Intonation Music Festival Day Two Chicago Although I am not really a fan of music overall with a harder sound, these guys were amimated and played as if they had been rock stars for years. They definitely have potential with some of the riffs later on in the set being a bit catchier. These guys [...]
Intonation Music Festival Day Two Chicago Out of all of the bands I saw that I hadn’t known much about beforehand, The Tyrades impressed me the most. They played punk rock like it will never go out of style. Fast and energetic, their live set was only second to The Boredoms. The band members shouted, [...]
Click on the band’s name to see pictures and a show review/setlist details: The Boredoms Roky Erickson The Stills José González Erase Errata Favourite Sons
Intonation music festival day one Chicago In the words of a friend, the Boredoms were transcendent. Rarely in human life do you get to experience such emotional intensity. For one, the stamina of how they can keep up with incredibly long and engaging drumming is beyond explanation. The songs were ethereal and raw at the [...]
Roky Erickson of The 13th Floor Elevators is, simply put, a legend in terms of the creation of music. In the 13th Floor Elevators, he helped create a new kind of psychadelic sound that influenced many other bands and ultimately changed the way music sounds today. This was a rare performance out of Austin for [...]
Intonation Festival Day One Chicago I really hate to talk about physical attractiveness in conjunction with music because it’s the music that matters more. I will say, however, that this band was introduced with comments about their physical attractiveness and I thought, “Well of course they’re attractive! They’re Canadian!” I mean, don’t you know that [...]
Intonation Music Festival Day One Chicago José González is amazing and if you don’t think he is, then you really aren’t listening. He’s somewhere between the soft darkness of Nick Drake and the pastoral intricasies of Kings of Convenience I can’t recall a song he didn’t play from his amazing album Veneer. In addtion, he [...]
Intonation Music Festival Day One Chicago Erase Errata out of San Francisco is a modern day punk rock band made up of three girls who know how to use a Vox. Although their music can be somewhat jarring at times, their creatively experiemental and often aptly political sense serves them well. Their music is a [...]
Intonation Music Festival Day One Chicago Favourite Sons from Brooklyn is a five piece that has just signed to Vice Records. Others have commented on how Ken Griffin’s vocals sound similar to both Bono and Ian McCulloch of Echo & the Bunnymen but I would add that there is something all of his own in [...]
6/23/6 at the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago I’d like to reaffirm how much I love this venue…The sound is great, the shows are booked by the Empty Bottle, and the lighting is adequate for pictures. Rogue Wave could unfortunately only play for about an hour due to time constraints and a late arrival of one [...]