Tag: The Smiths

Cover Story: Fig Dish • Renewal and Rejuvenation

Brassneck | August 31, 2024 | 0 Comments

There’s an electricity in the air of late, bristling arm hairs here in Chicago. There’s the injection of HGH into the DNC going into their convention. The recent acknowledgment that the music industry spotlight is once again illuminating Chicago’s rock music scene in a seemingly cyclical fashion. Then there’s the excitement brewing about Fig Dish, […]

Stage Buzz Q&A: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans • Vic Theatre February 7 • Chicago

Brassneck | February 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

English band the Charlatans (aka The Charlatans U.K.) came of age with 1990’s Some Friendly. The album featured the organ-fueled alternative rock hit “The Only One I Know,” which nodded to classics by the Byrds and Deep Purple. The quintet’s sound was bundled into the era’s Madchester scene, with danceable house rhythms, R&B grooves, […]

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 9-November 14 • Pitchfork Music Fest London, Johnny Marr, Adult Swim Fest., Andrew McMahon, Chase Atlantic Live from the Riviera Theatre, Welcome To Rockville Festival

Brassneck | November 8, 2021 | 0 Comments

Electronic post-punk pioneers New Order performed last Saturday, November 6, to a sold-out O2 crowd in London during their livestream; you can still catch the replay until Tuesday, November 9. Get Tickets here. Flymachine presents X Ambassadors: “The Beautiful Liar Tour.” The band will perform live from November 9 at The Truman in Kansas City. […]

Live Review and Photo Gallery: Johnny Marr at The Vic Theatre

Brassneck | May 15, 2019 | 0 Comments

Johnny Marr The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL Monday, May 13, 2019 Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr’s last appearance in Chicago was a short-but-sweet set under the afternoon sun in Douglas Park at Riot Fest. This brief blast of Eurocentric alt-pop was timed to help introduce new material from 2018’s Call the Comet, the third in […]

Cover Story: Johnny Marr

Brassneck | September 13, 2018 | 0 Comments

Johnny Marr just made the best record of his life. And he knows it. Dubbed Call the Comet, it’s the ex-Smith guitarist’s third, following 2013’s The Messenger and 2014’s Playland. And it finds him: Lyrically delving into grim socio-political issues that he’d often avoided; Letting his axe provide the chiming hooks in places instead of […]