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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Andrew Bird’s songwriting approach is seemingly paradoxical, at once highly improvisational and long-simmering, with material sometimes taking years to finally gel together. The results are familiar to anyone who’s followed his string of breezily baroque albums over the last decade, full of virtuosic and engaging interweavings of melodies and loops spun from violin, whistling, guitar, and Bird’s warbling tenor. While his songs are elegantly crafted and artfully arranged, he’s careful not to lose the sense that music is about creating a space to explore, to wander through, and maybe even get lost in. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Andrew Bird is perhaps the most famous indie violin rocker in the scene today. That’s not exactly saying much since it’s pretty much a two man race between him and the guy from Final Fantasy. But fame aside, what Andrew Bird really is is really good. Talk about an imaginative artist. Bird does this interesting thing where he plucks and bows his violin, then immediately samples the results, layering sounds with guitars, whistles, glockenspiels and, of course, vocals.
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 27, 2012Like Mogwai, (except they’re French and they love keyboards) M83 have the rare ability to completely invigorate and transform an audience with the euphoric sounds they create. This is true ambient music.
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 25, 2012An alternately transcendent and dodgy prospect live, M83 is the province of French musician and producer Anthony Gonzalez, who makes dramatic post-rock stuck somewhere among Tortoise, Air, and Boards Of Canada. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 01, 2012Somewhere on a steep and unnerving precipice—the one that separates ambient experimentation from the MGMTs of the indieverse—sits Alan Palomo, also known as Neon Indian. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 01, 2012Neon Indian is the blissed-out work of Alan Palomo. Palomo is also in that band VEGA. more at ohmyrockness.com
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The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival: Drive-By Truckers
Sat. 01/28 | 12:00PM - Sun. 01/29 @ The Congress Theater (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified-
Featured Review from flavorpill
January 26, 2012“It seems simplest to understand Patterson Hood as the director/producer of low-budget films, which is maybe what he thought he was doing when this all started. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
January 12, 2012More so than The Black Keys or the now-defunct White Stripes, The Kills do blues-rock with pure, unadulterated attitude.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
January 02, 2012Blues-punk duo VV and Hotel of The Kills crank out gritty, sneering sex rock that’s really, really loud. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2012: Theophilus London, DJ Misa, Lunice, Retrospect
Fri. 01/13 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2012: Tycho, Active Child, Ant'Irld, Abstract Science DJs
Thu. 01/12 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
December 21, 2011If you’ve never had the pleasure of hearing or seeing San Francisco’s Tycho, but you just so happened to glance upon his song titles (I don’t know why this would happen, but just go with it)
-“Adrift” and “Cascade” and “The Daydream,” to name a few of these titles-- you’d pretty much know what kind of listening experience you’d be in for. more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from Heave Media
November 26, 2011Tycho’s Dive is an easy ambient collection of well-curated sounds, like an assortment of shells you find on the shoreline. Read more about his latest album on HEAVEmedia.
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North Coast Music Fest - Day 1
Fri. 09/03 | 5:00PM - Fri. 09/03 | 10:00PM @ Union Park (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010The Dead Weather is truly in its element live and Alison Mosshart is an utterly bewitching focal point for the band. more at chicagoist.com
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The Chicagoist Reader Meetup: Now With home Brew
Thu. 07/22 | 6:00AM - Thu. 07/22 | 7:00PM @ Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub (map)
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West Fest
Sat. 07/10 | 12:00PM - Sun. 07/11 | 10:00PM @ Chicago Avenue between Damen and Wood
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Miracle Condition, a quartet featuring former members of U.S. Maple. By focusing mostly on material from their self-titled debut LP, plus debuting a new song for the very first time, Miracle Condition put on a master class in musical economy. more at chicagoist.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 28, 2010Pelican play repetitious, almost trance-like, guitar riffs that steadily build into a euphoric atmosphere of hardcore noise with the most subtle trace of pretty guitar lines floating over the top. more at chicago.ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Lucky for us while it appears Future Islands has decided to define their sound using such a general — and some may say pretentious — term are really just a bunch of synth-pop music geeks from North Carolina. more at chicagoist.com
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Mark Bazer, Charlie Trotter's, Doug Glanville, Tracy Letts, Schadenfreude, The Jo...
