Tomorrow Never Knows Music Festival
Schubas 1/13/6
This very newly formed Chicago band (they don’t even have an ep out but one will soon be released on Parasol. Let the breath holding begin now!) had the lushest and fullest of melodies. It’s a large band of seven people with nice violin and keyboards adding to [...]
Tomorrow Never Knows Festival
Schubas 1/13/6
At first I wasn’t so sure about the name of this band but actually it’s a very appropriate one. Spinto apparently refers to a voice or vocal qualities that are dramatic, show range, and have an edge. But to sum up The Spinto Band with this wouldn’t be fair [...]
(Tomorrow Never Knows Music Festival)
Schubas 1/12/6
Andrew Morgan has been a long time favorite of mine in Chicago. Misadventures in Radiology was recorded in Elliot Smith’s LA New Monkey Studio in 2003 and there is a bit of an Elliot Smith sound to Morgan’s vocals. There’s a nice sweet lull to them and then [...]
(Tomorrow Never Knows Festival)
Schubas 1/12/6
The first time I saw Tenki was about five years ago. It was one of the first shows I had seen in Chicago. They were opening up for Dressy Bessy at the time. I ended up wanting to leave early during Dressy Bessy’s set because it was such [...]
There isn’t too much to do back home in upstate NY besides visiting with family and watching films. I think a good band comes around once a decade. On New Year’s Day and between the holidays, I went out in the snow and took some pictures. Here are a few of the [...]
Bush came to visit on Friday not without his own welcoming committee. Okay, so people weren’t really welcoming him. I took more pictures than I have in the past at other protests. This time, instead of focusing on capturing how many people were there (around 500-1,000 which is a great deal considering [...]
For those of you who may have thought I am above writing the names of bands and musicians on a bathroom mirror in lipstick well…think again!
READ THE FIRST PART OF OROUNI’s INTERVIEW HERE
Orouni is a band I have recently discovered. I am not totally sure if he (as in the lead singer Rémi) has [...]
Note: I write this on Sunday 12/11/5 after having seen Al Franken on Friday 12/9 but I won’t be able to post it until after Christmas as a signed copy of Al’s newest book The Truth is being given to my dad by my mom as a surprise.
Well, Friday came around and I found myself [...]
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This film is sort of like what you might see if you crossed Hedwig with In the Name of the Father. Cillian Murphy quite adeptly plays a boy who is raised within the confines of the Catholic faith after being abandoned and realizes from an early age that he’d be more comfortable living his [...]