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worthwhile events happening in New York City, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Chicago, and London — with more cities on the way. Together,
we foster and promote the arts, entertainment, and nightlife we love,
embracing the underground, the mainstream, and everything in between.
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CURREN$Y, THE JETS featuring, SMOKE DZA, FIEND 4 DA MONEY, CORNER P BOY, YOUNG RODDY
Wed. 05/23 | 8:00PM @ Metro (map)
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May 18, 2012“Now that Snoop is arguably a pop-culture punch line and Cypress Hill hasn’t impressed in years, it’s time to crown a new weed bard. In our humble opinion, that man is Curren$y. Slow yet lucid jams like “Silence,” from Pilot Talk II, are pretty perfect for all your toking needs — not to mention thematically appropriate. He returns to Metro with fellow Jet Life crew members and, presumably, some other buds, too.” more at flavorpill.com
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Dark Dark Dark, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Pillars & Tongues
Tue. 05/22 | 9:00PM @ The Hideout (map)
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May 18, 2012“With folksy, stripped-down arrangements of accordion, banjo, strings, and vocals, Minneapolis’ Dark Dark Dark bring to mind Beirut, a Hawk & a Hacksaw, or DeVotchKa, but with a sound that’s all their own. Their songs fit the moniker, evoking the northern winters of their origins with a sweetly melodic core. And should things get too dour, songs like “Trouble No More” reassure audiences that DDD are ready to stomp around a little.”
Karsten Lund, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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Ane Brun, Gemma Ray
Tue. 05/22 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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May 18, 2012“Norwegian songstress Ane Brun may best be described to American audiences as the thinking-Scandinavian-man’s Dolly Parton. Brun’s blissful vocals evoke the innocence and clarity of a wide-eyed ingenue, but her insightful lyrics dispel any charges of coyness or naivete. Changing of the Seasons (2008) was an impressive affair and more accessible than 2005’s A Temporary Dive (whose darkness was perhaps the result of her jam sessions with fellow Scandinavians a-ha).
Julian Hooper, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 18, 2012In a perfect world, M. Ward is listened to on a backyard porch overlooking the Bayou on a hot day, a cold jug of Mississippi Mud in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. Strangely though, M. Ward is from Portland and not Baton Rouge. With a raspy croon, M. Ward spins dusty Americana yarns with help from his acoustic guitar, trusty harmonica, and a tin-pan alley piano.
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May 18, 2012“It’s still hard to believe that we will most likely never hear a new Sonic Youth record, but at least the blow is softened somewhat by the fact that Lee Ranaldo’s new solo record is really good. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 18, 2012Beach Boys
When: Mon., May 21, 8 p.m. and Tue., May 22, 8 p.m.175 N. State St., Chicago Loop IL 60601
41.88537;-87.62746
312-462-6300
thechicagotheatre.com more at chicagoreader.com
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Killer Moon (record release), Creepy Band, Alma Negra
Mon. 05/14 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 08, 2012“Chicago-based trio Killer Moon describe themselves as “a psychedelic jam band with classic rock and doomy sludge undertones,” which is too spot-on for us to meddle with. Tracks like “Summer” and “Tunnel Vision” would fit comfortably in either the local psych-rock circle or Chicago’s bastion of progressive (which is not to say prog) metal. (The band’s long-gestating LP Tunnel Vision — which gets the record-release toast at this Empty Bottle gig — is produced by local go-to metal butterfly Sanford Parker.) Like-minded Alma Negra and theatrical sideshow punks Creepy Band open.” more at flavorpill.com
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May 05, 2012“Chicago indie-rock four-piece Maps & Atlases return home to plug new album Beware and Be Grateful (Barsuk). Since 2010’s LP, Perch Patchwork, the band has been moving beyond its math rock heritage in favor of pop-tinged hooks and experimental percussion, with strong dividends. St. Louis, MO veterans more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Between a pair of late-’00s EPs—Tree, Swallows, Houses and You And Me And The Mountains—Maps & Atlases moved from dizzying displays of noodly post-rock to a poppier, more playful sound. 2010’s Perch Patchwork finds the Chicago quartet continuing that transition, its impulse to relax and let the songs sprawl out naturally seemingly a result of the band’s Barsuk Records surroundings. more at avclub.com
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May 05, 2012“"Best, finest surgeon, come cut me open" sings St. Vincent in her autobiographical new record, Strange Mercy. Quoting lyrics lifted from Marilyn Monroe’s journal, the Brooklyn singer also known as Annie Clark takes listeners on an introspective journey, one that documents the singer’s thoughts on monogamy (“Chloe in the Afternoon”), depression (“Year of the Tiger”) and a platinum blonde’s poetry (“Surgeon”). The former Polyphonic Spree singer is also celebrating her highest-charting album, a nod to the record’s increasingly more accessible beats (listen to the first single, “Cruel”).”
