Redding Feature
Redding Little Big Men It’s shockingly easy to record and distribute music in this digital age, but it’s still like finding a needle in a haystack to come across music that is worth a listen. Even more difficult is finding a band who can make devoted fans out of those listeners.
Record Collecting Spotlight
BUILDING A BETTER RECORD COLLECTION Music is being released at an extraordinary rate nowadays. Besides the onslaught of new material (lagging sales haven’t met a decline in product for labels) there is also the constant barrage of re-releases for music fans to contend with. It’s hard to keep up. With that in mind, IE raided […]
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