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Modest Mouse at Aragon Ballroom Review

It's Day 2 on our Chicago vacation and last night we made it down to the Aragon Ballroom to catch Modest Mouse with The Dutchess and the Duke . Standing next to a smell garbage can in a graffiti tagged alley next to the Aragon Ballroom waiting for the doors to open, surrounded by hipsters in neon colored tights and bandannas and beards, I was unmistakably at a Modest Mouse concert. We arrived a little late (5:15) thinking that the doors were going to open at 6:30, but [...]
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