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Author Archives: Liz Armstrong
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The List: October 7-13, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Belle & Sebastian, Dungen, Tim Sparks, Burton Greene, Faun Fables, Kylesa, Chucho Valdes, and other notable shows
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The List: September 23-29
Fennesz, Grass Widow, Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet, Foals, Sonny & the Sunsets, Lawrence English, Nymph, Van Dyke Parks, Women, Bonnie "Prince" Billy & the Cairo Gang, Strange Boys, Roberto Plano, !!!
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Celestial Like a Black Hole
Experimental musician Camilla Ha bids Chicago farewell with one last blast of dark brilliance.
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The List: August 5-11, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Night Gallery, Phosphorescent, Cephalic Carnage and Decrepit Birth, Vox Arcana, and more
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The Reader’s Guide to Lollapalooza 2010
The lay of the land, critics’ picks, and afterparties
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Pitchfork Music Festival: Friday
Robyn, Liars, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, and more
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The Reader’s Guide to the Pitchfork Music Festival
Featuring Pavement, Big Boi, Freddie Gibbs, LCD Soundsystem, Robyn, the Smith Westerns, and more
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The List: May 6-12, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Black Breath, the Dials, Canasta, Willie Clayton, Josephine Foster, EPMD, Nite Jewel
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The List: April 22-28, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Reflection Eternal, Peter Brötzmann & Hamid Drake, Céu, Drop the Lime, the Styrenes, and other notable shows
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Sharp Darts: Band of Bros
A growing fan base is just gravy when you love your bandmates like Mannequin Men do.
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Golden Age
1500 W. 17th 312-850-2338 goldenagestore.com Behind the striped awnings and ketchup red ironwork you’ll find a white box of a space filled with arty products ranging from highbrow to dirt-ass: a thick catalog, on creamy matte stock, from a Swiss art show on symbols of spiritual physics; a spiral-bound cookbook of real and invented celebrity […]
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NO AGE
There’s a portal inside a garbage can that leads to Shangri-la via hell, and No Age are hanging out there eating grapes. Or at least that’s the only scene I can imagine where this LA duo might make any sense. They get their jazzy swagger from a silly little hi-hat, their scary gutter-punk vibe from […]
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BONDE DO ROLE
The haters–after all the hype about the singles, they were bound to come out of the woodwork for the first album–say Bonde do Role are irresponsible assholes who happen to be Brazilian, yelling dumb stuff over ripped-off party beats and disrespecting their own musical culture. But the band’s tossed-off hybrid of ghoulish swamp punk, dirty-butt […]