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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 18, 2012This band is all about the beats and the rhythms from beyond our borders. Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective. And collective is just a fancy word to say they have lots of members. I think as many as eight as of this writing. And some of these many members have also played in We Are Scientists, Foreign Born and The Fall. So that’s neat.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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WEED STREET ROUNDUP with Tyler Reeve and Friends
Mon. 05/21 | 8:00PM @ Joe's Bar On Weed St. (map)
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RubyHornet And MTV2 Sucker Free Present Digital Freshness: Chicago Hip Hop
Sat. 05/19 | 10:00PM @ Beauty Bar (map)
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Yamantaka, Sonic Titan, Eight Bit Tiger, Supreme Cuts
Fri. 05/18 | 10:00PM @ Schubas (map)
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The Twelves Mayhem At The Mid
Fri. 05/18 | 10:00PM - Fri. 05/18 | 4:00AM @ The Mid (map)
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 01, 2012As one of the most intense experimental noise rock bands of the past decade, Xiu Xiu pushes its musical performance to another level of audience experience. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Filter Magazine presents: We Are Serenades, Northpilot, Dozens
Wed. 05/16 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
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Active Child, Balam Acab, Superhumanoids
Wed. 05/16 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner notified-
Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012While Active Child has already achieved a respectable repertoire, the best is still yet to come from Pat Grossi. Only a couple EPs and one full-length exist for him. He’s a rookie. A rookie with a jaw-dropping vocal range, skills on the harp, and an ear for the cinematic. Read more about Active Child at HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012The solo recording project of L.A.-based Pat Grossi, Active Child brings a glassy beauty to the hazy sounds of contemporary synth-pop on its just-released debut, You Are All I See. The vulnerability of Grossi’s choir-honed tenor could relegate the project to the bedroom, but the dreamy, wide-open arrangements of the eponymous opener and “Johnny Belinda” are destined for greater heights—if only so the ’10s equivalent of John Hughes can have his or her own Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. more at avclub.com
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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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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
May 03, 2012Another rock band that says, “Yes, but what I really want to do is dance.” VHS or Beta met in the onetime indie mecca of Louisville (birthplace of Slint, Palace, and Rodan in its glory days) in 1997 and discovered that, besides indie rock, they were all kind of into disco, soul and French techno, too. So they started a band and people started dancing thinking they were listening to Duran Duran.
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 03, 2012With a name that references the videotape format wars of the ‘70s and ‘80s, VHS or Beta makes no secret about their retro proclivities. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
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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Wolfpack and Dubliminal.com welcome, OPIUO (LIVE), PSYMBIONIC, MANIC FOCUS, RUCKUS...
Thu. 05/10 | 10:00PM @ Smart Bar (map)
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Royal Bangs, Thunders, Heavy Times
Thu. 05/10 | 9:00PM @ Township (formerly Pancho's) (map)
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Knoxville’s Royal Bangs might be one of my new favorite bands. I say “might” because they are very new to me (hmmm, I think I first heard them… yesterday?) so I might just have a sexy first-impression infatuation thing going on that will dim like the fading of a summer romance. But I doubt it. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Lee Fields & The Expressions
Wed. 05/09 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 30, 2012On his latest album, Faithful Man (Truth & Soul), veteran soul singer Lee Fields continues down a path that leads away from the James Brown funk of his earlier recordings and toward a hard-soul template that doesn’t privilege the sound of any single old-school artist, label, or studio. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 30, 2012Ah, the Sea and Cake. I have such a soft spot in my heart for these easy-going Chicagoans who are surprisingly still popping along after all these years. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 30, 2012When a friend told me about Golden Retriever a few months ago, the band didn’t sound promising. more at chicagoreader.com
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RUSKO, Sigma, Zebo
Sat. 05/05 | 8:00PM - Sat. 05/05 | 1:30AM @ The Congress Theater (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from PARTYLINECHICAGO
March 21, 2012Rusko stated a while back Chicago is his second home because he loves electronic music scene and party atmosphere this kick ass city has too offer. Well he wasn’t joking, He is back for the 5th time in the last year, following up after his sell out New Years Eve shows. This cockney thug is always a delight to see live, from his glowing name in the background to his various styles of music. He isn’t all about dubstep, Rusko switches around and plays all sorts of electronic types to please all. He is a ball of energy on stage and truly shows how much he has love for his fans and his music. Be sure to check out Rusko at the Congress on May 5th.Derek Bogseth {PLC Pre-Review}
