Thurston Moore of experimental and creative band Sonic Youth played The Hideout club in Chicago last Friday (11/10/6) in homage to another original thinker and talented musician, Sun Ra. It was great to see Thurston in such a small intimate space (Sonic Youth’s Sister was one of my favorite albums during high school) but [...]
Metro in Chicago
11/8/6
I’ve been a Robyn Hitchcock fan for about ten years now. In high school, I wrote a paper analyzing the song She Doesn’t Exist Anymore and spent hours wondering just what the lyrics to One Long Pair of Eyes really meant. In college, I listened to Man With a Woman’s Shadow [...]
I’ve blogged about Voxtrot before and I am not ashamed to say I find their addictive melodies thoroughly enjoyable. Their recent set at the Empty Bottle found them playing new material, though it was a little too short for my liking. I was going to blog more about their set but I can’t [...]
Beat Kitchen in Chicago
11/7/6
Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls sings like a sparrow. His sweet and sometimes shrill octave climbing vibrato combined with his visceral imagery is enough to make a person come out of a coma. Live, he was almost a conductor at times of his current bandmates, collectively they call themselves Parenthetical [...]
Well, yesterday found me a little ill in and out of cold medicine stupor. (I guess that’s what I get for going out to clubs six nights in a row). I did quite a bit of photo editing and also caught up on some cat napping. I’m feeling a little better today, though cold [...]
For those of you who may not know me personally, I am obsessed with photography and particularly music related photography (which is why my reviews tend to suck but I usually post half way decent pictures) My pictures, as always, can be found on flickr but now my camera has it’s own myspace page [...]
Note: I didn’t take the above picture. It was found on their webpage .
I was at the Metro on Wednesday night to see Robyn Hitchcock (who I promise to blog about next week) and had moved away from Cinchel and Robert to secure a spot I thought would be better for photos. [...]
Schubas in Chicago
11/4/6
Let’s face it: as the population of the world continues to grow, we’re continually affronted with more bands and more singer/songwriters. It becomes increasingly difficult to filter through all of this music and come across the musicians that really have “it.” And that is just something special that makes you want [...]
Now, I’m probably actually too liberal for even the democrats and while I voted for some of them, I also felt the lack of options. Still, if you go by the lesser of two evil arguments and the fact that Pelosi is the new speaker of the house and Rumsfeld resigned, I think a [...]
11/4/6
Apple store instore performance
Cut Chemist is the work of sensational sampler Lucas MacFadden and this performance was nothing short of impressive between the music and the visuals. With a set of almost a complete hour in duration that you couldn’t help moving around to (those darned chairs!), MacFadden deftly played five turntables at once [...]