Well, put that money where your music-literate mouth is this Thursday at the Empty Bottle, when Logan Square record store Saki and Chicago independent community radio station CHIRP host their first trivia night. via What’s Iggy Pop’s real name? Saki and CHIRP hosting trivia night Thursday | Music | The A.V. Club Chicago. I want to … [Read more…]
An indie band that dabbles in electronics, Brooklyn’s Home Video creates soothing, warm tones that are as indistinguishable from one another as they are forgettable. via Home Video: The Automatic Process < PopMatters. Not every album slated for a review is a winner. Oh well.
Evan Thomas Weiss doesnt exactly have a lot of name recognition—the 26-year-old emo troubadour, who plays a mix of singer-songwriter ballads and heavy pop-punk tunes, does most of his recording as Into It. Over It., and that cant be helping. via The Buddy System | Music Feature | Chicago Reader. I met Evan while researching … [Read more…]
The music industry is dying, and Ice Age Records founder Kris Di Benedetto couldn’t care less. For the 20-year-old Do It Yourself record label head and musician, the well publicized issues affecting many an established record label exists in an entirely different universe. via Gapers Block : Transmission : Chicago Music – DIY in the … [Read more…]
When second-wave emo legends Cap’n Jazz reunited earlier this year, music critics and fans rejoiced. It all seemed a little unexpected: After years of Warped-Tour banishment, emo was being celebrated again. via Tomorrow: Algernon Cadwallader, Standard-Bearers of the New New Emo – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper. A preview for Algernon Cadwallader’s D.C. show. … [Read more…]
Last month a Chicago band called Houses hit the charts at the Hype Machine, a massively popular online aggregator that tracks which artists and songs more than 1,500 music bloggers are posting about. Their track “Soak It Up,” an airy, infectious bit of electronic pop, reached number six on the Most Blogged Artists chart the … [Read more…]
Some aldermen sponsor ordinances and resolutions. Alderman Rey Colón sponsors concerts. The 35th Ward Alderman’s website declares that the representative for parts of Avondale, Humboldt Park, Irving Park, and Logan Square, “has been an independent, progressive leader in the City Council since May 2003.†via Alderman Rey Colón reviews Dan Deacon and Lightning Bolt | Music | … [Read more…]
Nichols and drummer Brandon Korch saw Pissed Jeans play at the Rock & Roll Hotel in April, and wanted to pay tribute. “We were like, ‘We can be in a band named Shat Shorts, and we’ll have songs like ‘Liveblogging the Loss of My Virginity,’†says Nichols. “It started off as a ‘This is gonna … [Read more…]
When Henry Owings – the man behind Chunklet – put out a call for people to contribute to his latest book, The Indie Cred Test, I decided to pitch in. I was only able to pitch in a small amount due to the whole grad school thing, but Henry was really responsive to my teeny … [Read more…]
I interviewed a couple of the guys in Native with my friend and classmate Tanveer Ali for one of our classes at Medill. Take a peek at the video and listen to their lastest album, Wrestling Moves after the jump: Native interview from Leor Galil on Vimeo.