To help comb through the concert options for the last night of 2010, The A.V. Club decided to parse through some of the musical highlights and rate them based on the potential emotional response. via … And a happy new year | Music | The A.V. Club Chicago. I had quite a bit of fun determining different … [Read more…]
Next up in our besties series, the very best shows The A.V. Club staff and contributors went to this year. We rocked. We rolled. We wrote about it. via The best shows The A.V. Club saw in 2010 | Music | The A.V. Club Chicago. I’ve seen a lot of great shows in Chicago, so … [Read more…]
Friday night I stood for two-plus hours in awe as I watched The Appleseed Cast perform their entire 2001 double album Low Level Owl. The Lawrence, Kansas emo band played to a packed crowd at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge, and gracefully played the criminally overlooked double album, with a brief intermission breaking up the two volumes and … [Read more…]
I recently wrote a piece on all-ages shows and DIY venues in Chicago for Medill. The article went online Tuesday, and comes with a (brief) sister piece about the history of all-ages and DIY shows in America, a video and slideshow of a couple of venues and a handful of graphs and photos of these shows. … [Read more…]
Down in New York for the weekend, I decided to take a break from some ear-shattering concerts (short review: Deerhoof rocked Prospect Park, Parts & Labor absolutely killed it at Siren Music Festival) to check out David Byrne’s Playing the Building exhibit at the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan. The instillation is a wonderful little … [Read more…]