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Wise In Time
Wise In Time The Ballad Of The Den Men (Crammed/Ryko) Former Juryman Ian Simmonds takes the dark roads through Bristol.
Hunters, Run! review
Hunters, Run! Broken Sounds (self released) Falling asleep making lo-fi bedroom rock and dreaming of stadium glory.
Jeffrey Luck Lucas review
Jeffrey Luck Lucas What We Whisper (Antebellum) An album that is on no schedule whatsoever and will get there when it friggin’ gets there.
The Finals review
The Finals Plan Your Getaway (Immortal) New Jersey pop punks avoid the teen and O.C. clichés, opting for an effective, if frill-less formula.
Melissa Etheridge Live!
Melissa Etheridge Auditorium Theatre, Chicago Thursday, July 20, 2006 Chances are Melissa Etheridge wouldn’t have had any trouble selling tickets to three nights at the Auditorium Theatre on her own, though it’s safe to say she found additional leverage from the Gay Games being in town last week. “You have a very gay city at […]
The Sword Live!
The Sword Subterranean, Chicago Monday, July 24, 2006 A funny thing happened after The Sword finished their second song Monday night: An audience member, standing toward the front of a packed Subterranean crowd, yelled “Black Sabbath” loud enough for everyone to hear. Sword frontman/guitarist J.D. Cronise smiled as he quipped, “No. We’re The Sword.”
DeVotchKa Live!
DeVotchKa Subterranean, Chicago Friday, July 21, 2006 When a band arrives onstage bearing a Christmas light-bedecked tuba played by a woman, you know you’re in for a good time.
Ane Brun, The Wood Brothers Preview
Ane Brun, The Wood Brothers Park West, Chicago Friday, July 28, 2006 The biggest Scandinavian singer-songstress you never heard and one half of Medeski, Martin & Wood on the same stage!
Early Man, Bad Wizard Preview
Early Man, Bad Wizard Subterranean, Chicago Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Early Man nearly weren’t going to be part of this package for the Chicago stop. A complete van breakdown left them stranded in Texas for three days and the rest of their tour in question. But, thanks to a gun-toting, beer-guzzling local (not enough room […]
Warped Tour Preview
Vans Warped Tour First Midwest Ampitheatre Sunday, July 30, 2006 Next month’s Lollapalooza features an amazing (overwhelming?) 130 bands in three days. The Vans Warped Tour says big fucking deal.
Honeytribe Preview
Honeytribe Porter’s, Crystal Lake Saturday, July 29, 2006 Devon Allman, scion of Gregg, is most definitely his father’s son.
Phoenix Preview
Phoenix Double Door, Chicago Friday, July 28, 2006 Transforming from Air’s understudies to a French pop band who don’t need to have the “French” part underscored, Phoenix’s transformation turned them into album-of-the-year candidates.
Tim Lee/Grant Lee-Buffalo Preview
Grant Lee-Buffalo Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, August 1, 2006 As a member of college rock also-rans The Windbreakers, Tim Lee (7/28, Martyrs’) fought the good fight. Grant-Lee Phillips’ (8/1, Schubas) Grant Lee Buffalo had a modicum more of acceptance, but likewise couldn’t crack the mainstream. Those days long gone, the road never leaves them.
George Thorogood & The Destroyers Preview
George Thorogood & The Destroyers House Of Blues, Chicago Sunday, July 30, 2006 The book was closed on George Thorogood long ago. So why does he continue to release albums? B-b-b-b-b-bad!
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Mock ‘Em
IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, MOCK ‘EM Rockapalooza at the Arcada Theatre: Call it the Lollapalooza of tribute bands.
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