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Xavier Rudd preview
Xavier Rudd Park West, Chicago Tuesday, June 19, 2007 What a hippie. Australian/Canadian multi-instrumentalist Xavier Rudd rallies around a variety of causes stretching from the environment to the unfair treatment of his native homeland’s indigenous people on his third U.S. release, White Moth (Anti), due Tuesday.
Brighton, MA preview
Brighton, MA Subterranean, Chicago Friday, June 8, 2007 Rare was a time in 2004 when we didn’t preview a show on this Web site that wasn’t somehow connected to locals The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir. So ubiquitous were they in North Side clubs we considered not promoting shows they were opening. By headlining Subterranean on […]
Chicago Rocks preview
Chicago Rocks Abbey Pub Metro, Chicago June 8 and 9, 2007 Now in its fifth year, the Chicago Rocks festival remains the biggest and best showcase of our city’s hip-hop talent. This two-night event thrown by local production team The Molemen (Panik, PNS, and Memo) is the one occasion where you’re guaranteed to see acts […]
Page McConnell preview
Page McConnell Vic Theatre, Chicago Wednesday, June 13, 2007 Page McConnell’s first solo album following the termination of Phish and the postponement of Vida Blue is all about beginning anew — though the past is involved as well.
Memphis preview
Memphis Schubas, Chicago Wednesday, June 13, 2007 You can take the singer out of the band, but you can’t take the band out of the singer. Torquil Campbell took on a side project to fiddle with while his Canadian collective Stars instituted a respite. The result is Memphis, a spacy, airy outfit along with childhood […]
The Rosebuds/Clientele preview
The Rosebuds, The Clientele Subterranean, Chicago Friday, June 1, 2007 Saturday, June 2, 2007 If Merge Records were a television station, Spoon and The Arcade Fire would be its primetime programming, while The Rosebuds (Friday) and The Clientele (Saturday) would take care of the late-night dance party.
Wheat preview
Wheat Empty Bottle, Chicago Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Despite a plethora of avenues to utilize when releasing new music, bands still envision getting signed to a major label as the epitome of tangible success. But what happens when the major label dream comes to fruition, yet peters out in a pale glow of disappointment? The […]
ALO preview
ALO Martyrs’, Chicago Thursday, May 24, 2007 Hanging out with surfer-dude-to-the-extreme Jack Johnson isn’t all fun and games. Or at least that’s the vibe emitting from the new album by ALO, Roses & Clover (Brushfire).
Joss Stone, Ryan Shaw preview
Joss Stone, Ryan Shaw House Of Blues, Chicago Wednesday, May 30, 2007 The story behind the title of British soul singer Joss Stone’s third album, Introducing Joss Stone, is easy enough to understand: “It’s the first album that is truly me,” she says in the album’s press materials.
Grand Champeen preview
Grand Champeen Hideout, Chicago Thursday, May 17, 2007 Grand Champeen, it seems, aren’t fond of computers. At least not for recording purposes. Let us emphasize, because they sure do in their press materials, Grand Champeen’s Dial “T” For This was recorded and mixed directly to tape, and all sounds/instruments heard on the record were created […]
All Smiles preview
All Smiles, Sea Wolf Empty Bottle, Chicago Saturday, May 19, 2007 Eschewing the ambitious prog and conceptual geekiness of Grandaddy, Jim Fairchild tries on shoes in a fictional store that would probably cater to George Harrison or Joe Pernice.
Mice Parade preview
Mice Parade Schubas, Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2007 We aren’t sure what an actual parade of mice would sound like (unless Speedy Gonzalez was the grand marshall), but it would likely be pretty quiet. Probably a lot like Mice Parade the band.
Brandi Carlile preview
Brandi Carlile Schubas, Chicago May 11 to 13, 2007 Something must be in the water out in the Pacific Northwest because, in the wake of Neko Case, another beguiling songstress with aching vocals and a keen sense of melancholy arrives with a compelling sophomore effort.
Coyote Bones preview
Coyote Bones The Note, Chicago Saturday, May 12, 2007 Coyote Bones, the recording pseudonym for former Jet By Day members David Matysiak and Mason Brown, went with a gimmick for their debut album, and now must translate “on the road” to the road.
Lifesavas preview
Lifesavas Subterranean, Chicago Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Portland-based hip-hop trio Lifesavas reemerge with the soundtrack to an aborted blaxploitation film, filling in the crevasses with an eclectic sampling of styles — all except the one you’d most expect.
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