So many great choices for Thursday. You could start at Toad for the early part of the night and see uke master Melvern Taylor. Afterwards there are many venues that have great line-ups. Gordon Gano, yup the guy from the Violent Femmes, and his his new band is at the Middle East with Sidewalk Driver and Mascara. Also on Thursday there's the Lovewhip cd release at Church or go to TTs for John Powhida International Airport, Logan 5 and the Runners, Weisstronauts and Mercy James (great local line-up!). On Friday, I'll Be at Precinct to see My Own Worst Enemy, [...]
Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
Zowie, another great weekend of music with lots of choices. On Thursday, unfortunately the UK band, Heavy scheduled to play at Great Scotts has cancelled their tour so if you were planning on checking them out, sorry. But don't fret, there's an awesome show at the Lizard with Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints, the Rudds and Brett Rosenberg. Friday starts a big weekend for the Plough and Stars which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a plethora of bands playing and it's free! Friday night has Andrea Gillis , The Family Jewels and others at the Plough. If that's not [...]
With all the talk of vampires, werewolves and the New Moon soundtrack these days, the Whistler daringly gave their bar over to a group of undead to liven up the evening. From the land of 28 Days Later, Leeds' Sky Larkin and Londoners Peggy Sue treated the small cocktail bar to a mixed concoction of indie and folk not yet seen in Chicago. Granted only a few people got bloodied up, lost a limb or were irreparably transformed while everyone got a dose of the up and coming [...]
Apparently Halloween Weekend means every band in the area is appearing as another band, could be entertaining or just confusing I guess we'll have to check them out to find the answer. On Thursday you can go to TTs and see the Talking Heads, Robert Palmer x 2, The Replacements and The Who. Or you could go to the Plough for the surf band The Trabants and the Middle East has King Khan & the BBQ Show and Downbeat 5. On Friday the Armory in Somerville has a spooky event with the screening of Phantom of the Opera and music [...]
Architeq's debut LP 'Green & Gold' is out now and it's a supreme combination of electronic music in it's many guises. Excellent dubhopdiscosoul to nod ya head and move ya feet. I was lucky enough to have an interweb chat with the man behind Architeq, Sam Annand. Can you tell us about your musical history? I don't have much history cause I'm still pretty young as it goes... I was really into the guitar when I was younger, I jammed in a lot of bands and started playing around [...]
Decent week of music in Chicago coming up. I should be arriving into town on Sunday, so next week's edition will actually include shows that I'm going to. Can't wait. As always, my picks are in bold . Sunday, 9/27 Double Door: Soulsavers, Redghost, Joneine Zapata Empty Bottle: The Dø, My Gold Mask, The Tinycakes Hideout: Extra Golden, Endless Boogie Metro: Grizzly Bear, Beach House Reggie's Rock Club: Koffin Kats, Curtains, The Krank Daddies, others Schuba's: Thee Oh Sees, The Fresh & Onlys, [...]
Did Chicago leave it all on the field in August with all the great live shows at and around Lollapalooza? August will certainly be tough to beat, but September actually looks like a pretty decent month. Here's what we like…anything to add? The shows with a "!" could be weird. ! The Psychedelic Furs – Vic Theatre – 9/8 Cymbals Eat Guitars – Logan Square Auditorium – 9/8 Tigercity – Schubas – 9/8 Deer Tick – The Bottom Lounge – 9/10 Datarock – Double Door – 9/11 Joe [...]
Today's roundup includes Noah And The Whale, The Xcerts, Thank You, The Mountain Goats, Million Dead, Sunset Rubdown, Boredoms and NO AGE. *Remember! The news roundup gets updated throughout the day, so make sure you come back later for more news! Noah And The Whale Noah And The Whale's (pictured above) latest album/film, The First Days of Spring , will be released on the 6th of October. http://www.myspace.com/noahand thewhale [...]
Advances in brain implant technology now allow paralyzed individuals to control a computer mouse or drive a wheelchair. Based on this, I expect it will only be a matter of time until a lazy p.o.s. like myself is able to submit a post solely by mindpower, thereby leaving my hands free to mix cocktails and scratch myself. Until that day, however, you're stuck with 4 You Mighta Missed. The Gary - Chub The first thing I noticed about this Austin trio was that they look like they could quite capably roof a [...]
