I may have pushed my luck with this show. In the past year or two I think I have seen Death Cab 4 times – at the Vic, at the Riviera, at Coachella, and at Lollapalooza. While they’re wonderfully talented musicians, solid songwriters, and excellent performers
I honestly hadn’t really paid much attention to Editors. I had the CD for a while to study up for Coachella and Lollapalooza, but hadn’t given it much more than a casual listening. I was actually going to this show for the opener, The Mobius Band (which I missed). On the way to the show [...]
I picked up a Buddha Machine this weekend from Hard Boiled Records on Roscoe. If you haven’t heard of the little gadget, it’s a hardware loop player put out by the electronic music group FM3. The Buddha Machine is about as simple as simple gets. It’s a small plastic box with a volume control/power switch, [...]
I haven’t been out to hear live blues in some time. When Jim and I lived in Lakeview, we went out for blues a bit more often. Blues on Halsted had a promotion that if you brought in a bill or something proving you were from Lakeview, you paid a cheap cover on a certain [...]
I’m not sure what the kids are calling it, but I’m really enjoying the whole style of jazz/hiphop/electronica put out by artists like Skalpel, Herbaliser, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, Blockhead, and Quantic Soul Orchestra. And it looks like I’ll be getting into “Polish Jazz” soon, since it’s the inspiration and source for sampling material in [...]
I have to admit – I very nearly didn’t see this show. I was running late, missed the opening band, and started to think “why bother, I’m going to see them at Coachella anyways”. But I got myself in gear, raced downtown, and got to the venue in a little over 20 minutes. The show [...]