Metro Chicago
2/17/6
It was freezing cold in Chicago tonight but I still lined up early before doors to ensure a good spot to see Stars, one of my favorite bands (can you feel the love tonight, people? Can you? Can you?!) I’ve seen Stars four times now ever since they started touring for [...]
Colors Insulting to Nature by Cintra Wilson
This book is what you might get if you were to cross Chuck Palahniuk (think in the vain of Invisible Monsters), Gus Van Sant, and Kathy Acker…only on acid. The reader gets to watch Liza grow up under the wretched confines of her loud and untalented mother Peppy [...]
Empty Bottle in Chicago 2/13/6
Mice Parade is one of my favorite bands. Genius Adam Pierce has a way of combining instrumentals with soft lax female vocals courtesy of Múm’s lovely and breathy lead singer KristÃn Anna Valtýsdóttir. Along with collaborating with Múm, Jim O’Rourke, and others, Pierce also runs the Bubblecore label where [...]
1/9/6
Sound Team has become one of my new favorites out of Austin where the great bands seem to keep coming from lately. After touring with Mazarin, they played a headlining show at Schubas in Chicago. The six piece impresses live with just the right balance of catchy indie rock rifts on guitar mixed [...]
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I’ve always been against the death penalty for as long as I can remember and I’ve always looked at it as one of the most heinous actions any civilized society would take. In high school, one of my US Gov’t projects was debating the death penalty in which I looked into a side very [...]
2/4/6
Empty Bottle in Chicago
Mi and L’au’s debut album is full of sparse and haunting melodies, minimalistic acoustic guitar combined with female/vocal harmonies. It came as no surprise to me that these songs came from their time together in a remote cabin in Finland. Mi is actually from Finland but L’au is French. [...]
Empty Bottle (Chicago) 2/4/6
Hailing from Oslo, Norway, this three piece revealed itself with instrmental pieces that ranged from the sparse to the full and frantic. In some ways, the music resembles avante garde jazz. The instruments used consist of piano, drums, and a stand up bass with very few vocals acting as musical [...]
Happy Chinese New Year. I live by Argyle, which is Chicago’s northside Chinatown but this year I traveled down south to the other Chinatown, which I have only been to a very few times as it is at least an hour each way by el. I tend to love parades just as much [...]
Logan Square Auditorium 1/27/6
Low has been a long time favorite of mine ever since I was in college and picked up Things We Lost in the Fire. I remember listening to that album repeatedly, especially when stressed out with various exams and I still turn to it in times of trouble. It’s not [...]