1. Rebecca Zapen
I just saw Rebecca Zapen play last night at a small cabaret called Katerina’s after my friend Aadam told me about her music. She has a jazz background but also a nice folk sound. At times, she sort of reminded me of a jazzier and brighter Nina Nastasia. Last night, she [...]
So…continuing with the Hideout Block Party theme of the week (I swear I am going to do a more substantial day three. I’m up to my Seam pictures and I promise to give you some of Black Heart Procession, CocoRosie, and Calexico…keep checking flickr but I’ve also been going to shows all this week [...]
I’m not yet ready to blog about day three…see, I have a problem and it’s a big one. I am a bit of a perfectionist and I tend to spend hours photoshopping out the details that distract me from what I consider to be a perfect image, one conveying a sense of the emotionality [...]
I have to be honest. I really love The Hideout and I especially love its owner, Tim Tuten, but overall I had a much better experience on Sunday (Day Three) I think that the harshness of the music for some reason just didn’t appeal to me as much although the day was not [...]
9/8/6
Chicago Illinois
I’ll be blogging about Day Two and Three to some extent. I have pictures of many of the second day bands up on my flickr account. Please feel free to check them out as I’ve already spent about ten hours editing them (not to mention all the running back and forth I [...]
I won’t be doing my usual Best of Myspace this week because I am in the midst of attending a three day music festival in Chicago put on by The Hideout as well as Touch and Go to celebrate their 25th Anniversary.
I will blog about some but not all of these bands after the festival [...]
Note: I have so many bands to blog about I don’t know where to start. The Effigies show, The Dears, even some bands from jazz fest and I’m hoping to take some pictures from the audience at the Hideout Block Party. I’ll get to editing and posting these pictures in due time, but for [...]
9/3/6
Beat Kitchen in Chicago
The Avengers are a band that gained notoriety in 1979 when they opened up for The Sex Pistols. (Steve Jones also did some production work for them) Penelope Houston is a feminist lead singer who sings out to a captivated audience. She was joined on this tour by Greg [...]
9/2/6
Double Door in Chicago
Radio Birdman is a recently re-formed band that not only has two amazing full length albums that were released before their unfortunate breakup but a newly released 2006 album. Radios Appear(1977) and Living Eyes(1981) are both masterpieces in their own right that helped inspire many other bands of the Australian punk [...]
After seeing them play Wicker Park Street Festival, I quickly realized the potential of this band, whose album Broom is not only filled with songs you can sing along to but with songs who have lyrics worth paying attention to. There’s an underlying melancholy to some of them as well, a bit like in [...]