Owen Pallett mentioned to the packed house at Schubas that he wasn’t feeling well, apologizing for not being his usual “showgirl self”, but any side effects of a lingering illness were invisible on Saturday night. His performance was just as intense and impeccable as it was the last time I saw him, . . . → Read More: Concert Review: Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Sharon Van Etten, and Peter Wolf Crier, Schubas, 1/16/10
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The beginning half of this week has apparently decided to take a vacation. I’d sure like to do the same, but that’s not going to be happening any time soon. The big attraction this week is the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, hosted at Schubas and Lincoln Hall. There are a . . . → Read More: This Week in Great Music: 1/11 – 1/17  Leave a comment  Upcoming Events  atlas sound, auditorium theatre, bowerbirds, buddy guy, buddy guy's legends, city and colour, clues, davenport's, final fantasy, freelance whales, g. love and special sauce, house of blues, julie doiron, lee fields and the expressions, lincoln hall, lissie, martyrs', metro, neon indian, netherfriends, owen pallett, peter wolf crier, pomengranates, schubas, sharon van etten, skybox, sons of the never wrong, surfer blood, the hood internet, the powwows, the rural alberta advantage, voxtrot 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 I had hoped to liven up this week’s concert rundown with a picture of my Halloween costume, but I forgot to upload one while I was home, and now they’re only on Facebook, which I can’t access from here. Sad day. Suffice it to say, it was awesome and involved a lot of Kermit . . . → Read More: This Week in Great Music – 11/2 – 11/8 Leave a comment Upcoming Events a fine frenzy, among the oak and ash, chicago licorice sticks, chicago waldorf school, college of dupage, emilie autumn, erin mckeown, final fantasy, house of blues, jill sobule, joan osborne, lakeshore theater, landon pigg, lincoln hall, logan square auditorium, mcaninch arts center, metro, mt. eerie, old town school of folk music, park west, roger daltrey, tara jane o'neil, the mountain goats, vic chesnutt |
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