Rx Bandits – Resignation 10 Year Anniversary Tour
Oh man – I haven’t been this pumped for a show in some time! Yesterday, Rx Bandits announced a summer reunion tour in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the Resignation – one of my favorite albums of all time. It was one of those records that I could leave in my car cd
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Thao & the Get Down Stay Down Streaming on First Listen
Thao Nguyen and her band The Get Down Stay Downs are putting out a new record on February 5th. Stream ‘We the Common’ in it’s entirety before it comes on NPR’s First Listen. Tickets haven’t sold out yet for their show at Lincoln Hall on March 29th. I’ve never seen them live before but they
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Stream M. Ward’s New Album for Free on First Listen
M. Ward’s new album, A Wasteland Companion, comes out 4/10, but you can stream the whole record for free today on NPR’s First Listen: Stream M. Ward – A Wasteland Companion Matt’s coming to the Vic on May 22nd. Tickets haven’t sold out. He’s got a pretty cool video for one of the new tracks, The First Time
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Charlene Kaye – Animal Love I
My brother showed me this video recently. He went to college with the director of the video, Charlene’s sister, Liann Kaye. The video is shot all in one take. I think I heard it took 29 tries – but I could just be making that up. In any matter, it’s pretty cool and the song,
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Stream Andrew Bird’s New Album on First Listen
Bundled with the ticket I bought to Andrew Bird’s May 12th show at Auditorium Theatre, my digital download to his new album Break it Yourself arrived in my inbox today – one whole day before it comes out. Suck it hipsters. (To be fair, any good hipster downloaded it when it leaked like three weeks
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Tennis @ Lincoln Hall 2/26
So they didn’t rock my socks off, but it was a solid show. I missed the opening act and showed up at the front end of the Tennis set. Lincoln Hall is always great – it’s just big enough to book legit acts but small enough to show up late and still be able to
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Feist and Vampire Weekend @ Pitchfork 2012
Uber-hipster online music publication Pitchfork has released a partial line up for it’s 8th Pitchfork Music Festival, going down July 13th – 15th at Chicago’s Union Park. I’m stoked for Feist and Vampire Weekend, both of whom I’ve seen before and put on very different, but equally entertaining shows. Tickets go on sale Friday March
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