Cloud Mouth start their long good-bye with a round robin via Three Beats: Cloud Mouth plays a round robin | Three Beats | Chicago Reader. Chicago postpunk trio Cloud Mouth will break up in the fall, and their round robin show is the first of many good-bye celebrations. Read more!
Soundboard: July 7-13 | Soundboard | Chicago Reader. This week: Dope Body.
Standout Track: No. 2, “Corpse Reviver  via One Track Mind: The Gift: Funeral grunge meets acupuncture – Washington City Paper. I break down a standout track from The Gift’s debut album. Corpse Reviver by The Gift
Volume 17: Ciard/Impala | Music | Tapes ’n’ Tapes | The A.V. Club Chicago. No. 17 and still kickin’ it!
Soundboard: June 30-July 6 | Soundboard | Chicago Reader. This week: Jeff the Brotherhood
Well, allow Wugazi take you back to a simpler time. via Wugazi: Wu-Tang Clan and Fugazi, Together at Last – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper. Enter the Wugazi: Sleep Rules Everything Around Me by WUGAZI
Limp Bizkit:Â Gold Cobra | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club. My first review for the A.V. Club‘s national site.
What better way to kick off a summer weekend than with a heady mix of post-rock, ephemeral doom, brutal crust metal, and, um, a 14-woman vocal choir? via Ilsa, The Body, Assembly of Light Choir, and Braveyoung Perform at St. Stephen’s Tonight – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper.
Take one D.C. hardcore punk screamer, one Brooklyn hip-hop producer and sound engineer, a spoonful of summer spirit, a bottled-up idea of what chillwave should sound like, a dash of a potent gin drink, shake well, strain, and press play. That's the precise mix of ingredients that went into making Thomas Collins, a part-local “chillwave” … [Read more…]
Best of Chicago 2011 | Chicago Reader. This week is the Reader‘s “Best of Chicago” issue, and I wrote a handful of blurbs for this year’s issue. Take a gander at them: Best band-on-band synergy Best musical wunderkid who could use a nap Best local response to a national music meme Best musical YouTube sensation … [Read more…]