This week’s Early Warnings include Deerhunter, Frightened Rabbit, the National, New Pornographers, Gaslight Anthem, Dirty Projectors, the Umbrella Music Festival, Social Distortion, Magic Kids, and Wavves.
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The Reader’s Guide to Lollapalooza 2010
The lay of the land, critics’ picks, and afterparties
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include the Big Pink, Coliseum, Blitzen Trapper, Phoenix, Devo, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the National, Shonen Knife, and Wavves.
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Pavement Tour Diary: Week One in Europe
The first week of Pavement’s European tour: Dublin, Glasgow, Paris, and Amsterdam.
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Jim Kirk Joining the Chicago News Cooperative
Jim Kirk leaves Bloomberg News to join the Chicago News Cooperative as managing editor.
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Thoughts on a Few Acts Playing This Year’s Lollapalooza
The Lollapalooza lineup: reactions and predictions
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The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival
What you need to know before you go
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The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Friday
Intro | Saturday | Sunday friday17 5 PM Tortoise I never saw Tortoise as radical reinventors of rock. To me it just looked like they had good taste, deep curiosity, and remarkable focus; what other people called “postrock” was just the band following their interests where they led, using whatever atypical instrumentation it took to […]
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The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Saturday
Intro | Friday | Sunday saturday18 1 PM Disappears Initially a recording project for Brian Case (formerly of the 90 Day Men and currently with the on-hiatus Ponys) and Graeme Gibson (formerly of Boas and currently with the Fruit Bats), now a tightly wound live quartet, Disappears are one of the Chicago scene’s most promising […]
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The Reader’s Guide to the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: Sunday
Intro | Friday | Saturday sunday19 1 PM Michael Columbia Like many of the mostly local bands in the incestuous circle surrounding the Obey Your Brain label, Chicago trio Michael Columbia plays an avant-garde brand of jazz-inflected funk that might come off as pretentious if it weren’t buoyed by such a sense of fun. On […]