Music Memoirs: Looking Back on 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 […]
This Week in Great Music: 12/21 – 12/27
Not much going on this week, but hey, it’s the holidays, there’s some expectation to spend time with loved ones or something. I don’t know. There are still some interesting things going on, though. There are two nights of the do-it-yourself Messiah, where the audience gets the music and gets to sing along, and for […]
Concert Review: Andrew Bird at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 12/14 – 12/17
It’s easy to forget that Andrew Bird’s a classically trained violinist. The sometimes nonsense-lyrics, the eccentric personality, the giant speaker horns that dwarf him on stage, the usage of layers of sound and looping pedals, the fact that his last name is Bird and he whistles – all serve as plenty of conversation fodder when […]
Andrew Bird, Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church, 12/16
On “Capital I”, a Sesame Street song: “The lines about rubbing it here, polishing it there, they make me feel a little funny inside… but I kind of enjoy it.” Looking increasingly scruffier as the week goes on, Andrew Bird also seems to be getting more and more comfortable with this installment of church shows. […]
Andrew Bird, Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church, 12/15
“When it gets to the part when it breaks down, can you clap along? I know it’s a little corny, asking you to clap. If I was out there, and someone said to clap along, I’d be, ‘hey, I’m not your monkey’.” Andrew Bird just perfectly encapsulated one of the reasons I don’t like clapping […]
Concert Review: Over the Rhine and Lucy Wainwright Roche, Old Town School of Folk Music, 12/12
It’s not every day that you get to see one of your favorite bands not only perform twice, but perform two stellar sets and manage to outdo themselves each and every time.  Saturday was just one of those nights, with two shows by Ohio natives Over the Rhine (husband and wife duo Linford Detweiler and Karin […]