Category Archives: Show Review

Tyler Jon Tyler, Nones, The Runnies @ The Empty Bottle (2/14); Unicycle Loves You, Lightfoils @ The Empty Bottle (2/13)

I’ve long been partial to the Empty Bottle for good, cheap entertainment in Chicago. But a great string of kick ass — these back-to-back shows I’m just now digesting, as well as Radar Eyes’ record release and an Apteka/Secret Colours … Continue reading

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Elephant Gun, The Damn Choir @ Subterranean (2/11)

My handpicks for February were put on hold Saturday night when I neglected to go to a Lincoln Hall show I’d advised was worth your time and money. Instead, my attention shifted southwest, in favor of a party at Subterranean … Continue reading

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Radar Eyes, Bare Mutants, Outer Minds @ The Empty Bottle (2/6)

So it was a noontime text, I think, that confirmed to me that yes, I was still a ways away from mental balance after a free night of sweet noise at the Empty Bottle. The text, from one of my … Continue reading

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Any Kind, Algebro @ Schubas (1/9)

There are few things that will get me out of the house on a busy Monday night. A Dan Duszynski project is one of them. I should state right up front that his new band, Any Kind, was the reason … Continue reading

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Secret Colours, Apteka @ The Empty Bottle (1/7)

I don’t think I’ve been in so packed a Bottle before. Not since that 1900s record release a year ago have I done a lap in the space and been struck so hard by the tally of heads. A free-with-RSVP … Continue reading

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JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Green Room Rockers @ Schubas (12/30)

Remember the holidays? They seem so far away already. Most of us are already wrapped up in work, school and what have you, but I’d like to take a look back at the past weekend… I spent New Year’s Eve … Continue reading

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Santah, In Tall Buildings, Elephant Gun @ Lincoln Hall (12/22)

The experience I had at Lincoln Hall Thursday was, I think, a first for me. The show, the last one I’ll see in Chicago this year — I fly out Friday eve for the hometown, and don’t get back ’til … Continue reading

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Noam Pikelny & Friends @ Schubas (12/17)

Being a big Punch Brothers fan, there was no way I was going to miss this show. Noam Pikelny is a celebrated banjo player (the recent recipient of the 2010 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass), and … Continue reading

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Wilco, Nick Lowe @ Riverside Theater, Milwaukee (12/9)

Wilco is one of those classic American bands, accessible yet relentlessly innovative, a perfect marriage of the avant-garde and the everyman’s pop music. On record, they have pushed themselves in new directions seemingly at frontman Jeff Tweedy’s whim. As the … Continue reading

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M. Ward, Carlos Forster, Mike Coykendall @ Schubas (12/4)

From Eric: We’ve got a new contributor to Chicago Tunes who goes by the name Danny Cohen. You’ll be reading more by him as he gets cozier in how I do things around here. Everybody welcome Danny! When one hears … Continue reading

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