By Sarah on December 14, 2010
Hey, it’s Mike again, you know the friend of Sarah’s from way back who occaisionally fulfills her need for a list of albums because she spends 90,000 hours agonizing over her own. (Do I really like this Andrew Bird album more than this other Andew Bird album?) Ha. I keed. So I did this thing last year, and since I mentioned Paper Route, and Gavin (Paper Route’s drummer) tweeted a link to the site, I gave Sarah a bunch of traffic, so she owes me, and that’s why you get the:
Posted in Album Reviews, Best Of | Tagged balkan beat box, butch walker, chromeo, devo, frank turner, gogol bordello, gorillaz, guest post, katy perry, maroon 5, the national, the soft pack
By Sarah on November 29, 2010
Welcome back to your regularly scheduled blogging! If you’re around this weekend, check out the three-day Chicago Bluegrass and Blues festival, with shows at the Double Door, the Congress Theatre, and Lincoln Hall.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged april smith and the great picture show, bbu, beat kitchen, bottom lounge, broken bells, bxc, cafeteria y restaurante de pancho, chicago theatre, congress theatre, corey chisel and the wandering sons, curtis evans and our friend electric, dag juhlin, daphne willis, delta spirit, derek nelson and the musicians, dessa, doomtree, double door, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, evanston space, freelance whales, grace potter and the nocturnals, great divide, hideout, how far to austin, ingrid graudins, ingrid michaelson, jenny scheinman, jim black, jon drake and the shakes, justin roberts, kandyce hogan, liam davis, lincoln hall, maps and atlases, maroon 5, meg and dia, metro, midwest hype, mike fredrickson, mike mangione and the union, miniature tigers, nels cline, nora o'connor, phil angotti, pos, rego, rita j, robbie fulks, ryan star, schubas, sidewalk chalk, the future laureates, the right now, the shams band, the skatalites, the vic, todd sickafoose, tom dunning and your boyfriends, trinkets of joy, vienna teng
By Sarah on October 25, 2010
If you’re looking for me this week, I’ll be on my Mumford Midwest Mini-Roadtrip. (I can’t think of another word with M. Migration, maybe?)
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged anoushka shankar, bob dylan, bottom lounge, cadillac sky, danny malone, dar williams, deer tick, evanston space, ezra furman, hard rock cafe, hideout, hot chip, jc brooks & the uptown sound, joe firstman, joshua radin, josiah leming, justin roberts, king charles, lcd soundsystem, lincoln hall, maroon 5, mayer hawthorne and the county, mumford & sons, ravi shankar, robbie fulks, schubas, shawn mullins, subterranean, symphony center, the aragon, the morning benders, the riviera, the weepies, tyler hilton, uic pavilion
By Sarah on November 16, 2009
A quiet week, but some solid shows nonetheless. I’ll be at the Elvis Perkins/AA Bondy show on Saturdy, finally able to catch the both of them in Chicago. It’ll be my first time at Lincoln Hall (although I walked past it the other night and it looks way swanky on the outside), but I’ve got […]
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged aa bondy, alela diane, blue rodeo, brendan benson, brighton ma, congress theater, deadmau5, devendra banhart, dir en grey, elvis perkins in dearland, empty bottle, evanston space, harper simon, jason isbell and the 400 unit, julian plenty, lincoln hall, luke doucet, marissa nadler, maroon 5, martyrs', metro, nana grizol, old crow medicine show, peoria civic center, schubas, the singleman affair, the vic, willy porter and his band