A busy, busy Thursday evening tonight as the weekend cranks up a day early. SXSW crossover travel is certainly adding to our own scene's musical hustle and bustle... ... Continue reading "Tonight, Tonight: Liz Phair at the Granada, Dawes at Dada, Helmet at South Side Music Hall, Appleseed Cast at The Loft and David Lindley at the Kessler " >

Buzz Bands is in Austin for SXSW, but maybe you're not: ► Polls [here's a refresher course on their EP], joined by Wilding and Space Waves , make some noise at the Silverlake Lounge. ► Liz Phair headlines the Troubadour. More show info at You Set the Scene .
If LA-based songwriter Bryan Master doesn't sound familiar, perhaps you may be a little more knowledgeable about some of the guests on his upcoming record For People Like Us : a duet with Liz Phair, appearances by Jordan Zevon (son of the legendary Warren Zevon), Pete Yorn's backing band, and many more. We're sure that may jog at least some of your memory. Recorded in LA, For People Like Us was produced by TV/film composer Evan Frankfort. Within the LP, Master pulls from a number of sources, including alt-rock, baroque/chamber pop, [...]
Welcome to Prix Fixe , a feature for our contributors to neatly assemble and categorize a menu for your delectation—a list exploring the connections between music and pop culture, among artists, within an artist's body of work, or anything else we think might amuse you and start internal or external conversations about music. Seeing as March 8 is International Women's Day, this edition celebrates some of our personal favorite frontwomen, singers, songwriters, and icons. In an industry all too keen on reducing its girls to over-sexed mouthpieces, these female [...]
For those of you that missed Liz Phair last year at the El Rey Theatre in October now have another shot at seeing her at an even more intimate venue. In support of last year's release, Funstyle, Liz Phair will...

American Songwriter When Jeff Mangum, prodigal godhead of that which is largely called indie, gave a rare performance in a Brooklyn loft last December , people freaked out. And reasonably so - the Neutral Milk Hotel -ier had been basically been retired and out of sight for nigh on twelve years, his band having dissolved post- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and in the intervening years, his legend only grew. So the idea of him suddenly surfacing to play a show probably seemed like a once in a [...]
One learns a lot when tediously scrolling through South by Southwest's lineup page . For example, there's a band called ZA! and a disco queen named ZE!, and 10 bands different thought having the word "young" in their name would be a good idea. Plus, the US Navy Band got booked ! What you'll also note is some of the latest additions to this year's festival. They're not yet listed on the festival's website, but Queens of the Stone Age will play La Zona Rosa on March 16th, according to an issued press release. Also, Yoko [...]
A few days ago, we received a press release stating that pop star Rihanna will be performing at the American Airlines Center on Friday, July 8. We thought "Cool!" and went on about our business.... Continue reading "Show Announcements: Rihanna, Cee Lo Green, Dierks Bentley, Loretta Lynn, George Thorogood, Liz Phair, The Twilight Singers, Snoop Dogg, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pinback, Wild Party, Stryper, Crosby and Nash, The Moody Blues & More!" >
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Big, historic win for Arcade Fire last night. Kanye said it best when he said we all won. Congrats to Merge Records and the Arcade Fire. Now come play Dallas. Anyway, here are the bands that will be hitting through our town in short order. Thursday, February 17, 2011: - Linkin Park at American Airlines Center ( Tickets ) Friday, February 18, 2011: - Sebadoh at Granada Theater ( Tickets )* - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals at House of [...]

Her set featured: Six Feet One Mesmerizing Stream the full playback here. Liz Phair recently collaborated with Ted Leo. MP3: Liz Phair - Winter Wonderland

The seafaring couple played to a sold-out crowd at the Tin Can. Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

Robbie Fulks' Monday night residency at the Hideout takes an unexpected turn (if there's such a thing with Robbie) as he covers Chicago's very own Liz Phair . Robbie promises an Exile -heavy show but says that he will draw from other albums. "I think my favorite of hers, for reasons that are probably too personal to be strictly defensible, is Whitechocolatespaceegg ," he says, promising at least two songs from that album. Whitechocolate , the third album [...]

I can absolutely appreciate an early show on a Sunday night. Liz Phair came on around 9:00, and I was fine with that. The year is off to a slow start show-wise, and I’m always game for seeing an artist that I missed out on seeing as a teen. I had been looking forward to this show for a few weeks. Truthfully, I thought I knew her songs more than I actually did. About 20 minutes into the set, I realized I wasn’t worthy to be wasting space so close to the stage, and [...]
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Tribune's Greg Kot talks Disappears and their new drummer Steve Shelley , who you might also know from a little band called Sonic Youth. • Jim DeRogatis continues his always entertaining Vortis Diaries with a look at the band's most recent show at Cal's . • Chicago Garage reviews last Friday's Michael Lux & [...]

Polyvinyl So I've had to check myself a couple times from taking a, " Shugo Tokumaro 's music is so weird and wonderful, it must be because he's Japanese!" angle on this writeup. Because even though it's not incorrect - Tokumaru IS Japanese and sings entirely in Japanese and many things that come out of Japan are weird and wonderful to Western sensibilities - it's too reductive and doesn't give Tokumaru enough credit for what he's done with his music. His latest album, Port Entropy is the second of [...]
This is no way a complete list of alternative underground female singers. Not even close to a short artist list either. Lets call it the first entry. Mostly independent non-super-star artists who have stamp their name clearly in underground music. We'll have to revisit for sure as this always part of the music discovery process. Mostly obvious choice with some new faces which is awesome to see and hear. Liz Phair from a recent show at Maxwells doing the teenage dream song "fuck and run" because she was much better [...]

Frank Yang One to file under silver linings: Lissie - or Elisabeth Maurus according to her Illinois driver's license - was supposed to make her Toronto debut at the El Mocambo back in October in support of her debut album Catching A Tiger , but that show along with a string of others was cancelled just days before on doctor's orders after she lost her voice. The make-up show, which went off on Monday night, had a new venue to go with the new date - the twice-as-large Opera House [...]

Chick Pic found at www.hiren.info Not a ton of life-changing shows going on this week, but here’s what grabbed me: The Bluebird Café seems to be the place to be this month. The city’s most successful songwriters have been donating their time and talents to help out Alive Hospice . Bluebird is famous for being a starting place for many writers and artists (including Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift). Their songwriter and open mic nights are a great way for Nashville newcomers to get their feet wet and meet other [...]
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Tribune's Howard Reich talks playing a Moog guitar (Yes, moog guitar) with Chicago's own Fareed Haque . • The AV Club Chicago has an extensive guide to everything you need (or wanted) to know about Chet Haze: Chicago rapper, Northwestern student & son of Tom Hanks. • In an interview with the Sun-Times' [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Tokyo Police Club w/ Two Door Cinema Club, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Tuesday, January 25 Masquerade - 695 North Avenue NE in Atlanta 30306 Admission $17 / Purchase Tickets I don't know about you, but I played the shit out of that first Tokyo Police Club EP. All those angular guitars and off-kilter rhythms wrapped around sing-along hooks really resonated with me for some reason (the bucket loads of scrappy, youthful energy certainly didn't hurt [...]