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Chicago Rocks Preview
Chicago Rocks Abbey Pub & Metro, Chicago Friday May 12 & Saturday May 13, 2006 Two bones to pick with the Chicago hip-hip production team Molemen (Panik, Memo, and PNS): First, the name of their annual music festival: Chicago Rocks festival? To apply a Kevin Pollack/The Usual Suspects quote to the process of naming this […]
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 […]
Homeless J Preview
Homeless J Elbo Room, Chicago Saturday, April 29, 2006 Homeless J are a band without an identity. Their CD, Three Seconds To Gaze, showcases a group trying to run the gamut of all things rock. Rather than picking a genre, they poorly try their hands at a blending of metal, pop rock, and indie rock.
Office Preview
Office Schubas, Chicago Monday, May 1, 2006 Chicago’s Office, born in a London art school and transplanted by a Michigan native, are the inhabitants of Schubas’ “Practice Space” for May.
Soulfly Preview
Soulfly House Of Blues, Chicago Wednesday, May 3, 2006 The last few years have brought us a number of “classic lineup” metal band reunions, including Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slayer, and Testament. Is it greedy of us to ask for one more?
Crosby Loggins preview
Crosby Loggins & The Leadbirds Double Door, Chicago Thursday, April 20, 2006 If your claim to fame at this point is being the son of Kenny Loggins, how would you handle it?
Eef Barzelay preview
Eef Barzelay Schubas, Chicago Friday, April 21, 2006 It’s not like when you go see Clem Snide you aren’t really there just to see Eef Barzelay anyway — most people think his name is Snide and those other guys are the band. So while this solo LP seems extraneous, keeping it acoustic respectfully nods to […]
Taylor Hawkins preview
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders Double Door, Chicago Sunday, April 23, 2006 Here’s the thing about side projects. They aren’t at least one band member’s main gig so they’re usually pretty awful. That’s not a generalization, I’m not saying all side projects are horrible, just most. Because some members of the band have cushy […]
Edith Frost Preview
Edith Frost Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago Saturday, April 15, 2006 Edith Frost’s disappearance from recording studios after 2001’s Wonder, Wonder (Drag City) was much like Built To Spill’s: unexpected. Frost, who had quietly built a substantial three-album catalog for the label, always swam with some big, creative fishies — Will Oldham, Royal […]
Crüefest Chicago Preview
Crüefest Chicago Saturday, April 15, 2006 Pop’s, Roselle On your Easter weekend, why not spend your Holy Saturday, the day between fasting and worshiping, rocking? Maybe it would be worshiping? Worshiping at the altar of Mötley Crüe.
Spank Rock Preview
Spank Rock Logan Sq. Auditorium, Chicago Tuesday, April 18, 2006 They obviously know who Afrika Bambaataa was, but Spank Rock and “Planet Rock” are light years apart.
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