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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.
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 […]
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