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Apostle Of Hustle live
Apostle Of Hustle Schubas, Chicago Wednesday, June 27, 2007 The clattering sonic wake of Broken Social Scene has never been useful when trying to account for its parts. It’s hard enough to track the contributions of Leslie Feist or Stars or Metric — forget lesser-known quantities like Andrew Whiteman, aka Apostle Of Hustle.
women in docs preview
women in docs National Women’s Festival, Bloomington Thursday, July 5, 2007 Friday, July 6, 2007 The duo known as women in docs sound exactly the way you might imagine given their moniker and the photo sent alongside the album in the press kit. Yes, we’ve all been told not to judge a book by its […]
Sage Francis preview
Sage Francis Abbey Pub, Chicago Friday, July 6th, 2007 Saturday, July 7th, 2007 Make no mistake, Sage Francis, who won 1999’s Superbowl Battle and 2000’s Scribble Jam, considers himself retired from competitive battle rapping. “Won the biggest battle in a Metallica shirt before the album dropped/a week later smashed the trophy at a show/it was […]
Ozma preview
Ozma Beat Kitchen, Chicago Saturday, July 7, 2007 Sound-wise, the parallels between Weezer and Ozma should be enough. If one of them have a “z” in their name, so do the other. Rivers Cuomo even speaks of Ozma in an iTunes store blurb as “beating me at my own game.” In 2007, Weezer’s “Beverly Hills” […]
Rasputina preview
Rasputina, Jana Hunter Abbey Pub, Chicago Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Despite plenty of big-name fans and more than a few brushes with stardom, Melora Creager and her band, Rasputina, remain just under the radar, one of those bands said to have a “cult following.”
T.I. live!
T.I. Riviera, Chicago Wednesday, June 20, 2007 While not marketed as a “secret” show, the location of rapper T.I.’s free MySpace performance wasn’t made available until the day before. But that didn’t stop his fans from arriving in throngs — lining up the entire stretch of the 4700 block of Magnolia around Lawrence, all the […]
oh my god preview
oh my god Schubas, Chicago Thursday, June 28th & Friday, June 29th, 2007 Chicago band oh my god, long revered for their wacky drums/bass/organ lineup, finally take the leap and add geetar to the mix. Does this mean conformity for these proud weirdoes? Hardly.
Cealed Kasket preview
Cealed Kasket Otto’s, DeKalb Friday, June 29, 2007 Double Door, Chicago Saturday, June 30, 2007 Like a weightlifting, protein shake-pounding, barbed-wire armband-wearing man unable to confess his secret love of figure skating, it can be tough for heavy metal fans to admit the silliness of some of the music they, and the bands they love, […]
Great Lake Swimmers preview
Great Lake Swimmers Schubas, Chicago Saturday, June 30, 2007 From an audio standpoint, it might feel like Great Lake Swimmers will have just blown into town on Saturday.
The Mooney Suzuki preview
The Mooney Suzuki Subterranean, Chicago Wednesday, July 4, 2007 It’d be a better world if we all took the tired-ass advice of ESPN anchor Stuart Scott, who is fond of saying “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Still, it’s hard to dredge up the kind of sympathy for The Mooney Suzuki we afford most […]
Buju Banton preview
Buju Banton African Caribbean Festival Of Life, Chicago Wednesday, July 4, 2007 While Sean Paul or Elephant Man may be more visible to American fans, when it comes to dancehall icon status, nobody can overshadow Buju Banton.
HotHouse Goes Cold
Chicago’s famed cultural institution, HotHouse, shuts the doors of its South Loop location at 31 E. Balbo Drive at the end of July. Monday’s announcement came on the heels of a settlement in the 2005 lawsuit the Center For International Performance And Exhibition filed against the building’s landlord.
Morningbell reviewed
Morningbell Through The Belly Of The Sea (self) Whether it’s the first of its kind can be left to the Talmuds. The fact is Morningbell’s third album connects back to those morbid books of yore: Choose Your Own Adventure.
Deftones live!
Deftones Riviera, Chicago Friday, June 15, 2007 For a fair amount of time, the Deftones were facing their share of setbacks. Frontman Chino Moreno’s battle with alcoholism while touring behind the group’s celebrated 2000 release, White Pony, was hardly a secret. And tensions were said to run high within the Deftones camp during 2003’s self-titled […]
Robert Earl Keen/Tift Merritt live!
Robert Earl Keen Joe’s, Chicago Saturday, June 16, 2007 Tift Merritt Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago Sunday, June 17, 2007 It goes without saying us hipsters in the upper Midwest prefer a more interesting brand of country music. But often shut out of our system are fringe players who aren’t radical enough for […]
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