Category Archives: Show Review

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

Posted on February 12, 2012 by

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)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

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)

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

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)

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

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)

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

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)

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

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)

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

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)

Posted on December 11, 2011 by

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)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

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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Soft Speaker @ Beat Kitchen (11/19); Ra Ra Riot @ Metro (11/18)

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Sweet baby Jesus. I’ll come right out and say it up front: Soft Speaker’s record release for Vortrobos Saturday night was the best show I’ve been to this year. Hands down. No rebuttals. Done-zo. The thing is, I’ll Tend Your … Continue reading →

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