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Lollapalooza Survival Guide | Music Feature | Chicago Reader

August 22, 2011 / Leave a Comment

Lollapalooza Survival Guide | Music Feature | Chicago Reader. I wrote about Friendly Fires, Death From Above 1979, and Deftones for this Lolla preview.

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Posted in: Freelance Work Tagged: Chicago Reader, Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Friendly Fires, Lollapalooza, music

The Best Overlooked Albums Of The Aughts

December 27, 2009 / Leave a Comment

The new year is almost here, and with it comes a maelstrom of “End of the Year Lists.” Here on Ex-Spectator, I’ll be rolling out a few “End of the Year”/”End of the Decade” lists. Today’s list: The Best Overlooked Albums of the Aughts. A while back I started an ongoing feature called “Overlooked in … [Read more…]

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Posted in: True/Slant Tagged: (k)no(w)here, +/-, A Name Writ in Water, A Story In White, Aereogramme, albums, Alias, All These Long Drives, All Together, Antelope, Apollo Sunshine, Aqueduct, art-punk, Beauty Pill, bedroom pop, Belly, best of, best overlooked albums of the aughts, best overlooked albums of the decade, Black Eyes, blogs, blues, bubblegum pop, By The Throat, Cave In, Cell-Scape, Central Hug, Central Hug/Friendarmy/Fractaldunes, Chad VanGaalen, chamber-pop, Chino Moreno, country, D.C., dance punk, Danger Mouse, Danger Mouse & Jemini, Dartz! This Is My Ship, David Terry, Deftones, doo-wop, Double Dagger, dubstep, Duplomacy, Ear Pwr, Emblems, emo, Emperor X, Eyedea & Abilities, Fire Theft, folk, Food For Animals, Forest Fire, Friend Army/Fractal Dunes (And The Dreams That Resulted), funk, Ghetto Pop Life, Gomez, Gowns, Guns Babes Lemonade, Hardcore punk, Hella, hip-hop, HLLLYH, Hope of the States, Hrishhikesh Hirway, I Sold Gold, In Our Gun, indie folk, indie pop, indie rock, Interventions & Lullabies, Ire Works, Is This It, It Takes A Nation Of Millions, jam, jazz, Jemini, Karate, Let's Build A Fire, lo-fi, London Zoo, Low Level Owl Vol. 1, Low Level Owl Vol. 2, Lucero, Lungfish, Mapmaker, Maritime, Mark Kozelek, Mary Timony, matt pond PA, Melt-Banana, meme, metal, metalcore, Milosh, Mineral, minimalism, Movie Monster, Muscles, music, Night On Fire, noise rock, noise-punk, Oh No! Oh My!, Parts & Labor, Pattern Is Movement, Perfect Pitch Black, Personal Journals, Pinback, Pitchfork, Pitchfork effect, Plus/Minus, pop, pop-rock, post-disco, post-hardcore, post-punk, prog, Public Enemy, Putting The Days To Bed, Q And Not U, Ragged Rubble, rap, RCA, Red State, Reflector, Resurgam, Rhymesayers, Rob Crow, Sage Francis, slam poetry, slowcore, Soft Airplane, Sound Team, Southern rock, Sun Kil Moon, Sunny Day Real Estate, Super Animal Brothers III, Survival, Team Sleep, That Much Further West, The Appleseed Cast, the aughts, The Bug, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Dismemberment Plan, The Fire Theft, The Format, The Long Winters, The Lost Riots, The Mae Shi, The One AM Radio, The PoPo, The Rapture, The Strokes, The Unsustainable Lifestyle, Tiny Cities, twee, Unbeast the Leash, Unsolved, UUVVWWZ, VHS or Beta, Videohippos, Volcano I'm Still Excited!!, We The Vehicles, Wilderness, Zach Hill

Weak Warp

July 23, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Warped Tour begins in Mansfield, Massachusetts in a number of hours, and sadly, I will not be in attendance. Warped really is a one-of-a-kind entity, and while the Lollapalooza’s that came before it may have dropped their aims to bring alternative music to the masses across the vastness of America (most recently, Ozzfest suffered the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Against Me!, Andrew WK, Beck, Billy Idol, Black Eye Peas, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, D12, Dallas, Deftones, Dillinger Escape Plan, Eminem, emo, Fear, Fitchburg, Fu Manchu, Godsmack, Gogol Bordello, Hank Williams III, Hatebreed, Hed PE, Helmet, Ice-T, Immortal Technique, Incubus, Joan Jett, Jurassic Five, Kid Rock, Kottonmouth Kings, L7, Levittown, Limp Bizkit, Lollapalooza, Long Beach Dub Allstars, Mansfield, Marshall McLuhan, Massachusetts, Matisyahu, merchandise, Misfits, music, NERD, No Doubt, Ozma, Ozomatli, Ozzfest, Pietasters, punk, Quarashi, Reverend Horton Heat, Rollins Band, Say Anything, Snot, Staind, Streeghtlight Manifesto, Sublime, Sugar Ray, Talib Kweli, Texas, The Bronx, The Germs, Valient Thorr, Warped Tour, Weezer

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