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, used to be affiliated with The Polyphonic Spree, which might suggest pop music of a peculiarly sunny and charged sort. But St. Vincent eschews bombast for something that leans closer to Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Dirty Projectors. The internal struggle within Clark’s work has always been beauty vs. beast.more at avclub.com
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Saturday Looks Good To Me, Wild Moccasins, Love of Everything
Thu. 05/10 | 9:00PM @ Schubas (map)
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May 05, 2012“Tom Colicchio has professed his love for beef jerky, Mario Batali cops to an affection for Doritos, and Gordon Ramsay owns his sweet spot for gummy sweets; nonetheless, snacks remain second-class citizens in the food world. No more, say the peckish-and-proud folks behind The Snackpot, a new Chicago-based snack-review website slated to launch May 7. The site boasts an impressive roster of contributors, including authors, journalists, and music critics (sample their nosh-focused interviews with artists at last year’s Pitchfork Music Festival); and the launch party features similarly appetizing DJ sets, readings, and, yep, snacks, courtesy of Pop Chips, Pretzel Chips, and former Top Chef contestant Chuy Valencia.”
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012Not enough has been written about just how soft and satisfying a fresh Twinkie is on a car trip or how prepared foods from 7-Eleven stacks up to those from other convenience stores. At least, that’s the premise behind the new website The Snackpot, which launches this week out of Chicago. more at avclub.com
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SOLD OUT! Ty Segall, White Fence, Strange Boys, Bitchin Bajas
Thu. 05/10 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 08, 2012“From his lowly(ish) beginnings in 2008 as a (eponymous) man and his guitar, Ty Segall has quickly established himself as a forerunner in the Bay Area garage scene, standing tall alongside bands like Thee Oh Sees and Shannon and the Clams. His 2011 release, Goodbye Bread (Drag City), was a slower lurch than his previous three albums, more Iggy Pop than the Seeds, but just as kick-ass in the way that only real rock ‘n’ roll can be. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012San Francisco garage rocker Ty Segall is nothing if not prolific. With a no-fuss approach to the studio and a prodigious work ethic, he’s made 11 albums since 2008—and the brisk pace of his output seems to have rubbed off on his music, giving it an appealing urgency. Last year’s fantastic Goodbye Bread has a dialed-down vibe, balancing its wild howling and heavy distortion with hooky melodies and strummy acoustic guitars, but you can never predict what Segall’s next record will sound like from listening to the previous one—Hair (Drag City), released a couple of weeks ago, is an action-packed eight-song collaboration with fellow Bay Area denizen White Fence (ne Tim Presley), who shares Segall’s preference for getting shit done quickly. more at chicagoreader.com
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May 05, 2012“Schoolboy Q’s breakout sophomore record, Habits & Contradictions, might be the least West Coast-sounding hip-hop record to ever come out of LA. Q’s agitated grittiness, backed by tough, nuanced production, hits up slow-churn Memphis hardcore, Mobb Deep’s on-edge starkness, and Biggie’s flashy lights/dark nights dichotomy. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 30, 2012Hip-hop’s always been a haven for potheads and pill poppers, but it didn’t develop a full-fledged psychedelic wing till Lil Wayne’s pre-jail phase as a Hendrix-style drugonaut. more at chicagoreader.com
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May 02, 2012“One of the slogans of the Miss Representation campaign: “You can’t be what you can’t see.” By that, they are referring to the near-invisibility of powerful, articulate women in mainstream media, and the impact of that invisibility on the young women growing up now. Miss Representation is a documentary that chronicles the debilitating effects on body image and self-actualization that can happen in a media culture saturated with plastic surgery, reality show cat-fights, and intellectually impotent women. It is also a call to action to women to create their own media and to write their own stories.”
Bonnie Chan, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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May 02, 2012“Brooklyn experimental vets Black Dice have undergone several morph stages in their 15 years: hardcore earth-scorchers, abrasive noiseniks, loop-happy avant-deconstructionists, merchants of (highly) mutated DFA dance. But their core has remained stable for some time, a playful/queasy layer of warped synths, treated vocals, and unidentifiably processed garble over blunt rhythms — sometimes tinny and febrile, sometimes harsh and insistent. Their latest, Mr. Impossible, finds even more weirdo pay dirt from the bottomless mine of sonic misshapes.”
