3/28/08 Schubas Tavern It’s always something to be ecstatic about when you run into a lineup as exceptional as this one last Friday night at Schubas Tavern. The Ruby Suns dimmed the lights but brought out some fantastic psychedelic melodies. Le Loup played a joyfully energetic set as well, definitely not disappointing the crowd in [...]
3/26/o8 Schubas Tavern in Chicago Headlining a sold out show at Schubas, Beach House fans surely echoed the Devotion. Though I’d seen them two previous times, once opening for The Clientele at the Subterranean and another time playing Pitchfork music festival last summer, this third time at Schubas felt more right than either of the [...]
3/24/08 Empty Bottle in Chicago Once in awhile, you get to experience a band that you know without a doubt is going to become bigger than a small club will ever allow. I felt that way when I saw The Shins at Schubas and around this time last year when I saw Peter, Bjorn and [...]
March 17th, 2008 Schubas Tavern in Chicago This happens year after year: winter wears on me. I feel so sick of the snow, the howling wind, the feeling of cold in my bones that I can’t keep out with a million radiators. I ask myself, “Why do I live in this cold city?” And then, [...]
Many thinks to the lovely women at Venus Magazine who worked very hard to get me a photopass for The Magnetic Fields show at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. The lighting was rather dim and my camera shutter felt louder than it had ever been (I’m actually looking into a camera silencer…) It [...]
I know I have been rather lax lately in my posting but summer festivals are right around the corner and what better way to say hello to spring and hope eternal than reminisce about the old times and look forward to the new. Here’s the 14 picture photoset of Canada’s Tokyo Police Club photographed at [...]
3/8/08 Schubas Tavern in Chicago This was a fantastic night of music, headed by Seattle’s Grand Archives, a five piece led by Matt Brooke, previously of Band of Horses and Carissa’s Weird. Grand Archives stays truer to form to Carissa’s Weird with more of the darker introspective sense than the overblown rock band I’ve always [...]