Archive for June, 2006

Chin Up Chin Up

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

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 [...]

Why Coupland’s JPod is a disappointing read…

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

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 [...]

Alan Licht, Rob Mazurek (Mandarin Movie)

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

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 [...]

Dave Bazan (Pedro the Lion)

Monday, June 19th, 2006

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 [...]

An Inconvenient Truth

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

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 [...]

The Boy Least Likely To

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

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 [...]

The Bicycles

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

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. [...]

We Are Wolves

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

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 [...]