By Sarah on April 5, 2010
Let’s hope that this week is better than last, where I had a moment of complete brilliance and proceeded to forget all about the show I was supposed to go to on Saturday night. Sigh. I’ll be at Lincoln Hall on Wednesday (Fanfarlo) and Thursday (The xx), provided that I don’t forget about those shows, […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged a lull, a rocket to the moon, acrylics, as tall as lions, avi buffalo, bad veins, beaters, bill callahan, bottom lounge, bully in the hallway, camera obscura, chicago cultural center, chicago theatre, cory chisel and the wandering sons, cubby bear wrigleyville, dan black, daphne willis, dashboard confessional, deer tick, dj sr-71, double door, drive by truckers, edwin mccain band, elephant gun, empty bottle, evanston space, fanfarlo, fun, funeral party, har mar superstar, harris theater, hideout, house of blues, japandroids, jj, john mayer, julian casablancas, k'naan, lang lang, langhorne slim, lasers and fast and shit, lawrence arabia, light pollution, lincoln hall, madeleine peyroux, male bonding, mason jennings, metro, michael franti and spearhead, midnight conspiracy, miike snow, moneypenny, motion city soundtrack, my gold mask, nathaniel rateliff, nora o'connor, nosaj thing, nurses, old town school of folk music, owen pallett, princeton, prohibition orchestra of chicago, robbie fulks, robert francis, ronnie malley, schubas, shawn mullins, sing it loud, snowblink, straight no chaser, the future laureates, the giving tree, the horse's ha, the hoyle brothers, the low anthem, the saps, the shams band, the smith westerns, the soft pack, the vic, the xx, those darlins, titus andronicus, todd kessler and the new folk, united center, violetness, wale, wanees zazour |
By Sarah on December 31, 2009
Happy NYE to those of you in time zones where it hasn’t happened yet! (Sorry, Australia and thereabouts, I missed you all.) Â I’ll be ringing in the new year on a rooftop in downtown Chicago, freezing in the name of fashion and a good celebration. Â It’s been an interesting year in many respects, and I’ve […]
Posted in Album Reviews, Best Of | Tagged andrew bird, fanfarlo, florence and the machine, mumford & sons, the decemberists
By Sarah on November 24, 2009
After teasing us with a few featured bands recently, SXSW has released a list of over 200 showcase bands for this year’s festival. It’s a lot of material to go through, and more information is forthcoming. SXSW usually provides additional information and links to free mp3s for their featured bands, so keep an eye out […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged deer tick, fanfarlo, ha ha tonka, i fight dragons, japandroids, jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter, kidz in the hall, movits!, nicole atkins and the black sea, peter wolf crier, psalm one, robyn hitchcock, steve poltz, sxsw, the 88, the boxer rebellion, the chevelles, the crystal method, the waco brothers, trespassers william, we are scientists, we are wolves
By Sarah on November 9, 2009
If I liked math enough, someday, I would sit down and do some sort of analysis to see if I can come up with a pattern for Shows I Want to See, because it seems like there’s always an off week, followed by a week so full of things that it makes my trigger finger […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged abbey pub, art brut, auditorium theatre, bottom lounge, chicago gay men's chorus, david wilcox, dent may and his magnificant ukulele, devo, dirty dozen brass band, el perro del mar, elizabeth and the catapult, ellery, evanston space, evanston township high school, fanfarlo, flyleaf, freelance whales, greg laswell, heartless bastards, house of blues, joe purdy, justin nozuka, kate voegele, keb' mo', kevin hammond, kevin o'donnell, lakeside pride symphonic band, lincoln hall, martyrs', metro, morseland, mucca pazza, old town school of folk music, park west, peter bjorn and john, ray lamontagne, sam bradley, schubas, sidetrack, sons of the never wrong, sweet honey in the rock, symphony center, the fab faux, the riviera, the sanctified grumblers, the vic, the walkmen, thenewno2, todd snider, wolfmother, yourself and the air