Live Reviews
Donovan Live
Donovan Park West, Chicago Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Outside of a brief run of chart hits in the ’60s, Donovan Leitch’s legacy has been as the archetype of prosaic, hippy pop. His wispy, English melodies and faux acid-trip imagery drew the ire of rock critics, consigning him to the dustbin and a happenstance association with […]
Iron & Wine/Calexico live
Iron & Wine/Calexico, Red Red Meat Congress Theatre, Chicago Sunday, December 11, 2005 Someone once told me listening to Sam Beam (a.k.a. Iron & Wine) made him feel “like winter.” He would have found it fitting then, that the night Iron & Wine and Calexico hit town for their In The Reins tour (in support […]
Cameron McGill & What Army live
Cameron McGill & What Army Schubas, Chicago Wednesday, December 7, 2005 A native of Champaign-Urbana, Cameron McGill began his musical career as frontman of pop-rock trio Morris Minors. The band released an EP in 2002 before splitting the following year. McGill went on to record his solo album, Stories Of The Knife And The Back […]
Fiona Apple Live
Fiona Apple Riviera Theatre, Chicago Sunday, December 4, 2005 Will the real Fiona Apple please stand up, please stand up? Overlooked in the hoopla surrounding the long-awaited release of her Extraordinary Machine is Apple’s renaissance as a songwriter. Formerly the precocious and bratty wunderkind whose only real problem in relationships was herself, the “new” album […]
Sinead O’Connor live
Sinead O’Connor Vic Theatre, Chicago Tuesday, November 29, 2005 With a fiercely defiant attitude and a powerful voice to match, Sinead O’Connor may be one of the most interesting female artists in the modern rock world. From her refusal to perform following the “Star Spangled Banner” to her much maligned tearing apart a picture of […]
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