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Filter Magazine presents: We Are Serenades, Northpilot, Dozens
Wed. 05/16 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012“Darling” is a fitting way to describe what Allo Darlin’ are doing: bright, beachy, self-reflexive pop, performed in the age of cold electro and drug-addled lo-fi. Read more about the band at ”http://www.heavemedia.com/2012/04/17/allo-darlin-europe-review/">HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“Could Allo Darlin’ be the indie-pop Messiah? It’s not out of the realm given the inspired twee found on Europe, the band’s latest release via Slumberland Records. Based in London, the outfit came together in 2009 when Aussie-born singer/uke strummer Elizabeth Morris (ex-Talulah Gosh, Tender Trap) connected with Paul Rains (guitar), Bill Botting (bass), and Michael Collins (drums). Their self-titled debut earned them a spot in the pop guard and their sophomore effort, with its catchy anthems and Morris’ delicate yet assured vocals and rich lyrics, is certain to bring new minions into the fold. Tonight, Morris’ quartet is supported by the Wave Pictures, a fun British trio which takes direction from the Modern Lovers.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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SOLD OUT! Electric Six: Performing "Fire" in its Entirety
Sat. 05/12 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Everyone has one song they’re willing to break out at any social occasion, absolutely certain it’ll be a hit no matter who’s there. For the second half of the aughts, I would play Electric Six’s “Danger! High Voltage” whenever a party looked like it was headed for an early demise. I’d sing it whenever the queue at a karaoke bar got clogged with requests for sappy, melodramatic ballads. Basically, whenever I had a spare moment, you were going to hear that song.more at chicagoreader.com
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The Boxer Rebellion, Canon Blue
Fri. 05/04 | 10:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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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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Gemini Club, Pet Lions, Made by Man
Sat. 04/21 | 10:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified -
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CHIRP welcomes, Cloud Nothings, A Classic Education
Fri. 04/06 | 10:00PM @ Schubas (map)
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 01, 2012It wasn’t that long ago that Dylan Baldi was recording songs on a computer in his parents’ suburban Cleveland basement, but transformations come quickly in the information age. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 01, 2012Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings is buzzing 19-year-old Dylan Baldi. Man, this dude knows how to write a good pop song… and we are certainly not the first to tell you that. more at ohmyrockness.com
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The Hood Internet, DJ Dylan J. Peterson, MC Rota
Sat. 03/31 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Hunx And His Punx, Heavy Cream, Absolutely Not
Thu. 03/29 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
March 26, 2012Sometimes-hairdresser Seth “Hunx” Bogart is bratty, gay, and, according to Pitchfork, “deliciously trashy.” This ex-Gravy Train!!!! frontman got himself an all-girl band, the Punkettes, and decided to retro-rock. more at avclub.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
March 24, 2012Seth “Hunx” Bogart possesses a number of qualities that help explain how frequently he’s compared to John Waters: they have the same style of mustache, the same taste for hysterical postwar camp, and the same abiding love for the sugary pop music of that period. more at chicagoreader.com
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SOLD OUT! Cursive, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Conduits
Sun. 03/25 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
March 19, 2012There are only four dudes in this Cymbals Eat Guitars? It sure sounds like 40. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
March 17, 2012Since Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier—better known as patron saint of partying hard Andrew W.K.—dropped I Get Wet in 2001, he’s enjoyed one of the oddest pop careers in recent memory. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
March 13, 2012Andrew W.K. is about as irrepressible as a person can be—a kinda-sorta star who got big by way of what was essentially a karaoke act and then grabbed that kinda-sorta bigness and made a lot of it. more at avclub.com
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The Twilight Sad, Young Prisms, Micah P Hinson
