MUSIC NEWS - Evan Dando , singer, songwriter, and guitarist of The Lemonheads, is embarking on a USA solo tour in early 2010 that begins January 29 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJpand currently is due topwrap up accross the Hudson River onp March 6pin New York City at the Mercury Lounge (current itinerarypbelow). Evan is on tour in Europe thru the end of 2009, with the USA shows having him perform an intimate set that features songs from his solo album pand classic Lemonheads tunes along with [...]
This weekend managed to prove once again that I am getting too old to party like a rock star two nights in a row. The whole thing began Friday night where I set out to, and I quote myself here, "get Lucero drunk", and I am happy to announce that the mission was a complete success. The trade off of that is that recollection of the show is slightly hazy. A lot of the reviews I read leading up to Lucero's show here were about the crowd. That frat boy concentration levels were reportedly getting dangerously high, but [...]
When you go from selling out venues in minutes with one band to barely at all on your own, you have to keep a sense of humor about it. "It's nice to play in a room that can actually house the riot that follows me everywhere," Josh Tillman sarcastically joked to the hundred or so people that made it out to the early show. It was hard to tell if the audience was there because they knew his music, the popularity of Fleet Foxes, or because Tillman is a bit of local having grown up in Rockville just [...]
The Modern Skirts play three shows in our area this week. They'll be at Schubas in Chicago on November 18th , Mad Planet in Milwaukee on November 19th , and the Project Lodge in Madison on November 20th . Please take this chance to catch these guys live if you can. If you have not yet heard their fantastic 2008 release, All of Us in Our Night (that's the awesome album art above), please add it to your collection. You won't be disappointed. Speaking [...]
La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
Puscifer – C is for (Please Insert Sophmoric Genitalia Reference Here) EP Once upon a time Maynard James Keenan applied his unique vocal stylings to Tool , and Tool alone. Then, he signed on with A Perfect Circle and we all got to hear his voice do something that we weren't quite used to. Now, our hero is fronting a band called Puscifer and showing even further range to those plaintive pipes, hitting us [...]
Today's contribution to Music Monday comes from the Guelph, Ontario singer-songwriter Gentleman Reg , also known as Reg Vermue. To Some It Comes Easy can be found on Gentleman Reg's 4th studio album Jet Black , released on February 24th of this year via the Canadian independent label Arts & Crafts ; the album features contributions from Metric front-woman Emily Haines , Broken Social Scene co-founder Kevin Drew , and Great Lake Swimmers drummer Greg Millson . Gentleman Reg is currently on the California swing of a [...]
Welcome to the new, not-really-improved BabyStew This Week In Chicago listing. What's new about it, you ask? Absolutely nothing, except that it now covers the week from Monday through Sunday rather than Sunday through Saturday. It always seemed weird to me not to be listing Sunday shows until the morning of – when not many people are reading blogs – for the sole purpose of sticking with the conventional definition of "week" ( i.e. , Sun-Sat). But convention be damned. So here's what's going on in Chicago this "week". [...]
Monday: The Jesus Lizard @ Irving Plaza 9pm $25 [ tix ] This week as folks look forward to next week's holiday a number of indie rock heavyweights will be hitting town to deliver the goods before the Holiday Season truly kicks into gear. First up are heavy rock luminaries The Jesus Lizard. They already left us in awe with their 9/11 references and stage diving at ATP NY, then blew away the invited crowd at the Vice Halloween bash, now their doing a few shows that aren't quite as exclusive as those [...]
Hey, guy who told me I post pictures of myself and write about food too much: Fuck you, this is my website! Image borrowed from LA Eater website Throughout my search for the best burger in Los Angeles, I have consumed some really awesome food. Along with my dining partner Nicci, we have scoured the city for restaurants with big reputations as well as the greasy, down-home-y burger stands that are a staple of any metropolitan center in the country. We began with all the pure fast food [...]
