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Dresden Dolls preview
The Dresden Dolls Metro, Chicago Friday, April 7, 2006 And you thought Nickelback was out of place on Roadrunner Records? On a label known for ultra-heavy bands like Slipknot, Sepultura, and Type O Negative, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione, the two musicians who make up The Dresden Dolls, don’t fit in. Then again, we don’t […]
Langhorne/Hunter preview
Langhorne Slim/Jana Hunter Beat Kitchen/Schubas, Chicago Friday, April 7, 2006 Langhorne Slim and Jana Hunter really don’t have much in common musically, unless you count being solo performers bastardizing old folk idioms. One’s a baby-faced loverman the other’s burdened with being the record label premiere overseen by some fanciful hipsters.
Glam preview
Boss Martians, The Sirens Viaduct Theater, Chicago Saturday, April 8, 2006 If The Darkness were an all-female band with a punk edge fronted by a Joan Jett kind of gal they wouldn’t be The Darkness, they’d be The Sirens. Opening for the next Killers-Strokes-Muse posse, Boss Martians, The Sirens justifiably may steal Saturday’s show at […]
Superelectropreview
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid Empty Bottle, Chicago Wednesday, April 5, 2006 “All tracks are live takes with no overdubs or edits.” This sentence seems to be the mission statement of The Exchange Session Vol.1(Domino). It appears on both the CD insert and press release. A completely improvised, unedited blend of drums, percussion, and electronics, […]
Liz Janes & Create(!), Half-Handed Cloud Preview
Liz Janes & Create(!), Half-Handed Cloud Empty Bottle, Chicago Thursday, March 30, 2006 Asthmatic Kitty labelmates (home to Sufjan Stevens) rep the label on a Midwest jaunt, pulling on separate ends of Stevens’ nostalgic Americana.
Cracker Preview
Cracker Durty Nellie’s, Palatine Saturday, April 1, 2006 We were always sort of impartial to alt-rockers Cracker, who gained fame via a string of hits in the early ’90s. Sure, “Low” got on our nerves to the point that even today we change the station when it comes on the radio, but they weren’t the […]
Cindy Woolf Preview
Cindy Woolf Schubas, Chicago Saturday, April 1, 2006 Although nothing terribly unique or groundbreaking, bluegrass singer-songwriter Cindy Woolf possesses a couple things that many of her country contemporaries sorely lack: sincerity and heart.
Kelley Stoltz, Page France Preview
Kelley Stoltz, Page France Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, March 4, 2006 Studio wonk Kelley Stoltz, though he has toured extensively, won’t be one of those cats who’ll credit his modest victories to breaking his back on the road. No, his is a tale of the magic LP that had to circumscribe the globe before he could […]
Flook preview
Flook Old Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago Friday, March 24, 2006 St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone leaving in its aftermath empty Guinness bottles and hung-over South Siders, but just because the celebration of the patron saint of Ireland has ended doesn’t mean Chicago is now a jig-free zone. On Friday, Flook, a […]
Taylor Hollingsworth preview
Taylor Hollingsworth Martyrs’, Chicago Friday, March 24 & Saturday, March 25, 2006 Taylor Hollingsworth proves you can’t judge a young singer-songwriter by his CD cover.
American Minor preview
American Minor Elbo Room, Chicago Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Recalling the halcyon days of Humble Pie and Free, when everyone’s idea of rock ‘n’ roll heaven was guitars through Marshalls, lead singers with scratchy vocals, and skinny band boys tossing long hair, American Minor arrive. On their recently released self-titled debut, American Minor, they play […]
They Have The Blues
Soledad Brothers Empty Bottle, Chicago Thursday, March 16, 2006 Soledad Brothers, like a lot of Detroit blues-dipped rock bands, received a significant profile boost when The White Stripes became megastars in the early ’00s. The minimalist approach to rock music was chic, and bands across the country tried to sculpt a garage rock sound like […]
Coming To A TV Near You
The Spinto Band Metro, Chicago Saturday, March 18, 2006 Schubas, Chicago Sunday, March 19, 2006 Bad news for Nick Krill, Thomas Hughes, Jon Eaton, Jeff Hobson, Sam Hughes, Joe Hobson, and Albert Birney, also known as The Spinto Band, effective this fall the WB will be no more.
Todd Martin Preview
Todd Martin Uncommon Ground, Chicago Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Drawing obvious influence from this generation’s lite rockers (Howie Day, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Counting Crows), Todd Martin doesn’t aim to high on Time For Good. But he is most certainly aiming and the genre has shown itself capable of supporting this amiable, if anonymous songwriting.
Lee Rocker Struts into Town
Lee Rocker FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Friday, March 10, 2006 Although he might say otherwise, it had to be tough for former Stray Cat Lee Rocker to live in the professional shadow of Brian Setzer. You think Stray Cats, and you automatically think Setzer. It’s natural, like pulling up your pants after using the bathroom. Even though […]
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