Fri. 03/02 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 27, 2012Scottish people have a particularly deep relationship with moping that permeates many of their cultural products, and it’s most noticeable in their rock music. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
February 22, 2012It might seem a bit too neatly morose that a band called The Twilight Sad would name its 2007 debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. more at avclub.com
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White Mystery (tour kick-off show), Earthquake Party!, Dark Fog
Sun. 02/26 | 7:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Contest Closed, Winner Notified -
Zola Jesus, Talk Normal, Chris Connelly
Tue. 02/21 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, winners notified-
Featured Review from flavorpill
February 19, 2012Zola Jesus is the stage name of Nika Roza Danilova, a singer who takes her classical opera training and funnels it through dark tunnels of reverb, drum-machine clang, and synth scuzz. more at flavorpill.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 15, 2012Over the course of an impressively long career, Chris Connelly has recorded everything from confessional orchestral pop to abstract experimental music, collaborating along the way with respected indie stars such as Tim Kinsella and Steve Shelley. more at chicagoreader.com
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Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater Day 1
Thu. 02/16 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 15, 2012On the stunning new Tramp (Jagjaguwar), Sharon Van Etten continues to transform herself: once a folk-inspired wallflower, she’s now an emotional powerhouse with a sound too big for any one genre. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
February 10, 2012Sharon Van Etten’s gorgeously mournful vocals and bedroom-intimate recording aesthetic makes comparisons to Feist and Cat Power a little too easy, though quietly melodic ballads like “For You” and “Much More Than That” would fit just as well in Gap commercials or your girlfriend’s favorite mix-tape. more at avclub.com
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Netherfriends (record release), Secret Colours, Vamos
Fri. 02/10 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 08, 2012Nearly two years ago, Netherfriends main man Shawn Rosenblatt set out to write and record a song in every U.S. state, and now that he’s done, the nomadic former Chicagoan has collected 12 of them on the impressive new full-length Middle America (Kilo). more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
February 07, 2012With the road regimen of Black Flag and the conceptual mania of Sufjan Stevens, Netherfriends ringleader Shawn Rosenblatt tasked himself an outrageous challenge: in a single year, write and record one new song in each of the 50 states. more at flavorpill.com
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Michael Lux & the Bad Sons, The Geoff Dolce Band, Mooner
Thu. 02/09 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Yeah, it’s another band with that sound—the same fuzzy, hissy garage rock that Wavves, Real Estate, and Harlem have been poking at for what now seems like eons. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
January 27, 2012I doubt Damon McMahon ever worries about coming off as too cryptic. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
January 26, 2012Chicago-birthed, Brooklyn-based duo Mountains traffic in all manner of “spacey” circles on their second proper album for Thrill Jockey, but they’ve called it Air Museum (no Space wing here). more at flavorpill.com
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- Past Events
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Filter Magazine presents: We Are Serenades, Northpilot, Dozens
Wed. 05/16 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets -
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Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012“Darling” is a fitting way to describe what Allo Darlin’ are doing: bright, beachy, self-reflexive pop, performed in the age of cold electro and drug-addled lo-fi. Read more about the band at ”http://www.heavemedia.com/2012/04/17/allo-darlin-europe-review/">HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
May 10, 2012“Could Allo Darlin’ be the indie-pop Messiah? It’s not out of the realm given the inspired twee found on Europe, the band’s latest release via Slumberland Records. Based in London, the outfit came together in 2009 when Aussie-born singer/uke strummer Elizabeth Morris (ex-Talulah Gosh, Tender Trap) connected with Paul Rains (guitar), Bill Botting (bass), and Michael Collins (drums). Their self-titled debut earned them a spot in the pop guard and their sophomore effort, with its catchy anthems and Morris’ delicate yet assured vocals and rich lyrics, is certain to bring new minions into the fold. Tonight, Morris’ quartet is supported by the Wave Pictures, a fun British trio which takes direction from the Modern Lovers.”
