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Sopro Blues Revue preview
Chicago All Star Blues Revue Tommy’s Place, Blue Island Saturday, November 24, 2007 Chicago Ridge-based Sopro Inc. celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Thanksgiving edition of its Chicago All Star Blues Revue.
Armor For Sleep/Cobra Starship preview
Armor For Sleep, Cobra Starship Riviera, Chicago Saturday, November 24, 2007 All the scene’s other three-word-named bands’ schedules must have conflicted with the Sleeping With Giants (even the tours have three words) tour. How else do you explain Cobra Starship and Sherwood on a bill with The Academy Is, Armor For Sleep, and The Rocket […]
Rock N Rhymes preview
Rock N Rhymes The Kinetic Playground, Chicago Friday, November 16, 2007 The lineup of the first Rock N Rhymes music fest is arguably a little random, but this inaugural show looks to bring a whole lot of lively sets to Uptown’s Kinetic Playground.
Riot Fest preview
Riot Fest Congress, Chicago Saturday, November 17, 2007 Sunday, November 18, 2007 First it was two days. Then one. This year it’s two days again. Riot Fest’s organizers are certainly mindful of a riot’s unpredictability — a streak that thankfully doesn’t wreak havoc on the bands they book.
Vanessa Carlton preview
Vanessa Carlton Park West, Chicago Sunday, November 18, 2007 Stevie Nicks relishes her role as den mother to younger female musicians trying to hold their own in this big bad boys club known as the record industry. The latest cub taken under Nicks’ diaphanous wing is 27-year-old pianist/singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, who had a massive, sugary […]
Dethklok preview
Dethklok Ryan Auditorium, Evanston Sunday, November 18, 2007 Dethklok made history when they released Dethalbum (Williams Street) in September by setting a record unlikely to be broken (except maybe by themselves): The highest-charting death metal album ever!
Buck 65 preview
Buck 65 Reggie’s, Chicago Wednesday, November 21, 2007 If Buck 65 looks kinda geeky for a rapper, it’s because he is. Or maybe he isn’t really a rapper at all?
Oucho Sparks preview
Oucho Sparks Portage Theatre, Chicago Thursday, November 8, 2007 Eight-piece Chicago band Oucho Sparks’ Portage Theatre gig will be their first in three years, but don’t call it a come back. Truth is, the group wasn’t broken up, just taking their sweet time with a new album.
The Section Quartet preview
The Section Quartet Kinetic Playground, Chicago Friday, November 9, 2007 Chances are you’ve heard The Section Quartet without even knowing. Unless, that is, you’ve never heard a song by Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Maroon 5, Kanye West, James Blunt, or Christina Aguilera, just a few of the many big names Section Quartet have worked […]
Do Make Say Think preview
Do Make Say Think Metro, Chicago Saturday, November 10, 2007 Singing! There’s actual singing on Do Make Say Think’s latest, You, You’re A History In Rust (Constellation). O.K., so it isn’t them, but hey. Fives all around?
Menomena preview
Menomena Metro, Chicago Thursday, November 15, 2007 Theoretically, if bands came with instruction manuals they’d be much easier to dissect and disseminate information about. Noooo, not Menomena.
The Whigs preview
The Whigs Schubas, Chicago Friday, November 2, 2007 How do you possibly follow up a record that led Rolling Stone to proclaim you “the best unsigned band in America”? That’s the daunting challenge The Whigs face in January, when their new album is released.
Hellyeah, Otep preview
Hellyeah, Otep House Of Blues, Chicago Sunday, November 4, 2007 After his brother Dimebag Darrell was murdered onstage – right in front of him – in 2004, ex-Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul hinted he would never play music professionally again. There was always the feeling, though, Paul would return, it’s just too bad it […]
Cass McCombs & Euros Childs previews
Cass McCombs/Euros Childs Empty Bottle, Chicago Monday, November 5, 2007/ Tuesday, November 6, 2007 The “singer-songwriter” label frequently oversteps its bounds. In the ’70s it referred directly to the James Taylor/Joni Mitchell/Jackson Browne types, and is used as a perjorative these days to mean any sort of coffeehouse qhinwe. Invoke Elliott Smith at your own […]
Koop preview
Koop Double Door, Chicago Tuesday, November 6, 2007 Koop’s third full-length, Koop Islands (Atlantic), finds the Stockholm-based duo providing a soundtrack to a week-long vacation onboard the “Love Boat.”
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