April: 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 20 - Extra Golden @ Empty Bottle 22 - Wale @ Abbey Pub (w/Chicago's own BBU ) 29 - Optimo @ Sonotheque 30 - Greg Ashley @ Empty Bottle [...]
I'd faithfully missed most of the other hallucino-treats on hand the previous week, from the Acid Mothers Temple/Kinksi overandunder at the Echo on Friday to a Westside underground trance bash with FatFinger, Mark Zambala that failed to go off due to venue problems. Yes, in my decadent search for cheap out-of-head thrills post-rock revisionism that lead me to concert-hall mutations of the Bach family and writhing before cracked speakers in dust-storms, I've come to be overawed by traditional Balinese court music.
The weekend is quickly approaching, especially for us high-schoolers, who don't have school Friday as a result of the holiday with the abnormally large, child-molesting rabbit that lays painted eggs. I don't know what it's called, I'm a jew. Anywayzz, since we are all about bringin dat really good shit right to you here @ Hot Bizzies, I thought I might endow you with my knowledge regarding what is going down on this crazy weekend in the Chi, as well as a few choice cuts from the artists. Friday, April 10 @ Bottom Lounge: Crystal Castles [...]
April: 4 - Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue @ Park West 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 22 - Wale @ Abbey Pub (w/Chicago's own BBU ) May 5 - Leonard Cohen @ Chicago Theatre 6 - Crystal Antlers [...]
Somebody has deep pockets. The teenage L.A. rock band Acidic won an eBay auction to play a main-stage slot at Sunday's second day of the Bamboozle Left Festival at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre — with a bid of more than $13,000. The money benefits the One Love for Chi Foundation, the charity that is helping Deftones bassist Chi Cheng with his medical expenses as he recovers from a injuries he sustained in an auto accident in November. The Green Day-channeling Acidic, fronted by 16-year-old Michael Gossard, will play at 2 p.m. Sunday, about 16 hours after [...]
April: 3 - Wavves @ Empty Bottle 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 22 - Wale @ Abbey Pub (w/Chicago's own BBU ) May 5 - Leonard Cohen @ Chicago Theatre 6 - Crystal Antlers @ [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: StarDweller may sound like a new band to you, but the music might be familiar. Stephanie Davila's solo project brings similar haunting Americana to the table as her old band, Winter Blanket , but with an even more stripped down and intimate sound. Tonight StarDweller starts a monthlong residency at Pianos . StarDweller : "Home" [mp3] StarDweller : "Another [...]
March: 7 - Claychella @ Debonair Social Club 13 - Matthew Dear @ Smart Bar (DJ set I'm assuming) 14 - Black Lips @ Logan Square Auditorium 18 - Cut Copy @ The Vic April: 3 - Wavves @ Empty Bottle 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler [...]
Those of us with enough chutzpah to hold out to the end of Yamoy's 4-day new music marathon last week, through rain and through more rain, through the good, the great, and the just plain so-so, were in for a farewell that would somehow manage leave us hungry for even more: Soy Festival 2009, anyone? On the heels of Chris Corsano and Mick Flower's raga-style free-for-all just a few blocks away, the final chapter of this year's Soy Festival at the Pannonica typified the association's penchant for providing a little something for everyone—provided, of course, that that something [...]
With a line-up that looked like an excerpt from Roger Mellys' Profanisaurus, the Hokaben Festival installed itself into the heart of London's Bangla City for three days of noise, mayhem and, obviously, curry. Do sing along: jalfrezi, frezi, frezi, frezi nights! Day one punched fresh holes in my eardrums by launching with Rock Action's Part [...]
After a nice dinner last night at the new Michaelangelo's location in Silver Lake last night, I realized that I didn't have enough time to compile a mix tape and put together the White Hills review. White Hills gets preferential treatment over mix tapes, so that's why I'm posting the mix now, on Monday. I hope you won't mind the tardiness, I think this one's pretty far out there... RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-04-08, San Francisco [mp3,ogg,flac] "Pink Lady Lemonade" [mp3] other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Drive-By Truckers : 2008-03-27, Philadelphia [mp3,ogg,flac] "Daddy Needs a Drink" [mp3] other Drive-By Truckers music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-14, San Diego [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky" [mp3] other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Anna Ternheim : "To Be Gone" [mp3] from Halfway to Fivepoints (out April 22nd) other Anna Ternheim music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws [...]
I've just managed to get a copy of the Polysics LP - 'Now Is The Time' - described as 'punk rock with video game noises' - a pretty apt description, all I now is that they rock. They come from a long list of inovative Japanese Groups. Japan is a hotbed of groundbreaking acts - from the freeform psychedelic jams of the Acid Mothers Temple to the girlie garage stylings of the 5,6,7,8s. Julian Cope has written a great tome about the history of Japanese 'pop'; 'Japrocksampler - How The Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds On Rock 'n'Roll' . [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-24, Philadelphia [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-23, Washington [mp3,ogg,flac] "La Novia" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-22, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-21, Chapel Hill [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-24, Philadelphia [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-23, Washington [mp3,ogg,flac] "La Novia" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-22, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo" [mp3] Acid Mothers Temple : 2008-03-21, Chapel Hill [mp3,ogg,flac] [...]
Acid Mothers Temple : 2007-11-21, Baltimore [mp3,ogg,flac] "Dark Star Blues" [mp3] other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Anya Marina : 2007-09-29, Normal Heights [mp3,ogg,flac] "Waters of March (Antonio Carlos Jobim cover)" [mp3] other Anya Marina music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Arms and Sleepers : "A Mission to Prague" [...]
NUMBER 1: Devendra Banhart: A lad I once hung out with used to get very angry when he was drunk and come out with the most mad unfettered comments towards the subjects of his clownish rage. One was a girl he knew during the leaving cert who 'changed' after getting into art college. She quickly lost her country accent, started wearing petticoats, cycled around on an old-fashioned racer with a basket of organic fruit on the front, and pretended to like Belgian neo-realist cinema, that sort of thing. So one night this mate of mine was in her vicinity and [...]
Acid Mothers Temple : 2001-09-08, Los Angeles [mp3,ogg,flac] "La Novia" [mp3] other Acid Mothers Temple music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Ditty Bops : 2007-08-17, Lyons [mp3,ogg,flac] "What Happened To The Radio?" [mp3] other music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws The Hudsons : several tracks [mp3] "Dead and Gone" [...]
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