Wow, That’s a Good Song: The xx, “Crystalised”
The xx are getting a huge amount of buzz lately, and it’s all well deserved. I hadn’t heard of them until this year’s CMJ festival, but pretty much every blog post I read about CMJ mentioned this group and how awesome they were. If they can keep up this momentum for a while longer, I […]
This Week in Great Music – 11/16 – 11/22
A quiet week, but some solid shows nonetheless. I’ll be at the Elvis Perkins/AA Bondy show on Saturdy, finally able to catch the both of them in Chicago. It’ll be my first time at Lincoln Hall (although I walked past it the other night and it looks way swanky on the outside), but I’ve got […]
Album Review: A Fine Frenzy, Bomb in a Birdcage
The latest release from A Fine Frenzy isn’t too much of a departure from their first album. In places, the beats are a little harder, the bass a little louder, but at the heart of the album are the simple yet often heartbreaking lyrics of Alison Sudol. This shouldn’t come too much as a surprise, […]
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Kid Beyond, “I Shall Be Free”
A friend of mine linked to this song on her Twitter a while ago, and I’ve been in love with it ever since. We got to love one another. Give our love so strong. Love your brother, man deeper When he treats you wrong. When you love without limits, unconditionally. When you love without fear, […]
Concert Review: The Mountain Goats with Final Fantasy, Metro, 11/5
John Darnielle is one of those performers who my husband would put in a category with singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan. This is sort of a backhanded compliment, though, as if you ask him to tell you what he thinks about Dylan, he’ll say that the man’s an amazing lyricist but a terrible singer. This, for […]
This Week in Great Music – 11/9 – 11/15
If I liked math enough, someday, I would sit down and do some sort of analysis to see if I can come up with a pattern for Shows I Want to See, because it seems like there’s always an off week, followed by a week so full of things that it makes my trigger finger […]