This Week in Great Music: 11/29 – 12/5
Welcome back to your regularly scheduled blogging! If you’re around this weekend, check out the three-day Chicago Bluegrass and Blues festival, with shows at the Double Door, the Congress Theatre, and Lincoln Hall.
Wow, That’s A Good Song: Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree”
I’m sure I’m not the only kid who ever spent every November irritated by the fact that Christmas music is way better than Thanksgiving music. I know all of three songs about Thanksgiving. There’s “Over the River and Through the Woods”, which was never one of my favorites. The other song I know is only […]
This Week in Great Music: 11/22 – 11/28
All because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean that the music stops.
I’ll be at the Frames show on Tuesday, along with probably most of the Chicago people I know on Twitter. Irish rock tweet-up!
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Pink, “Raise Your Glass”
Pink may have come along onto the music scene at the same time as other teen pop idols like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, but the difference is in Pink’s message. She was telling people that it’s okay to be different long before Lady Gaga had her legions of little monsters.
Wow, That’s a Good Song: Hollerado, “Americanarama”
As a former Pittsburgh-area resident (because we all know anything 30-45 minutes outside of the city is still Pittsburgh-ish), I don’t know that I’m contractually allowed to show any love to a song that references Philadelphia. This song and video, shot all in one take, may make up for the city reference, however.
Concert Review: Darren Hanlon, Colorado Springs 11/16
In the best case scenario, when you write a review of a show, you write solely about the music, but sometimes other things overshadow the real purpose of your trip. Last night we took a field trip to Colorado Springs to see Darren Hanlon. Hanlon was great. The rest of the evening was not so […]