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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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Sdust prsnts: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs LIVE
Thu. 05/03 | 10:00PM - Fri. 05/04 @ Berlin (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner Notified-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 25, 2012This guy knows the beats, bros. He knows the beats. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 27, 2012Singer and guitarist Alan Sparhawk isn’t the sort of guy who moves in the same direction for very long. But even when he takes different roads, he often ends up in the same place. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 25, 2012In the trio Retribution Gospel Choir, Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Steve Garrington clear away that band’s tranked-out haze to play raw classic-rock covers and recast Sparhawk’s own material with more distortion and immediacy. more at avclub.com
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REHAB: Dirty Disco Kidz x Hollywood Holt x Vapor Eyes x PNHM
Mon. 04/30 | 10:00PM @ Debonair Social Club (map)
HOSTED 312 BEER + REYKA VODKA 10-11 W/ RSVP -
CHIRP welcomes Gauntlet Hair, A Lull
Sun. 04/29 | 9:00PM @ Schubas (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified -
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
April 24, 2012Visionary Brooklyn trio School of Seven Bells drench themselves in prophetic lyricism and pristine instrumentation. Sisters Alejandra and Claudia Dehezas’ honeydew vocals hang over guitarist Benjamin Curtis’ placid guitar while crisp synthesizers whistle to impeccable textures and meditative sequences. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012You probably know some of the players involved in School of Seven Bells, a new-ish band from Brooklyn. Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines (well, formerly of Secret Machines) formed the project with former On
Library! singing sisters, Alejandra and Claudia Deheza (they’re still sisters, actually). more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012Millions now living will never die…if you get off the couch and go see Tortoise bring rhythmic deliverance. The band’s dubby synths will stir up your dormant soul, their seductive ambience will provoke your spirit to awaken, and their jazzy sways shall make you rise up like Lazarus to live and see another day. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 18, 2012This band is all about the beats and the rhythms from beyond our borders. Fool’s Gold is a Los Angeles collective. And collective is just a fancy word to say they have lots of members. I think as many as eight as of this writing. And some of these many members have also played in We Are Scientists, Foreign Born and The Fall. So that’s neat.
more at ohmyrockness.com
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WEED STREET ROUNDUP with Tyler Reeve and Friends
Mon. 05/21 | 8:00PM @ Joe's Bar On Weed St. (map)
Buy Tickets -
RubyHornet And MTV2 Sucker Free Present Digital Freshness: Chicago Hip Hop
Sat. 05/19 | 10:00PM @ Beauty Bar (map)
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Yamantaka, Sonic Titan, Eight Bit Tiger, Supreme Cuts
Fri. 05/18 | 10:00PM @ Schubas (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner notified. -
The Twelves Mayhem At The Mid
Fri. 05/18 | 10:00PM - Fri. 05/18 | 4:00AM @ The Mid (map)
Contest Closed, Winners Notified -
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 01, 2012As one of the most intense experimental noise rock bands of the past decade, Xiu Xiu pushes its musical performance to another level of audience experience. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Filter Magazine presents: We Are Serenades, Northpilot, Dozens
Wed. 05/16 | 9:30PM @ Empty Bottle (map)
Buy Tickets -
Active Child, Balam Acab, Superhumanoids
Wed. 05/16 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner notified-
Featured Review from Heave Media
May 14, 2012While Active Child has already achieved a respectable repertoire, the best is still yet to come from Pat Grossi. Only a couple EPs and one full-length exist for him. He’s a rookie. A rookie with a jaw-dropping vocal range, skills on the harp, and an ear for the cinematic. Read more about Active Child at HEAVEmedia.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
May 04, 2012The solo recording project of L.A.-based Pat Grossi, Active Child brings a glassy beauty to the hazy sounds of contemporary synth-pop on its just-released debut, You Are All I See. The vulnerability of Grossi’s choir-honed tenor could relegate the project to the bedroom, but the dreamy, wide-open arrangements of the eponymous opener and “Johnny Belinda” are destined for greater heights—if only so the ’10s equivalent of John Hughes can have his or her own Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. more at avclub.com
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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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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
May 03, 2012Another rock band that says, “Yes, but what I really want to do is dance.” VHS or Beta met in the onetime indie mecca of Louisville (birthplace of Slint, Palace, and Rodan in its glory days) in 1997 and discovered that, besides indie rock, they were all kind of into disco, soul and French techno, too. So they started a band and people started dancing thinking they were listening to Duran Duran.
more at ohmyrockness.com -
Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
May 03, 2012With a name that references the videotape format wars of the ‘70s and ‘80s, VHS or Beta makes no secret about their retro proclivities. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from flavorpill
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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Wolfpack and Dubliminal.com welcome, OPIUO (LIVE), PSYMBIONIC, MANIC FOCUS, RUCKUS...
