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, . . . → Read More: Wow, That’s a Good Song: The xx, “Crystalised”
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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 . . . → Read More: This Week in Great Music – 11/16 – 11/22  Leave a comment  Upcoming Events  aa bondy, alela diane, blue rodeo, brendan benson, brighton ma, congress theater, deadmau5, devendra banhart, dir en grey, elvis perkins in dearland, empty bottle, evanston space, harper simon, jason isbell and the 400 unit, julian plenty, lincoln hall, luke doucet, marissa nadler, maroon 5, martyrs', metro, nana grizol, old crow medicine show, peoria civic center, schubas, the singleman affair, the vic, willy porter and his band 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 . . . → Read More: Album Review: A Fine Frenzy, Bomb in a Birdcage 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 . . . → Read More: Wow, That’s a Good Song: Kid Beyond, “I Shall Be Free” 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 . . . → Read More: Concert Review: The Mountain Goats with Final Fantasy, Metro, 11/5 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 . . . → Read More: This Week in Great Music – 11/9 – 11/15 Leave a comment Upcoming Events abbey pub, art brut, auditorium theatre, bottom lounge, chicago gay men's chorus, david wilcox, dent may and his magnificant ukulele, devo, dirty dozen brass band, el perro del mar, elizabeth and the catapult, ellery, evanston space, evanston township high school, fanfarlo, flyleaf, freelance whales, greg laswell, heartless bastards, house of blues, joe purdy, justin nozuka, kate voegele, keb' mo', kevin hammond, kevin o'donnell, lakeside pride symphonic band, lincoln hall, martyrs', metro, morseland, mucca pazza, old town school of folk music, park west, peter bjorn and john, ray lamontagne, sam bradley, schubas, sidetrack, sons of the never wrong, sweet honey in the rock, symphony center, the fab faux, the riviera, the sanctified grumblers, the vic, the walkmen, thenewno2, todd snider, wolfmother, yourself and the air |
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