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Sweet Home: May 2010
Delta Crush Blues It’s telling that blues guitarist Chainsaw Dupont lists as turning points in his music career not listening to B.B. King as he was growing up in the Mississippi Delta or touring with Junior Wells in the ’90s, but hearing Sly & The Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” and […]
Digital Divide: May 2010
It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Blue Avatar Fox Home Entertainment I’ll admit it: I’m probably one of only 20 people in America who didn’t see Avatar in the theaters. Yet I felt no sense of shame or desperation about not taking part in the group collective, because I knew that the eventual home-video release would be […]
Gear: May 2010
Taylor Dave Matthews Signature Guitar As a longtime Taylor Guitars devotee, Dave Matthews used his 914ce to write music that would shape a new generation of jam bands that still inspires new converts today. With an eye on the future, Taylor has collaborated with Matthews and released the Dave Matthews Signature Model guitar that also […]
File: May 2010
In The Radio While the record labels continually empty chambers and reload hoping to find that magic bullet, record stores have taken charge and adapted themselves to the crashing and surging marketplace. At 5045 N. Clark St. in Andersonville (less than a mile west and slightly north of the Aragon and Riviera), Transistor has taken […]
Hello, My Name Is Eddie
Q&A with Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery IE: What’s it like playing up north? How do you approach the crowd and set? Eddie Montgomery: Let me tell you first off, what you see with me and “T” [bandmate Troy Gentry] is what you get. A lot of people think they can fool country fans, but they […]
Cover Story: Bernard Sumner
Don’t Sweat The Technique The odds of a band breaking big are astronomical enough, but what are the chances it will happen twice let alone three or perhaps even four times for the same artist under different incarnations?
Kate Nash interview
No More Pissing And Moaning When English folk-rocker Kate Nash closes an album, she really knows how to do it in fine sardonic style. Ergo, “I Hate Seagulls” stands as the coda to her lovably droll new sophomore set, My Best Friend Is You, wherein she sunnily chirrups down a huge list of everything she […]
Dr. Dog interview
No Shame In Trying Scott McMicken possesses a long-windedness normally associated with blathering history professors and parents gushing over week-old bundles of joy. It’s a wonder the Dr. Dog guitarist/vocalist can pare his thoughts enough to squeeze them into the Philly-based band’s four-minute-or-less compositions on Shame, Shame — let alone sharing songwriting duties with bassist/vocalist […]
The Felix Culpa interview
Planting New Seeds It’s an unseasonably warm January night at Metro, and the Wrigleyville concert hall is respectably and, surprisingly, full. Respectably because, while not sold-out, the turnout is full of passionate fans, all out to witness the triumphant live return of an act that’s been all but M.I.A. from the local-music circuit for the […]
Media Contest!
I’m Your Venus To celebrate the new issue, Venus Zine is offering one lucky winner . . .
Caught In A Mosh: April 2010
No ‘Throne On The Phone Darkthrone drummer/vocalist Fenriz dislikes phone interviews. “Caught In A Mosh” columnist Trevor Fisher dislikes e-mail interviews. Who caved in order for Darkthrone to be featured in this month’s column?
Sweet Home: April 2010
At The Gates Of Dawn A home represents the place where you feel nurtured and secure. It’s the one place where you know you are valued. Chicago offers the blues a home on many levels, but there’s no place where it’s valued more than on Steve Cushing‘s “Blues Before Sunrise” radio program.
Digital Divide: April 2010
Attack Of The Clooneys To paraphrase Dennis Miller: I was watching home movies the other night and damned if George Clooney wasn’t in ’em.
File: April 2010
Tuning Up It’s April, so that means Guitar Month in IE! While we were foiled in attempts to snag a certain shaggy axeman for our cover story (don’t worry, the album ain’t much), we felt like we could take a tiny break with our Hendrix coverage last month and the imminent Crossroads Guitar Festival bonanza […]
Hello, My Name Is David
Q&A with The Wedding Present’s David Gedge IE: The Wedding Present turn 25 this year. Do you ever ask yourself “How did I get here?”
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