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The City of Chicago has special winter parking restrictions that are in place from December 1st through April 1st every year. During those few months, you are not allowed to park on certain city streets during some overnight/early morning hours. As a city streets parker myself on a regular ...
Indie Music
The Jesus Lizard
For the last Live Friday of 2009, I thought I'd give you all some cuts from one of my absolute favorite albums of the year. I'll be focusing exclusively on lists of the year's best starting next week, and Girls are definitely guaranteed to make at least a couple appearances on them. So I'll ...
Indie Music
The band Holopaw first came to my attention in 2005 when they released their second album "Quit +/or Fight" via Sub Pop Records. Because I was intrigued with most things Sub Pop at the time (and in many ways, I still am), I was naturally inclined to check the band out. The positive reviews for ...
Indie Music
Ugly Casanova
We open our scene in a field filled with lush and verdant grass. It's still relatively dark outside, but a sliver of the sun has started to peek over the horizon. The world is calm and seemingly at peace. The teenage farmhand, woken up mere minutes earlier, has thrown on some clothes in haste ...
Indie Music
Animal Collective
If you've never had the opportunity to see the legendary Pixies perform live, well then I kind of feel sorry for you. Granted, it hasn't been exactly easy to do so. After all, the band was broken up for 11 years before reuniting for a 2004-5 tour that took them all around the world and back ...
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Pixies
Two weeks! Yes, we've got only two weeks left of Live Friday in 2009. If you've been reading this site long enough, then you already know that I devote the entire month of December to year-end lists, so with today and next Friday being the last two of November, get your live music while you ...
Indie Music
Phoenix
Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets, secrets hurt someone. Not every secret is bad though, because sometimes they're more welcome surprises than hurtful disappointments. So when word of a supergroup called Them Crooked Vultures emerged this fall, I approached the situation with every bit of ...
Indie Music
Queens of the Stone Age
Foo Fighters
Led Zeppelin
The story behind tUnE-yArDs is definitely an interesting one. The project has been slow in developing, and that's mostly because Merrill Garbus is the only person behind the name, and she recorded every bit of music you hear on the album by herself. She took 2 years to get it all done, using a ...
Indie Music
We're getting to that point in the year where new music releases pretty much slow down to a crawl, which is why I'm pretty excited that December will be upon us soon and I can spend that entire month talking about all the great stuff that has been released in the previous 11 months of the year. ...
Indie Music
Mínus
Honestly, it's a little too easy to slam the band Real Estate and their self-titled debut album that's out this week. They've got a large target on their backs, and anybody with a proper weapon can take their shot. Calling their music "uninspired" or "taking advantage of what's hot right now" ...
Indie Music
Here we are, yet another Friday the 13th, and yet another day when everybody gets highly superstitious. Anything can happen on a day like today, right? Sure, you may think there's a high probability of things going wrong, but I'm here to tell you that the less you think about it, the less ...
Indie Music
The Mountain Goats
Don't ask me why there are so many pop and electro-pop releases as we reach the later part of Fall 2009. What with CFCF and Annie each putting out great records around the past few weeks, there are even more good beat-driven albums freshly out there I've neglected to mention. Case in point, ...
Indie Music
Daft Punk
Raise your hand if you remember Annie. My hand is raised, but if yours is not, don't feel too bad about it. She's been having some troubles these past couple years, it's mostly been label-related, so with our short attention spans it can pretty easily seem like after her 2005 debut album ...
Indie Music
There are a number of things that I don't like about The Cribs. I realize how biased and unfair it sounds to start a review with those words, but if there's one thing I don't want to do, it's mince words. Plus, there's an ultimate purpose behind what I'm trying to say, so bear with me. For the ...
Indie Music
The Cribs
Johnny Marr
Modest Mouse
The Smiths
When Pedro the Lion broke up a couple years ago, I figured it was more a function of just general disagreements between band members rather than something larger. See, it turns out that David Bazan felt like he couldn't continue the band anymore as he was experiencing a crisis of faith. He had ...
Indie Music
David Bazan
You wouldn't really know this because I don't really ever bring it up, but I'm quite a big fan of The Strokes. Both "Is This It" and "Room On Fire" got an exceptionally high number of plays from start to finish back in the day, and I still return to them on a regular basis when I need something ...
Indie Music
The Strokes
Julian Casablancas
Electronica is a genre of music that I never feel too comfortable talking about. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about electro-pop, which is the more easily digestible cousin of electronica, where you get songs in shorter intervals and often with vocals attached. What I'm talking about are ...
Indie Music
Things just haven't been the same in the Weezer camp since the 90's. We've all just been waiting for them to get back to the "Blue Album" and "Pinkerton" days, right? That's sort of been the mantra for those of us so strongly influenced by the band's earliest records. At the time I thought, and ...
Indie Music
Weezer
If I've said it once, I'll say it again - Rock Plaza Central is a pretty awesome band. Their last two albums, "Are We Not Horses?" and "At the Moment of Our Most Needing" are both nothing short of excellent, and if you've not yet heard them, well I just don't know what you're waiting for. Back ...
