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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. […]
Gigantour Preview
Gigantour Congress Theatre, Chicago Friday, September 22, 2006 Metal fans have already had The Unholy Alliance tour, then Sounds Of The Underground, then Ozzfest, but Megadeth CEO Dave Mustaine hopes they have energy for just one more big show.
Celtic Frost Preview
Celtic Frost Vic Theatre Saturday, September 23, 2006 Before Tool, Isis, Neurosis, Entombed, and other unconventional metal groups — bands often coined “thinking man’s metal”– there was Celtic Frost.
Cursive, Ladyfingers (NE) Preview
Cursive, Ladyfingers (NE) Metro, Chicago Monday, September 25, 2006 It has been more than three years since Cursive’s last album, The Ugly Organ — an eternity for a band on the fringes of art rock.
The Sadies, Heavy Trash Preview
The Sadies, Heavy Trash Schubas, Chicago Saturday, September 23, 2006 Everyone involved in this performance is best known for something else, including Neko Case, Jon Langford, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Rodney Atkins Reviewed
Rodney Atkins If You’re Going Through Hell (Curb) The title track to this collection has been inescapable on country radio all summer, but what about the rest of Rodney Atkins’ game?
Shaman’s Harvest Reviewed
Shaman’s Harvest March Of The Bastards (Tribal) Talk about book covers: The front artwork, band name, and label apellation all give the hint Shaman’s Harvest are another run-of-the-mill metal act.
Asobi Seksu Reviewed
Asobi Seksu Citrus (Friendly Fire) Japan, colorful as the media make it out to be, can be a pretty fucked-up place. That’s why you have to begrudgingly accept the name Asobi Seksu. It roughly means “playful sex”; there’s nothing sexy about them.
Nitzer Ebb Reviewed
Nitzer Ebb Body Of Work/Body Rework: Remixes (Mute) Personal note where one doesn’t belong: Nitzer Ebb have scared me since I really knew I liked music. I played guitar, put “More Than Words” on tapes for 8th-grade make-out parties, but the yells of “Guns! Guns! Fire! Fire!” genuinely frightened me.
Arling & Cameron Reviewed
Arling & Cameron Hi-Fi Underground (Challenge) Hup Holland, hup. Dutch electro duo Arling & Cameron roll a 12-sided die.
ISIS show tonight!
Beat Kitchen has just announced ISIS will perform tonight, September 19th, at 10 p.m. following their gig last night opening for Tool. Tickets are $12; Yakuza opens.
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 […]
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