Music festivals usually end up being something less than the sum of their parts. Whether it be a hot summer day in a park or a week long event spread across multiple venues throughout a city, the anticipation and planning is usually a lot more fun than the reality — a reality that consists of …
The sweaty lump of a man picked himself up off the floor and stumbled to the front of the stage, hovering over the congregation below ‘I know it’s a lie, but I still give my love’. This man was a killer. Having just bludgeoned his guitar to death after confessing his part in the murder …
Okkervil River Top an Exceptional Line-Up at The Bluebird Theater, 06/15/11 Read More »
The first thing I noticed when I walked into the Bluebird last week was that the band on stage looked like kids that should be practicing in their parents basement. Long hair, skinny jeans, vintage Def Leppard t-shirts from 1992 (!!!????)…dirty, greasy, wannabe rock stars from Nowhere, USA. Not what I expected from these indie …
Titus Andronicus w/Free Energy @ Bluebird 09/15/10 Read More »
This was our first year at the Pitchfork Music Festival and there is no doubt we had a great time in Chicago for the weekend, but the jury is still out if this is an event that we can recommend or will attend again. I think I was expecting something more like the Fun Fun …
