9/26/07
Schubas Tavern in Chicago
Last Wednesday night at Schubas started off happily enough with the light hearted Australian twee piece The Lucksmiths. I’ve been a fan of The Lucksmiths for a long time and I guess the best way I can think of to describe them is if you took Voxtrot and kept all of [...]
9/21/07 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago
Bonde do Rolê is pretty crazy. The three piece Brazilian band uses samples and has their hands free of actual instruments as they run around the stage doing all sorts of raunchy unspeakable things. The strength of their set lied in their entertainment of the audience including [...]
Lollapalooza in Grant Park
August 3rd, 2007
Yes, yes, I’m still working on Lolla photos. I realize this was well over a month ago but at the same time it’s nice to look back and have these photos. It was day one of three at Lolla and things were starting to settle down just a [...]
9/14/07
Lakeshore Theater in Chicago
Bill Callahan has earned the respect of many in Chicago throughout his history with Smog and now with his solo career. He played songs from both while being accompanied by bass, drums, and violin. Some of the songs, such as “The Well” have an almost plucky old folk sound that [...]
Cabaret Metro in Chicago
9/12/07
I’m a really big fan of all things melodic and reminiscent of the 1960s and so it should come as no surprise that Midlake is one of my favorite modern bands, even if it sounds like they would fit right in to a different era of music for some of their songs. [...]
9/12/07
Cabaret Metro in Chicago
I had a great time seeing Midlake for the second time this year, albeit at a much larger venue yesterday. Their sound has always really appealed to me and it was good to hear them play some of my very favorites off of one of my favorite albums of 2005 The [...]
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 [...]
Chicago, Illinois
9/8/07
I haven’t yet finished all of my Hideout Block Party pictures but I thought it was a great day Saturday. To bring bands from England and Ireland to play with local bands and to give them all a great audience of people wanting to hear them is really a great thing…surely makes the [...]
8/31/07
The Abbey Pub in Chicago
Chicago’s very own two piece Aleks and the Drummer was one of the openers Friday night for The Octopus Project and Stereo Total but Aleks Tomaszewska could have easily passed for the lead singer of a headlining band that night. More dressed up than Françoise Cactus, she came onto the [...]
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 [...]