Fri. 06/04 | 6:30PM @ The Hideout (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Cave’s 2009 release Psychic Psummer started off quietly, but then leapt off the speaker with frantic krautrock and pulsating proto-punk, like a compromise between formed between The Stooges and Neu! more at chicagoist.com
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Radioclit, Kid Color, Black Holes, The Very Best
Thu. 06/03 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Running through tracks like “Production” and “People Should Be More Aware” from their latest album, Sings The Browns, Bird Names were successful in creating sing-songy melodicism from oddball vocal work and booming, tom-tom heavy drums. more at chicagoist.com
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Alla, photo.sans.nom.
Thu. 06/03 | 9:30PM @ The Whistler (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Allá did, in fact, take much of the audience on a jazz odyssey (we mean that in the best way possible) with fluid basslines and funky, Meters-like drumming. Allá created a glorious cacophony of sound, with new material invoking Kid A-era Radiohead. more at chicagoist.com
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010YAWN’s five-song EP introduced their new, electro-tribal sound, seemingly inspired by the Afro-pop of Vampire Weekend and the hypnotic synth of Animal Collective. more at chicagoist.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Andrew Bird’s songwriting approach is seemingly paradoxical, at once highly improvisational and long-simmering, with material sometimes taking years to finally gel together. The results are familiar to anyone who’s followed his string of breezily baroque albums over the last decade, full of virtuosic and engaging interweavings of melodies and loops spun from violin, whistling, guitar, and Bird’s warbling tenor. While his songs are elegantly crafted and artfully arranged, he’s careful not to lose the sense that music is about creating a space to explore, to wander through, and maybe even get lost in. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Andrew Bird is perhaps the most famous indie violin rocker in the scene today. That’s not exactly saying much since it’s pretty much a two man race between him and the guy from Final Fantasy. But fame aside, what Andrew Bird really is is really good. Talk about an imaginative artist. Bird does this interesting thing where he plucks and bows his violin, then immediately samples the results, layering sounds with guitars, whistles, glockenspiels and, of course, vocals.
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 27, 2012Like Mogwai, (except they’re French and they love keyboards) M83 have the rare ability to completely invigorate and transform an audience with the euphoric sounds they create. This is true ambient music.
more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 25, 2012An alternately transcendent and dodgy prospect live, M83 is the province of French musician and producer Anthony Gonzalez, who makes dramatic post-rock stuck somewhere among Tortoise, Air, and Boards Of Canada. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 01, 2012Somewhere on a steep and unnerving precipice—the one that separates ambient experimentation from the MGMTs of the indieverse—sits Alan Palomo, also known as Neon Indian. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 01, 2012Neon Indian is the blissed-out work of Alan Palomo. Palomo is also in that band VEGA. more at ohmyrockness.com
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The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival: Drive-By Truckers
Sat. 01/28 | 12:00PM - Sun. 01/29 @ The Congress Theater (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified-
Featured Review from flavorpill
January 26, 2012“It seems simplest to understand Patterson Hood as the director/producer of low-budget films, which is maybe what he thought he was doing when this all started. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
January 12, 2012More so than The Black Keys or the now-defunct White Stripes, The Kills do blues-rock with pure, unadulterated attitude.more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
January 02, 2012Blues-punk duo VV and Hotel of The Kills crank out gritty, sneering sex rock that’s really, really loud. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2012: Theophilus London, DJ Misa, Lunice, Retrospect
Fri. 01/13 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Tomorrow Never Knows 2012: Tycho, Active Child, Ant'Irld, Abstract Science DJs
Thu. 01/12 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
December 21, 2011If you’ve never had the pleasure of hearing or seeing San Francisco’s Tycho, but you just so happened to glance upon his song titles (I don’t know why this would happen, but just go with it)
-“Adrift” and “Cascade” and “The Daydream,” to name a few of these titles-- you’d pretty much know what kind of listening experience you’d be in for. more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from Heave Media
November 26, 2011Tycho’s Dive is an easy ambient collection of well-curated sounds, like an assortment of shells you find on the shoreline. Read more about his latest album on HEAVEmedia.