Thu. 05/10 | 10:00PM @ Smart Bar (map)
Buy Tickets -
Royal Bangs, Thunders, Heavy Times
Thu. 05/10 | 9:00PM @ Township (formerly Pancho's) (map)
Buy Tickets-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
May 03, 2012Knoxville’s Royal Bangs might be one of my new favorite bands. I say “might” because they are very new to me (hmmm, I think I first heard them… yesterday?) so I might just have a sexy first-impression infatuation thing going on that will dim like the fading of a summer romance. But I doubt it. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Lee Fields & The Expressions
Wed. 05/09 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 30, 2012On his latest album, Faithful Man (Truth & Soul), veteran soul singer Lee Fields continues down a path that leads away from the James Brown funk of his earlier recordings and toward a hard-soul template that doesn’t privilege the sound of any single old-school artist, label, or studio. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 30, 2012Ah, the Sea and Cake. I have such a soft spot in my heart for these easy-going Chicagoans who are surprisingly still popping along after all these years. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 30, 2012When a friend told me about Golden Retriever a few months ago, the band didn’t sound promising. more at chicagoreader.com
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RUSKO, Sigma, Zebo
Sat. 05/05 | 8:00PM - Sat. 05/05 | 1:30AM @ The Congress Theater (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners Notified-
Featured Review from PARTYLINECHICAGO
March 21, 2012Rusko stated a while back Chicago is his second home because he loves electronic music scene and party atmosphere this kick ass city has too offer. Well he wasn’t joking, He is back for the 5th time in the last year, following up after his sell out New Years Eve shows. This cockney thug is always a delight to see live, from his glowing name in the background to his various styles of music. He isn’t all about dubstep, Rusko switches around and plays all sorts of electronic types to please all. He is a ball of energy on stage and truly shows how much he has love for his fans and his music. Be sure to check out Rusko at the Congress on May 5th.Derek Bogseth {PLC Pre-Review}
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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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Sdust prsnts: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs LIVE
Thu. 05/03 | 10:00PM - Fri. 05/04 @ Berlin (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winner Notified-
Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 25, 2012This guy knows the beats, bros. He knows the beats. more at ohmyrockness.com
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Featured Review from Chicago Reader
April 27, 2012Singer and guitarist Alan Sparhawk isn’t the sort of guy who moves in the same direction for very long. But even when he takes different roads, he often ends up in the same place. more at chicagoreader.com
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Featured Review from The Onion A.V. Club
April 25, 2012In the trio Retribution Gospel Choir, Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Steve Garrington clear away that band’s tranked-out haze to play raw classic-rock covers and recast Sparhawk’s own material with more distortion and immediacy. more at avclub.com
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REHAB: Dirty Disco Kidz x Hollywood Holt x Vapor Eyes x PNHM
Mon. 04/30 | 10:00PM @ Debonair Social Club (map)
HOSTED 312 BEER + REYKA VODKA 10-11 W/ RSVP -
CHIRP welcomes Gauntlet Hair, A Lull
Sun. 04/29 | 9:00PM @ Schubas (map)
Buy TicketsContest Closed, Winners notified -
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Featured Review from ChicagoInnerview
April 24, 2012Visionary Brooklyn trio School of Seven Bells drench themselves in prophetic lyricism and pristine instrumentation. Sisters Alejandra and Claudia Dehezas’ honeydew vocals hang over guitarist Benjamin Curtis’ placid guitar while crisp synthesizers whistle to impeccable textures and meditative sequences. more at chicagoinnerview.com
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012You probably know some of the players involved in School of Seven Bells, a new-ish band from Brooklyn. Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines (well, formerly of Secret Machines) formed the project with former On
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Featured Review from Oh My Rockness
April 22, 2012Millions now living will never die…if you get off the couch and go see Tortoise bring rhythmic deliverance. The band’s dubby synths will stir up your dormant soul, their seductive ambience will provoke your spirit to awaken, and their jazzy sways shall make you rise up like Lazarus to live and see another day. more at ohmyrockness.com
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