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Aesop Rock preview
Aesop Rock Metro, Chicago Thursday, September 13, 2007 A decade in the can, Aesop Rock is still one of the biggest fish in indie rap. Back when he started, the failure to gain at least a modicum of mainstream attention would have signalled failure; nowadays people are ready to hand him a gold watch.
Powersolo
Powersolo Schubas, Chicago Friday, September 14, 2007 Tunes about truckin,’ fuckin’, and NASCAR, mopey C&W, amphetamine-laced rockabilly, and a jewel-case picture of the band hanging off a tractor in the middle of a farm field. Where else could Powersolo call home than Aarhus, Denmark?
17 Hippies preview
17 Hippies World Music Festival, Chicago Sunday, September 16, 2007 Tuesday, September 18, 2007 17 Hippies are sort of liars, or maybe more like embellishers. They aren’t really hippies, first off, and there aren’t really 17 people in the band. Only 13, actually.
Jamie T. Preview
Jamie T. Schubas, Chicago Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Like the characters in Gary Oldman’s gritty 1997 directorial debut, Nil By Mouth, the subjects populating Jamie T.’s (Treays) inaugural full-length, Panic Prevention (Caroline), just want to get fucking wasted.
Okkervil River preview
Okkervil River Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago Tuesday, September 18, 2007 For their fourth LP, Austin’s Okkervil River latch onto the age-old “life is a stage” theme. Unlike Bill Shakespeare, whose poetic constructions were a mirror celebration of life’s complexities, OR frontman Will Sheff takes a decidedly bleaker view and only continues to hold a pen […]
Devendra Banhart preview
Devendra Banhart Portage Theater, Chicago Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Devendra Banhart will probably never change from the 2004 version, as far as the public is concerned. He’ll always be the wild-eyed, freakishly hirsute international hippie who briefly lit a spark under indie rockers’ dormant appreciation for out-there folk music. He won’t be no damned rock […]
Akron/Family preview
Akron/Family Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago Friday, September 7, 2007 With four days until the release of their fourth album, this nigh-comically unhinged quartet will come to Chicago and nearly come together.
Signing Choir preview
Signing Choir Schubas, Chicago Saturday, September 8, 2007 The old joke often holds true for actors: they really just want to direct. So, one wonders if the same adage hovers over musicians. Does the bass player in a band really just want to take on the role of lead singer?
Animal Collective preview
Animal Collective Vic Theatre, Chicago Monday, September 10, 2007 Of all the bands whose sound wicks comparison to Talking Heads, only Animal Collective seem to have the spirit down (wildly ambitious and shaking nervously). But for the upcoming Strawberry Jam (Fat Cat), another distinct influence emerges: The Beach Boys.
Biffy Clyro preview
Biffy Clyro Park West, Chicago Tuesday, September 11, 2007 This isn’t your little brother’s Roadrunner Records anymore, and the release of Biffy Clyro’s newest album further proves it.
Scenes From A Movie preview
Scenes From A Movie Beat Kitchen, Chicago Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Hate Fall Out Boy? Man, might as well know from the get go, Scenes From A Movie is going to make your blood boil.
The Bronx, The Last Vegas preview
The Bronx, The Last Vegas Double Door, Chicago Thursday, August 30, 2007 According to their Web site, The Bronx hope to have two new (though not a double album, mind you) records out by the end of the summer. This makes us happy. But the fact the band claim one of them (El Bronx) will […]
Stereo Total, Avagami preview
Stereo Total/Avagami Abbey Pub/Darkroom, Chicago Friday, August 31, 2007/ Sunday, September 2, 2007 At their cores, Stereo Total and Avagami have little in common. Total are a French/German duo who have been terrorizing sound for more than a decade, poking and prodding punk and electro as if it were their birthright. Avagami are a barely […]
Confederate Railroad preview
Confederate Railroad Grayville Days, Grayville IL Saturday, September 1, 2007 In his song “Hank Williams, Junior,” David Allan Coe said “A little bit of Waylon sure goes a long way.” Confederate Railroad agree, but would also add Coe and Jr. themselves, Billy Joe Shaver, and The Charlie Daniels Band as well.
Marissa Nadler preview
Marissa Nadler Ronny’s, Chicago Wednesday, September 5, 2007 A certain air surrounds singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler. Call it gothic, spacy, or just a plumb fit for a noir horror film, the Massachusetts-bred artist doesn’t shy away from any of these styles on her third full-length release, Songs III: Bird On The Water (Kemado).
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