4/25/08
The Note in Chicago
Although it’s technically true to say that Earth is a drone band, this genre doesn’t fully describe their sound. There are many drone bands that tend to come off as just downright noise based or trying to be more experimental than anything else. Though this instrumental four piece from Seattle [...]
Empty Bottle in Chicago
4/11/08
I already wrote an essay on Caribou back when I blogged about them in November of 2007 here so I will keep this short. Back at that show, I had Pertussis and did not even realize it (my Dr. was also clueless) and spent the majority of their set throwing up in [...]
4/1/08
Congress Theater in Chicago
The genre of post rock has always been a curious one… It’s almost as if it implies that rock music has disappeared off of the face of the Earth. I always feel like I’ve missed some catastrophic event, as if I was in a coma the day the aliens came and [...]
3/28/08
Schubas Tavern
It’s always something to be ecstatic about when you run into a lineup as exceptional as this one last Friday night at Schubas Tavern. The Ruby Suns dimmed the lights but brought out some fantastic psychedelic melodies. Le Loup played a joyfully energetic set as well, definitely not disappointing the crowd in [...]
3/26/o8
Schubas Tavern in Chicago
Headlining a sold out show at Schubas, Beach House fans surely echoed the Devotion. Though I’d seen them two previous times, once opening for The Clientele at the Subterranean and another time playing Pitchfork music festival last summer, this third time at Schubas felt more right than either of the previous. [...]
3/24/08
Empty Bottle in Chicago
Once in awhile, you get to experience a band that you know without a doubt is going to become bigger than a small club will ever allow. I felt that way when I saw The Shins at Schubas and around this time last year when I saw Peter, Bjorn and John [...]
March 17th, 2008
Schubas Tavern in Chicago
This happens year after year: winter wears on me. I feel so sick of the snow, the howling wind, the feeling of cold in my bones that I can’t keep out with a million radiators. I ask myself, “Why do I live in this cold city?” And [...]
3/8/08
Schubas Tavern in Chicago
This was a fantastic night of music, headed by Seattle’s Grand Archives, a five piece led by Matt Brooke, previously of Band of Horses and Carissa’s Weird. Grand Archives stays truer to form to Carissa’s Weird with more of the darker introspective sense than the overblown rock band I’ve always found [...]
I’ve got a problem. You see, about five or six years ago, I discovered the fantastically weird world of the Super Furry Animals, led by Gruff Rhys and I can’t get his songs out of my head. It was spring in the year 2000 and everywhere, things were starting to grow again. I [...]
2/16/08
Cabaret Metro in Chicago
I hold these truths to be self evident: 1. The Super Furry Animals are one of the top ten bands of all time. 2. The Super Furry Animals put on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen. 3. Out of all of the bands putting out music in [...]