Well, I began my top 2008 in photos which will continue to be added to throughout the year. For now, you can find pictures of Dresden Dolls (as above), Dan Deacon, Girl Talk, Efterklang, Super Furry Animals, Hayden, Explosions in the Sky, Caribou, Xiu Xiu, Ladytron, Britta Phillips, and more….Images are much larger in [...]
7/7/8
Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park
As part of the Pitchfork presents lunchtime series “Audible Architecture” series, Le Loup returned to Chicago (having played Schubas at the end of March). After seeing them in a relatively smaller space earlier, I wasn’t sure how it would sound in such a large open area. Coming off as [...]
Many thinks to the lovely women at Venus Magazine who worked very hard to get me a photopass for The Magnetic Fields show at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. The lighting was rather dim and my camera shutter felt louder than it had ever been (I’m actually looking into a camera silencer…) [...]
I know I have been rather lax lately in my posting but summer festivals are right around the corner and what better way to say hello to spring and hope eternal than reminisce about the old times and look forward to the new. Here’s the 14 picture photoset of Canada’s Tokyo Police Club photographed [...]
(from Chicago)
If I had to put together my top shows of 2008, there would be some I don’t have photos of, like Low at the Metro or The Raveonettes at the Empty Bottle, for example. I’ve been lucky enough to get to see many shows over the course of the last year that I [...]
It seems appropriate that I welcome the new year of 2008 with photos of the Stooges. This year should come in like a riot and introduce political change. We have to stop being complacent and demand out governments to be responsible for the lives of its own citizens and what they do in [...]
12/6/7 Cubby Bear in Chicago
It’s always a little surreal to see the actors you’ve watched on screen standing two feet in front of you to begin with. John C. Reilly’s performance heightened this father as an over the top and frequently lewd escapade that left the audience guessing what he might say or do [...]
9/8/7 Hideout in Chicago, Illinois
Guitarkestra
It began with Guitarkestra…a group of musicians gathering together with assorted howls and drumming in order to celebrate a unified strumming. It felt a bit surreal under the bright blue sky to have a bunch of guitarists and their instruments (not to mention amps) in the parking lot the Hideout [...]
8/30/07 at Schubas Tavern in Chicago
Appearing as five proper members with a string section (three violinist and one cellist), Los Angeles’s Earlimart took to the stage on Thursday night to promote songs from their newest album Mentor Tormentor. Layering the air with pedal effects, Earlimart has always reminded me both live and album a [...]
(the most recent one)
Well who doesn’t love Suede’s Dog Man Star?These songs really permeate you. I get the sense that these weren’t necessarily big radio hits but perhaps it is better that way.
Julie Doiron is actually coming to Chicago on Friday It will be my first time seeing her at S. Union Arts and I [...]