I was so lucky while in Austin to find Gérard Manset’s 1968 at End of an Ear. Up until now, the only other album I’ve had by him is La Mort D’Orion which basically has the same effect on me that reading Conrad’s Heart of Darkness does. It makes you sink deep into a [...]
5/8/7
Empty Bottle in Chicago
Okay..first off, I love my Swedish pop! And because of that, when tickets went on sale for PB&J, I bought them immediately before the show sold out. And when they added a second show, I bought them immediately as well because I couldn’t help thinking how much I would love [...]
Review later but I have the photoset for them up from last night’s Empty Bottle set here in Chicago and I’m so happy because they each posed for photos afterwards. I love being a girl at rock shows with a camera.
Peter Bjorn and John on flickr
(Based on the signature for The Big Takeover which I’ve been a part of for the last six years)
I’m going to try to start doing this on a weekly basis-here are the cds I’ve been playing alot lately in the past week. Grant Lee Phillips’s new one was played to prepare me for his [...]
5/3/7
Lakeshore Theater in Chicago
Shamefully, I really didn’t even know the music of Grant Lee Phillips until managing RFC editor Brad Knutson asked me if I was going to see him play because I catch alot of good shows…which was perhaps the best way to tell me I better get it together and go see him. [...]
4/25/07
Schubas in Chicago
The Postmarks are from sunny Florida and are headed by the soft female vocals of Tim Yehezkely (oddly enough, that is the name listed for the female lead singer). Though their tweeish brand of pop is subdued, it is very sing songy in a way that reminds one of Camera Obscura only [...]