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 Chicago Tribune's Jessica Hopper interviewed Man is Man's Christa Meyer about her recent solo debut , Those Birds Will Eat Us , and how she discovered her empowering new sound. • WBEZ's Jim DeRogatis gives us the behind-the-scenes scoop on the new talent booker for both House of Blues and Bottom Lounge and his connection [...]
Back in 2010, local indie duo Puerto Muerto made our 10 Chicago Bands To Watch In 2010 list. And watch them we did...until they broke up shortly thereafter. C'est la vie! But the female half of Puerto Muerto, Christa Meyer, has a new project called Man Is Man . Here now is a video of a very intimate acoustic performance on Chicago's west side of the hauntingly beautiful number, "The Horse," which also features cello work by Ben Kulp. Also, you can catch a Man Is Man performance tomorrow evening at Comfort [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Murder by Death, Chuck Barry, Beat Circus "Puerto Muerto - Drumming for Pistols" What's so good? Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer, better known as Puerto Muerto, combine late 80s, blues, and cabaret music to produce Drumming for Pistols. The Midwest-based band (Kelley is from St. Louis and Meyer is from Chicago) blend deep vocals and haunting melodies throughout their songs. Drumming for Pistols [...]
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Although Drumming For Pistols is the fifth album from Puerto Muerto and was released over here way back in February, it is the first album of theirs that we've had the pleasure of discovering. The Chicago band are a husband and wife duo drawing in influences from the Clash to the Nick Cave to Jacques Brel and spewing them out into a swashbuckling mix of southern gothic stomp, blues and folk with a cabaret flourish. It is a soundtrack to the bedraggled and desperate, to whiskey soaked losers [...]
I Ching Quartet Three wait-I-have-get-coffee-brewing -before-I-can-tell-you-about-t his-rad-show-so-hold-on-one-se cond-please reasons to shave and put on a clean shirt because you're not a child anymore and head over to The Whistler this night... 1. Chicago's I Ching Quartet play front porch folk. No, not like that Depaul student sitting on the front steps to his dorm strumming an acoustic guitar shit. Like a bunch of folks well schooled in the history of folk strumming acoustic guitars on their front steps. Oh, with one of them dragging a drum kit out too. Ok, so maybe [...]
Left to Right: Christa Meyer, Tim Kelley It's always a bit odd when a band cuts a new record and splits shortly after its release. But Chicago's folky duo Puerto Muerto did just that . But according to some recent posts on their Facebook page , female-half of the duo, Christa Meyer, isn't going into hibernation anytime soon. First off, Meyer is helping plan a brand spankin' new summer festival in our fair city. According to the logo and brief info from a Facebook note, the event is titled [...]
It's odd writing this review knowing that the album's creators are merely hours away from no longer existing. In case you haven't been paying attention, Chicago duo Puerto Muerto , consisting of Christa Meyer and Tim Kelley, are playing their last show tonight at the Empty Bottle . And it's quite a shame seeing how their latest release, Drumming For Pistols , is an excellent excercise in painfully honest emotional salience told through a veil of midwestern blues. "Oh Daddy, Oh Daddy, why'd you do those [...]
Comic borrowed from xkcd Happy Singles Awareness Day or SAD. My friend Arlie just informed me of this rather appropriate name for the fake holiday made-up by greeting card companies. It seems like people celebrate it either on or one day near the 14th. Not all of the songs in this week's mix fit the theme, but a few do. Hope you enjoy. Don't Do It by Salvador Santana From: [...]
There's a lot going on in the world or Puerto Muerto , one of our 1 0 Chicago Bands To Watch In 2010 . Next Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Puerto Muerto will release their latest effort, Drumming For Pistols . You can check out the title track right now: Puerto Muerto - Drumming For Pistols . The duo, consisting of Christa Meyer and Tim Kelley, will then play two record release shows. The first show will be on Saturday, February 13, at the Schafly Tap Room in St. Louis, then a [...]
MP3: Puerto Muerto - "Drumming for Pistols" On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Puerto Muerto will release Drumming For Pistols via Fire Records. The news is a little bittersweet, as shortly after the album's release, the husband and wife duo will be playing the final shows of their career. The shows will act as record release parties for the new record as well. The first will be on February 13 at Schafly Tap Room in St. Louis, MO, and February 22 at Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL. [...]
Simply put: There are thousands of great local bands playing every week in our fair city. Some you might know and some you might not. Seeing as it's the beginning of a brand new decade, we thought we'd point out some local bands who we think are on the verge of breaking into the big time. And isn't it always cool to say you were a fan of popular act back in the day when they were playing for eight people in a crappy dive bar? Yes, it is always cool. [...]
Chicago husband and wife indie-folk duo Puerto Muerto have released the title track from their upcoming release Drumming For Pistols as a free download. While Puerto Muerto fans will have to wait until February 9 for the full album, "Drumming For Pistols" will surely tide them over until then. The track features Puerto Muerto's female component Christa Meyer taking on lead vocals over a galloping a bass line and driving tom-heavy drum beat. Then the epic guitar hits from Tim Kelley [...]
Back when pirates were cool (i.e., neither represented by Johnny Depp nor Somali gunmen), Puerto Muerto was releasing gothic maritime folk albums such as 2003's Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore (which is not about Keith Richards). Things since then have only gotten weirder for Puerto Muerto, as the husband-and-wife duo of Tim Kelley and Christa [...]
If you are in Chicago this weekend make sure to stop by The Empty Bottle at some point, as they will be having excellent shows all weekend.. Click below to buy tickets..
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I stumbled across this photo in a French music mag the other day, it was being used to advertise Eurostar , I must admit I had to look at it twice to realise that it was a fresh new take on the tired old image of the Beatles Abbey Road cover. So why not some Beatles covers for the week-end? Booker T & The MGs with 'I Want you (She's So Heavy)' , I've always been a sucker for the organ heavy hands of Booker and the slashing chords from Steve Crooper's Telecaster, a [...]
Tom Waits - Lucinda This song sounds like something people would sing on a chain gang. It's just Tom singing, and then beatboxing in the background for the rhythm section, and a faint guitar line; during the breakdown, there is a harmonica part. It's about leaving home to follow a woman (Lucinda), and going down the path of sin because of her. They call me William the Pleaser. I sold opium, fireworks and lead. Buy Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards [...]
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