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Archive for April, 2009
Album Review: St. Vincent – Actor
Remember how surprised you were when Pulp Fiction turned out to be great? A small movie made by a little-known director that starred a questionable cast didn’t scream classic cinema, but that’s what it was. Now think about how bad the movie Be Cool was. If you even saw it – and not many people [...]
Against Me! relives The Original Cowboy
Following the release of its debut LP Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose, or more simply Reinventing Axl Rose, Against Me! returned to the studio. The plan, as frontman Tom Gabel explains, was to “to do something different for our second full length. We specifically wanted to make an all analog recording with as few [...]
Nirvana! Live! Reading Festival! DVD!
If you need another example as to why Nirvana is so great, just take a look at the band’s 1992 performance at the equally legendary Reading Festival. Be it Kurt Cobain’s stage antics (coming on stage in a wheelchair and playing in a white hospital gown), to the trio’s awesome covers of Boston’s “More Than [...]
A summer of Ear Pwr
Ear drums everywhere, beware! The Wham City-approved, electro gurus better known as Ear Pwr will be spending the better part of the next two months rocking a city near you. In support of its latest LP, Super Animal Brothers III, which is due for release on May 19th via Carpark Records, the Baltimore based outfit [...]
Wilco issues a tracklist, Oberst tags along…
As spring turns to summer, more and more information from the Wilco camp keeps seeping out. While we’ve known that the brand spanking new studio album was in the cards, a new post on the band’s website has cemented it. What’s more, the band’s also issued an official tracklist to stir the hype. From what’s [...]
Neko Case touches down at the Chicago Theatre (4/24)
An opulent venue can affect a rock concert in one of several ways. I’ve seen great acts become stale performers as they move from tiny clubs to orchestra halls. Other acts make the same transition but grow as performers as a result. Friday night at the Chicago Theatre, Neko Case made the move from club [...]
Hot Chip cools down for new LP
Dance pop group, and malapropian named-band Hot Chip is apparently ready to set its sites on a new untitled LP for release sometime in 2010. In a recent interview with BBC 6 Music announcing the plans, synth player Joe Goddard Expect hinted at a release featuring more docile tracks, shying away from dance beats in [...]
Watch: Cursive plays “From the Hips”
For a band with a name as elegant as Cursive, the Omaha, Nebraskans certainly know how to scream and play dirty. Not the first Cursive song to approach sex from a negative and spiteful place, Mama I’m Swollen‘s “From the Hips” is a criticism of the entire human race based around sex as it relates [...]
Rock History 101: The Clash’s “Red Angel Dragnet”
It’s a Friday night in the Loop, smack-dab in the last gasp of summer. The El station, all but deserted but for a few midnight commuters, throbs with the tidal hum of faraway trains and the mumblings of the homeless–as close as you get to cicadas downtown. And then suddenly, breaking the humid silence, comes the sharp, alarming report [...]
Journey set to take…another journey
Perm that big head of hair, ladies. Sparkle those ’82 Nike’s, gentlemen. Yes, you’ve heard it right, the San Francisco gods are back, and they’re younger — or at least one of ‘em is. This summer, Journey is taking the show back on the road, and lucky you, they’re only a few weeks away from [...]
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