As usual, Andrew Bird sounded amazing Saturday night at the Auditorium Theatre – stringing together crazy loops of violin, guitar, and whistling seamlessly. If I counted correctly, this was my sixth Andrew Bird show. I’ve seen him open for Bright Eyes, play at colleges, in a church and at festivals. With the exception of always
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When you live in a city where the weather is shitty for 8 months of the year, summer is a glorious thing. Get ready for North Avenue Beach, street fests galore, and some great free outdoor shows. Here’s a look at some of the free concerts in Chicago this summer. Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays
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Pitchfork released the remainder of its 2012 festival lineup today, adding acts such as Real Estate, Beach House, Atlas Sound, and Wild Flag to an already solid lineup. 3-day passes are long gone, but you can still find day passes for the July 13 – 15 fest on Ticketweb. Check out the full lineup below.
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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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Half of Chicago’s own mash-up duo, The Hood Internet, played to a sold out Empty Bottle crowd on Saturday night. Aaron was mysteriously absent, but Steve (aka STV SLV) held it down on his own, mixing up a surprising number of R. Kelly songs, and a pretty stellar Chromeo + Whitney Houston mash-up called When
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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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