Mindy Bond, Flavorpill more at flavorpill.com
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SOLD OUT! Electric Six: Performing "Fire" in its Entirety
Sat. 05/12 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
May 06, 2012Everyone has one song they’re willing to break out at any social occasion, absolutely certain it’ll be a hit no matter who’s there. For the second half of the aughts, I would play Electric Six’s “Danger! High Voltage” whenever a party looked like it was headed for an early demise. I’d sing it whenever the queue at a karaoke bar got clogged with requests for sappy, melodramatic ballads. Basically, whenever I had a spare moment, you were going to hear that song.more at chicagoreader.com
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The Boxer Rebellion, Canon Blue
Fri. 05/04 | 10:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner Notified -
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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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Gemini Club, Pet Lions, Made by Man
Sat. 04/21 | 10:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified -
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CHIRP welcomes, Cloud Nothings, A Classic Education
Fri. 04/06 | 10:00PM @ Schubas (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 01, 2012It wasn’t that long ago that Dylan Baldi was recording songs on a computer in his parents’ suburban Cleveland basement, but transformations come quickly in the information age. more at avclub.com
-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 01, 2012Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings is buzzing 19-year-old Dylan Baldi. Man, this dude knows how to write a good pop song… and we are certainly not the first to tell you that. more at ohmyrockness.com
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The Hood Internet, DJ Dylan J. Peterson, MC Rota
Sat. 03/31 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets -
Hunx And His Punx, Heavy Cream, Absolutely Not
Thu. 03/29 | 9:00PM @ Double Door (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
March 26, 2012Sometimes-hairdresser Seth “Hunx” Bogart is bratty, gay, and, according to Pitchfork, “deliciously trashy.” This ex-Gravy Train!!!! frontman got himself an all-girl band, the Punkettes, and decided to retro-rock. more at avclub.com
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
March 24, 2012Seth “Hunx” Bogart possesses a number of qualities that help explain how frequently he’s compared to John Waters: they have the same style of mustache, the same taste for hysterical postwar camp, and the same abiding love for the sugary pop music of that period. more at chicagoreader.com
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SOLD OUT! Cursive, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Conduits
Sun. 03/25 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
March 19, 2012There are only four dudes in this Cymbals Eat Guitars? It sure sounds like 40. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
March 17, 2012Since Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier—better known as patron saint of partying hard Andrew W.K.—dropped I Get Wet in 2001, he’s enjoyed one of the oddest pop careers in recent memory. more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
March 13, 2012Andrew W.K. is about as irrepressible as a person can be—a kinda-sorta star who got big by way of what was essentially a karaoke act and then grabbed that kinda-sorta bigness and made a lot of it. more at avclub.com
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The Twilight Sad, Young Prisms, Micah P Hinson
Fri. 03/02 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 27, 2012Scottish people have a particularly deep relationship with moping that permeates many of their cultural products, and it’s most noticeable in their rock music. more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
February 22, 2012It might seem a bit too neatly morose that a band called The Twilight Sad would name its 2007 debut album Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters. more at avclub.com
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White Mystery (tour kick-off show), Earthquake Party!, Dark Fog
Sun. 02/26 | 7:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Contest Closed, Winner Notified -
Zola Jesus, Talk Normal, Chris Connelly
Tue. 02/21 | 8:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, winners notified-
Featured Review from flavorpill
February 19, 2012Zola Jesus is the stage name of Nika Roza Danilova, a singer who takes her classical opera training and funnels it through dark tunnels of reverb, drum-machine clang, and synth scuzz. more at flavorpill.com
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 15, 2012Over the course of an impressively long career, Chris Connelly has recorded everything from confessional orchestral pop to abstract experimental music, collaborating along the way with respected indie stars such as Tim Kinsella and Steve Shelley. more at chicagoreader.com
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Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater Day 1
Thu. 02/16 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 15, 2012On the stunning new Tramp (Jagjaguwar), Sharon Van Etten continues to transform herself: once a folk-inspired wallflower, she’s now an emotional powerhouse with a sound too big for any one genre. more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
February 10, 2012Sharon Van Etten’s gorgeously mournful vocals and bedroom-intimate recording aesthetic makes comparisons to Feist and Cat Power a little too easy, though quietly melodic ballads like “For You” and “Much More Than That” would fit just as well in Gap commercials or your girlfriend’s favorite mix-tape. more at avclub.com
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Netherfriends (record release), Secret Colours, Vamos
Fri. 02/10 | 10:00PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 08, 2012Nearly two years ago, Netherfriends main man Shawn Rosenblatt set out to write and record a song in every U.S. state, and now that he’s done, the nomadic former Chicagoan has collected 12 of them on the impressive new full-length Middle America (Kilo). more at chicagoreader.com
-
Featured Review from flavorpill
February 07, 2012With the road regimen of Black Flag and the conceptual mania of Sufjan Stevens, Netherfriends ringleader Shawn Rosenblatt tasked himself an outrageous challenge: in a single year, write and record one new song in each of the 50 states. more at flavorpill.com
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Michael Lux & the Bad Sons, The Geoff Dolce Band, Mooner
Thu. 02/09 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets -
-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
February 02, 2012Yeah, it’s another band with that sound—the same fuzzy, hissy garage rock that Wavves, Real Estate, and Harlem have been poking at for what now seems like eons. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
January 27, 2012I doubt Damon McMahon ever worries about coming off as too cryptic. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
January 26, 2012Chicago-birthed, Brooklyn-based duo Mountains traffic in all manner of “spacey” circles on their second proper album for Thrill Jockey, but they’ve called it Air Museum (no Space wing here). more at flavorpill.com
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