An Emperor veteran launches Studious Amplifiers, Hoyle Brothers guitarist Brian Wilkie gets a benefit for a stolen pedal steel, and more.
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Are Nick Thune’s jokes as lovable as he looks?
Are comedian Nick Thune’s jokes as lovable as he looks?
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How to make it through Lollapalooza: Sunday
The acts that will get you through Sunday of Lollapalooza with a minimum of regrets
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Tomorrow Never Knows
Tomorrow Never Knows: Free trolleys, stand-up comedy, and lots of music—from the Walkmen to Willis Earl Beal
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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 […]
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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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Pitchfork tickets go on sale today at noon
Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for the Pitchfork Music Festival with the Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill, Pharoahe Monch, the National, the Walkmen, Grizzly Bear, and others set to appear.