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Fear, Loathing and Heat Prostration in Chicago


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It was Saturday evening after dark, midway through Lollapalooza, and Spoon had just started its set on the MySpace stage. I was milling about the sound booth—vainly hoping for a set list and considering the merits of the day's neverending drizzle versus Friday's sauna. It was then that I heard a fellow ...   More
 
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 by JAY HORTON

Fear, Loathing And Heat Prostration In Chicago

A Portland expat reports on this year's Lollapalooza.


Music Stories
It was Saturday evening after dark, midway through Lollapalooza, and Spoon had just started its set on the MySpace stage. I was milling about the sound booth—vainly hoping for a set list and con ...   More
 
Wednesday, August 8, 2007 JAY HORTON

Q&A with Supernaut's Scott Chapin


Music
The gravestone currently dominating Supernaut's MySpace page (and this very post) marks the death of the four-year-old band. But the local rockers shall nevertheless play a final show/CD release for their second album Burning Through the Motions, this Saturday at Dante's. Frontman and founder Scott Chapin sat ...   More
 
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 by JAY HORTON

PINK MARTINI, Hey Eugene! (Heinz Records)


Music
[ECLECTIC POP] Pink Martini has become a genre unto itself. Considering the now-12-piece outfit subtly informs its jazz-lounge confections with the aural traditions of four continents, it's hard to describe the band's third album, Hey Eugene!, as anything but Pink Martini.

The enlightened cock...   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 by JAY HORTON

Pink Martini, HEY EUGENE! (Heinz Records)

Pink Martini’s latest nears perfection, save one popular mistake.


Music Stories
[ECLECTIC POP] Pink Martini has become a genre unto itself. Considering the now-12-piece outfit subtly informs its jazz-lounge confections with the aural traditions of four continents, it’s hard ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 JAY HORTON

Norfolk & Western at Subterranean in Chicago, Nov. 15, 2006


Music
Arriving less than a week after drummer Rachel Blumberg's former group, The Decemberists, sold out a cavernous hall north of the city, Blumberg's new vehicle, Norfolk & Western, attracted a respectable sampling of the indie faithful to Subterranean--a mid-sized, mis-named (rising three stories above street...   More
 
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 by JAY HORTON

The Decemberists at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago, Nov. 11, 2006


Music
The Riviera Theatre has the look of an old movie house--one of those silent-era palaces designed to fantastical themes and lovingly restored. Specifically, the Riviera's glowing aqua-marine panels suggests an ornate, 19th-century submarine which seemed particularly appropriate last Saturday. Playing beneath C...   More
 
Monday, November 13, 2006 by JAY HORTON

Long Gone

After six years and a whole lot of life, 44 Long's Brian Berg returns.


RIFF CITY
After the glowing critical reception of debut album Collect Them All (among Greil Marcus' top 10 records of 1997) and the 1999 follow-up Inside the Horse's Head, the eclectic pop/roots/guitar rock of ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 JAY HORTON

The Out Crowd Wednesday, Oct. 26

Matt Hollywood steps into the spotlight, post-Dig!.


Music Stories
[PSYCH POP] As frontman for Portland's psych-pop outfit the Out Crowd, Matt Hollywood hasn't received much publicity, but his cherubic mug might be familiar to many. As a former member of the Brian Jo ...   More
 
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 JAY HORTON

BC's American Saloon Outlaws, Legends and Lovers, aug. 17

Club sheds sci-fi veneer, goes where no hipster joint has gone before.


Night Avenger
BC's American Saloon Outlaws, Legends and Lovers, aug. 17"I like rocking with the boot-scooting boogie." That's Tabbitha-but call her Tabotage. Loose black tank top, hair whimsically shorn, she's the ...   More
 
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 JAY HORTON
 

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