6/23/6 at The Lakeshore Theater in Chicago
Chin Up Chin Up are a Chicago based band that have, like The Dials had a tragedy befall them when their bassist Chris Saathoff was killed by a drunk driver when leaving the Empty Bottle. (Different incident than the car accident that claimed a Dials band member but it’s [...]
Note: I am planning on posting pics of both Rogue Wave and Intonation Festival bands in the coming days but for now, here’s a book review with some spoilers.
I’m a big fan of both Douglas Coupland and Canada. I’ve read pretty much everything Coupland has put out-both fiction and non fiction and I have [...]
5/22/6 Empty Bottle in Chicago
It’s been an odd sort of day. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with all of this free time of having the summer off and I’m doing a few art projects that rely on collage art and all of a sudden, I find myself looking at [...]
Schubas in Chicago Thursday June 15th,2006
I’ve been a Pedro the Lion fan for at least six years. I’ve bought “It’s Hard to Find a Friend” twice because my first copy was never returned from the person I lent it to. I’ve seen Pedro play at least two or three times over the past [...]
I posted this on my myspace page blog but I thought I would repost it here:
Let me be honest. I’m a very political person and I’ve always tried to avoid creating waste when I can in many different ways but I really didn’t know a great deal about global warming before seeing this film. Not [...]
6/9/6 at Schubas in Chicago
The Boy Least Likely To is a band I heard about first several months ago through Gorilla Vs. Bear which is an mp3 blog. I’d been looking in vain since then for their album The Best Party Ever without luck so I knew I had to bring extra cash with [...]
5/9/6 at Schubas in Chicago
I hadn’t heard of The Bicycles before going to Schubas and I had no idea what to expect but was thrilled when I discovered that not only were they from Toronto (yay Canada!) but had the perfect blend of garage and twee with nice backup harmonies, tambourines and sometimes female vs. [...]
6/3/6 at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago
We Are Wolves are another one of those frantic Montreal bands who have abondoned the formulaic and turned to high energy creativity. On stage, they dressed up with large skull placards to help with their postmodernism and created some turbulent but tight songs. I bought their album [...]