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 30, 2012Brooklyn’s electronic hardcore noisemakers, Black Dice, provoke strong gut reactions. Either you love them or you really, really hate them. more at ohmyrockness.com
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April 29, 2012Like a rollicking, sex-addled circus, Lucha VaVoom is the love child of a Mexican-wrestling fan and a burlesque dancer — and that DNA is entirely evident. more at flavorpill.com
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April 29, 2012One-woman band Emily Wells marries classical composition to hip-hop and jazz, using her loop pedal to cement the union. more at flavorpill.com
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Sold Out! The Weeknd
Thu. 05/03 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
April 29, 2012One of the most meteoric rises to fame last year (outside of Lana Del Rey) belonged to Abel Tesfaye, who appeared out of nowhere to release not one but three albums that somehow managed to haul the genre of saccharine R&B into the 21st century, sampling Beach House and Siouxsie along the way. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 25, 2012Abel Tesfaye first anonymously uploaded tracks to YouTube using the moniker The Weeknd in late 2010, but it wasn’t long before his project garnered plenty of praise and publicity. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
April 29, 2012Few artists have got as much mileage out of subtle variations on a theme as Jason Pierce. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 27, 2012Lots of bands play grandiose, dreamy indie rock, but you just know it’s a Spiritualized album when that Hammond organ rolls through. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
April 26, 2012Jon Benjamin’s scruffy tone and bemused delivery has made him a go-to voiceover artist (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Home Movies, Bob’s Burgers); but outside the world of animation, Benjamin uses his unkempt charm to weirder ends. more at flavorpill.com
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April 24, 2012The hazy guitar luster of Frankie Rose’s previous MO, garagey C86 revival (see stints in Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, Dum Dum Girls), is a pretty close cousin to the hazy synth luster of her new incarnation, a redux of synth pop and old British college rock; so accusations of trend-hopping ring a bit hollow to our ears. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012I have no idea why I haven’t written about Frankie Rose before today. What the hell is my problem? What, I don’t like pretty and swirly shoegaze pop lushness that sounds like it’s been kissed by a less foreboding sun? Is that what I’m trying to tell myself by neglecting Frankie Rose for this long? Because if that’s what I’m telling myself, then myself be all straight up WRONG. more at ohmyrockness.com
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THE DRUMS, CRAFT SPELLS, PART TIME, CHIRP Radio Welcomes!!
Sun. 04/29 | 7:00PM @ Subterranean (map)
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April 24, 2012If the Cure grew up on the beaches of California in the ’50s, they might have sounded liked the Drums, a post-punk quartet that blends heartfelt vocals worthy of Robert Smith with upbeat surfer riffs, and — true to their name — blasts of rhythmic power. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012We’re about to write about one of our very favorite new bands. Ready? Here it comes! Pre-tty… pre-tty… pre-tty… catchy. That’s our attempt at a Larry David impression. But it’s also a fine way to begin a profile for The Drums. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Spanyurd, Pontiak, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan
Wed. 04/25 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
April 24, 2012Pontiak is an avant-garde band that mixes elements from traditional folk and Americana with neo-psychedelia that formed after three brothers Jennings, Van, and Lain Carney finally decided to form a band after playing music together since they were children. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
April 19, 2012The psych-rock family affair known as Pontiak — Van, Lain, and Jennings Carney — keeps a relatively quick hand on the leash on their latest, Echo Ono. more at flavorpill.com
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April 19, 2012Like fellow indie-Americana icons Silver Jews and Bonnie Prince Billy, Lambchop mastermind Kurt Wagner popped up a full decade early. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 14, 2012Lambchop got tagged from the beginning as a country band because it hailed from Nashville, Tennessee, but there’s a persistent gloominess (and preciousness) at the core of plucked acoustic songs that rarely settle long enough for dust to gather. more at avclub.com
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Pride and Prejudice
Fri. 04/20 | 7:30PM - Sun. 06/10 @ Lifeline Theatre
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 02, 2012“Stop us if you’ve heard this one: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Over the past 30 years Lifeline Theatre has made its name by staging classic literary titles, and they don’t get much more classic than the most beloved novel of all time, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In this charming rendition, Lifeline’s appealing cast deftly brings to life the drawing-room humor and sweetly sincere pathos of the well-worn original, with nary a zombie in sight.”
Ben Bass, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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April 04, 2012One of indie music’s most hyped acts of 2012, Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has been getting tons of attention over the past few months, not only because he’s got a fantastic new album out, Put Your Back N 2 It, but because he and his label have fought a very public battle with YouTube over a relatively tame music video in which the artist cuddles with a (mostly clothed) porn star. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 01, 2012Heartbreaking. That’s all I can think of when I listen to the raw, emotional songs of Seattle’s Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius. more at ohmyrockness.com
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200 Years, Axis: Sova
Mon. 04/09 | 9:00PM @ The Burlington (map)
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Featured Review from flavorpill
April 04, 2012Collaboration-happy guitarist Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) teams with singer Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers) as 200 Years, a new project that largely eschews the drone-folk and discursive noise-rock with which Chasny and Ambrogio are most associated, respectively. more at flavorpill.com
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