Live Reviews
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Strokes Live!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Strokes Charter One Pavilion, Chicago Thursday, September 14, 2006 Steady as he goes, Tom Petty’s inaugural appearance at the outdoor Charter One Pavilion on Thursday was as by the book as it gets — and exactly what you want from him.
Catfish Haven Live!
Catfish Haven Double Door, Chicago Saturday, September 16, 2006 Missing from the garage rock renaissance of the early millennium were great singers. Roky Erickson was as essential to 13th Floor Elevators as that nauseating electric jug, just as a sinewy Iggy Pop not only gave The Stooges unpredictibility, but also an unquantifiable grace. A rudimentary […]
World Music Fest Report
Sara Tavares, Cibelle, Natacha Atlas World Music Fest, Chicago September 2006 Hosting a bevy of quirky, globally hip, international acts shimmying across various stages, the Chicago World Music Festival kickstarted its opening weekend with style. After years of struggling with immigration challenges and skimpy attendance, the eighth annual festival seems to have hit its stride. […]
Touch And Go Block Party Review
Touch And Go’s 25th Anniversary Hideout Block Party, Chicago September 8th through 10th, 2006 The weekend felt like the prom most of the graying punks never bothered to attend or a family reunion with more piercings and tattoos than a biker rally. Touch And Go, Chicago’s venerable independent record label, turned 25 years young and […]
Def Leppard & Journey live!
Journey, Def Leppard Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee Saturday, September 9, 2006 Look up “guilty pleasure†in the rock ‘n’ roll encyclopedia and it’s sure to include a host of ’80s-based arena rockers and hair metallers, including Journey and Def Leppard. The double bill indeed embodied that very idea, and while it compromises one’s cool to admit […]
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young Live!
Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park Sunday, September 3, 2006 Ever since Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young delivered a politically charged set at the very first Woodstock, the foursome has been branded as one of the most opinionated and outspoken units of the past four decades.
Venom Live!
Venom House Of Blues, Chicago Sunday, September 3, 2006 If you were to judge the capacity of Venom’s show solely by the line gathered outside of House Of Blues Sunday night, the guess would be sold out. After all, at 8:00 (15 minutes prior to show time) it stretched from HOB’s doors all the way […]
Dwight Yoakam Live!
Dwight Yoakam Park West, Chicago Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Country star Dwight Yoakam doesn’t have the reputation of being the business end of anything. But a pre-show meet-and-greet ran overtime Wednesday, forcing him and his band to take the stage much later than scheduled. And did he ever make up for it.
William Elliott Whitmore Live!
William Elliott Whitmore Beat Kitchen, Chicago Wednesday, August 30, 2006 There was a point during William Elliott Whitmore’s Beat Kitchen set, five songs in to be exact, where the singer-songwriter decided to take a risk. He invited one of the drummers and the keyboard player from opening act FT (The Shadow Government) plus a bass […]
Foo Fighters Live!
Foo Fighters Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Friday, August 25, 2006 Dave Grohl has unplugged before, and as with Friday, veteran punk guitarist Pat Smear was onstage with him. But for Foo Fighters’ intimate performance at Auditorium Theatre in support of the acoustic half of last fall’s In Your Honor, he didn’t allow it to affect his […]
Assassins Live!
Assassins Schubas, Chicago Saturday, August 26, 2006 While Assassins have played here and there over the past three years, Saturday’s two sets at Schubas was part of a new concept to them– performing in support of an album available for public consumption.
Willie Nelson & John Fogerty live!
Willie Nelson, John Fogerty Charter One Pavilion, Chicago Sunday, August 20, 2006 In the world of double bills, Willie Nelson and John Fogerty doesn’t seem like the most obvious combination, aside from each artist’s affinity for Southern traditions. In Nelson’s case, the American icon has blazed trails mostly in country and folk circles, but has […]
Dixie Chicks Live!
Dixie Chicks United Center, Chicago Tuesday, August 15, 2006 When the Dixie Chicks last rolled through town in 2003, tickets sold out within seconds of being put on sale. But between that day and the actual concert, the group struck up its share of controversy when frontwoman Natalie Maines made negative remarks about President Bush […]
Urge Overkill Live!
Urge Overkill West Fest, Chicago Saturday, August 12, 2006 If you gloss over the lineup for the 10th Annual Hideout Block Party, a fest organized around Touch And Go’s 25th Anniversary celebration, you’ll notice there are a number of bands from the label’s past and present. One notable exception, still banging around, would be Urge […]
Lollapalooza Live Review!
Lollapalooza Grant Park, Chicago August 4, 5, and 6, 2006 In its second year as a Chicago-based, standalone festival, Lollapalooza was a rousing success for nearly all involved. What appeared at first to be a logistical nightmare (the mile distance between the two main stages) proved to be no more than a sweaty inconvenience on […]
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