We've been on hiatus this week test driving cars and listening to snarky salesmen pitches. What I wanted was a sports car so rad it would magically melt the clothes off any hottie on the street. Alas, what I got was a whole lot different. W e ended up with an affordable and easy on the gas Kia Sportage. I will say for a factory job, the audio system is banging, equipped with Sirius sat radio, a USB connection, iPod/mp3 player jacks. It also comes with all [...]
With only four shows left on the Working On A Dream tour (wrapping up in Buffalo on November 22nd), and with much buzz about how the band will be taking some sort of extended hiatus, now's the time to savor and cherish what Bruce and the Band have been bringing all year - and that's night after night of powerhouse performances. The tour started out in April with a healthy dose of tracks from Working On A Dream . Last night in Cleveland, only the title track was played. The tour has morphed into more [...]
This may be a news flash to some of you, but I am not cool. I have serious envy of bloggers who are better writers than I am, who have their shit together enough to post every day, who get lots of free CDs, tickets, backstage passes, and other swag. Most of the people who solicit me for a review for their new album clearly don't even read my blog. My most recent e-mail solicitation was from an Australian group who describes themselves as a "blend of hip hop and electro-pop." I have nothing against [...]
Beard City! Bliss City! To be sure, Thursday night at the Metro Theatre was a joyous concoction of melodies and good times. Blitzen Trapper were playing Sydney for the first time and they must come again. Melodies flowed like honey and tasted just as sweet. The venue was not close to being sold out, which was a pity because those that were not there missed a night of harmony and balance. A night that celebrated the power of song. Blitzen Trapper I think were made just for me. They encompass everything [...]
Seeing the boys from Leroy Justice on stage tends to remind me of the scene in Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke when Curtis first passes out the new uniforms to the band. Man (Chong): No, hey man, if we're gonna wear uniforms man, you know let's have everybody wear something different. Pedro (Cheech): Yea, that's it. Yea, we want something wear everybody wears something different man, but the same, you know? Always dressed to the nines in their "same, but different" vests and three [...]
The River . What needs to be said about The River , except maybe, wow. There are other Springsteen albums I like better, but for some reason, in the last year whenever I go to put some Springsteen on, 9 times out of 10, it's The River . If you love that record too, you can download the complete performance of it from Madison Square Garden last weekend right HERE . Taper Info: bossman284's version Madison Square Garden - NYC [...]
Meet noise rock duo Lightning Bolt . Two namesakes from Providence, Rhode Island whose abrasive drum and bass double fisting (metaphorically speaking of course) make Death From Above's fuzzed out din sound like chopped and screwed lullabies for insomniacs. We chatted to drummer Brian Chippendale about their forthcoming Australian tour, Visa trouble in Japan, Bjork and Freudian band roles. Just for people who don't know, how did you guys form? We formed at an art school, here in Province, both studying Visual Arts and I was two years ahead of him. In [...]
This was the greatest decade of music for me as a fan. There were so many incredible albums, almost all by bands I'd never even heard of in 2000, discovered almost entirely through the same musical venue that you are reading write now -- the Internet. At the dawn of the decade, I was approaching a rock fan milestone that presumably signaled the end of my interest in cool new music (I turned 30 in 2001), while at the same time, the rock music industry (ie. whatever they played on the radio) had devolved into a hybrid of cheap rap-rock [...]
The first rule of show and tell is that the second you're ready to show someone something that you've been talking about it NEVER works. That is essentially the story of today. If you remember yesterday, I went on about consistency and how I was going to do three posts this weekend. Well as fate would have it I woke up to absolutely NO Internet connectivity! This obviously made it difficult to uphold my promise. While I was frustrated I couldn't help but laugh. So here were are late Saturday night, with a post that should have been [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Kamby Bolongo Mean River is a novel that resonates long after its end, the story of a young man alone in a room with only his memories. In understated prose Robert Lopez crafts the man's history in one of the year's most original and psychologically haunting novels. In his own words, here is Robert Lopez's Book Notes music playlist for his novel, [...]
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