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North Coast Music Fest - Day 1
Fri. 09/03 | 5:00PM - Fri. 09/03 | 10:00PM @ Union Park (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010The Dead Weather is truly in its element live and Alison Mosshart is an utterly bewitching focal point for the band. more at chicagoist.com
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The Chicagoist Reader Meetup: Now With home Brew
Thu. 07/22 | 6:00AM - Thu. 07/22 | 7:00PM @ Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub (map)
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West Fest
Sat. 07/10 | 12:00PM - Sun. 07/11 | 10:00PM @ Chicago Avenue between Damen and Wood
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Miracle Condition, a quartet featuring former members of U.S. Maple. By focusing mostly on material from their self-titled debut LP, plus debuting a new song for the very first time, Miracle Condition put on a master class in musical economy. more at chicagoist.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 28, 2010Pelican play repetitious, almost trance-like, guitar riffs that steadily build into a euphoric atmosphere of hardcore noise with the most subtle trace of pretty guitar lines floating over the top. more at chicago.ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Lucky for us while it appears Future Islands has decided to define their sound using such a general — and some may say pretentious — term are really just a bunch of synth-pop music geeks from North Carolina. more at chicagoist.com
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Mark Bazer, Charlie Trotter's, Doug Glanville, Tracy Letts, Schadenfreude, The Jo...
Fri. 06/04 | 6:30PM @ The Hideout (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Cave’s 2009 release Psychic Psummer started off quietly, but then leapt off the speaker with frantic krautrock and pulsating proto-punk, like a compromise between formed between The Stooges and Neu! more at chicagoist.com
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Radioclit, Kid Color, Black Holes, The Very Best
Thu. 06/03 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Running through tracks like “Production” and “People Should Be More Aware” from their latest album, Sings The Browns, Bird Names were successful in creating sing-songy melodicism from oddball vocal work and booming, tom-tom heavy drums. more at chicagoist.com
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Alla, photo.sans.nom.
Thu. 06/03 | 9:30PM @ The Whistler (map)
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010Allá did, in fact, take much of the audience on a jazz odyssey (we mean that in the best way possible) with fluid basslines and funky, Meters-like drumming. Allá created a glorious cacophony of sound, with new material invoking Kid A-era Radiohead. more at chicagoist.com
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Featured Review from Chicagoist
May 28, 2010YAWN’s five-song EP introduced their new, electro-tribal sound, seemingly inspired by the Afro-pop of Vampire Weekend and the hypnotic synth of Animal Collective. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on The Dead Weather @ The Congress Theater
about 1 year agoThe Dead Weather is truly in its element live and Alison Mosshart is an utterly bewitching focal point for the band. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Mark Bazer, Charlie Trotter's, Doug Glanville, Tracy Letts, Schadenfreude, The Jordan Years, Prescott Tolk, The Interview Show, @ The Hideout
about 1 year agoCave’s 2009 release Psychic Psummer started off quietly, but then leapt off the speaker with frantic krautrock and pulsating proto-punk, like a compromise between formed between The Stooges and Neu! more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Alla, photo.sans.nom. @ The Whistler
about 1 year agoAllá did, in fact, take much of the audience on a jazz odyssey (we mean that in the best way possible) with fluid basslines and funky, Meters-like drumming. Allá created a glorious cacophony of sound, with new material invoking Kid A-era Radiohead. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Radioclit, Kid Color, Black Holes, The Very Best @ Empty Bottle
about 1 year agoRunning through tracks like “Production” and “People Should Be More Aware” from their latest album, Sings The Browns, Bird Names were successful in creating sing-songy melodicism from oddball vocal work and booming, tom-tom heavy drums. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Pelican, Miracle Condition, Medusa @ Empty Bottle
about 1 year agoMiracle Condition, a quartet featuring former members of U.S. Maple. By focusing mostly on material from their self-titled debut LP, plus debuting a new song for the very first time, Miracle Condition put on a master class in musical economy. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Future Islands, Lower Dens @ The Hideout
about 1 year agoLucky for us while it appears Future Islands has decided to define their sound using such a general -- and some may say pretentious -- term are really just a bunch of synth-pop music geeks from North Carolina. more at chicagoist.com
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Chicagoist on Yourself and The Air, Jookabox, YAWN @ Empty Bottle
about 1 year agoYAWN's five-song EP introduced their new, electro-tribal sound, seemingly inspired by the Afro-pop of Vampire Weekend and the hypnotic synth of Animal Collective. more at chicagoist.com
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