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Riverboat Gamblers CD Review
Riverboat Gamblers To The Confusion Of Our Enemies (Volcom/East West) With all the casual, fancy-pantsin’ indie rockers roaming the slacker streets of Austin, Texas, it’s a surprise there aren’t more Riverboat Gamblers running amok.
Pretty Girls Make Graves preview
Pretty Girls Make Graves, Giant Drag Metro, Chicago Friday, May 5, 2006 Pretty Girls Make Graves’ third album is a reckoning of sorts for their fans. It’s a long road back to their early calling as a Murder City Devils side project, or as a spunky, female-fronted alternative to At The Drive-In. Élan Vital (Matador) […]
Dragonforce preview
Dragonforce Metro, Chicago Saturday, May 6, 2006 It takes a certain level of proficiency to be a U.K. metal band and sound continental. By gum, Dragonforce are at that level.
Duenow, Pay Later
Duenow Elbo Room, Chicago Saturday, March 6, 2006 Because Zach Duenow plays guitar and sings in the band that bears his last name, and his wife, Dorothea, is the group’s drummer, it’s a safe bet Duenow have and will receive far too many comparisons to a certain other (one-time) husband/wife, guitar/drums rock duo.
Kathy? A Go-Go?
Kathy Valentine Schubas, Chicago Saturday, May 6, 2006 Former Go-Go Kathy Valentine comes to Chicago with Blondie’s Clem Burke, the Bangles’ Abby Travis, and Jason DeCorse of Lo Mass Republic.
Exodus preview
Exodus Pearl Room, Mokena Wednesday, May 10, 2006 In November 2004, during Megadeth’s headlining set of their Chicago Blackmail The Universe tour stop, Dave Mustaine told the Riviera crowd the Big Four (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer) should have been called the Big Five to include the night’s opening band, Exodus. Then, the Bay Area thrash […]
Hip Hop Seminar
EDUCATION & ENTERTAINMENT Want to know the ins and outs of the urban entertainment industry? If so the Columbia College Urban Music Association will host the two-day Urban Entertainment Seminar this week to inform the uninformed and give aspiring superstars the chance to be seen and heard.
I said Pete. Not Bob.
Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia) On what’s probably the most alive Springsteen has sounded on record in at least 20 years, The Boss makes known his protest via Pete Seeger’s firebrand tongue.
Is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
The Heavy Blinkers The Night And I Are Still So Young (Endearing/Cooking Vinyl) Somehow it never seemed possible Brian Wilson’s creations could use a couple more tracks in the mix. The Heavy Blinkers beg to differ.
You Charlatans!
The Charlatans U.K. Simpatico (Sanctuary) Finally bored with the stadium rock they’ve been touting since their mid-’90s renaissance, those darling Charlatans overdo a Carribbean fetish.
Naughty Timmons
Andy Timmons Band Resolution (Favored Nations) Former Danger Danger (“Naughty Naughty”) guitarist Andy Timmons and his sack full of Joe Satriani licks hogs the spotlight on this “band” project.
Sweet James
Denise James Promises (Rainbow Quartz) Everything’s waiting for Denise James . . . downtown.
Loves of a Feather
The Lovely Feathers Hind Hind Legs (Equator) Blah blah blah . . . Quintet The Lovely Feathers . . . blah blah blah . . . quirky indie rock . . . Montreal . . . blah blah blah . . . buddies with Metric and the Broken Social Scene enclave.
Popsicle go the weasals
Diamond Nights Popsicle (Kemado) Now we have time to step back from the winking, ultra-glam nonsense brought on by The Darkness and Louis XIV, we can see where Diamond Nights fit. Appearing: May 7th at Subterranean in Chicago.
Jon Langford, Cowboy Jack Clement Live!
Jon Langford, Cowboy Jack Clement Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago Sunday, April 23, 2006 For April’s installment of his country music series, Robbie Fulks pulled together two of its most disparate elements: one making his millionth appearance in Chicago, another who had never performed here once.
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