There's been some rumbling that the BBC somehow sent too many people to cover Glastonbury, because, well, 400 people sounds like a large number of people, doesn't it? The Telegraph had fun with the story, but it seems to have first surfaced in the Standard last Friday when someone called Ben Bailey pretended that he didn't work in the media, and thus couldn't be expected to understand how many people you'd need to feed three separate TV networks, press red, and various TV channels large numbers of hours of coverage from a number of stages in [...]
The third day of the weekend was quite a doozy. The hottest day yet, cranking in at a whopping 101º a spattering of lo-fi/punk acts in the afternoon in the Mojave tent. Vivian Girls kicked off the day for us, and we split time between the girls and anticon. act Themselves. Themselves are Doseone (Adam Drucker) and Jel (Jeff Logan). Jel tore it up on the MPC, creating really, really sick beats on the fly. Doseone rapped over them at breakneck pace. His somewhat maniacal banter and methods of fucking with the security guards (who I guess are required to stand as [...]
March: 7 - Claychella @ Debonair Social Club 13 - Matthew Dear @ Smart Bar (DJ set I'm assuming) 14 - Black Lips @ Logan Square Auditorium 18 - Cut Copy @ The Vic April: 3 - Wavves @ Empty Bottle 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler [...]
February: 28 - Darker My Love @ Subterranean March: 14 - Black Lips @ Logan Square Auditorium 13 - Matthew Dear @ Smart Bar (DJ set I'm assuming) 18 - Cut Copy @ The Vic April: 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - [...]
See what I did there!?!? Ahem, anyway: March: 14 - Black Lips @ Logan Square Auditorium 13 - Matthew Dear @ Smart Bar (DJ set I'm assuming) 18 - Cut Copy @ The Vic April: 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - Marissa Nadler @ [...]
See what I did there!?!? Ahem, anyway: March: 14 - Black Lips @ Logan Square Auditorium 13 - Matthew Dear @ Smart Bar (DJ set I'm assuming) 18 - Cut Copy @ The Vic April: 11 - Acid Mothers Temple @ Empty Bottle 17 - Simian Mobile Disco @ Metro (afterparty at Smart Bar) 18 - Marissa Nadler @ Schubas 19 - Marissa Nadler @ [...]
Well, mostly a bunch of crappy bands who sell a lot of records, but amongst all of the chaff, you can find a little bit of wheat including: Black Mountain, Chad VanGaalen, Fucked Up, Plants and Animals, The Stills, Ron Sexsmith, Kathleen Edwards, Hawksley Workman, Sam Roberts, Tokyo Police Club, Crystal Castles and a few others I probably missed. 2009 Juno Awards Selected Categories ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY CANADIAN RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION) Famous Last Words Hedley Universal [...]
Logan K. Young contributes to Drawer B when he damn well pleases. He also writes for anyone that will pay him. Ladyboys welcome. 1. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP) 2. Baby Dee - Safe Inside The Day (Drag City) 3. Free Kitten - Inherit (Ecstatic Peace) 4. Lou Reed - Berlin: Live At St. Ann's Warehouse (Matador) 5. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Sony/Columbia) [...]
Since this is my first time posting my favorite albums of the year on Naive Harmonies (something I would have had a hard time doing before this year since this site didn't exist before this year), a little bit of history: I put together my favorite albums for most of the 90's, before the combination of a switch to a digital library and a loss of interest in ranking albums meant that the last one I did for a while was in 2000 (#1: Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby ). But after about 4 years or [...]
When EAR FARM considered our impending move and relaunch at the end of 2007, we decided to switch from a scrolling blog format to a more magazine-y layout that would allow for us to highlight a "cover star"/ Band of the Week each week. In doing so we have featured 43 bands over the course of 2008, ranging from the lo-fi jangly noise pop of Throw Me The Statue to the blistering thrash of Goes Cube . We've had relative unknowns (such as The Laughing and Bombadil ), interviews with indie-rock legends (see [...]
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