When you’ve been waiting for twenty years to see a concert, there’s essentially no hope of being truly objective when talking about the show. But that’s just the way things are. . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Eagles, w/ Keith Urban and Dixie Chicks, Soldier Field, 6/19
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While Freelance Whales’ music consists largely of jangly, glockenspiel-filled pop-rock songs, Peter Wolf Crier offers a dark, sometimes frantic, lo-fi counterpoint. . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Freelance Whales with Peter Wolf Crier, Schubas, 6/11 In front of a huge crowd of 11,000+ spectators, She & Him provided a breezy summer soundtrack for the evening. . . . → Read More: Concert Review: She & Him, Millennium Park, 6/7 Marcus Mumford has one of the more interesting voices in music right now. It’s rough and creaky and weary beyond his years, but it fits the band’s brand of folk music. From the very first song, all the way through their encore of “Whispers in the Dark”, the band wowed the crowd with their intensity, sheer joy of playing, and, yes, even their dry British wit. . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Mumford & Sons, Lincoln Hall, 5/24/10 Bird’s newer subject material isn’t radically different from his more recent work. He’s still playing with ideas and concepts related to natural disasters, and he still relates the macro to the micro, the impersonal to the personal. The word that I think best describes his newer work is apocalyptic, but I can’t decide whether it’s pre-, post-, or still happening. . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Concert Review: Andrew Bird at Largo, 5/15 Karin and Linford aren’t on the road promoting any particular album; their most recent album of new material is 2007′s The Trumpet Child. They’re on the road because they love making music. . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Over the Rhine and Lucy Wainwright Roche, SPACE 4/29 |
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