By Sarah, on February 20th, 2010%
With my feed reader at 1000+ unread posts (thanks a lot, busy work week and unexpected out-of-country trip), I might as well just claim defeat and start from scratch, but not before compiling some things that have caught my eye. . . . → Read More: News & Links – February 20
By Sarah, on January 27th, 2010%
I’ll admit that I’m not much of a Joanna Newsom fan. I didn’t like either of her previous releases, The Milk-Eyed Mender or Ys. I wanted to like her music, because she oftentimes gets lumped in with musicians whose work I do enjoy, but I just couldn’t get into her whole sound. Regardless of . . . → Read More: News & Links – January 27
By Sarah, on January 12th, 2010%
Bowerbirds; photo by Alissa Anderson
In conjunction with the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, kicking off this week at Schubas and Lincoln Hall, Reckless Records has four fantastic (and free) in-store performance coming up:
Thursday, January 14, 5:00 pm - Bear in Heaven – Lakeview store (3126 N Broadway)
Friday, January 15, 5:00 pm – Icy Demons – Lakeview . . . → Read More: News & Links – January 12
By Sarah, on December 31st, 2009%
Happy NYE to those of you in time zones where it hasn’t happened yet! (Sorry, Australia and thereabouts, I missed you all.) I’ll be ringing in the new year on a rooftop in downtown Chicago, freezing in the name of fashion and a good celebration. It’s been an interesting year in many respects, and . . . → Read More: 2009 Favorites: Part Four
By Sarah, on December 22nd, 2009%
Today’s Music Memoirs post asks you to look back on 2009. Feel free to play along.
The albums that you love the most
While I’m still working on getting my Best of 2009 list up and running, I’ll give you a sneak peak at it now, I suppose. Fortunately for all of us, I wrote my list out . . . → Read More: Music Memoirs: Looking Back on 2009
By Sarah, on November 3rd, 2009%
In today’s edition of what will hopefully be a semi-regular feature (but will more probably be sporadic, because I’m just like that), I offer you a song that makes me stop and go, “wow, that’s a good song”: The Decemberists’ “I Was Meant for the Stage”.
I was meant for the stage
I was meant for the curtain
I was meant . . . → Read More: Wow, That’s A Good Song: The Decemberists, “I Was Meant for the Stage”