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It’s too early!
This time of year makes us nervous. Yes, the presence of pumpkins in the stores gives that Halloween feel, but we could swear we saw a Christmas store in the corner of our eye yesterday. Run to concert halls and save yourselves!
Welcome back, summer!
Yes, we know how lame it is to talk about the weather. Older generations and the upper classes consider it vulgar.
Land Of Talk/Shonen Knife preview
Falling in with the hidden-track sweepstakes (please, a revival that should stop already) come Land Of Talk, who seemed destined for the alt-pop dustbin just a couple years ago.
So it begins
Shows have been trickling in. The theory is once the Lollapalooza and Pitchfork radius clauses (radii clausi?) fizzle, that’s when the shows begin their annual, fall stampede. We used to blame it on the CMJ fest in New York. Whatever it is, it’s decision time.
Zodiac killers
Right about now’s when we’d be pimping the Hideout Block Party to you, kissing summer goodbye, and slowly drifting home while running our hand across the iron fences of our neighbors.
End of days
All of this weekend ahead of us, and it’s Monday we want to talk about? Uhhhh, is that a problem? Cuz we really will thump you so hard!
Under the Sonar
If Sonar Festival represents the future of music this weekend, we have a pair of acts playing Friday night for those of you who fear change.
Sonar Festival preview
Apparently more than a couple people in the electronic-music community – especially in the international sphere – think it’s more than a little odd we don’t have a concordant festival celebrating our role in house and industrial (line-dancing not so much).
North Coast Music Festival preview!
Between the reoccurring titans (Lollapalooza, Pitchfork) of the multi-day fests and the up-and-comers (Metronome), the scope of live music outdoors this summer was immense. Yet the brand new North Coast Music Festival, headlined by Nas and Damian Marley, is out to prove there’s a void to be filled on this crowded scene.
Stereo Total preview
It’s either the mark of insanity or artistry that once people get a sense of what you’re about and move on that you keep on going with it anyway.
Tub Ring preview
The Internet invites laziness but also makes life harder for procrasinators. Answers to problems (how to get that funk off the stove top, your dentist’s phone number) are a search engine away. And then there’s music.
Chicago’s Finest Hour preview
High ticket prices raise expectation levels regarding set lengths, not just at the arena level. But nothing really beats the 45-minute set.
Lou Barlow goes back to mom and dad’s
Catastrophe would have struck had J. Mascis not banished Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr. Infuriated, Barlow focused his Sentridoh side-gig and began to foment what would become Sebadoh and ostensibly Folk Implosion.
Midweek bliss
Dan Mangan and Ray LaMontagne are here this week, and neither’s particularily ready to let you into his singer/songwritin’ heart.
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