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Schubas Tavern in Chicago
Bringing Chicago their own brand of bluesy country rock, The Blacks treated those at a sold out Schubas show last Saturday night to what has at least up until now a rare performance. Their set easily swung between notes of rock brutality to a more tempered religious air throughout their hour [...]
Empty Bottle in Chicago
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Chicago’s own five piece The Bitter Tears are perhaps the most quirky and sardonic band Chicago calls it’s own. I had seen members of the band play with Califone and provide some nice backing horns during their summer set at West Fest but nothing could quite prepare me for the experience [...]
I’ve been editing photos all day today of The Blacks and The Thin Man, who played Schubas Tavern in Chicago last night. I don’t have the review written yet but if anyone would like to see the photoset, I put it up on flickr.
The Blacks with The Thin Man
Many things to look forward to [...]
A few years ago, my friend Iymen went to Turkey and saw the Whirling Dervishes of Konya. She came back and described for me how it was a real religious experience for both them and those watching to see them spinning, as if in a trance. I was able to finally see them [...]
This is just a short one but around Thanksgiving, I walked into the gym just in time to hear the last chorus of ABBA’s classic single Dancing Queen . As I’ve said many times before, the gym I go to tends to have the worst music imaginable so I was disappointed I had missed [...]
Perhaps even more so than great albums, 2006 was the year of great shows. Chicago was especially spoiled between Intonation Music Festival, Pitchfork, and the Hideout Block Party all pulling in fantastic bands at an incredibly reasonable price. (We also had an above average amount of great music at street festivals this summer.) [...]
I’m in the middle of doing my best shows of 2006, which is fairly time consuming for me and I don’t have as much energy as I’d like after car ride plane ride el ride car ride grocery shopping-you get the idea. In the meantime, here’s some photography I worked on this last holiday week.
Awhile [...]