Beth Tacular and Phil Moore left their hand-built cabin in the woods of North Carolina to hit the road promoting their new record, The Clearing. They stopped off at Lincoln Hall on Thursday with their band Bowerbirds to softly rock the quiet, but attentive crowd. I actually thought the band was just Phil and Beth –
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When he isn’t writing songs for The Good Life or touring under his own name, Tim Kasher still plays with Cursive, the band he started with bass player Matt Maginn in the ’90s. They stopped off at Lincoln Hall just a few days into a long tour to promote their new album, I am Gemini.
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Pitchfork has expanded its 2012 festival line up to include Brooklyn bands Sleigh Bells and Dirty Projectors and it claims there are 20 bands yet to announce. 3-day passes to the July 13th – 15th festival have sold out, but you can still score day passes ($45) on TicketWeb. Here’s the line up revealed thus
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Lead singer Matt Vasquez looked a bit more clean cut than the last time Delta Spirit rolled through town in August of last year, but his demeanor was true to form. He talked about how it’s unfair that they only gets to come to Chicago a couple times a year, drank some beers on stage,
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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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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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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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