Gypsyblood So many shows, so little time. This weekend is brimming with excitement thanks to the brand-new Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements fest happening in Eckhart Park and featuring the likes of Shellac, CAVE, A Lull, Hollows – to name a few. We're also talking about the Reggie's Live stage at the Bash on Wabash featuring White Mystery and tons more shows. Clouds, Schmouds. Let's rock. FRIDAY [...]
Wild Flag | Photo by John Clark What a weekend we have in store for you, Chicago. It's a big one with both Wicker Park and Sheffield Garden Walk competing for your attention with great local and national acts like Wild Flag, Wavves, Soul Aslyum, Company of Thieves, Canasta, Archie Powell & the Exports and more rocking the two neighborhood fests. Not to mention Thee Oh Sees are playing not once, but twice this weekend. Let's get ready to rock! [...]
Black US TV host Sherri Shepherd was searching for the black people at the Royal Wedding on Friday. "Audrey Jones our producer was looking for the black people in the wedding and we found our Rosa Parks moment, because we were like 'where are the black people'?" said Sherri, 44, host of morning talk show The View. "It was like where's Waldo, where are the black people?" she added. "Wait a minute the Cavalry guy, from New York," said Goldie Hawn, 65, who was a guest host for the day. "Well the guests, there they are," said Sherri, pointing to [...]
We're more or less packed. 300 miles. I'm feeling tetchy – better make it before the sea surrounds us. Smile and wave, smile and wave. Will it be alright on the night? It's too late to turn back, Here we go. Lindisfarne, oh no. (A Middle Brother inspired refrain to the tune of Portland – I realise you may not sing this tune with the regularity that little Joe sprat and I do, but it's a top ten cover for us). And this Friday, over to [...]
When we started MM, The Pack A.D. were one of the first bands we posted about on the eve of our trip to Austin for SxSW. We were lucky enough to see them perform an ear blistering (and perforating) set in Texas and we realised just how good this duo really are. Playing a coruscating, howling, visceral blues with a venom that was hard not be overawed by, they were one of our highlights of the whole SxSW trip. They are now back [...]
It is probably fair to say that here in the UK, we don't do blues that well. With a couple of albeit notable exceptions, it is a genre that does not stand up well by comparison to those artists and bands from Chicago, New Orleans, Louisiana etc. That's the authentic blues for you, right there.Last year a self-titled album from a London based duo called Congregation was released on the Bronzerat
Easily one of the best bands you haven't yet heard, London duo Congregation gut, clean, and dirty up the blues in their own way. It's hard not to see True Blood listening to the band's self-titled debut LP. Congregation's "Don't Pay No Mind" is a bluesy fever dream, and Victoria Yeulet's haunted, Prohibition Era vocal turn is unforgettably chilling. Yeulet plays leg bells, and their lazy, off presence is in direct conflict with the urgent, rigid pulse of Benjamin Prosser's slide guitar and bass drum. "Feel Like Crying" is a southern heat spell, due more to sex than [...]
Tracklist: 01. Dose Of Hell 02. I Was A Fool 03. Don't Pay No Mind 04. Head Above Water 05. Never Forgive 06. Oh True Love 07. Hard To Bear 08. Putting You Out 09. Eye To Eye 10. The Man I Love 11. Feel Like Crying 12. There Was A Time Genre: Blues/R & B Website: Myspace | Buy! Release Date: 2008-05-20 Label: Bronzerat Ok [...]
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