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Archive for January, 2009
Bob Mould’s Life and Times: Coming soon to a store near you…
Bob Mould will have a lot to celebrate this year. For one, 2009 will mark the 30th anniversary since the formation of New York native’s legendary punk outfit, Hüsker Dü. It will also be 20 years after the release of his critically acclaimed first solo album, Workbook. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the New Year [...]
Willie Nelson: Anything but a “Red-Headed Stranger” in 2009
If you couldn’t get out to Farm Aid last fall or didn’t make it to any of the numerous festivals touting Nelson on the bill, then luck has come your way. From the looks of things, it seems as if Willie Nelson‘s new year resolution read “Tour,” because that is what he will be doing [...]
Album Review: The Guggenheim Grotto – …Happy The Man
When you hear a band name like The Guggenheim Grotto, that “indie feeling” hits immediately. You get the sense that the band will either be overly hipster or sound like everything else in the conglomeration of pop-rock and UK alternative (e.g. Hard-Fi or Kaiser Chiefs). Remarkably, the truth is in-tune with the latter, but in [...]
Black Kids, Mates of State head out on Spring tour
Indie kids rejoice! Two of the genre’s favorite acts are teaming up for what will a North American tour of epic hipster proportions, or at least the closest example to whatever that would be. Yes, the un-politically correct Black Kids will be trekking across the US (and two stops in Canada) with the husband-and-wife duo [...]
TNK Spotlight: Bishop Allen
In the days leading up to the CoS sponsored Tomorrow Never Knows Music Festival, we’ll be spotlighting some of the acts scheduled to bring the music and the fun to Schubas Tavern in Chicago between January 14-18… Brooklyn, New York is one hell of a place. If its history doesn’t ring in some credit, its [...]
Elvis Perkins and band ready debut album
Elvis Perkins certainly isn’t an unfamiliar sight. Since bursting onto the scene in 2007 with the release of his debut album, Ash Wednesday, the New York native has been pleasing audiences around the world and t.v. with his emotionally rich songwriter. But on March 10th, Perkins will make another debut of sorts, this time as [...]
On Second Listen: Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke
Jenny Lewis’ latest album, Acid Tongue, received many props for its lo-fi approach to recording (including our very own year-end list). It hearkens back to the simple country albums of yesteryear that were recorded without a lot of effects and knob-twisting. It sounds like an album that could’ve been made 30 years ago. That’s a [...]
TNK Spotlight: Hey Champ
In the days leading up to the CoS sponsored Tomorrow Never Knows Music Festival, we’ll be spotlighting some of the acts scheduled to bring the music and the fun to Schubas Tavern in Chicago between January 14-18… There’s good pop and there’s bad pop. The music industry is too cluttered to have any middle ground [...]
The Whigs hit the road in ’09…
Last fall, one of America’s best rock trio’s, The Whigs, toured with The Kooks and then Kings of Leon. The tour with the Kooks exposed the band to indie fans while the Kings of Leon exposed them to the southern rock crowd. But, don’t call them indie, “cuz we’re not, we’re rock n’ roll” says [...]
Girl Talk walks the talk in St. Louis (1/8)
Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis is an omnipresent musical being, existing in no set decade and keeping an eye out on just about every musician who’s ever stepped up to the plate. Last year was kind to him, as his recent work, Feed the Animals, graced nearly every year-end list (including our own) and brought the [...]
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