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. • Gapers Block takes a look back at 2011's highs and lows , including Chicago Media vs. Odd Future, and teaches us all a little something about "BroStep." • Gonzo Chicago breaks the news about manic post-rockers Paper Mice's new album due in March. • Before Tiger Bones called it quits (ish), the group spoke [...]
The first weekend of 2012 does not disappoint. There's plenty of happenings to take in as you enjoy this RIDIC weather. We're talking Secret Colours , Tiger Bones , The Gorilla Press and more! Dig it... FRIDAY THE CELL PHONES In case you hadn't heard, late last month I named The Cell Phones's Hospital Spaceship [...]
Do you ever get nostalgic for those music videos where a band chronicles hard-living and loving on the road? Well, snappy pop rockers Pet Lions don't go all " Every Rose Has its Thorn " on us, but they do take us on a fun romp across various hotel rooms, desolate highway views with endless bales of hay and - oh yeah - some rock and roll, on its latest single "Trinidad." It makes you want to pack a bag, cram yourself and some friends into a tiny vehicle and somehow take a trip [...]
It's such a great weekend for festivals in Chicago. We've got Taste of Randolph occupying the West Loop with the salivating sounds of British rockers The Heavy and Swervedriver as well as local rockers JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound and The 1900s . Not to mention the three-day birthday bash going on at Saki featuring Great Society Mind Destroyers and much, much more. With so much rock happening there's really no need to wait. Let's get on with the show! [...]
Tiger Bones Three well-at-least-we're-not-talkin g-royal-wedding-anymore reasons to tuck in your shirt and head to the Empty Bottle tonight... 1. Often times we here at LLP review an album, and then, well what do you know, that band comes around to play a show. This would be one of those magical times. New guy Ian Jones just wrote up quite a favorable review of the new EP from Chicago's Tiger Bones , and now you check them out live. How convenient. There are multiple references to Joy Division [...]
While Go Over Here , the new EP from Chicago post-punk outfit Tiger Bones , features tightly written, gloomy-but-intriguing songs, most impressive is the record's consistent duality throughout each song. This EP sounds dirty and raw, but not for the reasons you think. Unlike many bands today Tiger Bones are in no way a Lo-Fi band and don't rely on the Lo-Fi aesthetic to compensate for poor songwriting and the absence of a properly recorded track. They take their efforts seriously and [...]
Tiger Bones From: Chicago, United States Chicago dream rockers Tiger Bones walk the tightrope between retro and modern with a nonchalence born of confidence. Here is a band that instinctively knows what made Joy Division, The Cure and other glum rockers tick while simultaneously understanding what the 2011 audience craves. On their first release, the Go Over Here EP , which came out early in March, they merge the melancholic and [...]
Loyal Divide OK - It's the calm before the storm, people. There are only a few days before the Springtime monster known as South by Southwest Festival awakens and all hell breaks loose. Despite the madness to come, we're proud to highlight a tiny portion of the excitement bubbling around the city this weekend. Our finest musical acts may be readying themselves for a full-on invasion of Austin, Texas, like the mighty Napoleon going to battle but first they must tread our stages once more. We've got two [...]
Here's some surf rock from Chicago way, courtesy of Tiger Bones. This track, 'Eyeliner', is the opener for their new EP, 'Go Over Here', and is all dark pop melodies and Dick Dale electric-whisk guitar work. Listen to it here: 'Eyeliner'
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Hallelujah the Hills is releasing a new limited edition single on March 26th, a lathe cut 7" with customized covers (each copy will have unique handwritten text in the dialogue bubble). "Country Before Kings" is one of the single's two tracks. For more information about the single and the band, join the Hallelujah the Hills mailing list . [...]
Chicago's Tiger Bones , not to be confused with tiger blood , released their debut EP yesterday, titled Go Over Here , on Dedd Foxx . The EP was produced by Ponys' front-man Jered Gummere, and the band are offering it as a free download right now at Candydinner.com . If you're more into touching and holding your music, a limited edition 123 vinyl is available to order through Insound , and this physical edition comes with a bonus track that, "cleverly layers Joy Division's "Transmission" with Harry [...]
Tiger Bones Debut EP, Go Over Here, Out Today! Tiger Bones are psyched to announce the release of their debut EP, Go Over Here, out today on Dedd Foxx. Produced by Ponys' front-man Jered Gummere, the EP is a stealthy blend of hazy surf-wave and weighted discord that offers four tracks of deceptively disorganized happenstance layered with methodical, dance-jerk rhythm. Go Over Here is being offered as a free digital download via Chicago-based digi-label Candy Dinner and limited-edition 12" vinyl is available for purchase through Insound. The physical release includes a 5th bonus track [...]
Tons of new releases today. There are some that were much anticipated, and some that weren't on our radar that are pretty dang cool. Check 'em out. Beady Eye- Different Gear, Still Speeding Beady Eye; The Roller Codes In The Clouds- As The Spirit Wanes Codes In Clouds; Look Back, Look Up Dum Dum Girls- He Gets Me High EP Dum Dum Girls; [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Beady Eye, Easter Island, Alexander Ebert, Eisley, Hard Mix, the Idle Hands, Left Lane Cruiser, Middle Brother, Papercuts, Rainbow Arabia, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Shipbuilding Co., Stateless, Strangled Darlings, Tiger Bones and Vanity Theft. Also, vote for your favorite of today's new releases.
Tiger Bones releases Kill Them (as part of Go Over There ) on Dedd Foxx next month. Makes you think really before you switch allegiances with your conscience and instead focus on the light tapwork going on below the table. This is about as lo-fi as songs that make it into the category known as songs get but to those within of earshot of the chair hugger calls home it is splendid stuff. Like a C-86 tape that was recently transferred onto hard-drive getting the digital remastering treatment along the way Kill Them has a [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Eleventh Dream Day : "Satellite" [mp3] fro Riot Now! (out March 15th) search for more Eleventh Dream Day posts at Largehearted Boy Eternal Tapestry : "Galactic Derelict" [mp3] [...]
Here are three more artists to check out this weekend: Ringo Deathstarr For those who like: The Jesus & Mary Chain Yes, shoegazer is a trendy once again, but this Austin, TX band deserves a recommendation simply for having one of the best band names in recent memory. Their new album, Colour Trip, comes out March 8th. Ringo Deathstarr's Myspace Thick Shakes For those who like: The Black Lips
The former English graduate student in me likes to view things through lenses. I am constantly looking for the appropriate one through which to examine and judge something, whether it be a work of art, literature, or music. I remember deliberating which theoretical lens I should use to examine the collage fiction of Ishmael Reed...
Here's some choice strange vibrations coming from off the wind from Chicago. Equal parts surf reverb, ringing guitar lines and wall of sound echoes, "Kill Them" is the first taste from Tiger Bones ' upcoming debut EP "Go Over Here" to be released by Dedd Foxx on March 1st. Considering how out of the blue this band's premiere is, the sounds here are impressive, walking a killer tightrope between garage roots and sharp pop production by Jered Gummere of The Ponys. [...]
Chicago's self-described "weirdo surf rock band," Tiger Bones, is about to release their debut EP, Go Over Here , on March 1, 2011. TigerBones-KillThem.mp3 Tiger Bones - Kill Them Download read more
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