With an intimate setting such as the scene set at the Anthenaeum, Gibbard may have expected his crowd to behave more accordingly, but given the mid-sized, full Lakeview 20-something crowd, some of the sheath was punctured between bouts of buzz-induced banter between shouters and the performer.
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The Wood Brothers seem to have navigated a typical path leading to a colorfully rooted folk catalog—musically-inclined parents, numerous fruitless bands—but their music is anything but the clichéd wispy, wandering-in-the-mountaintops indie. Two brothers, Colorado natives, formed a band to steep their love for folk in a kettle of smoky blues and crisp R&B beats. While […]
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“The book is a transcription of a week-long series of interviews between two old friends, and the best part about it is that it totally reads that way.”
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Happy Halloween! Meet Rosemary’s baby.
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The ‘stache’s top picks for this Halloween.
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With no toleration for dead air, the band packed song after song without sparing the audience a single breath, making the high-power set all that more impressive.
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We want the bands in Chicago to be heard outside of Chicago and outside of America.
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For a sound designer like Adam Marks, the music he creates to accompany a video game influences the mood of the players.
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We’ve been piecing together the facts and analyzing stats to bring you the brightest points of this year’s ACL and the specs on the spectators.
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Pop ‘stache chats nostalgia, prom and a future full-length album …
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The night promptly began with a quick set of Bastardgeist’s melancholic eclectronica. The Chicago duo—one half resembling a geek squad Moby DJ, the other a hipster club kid—was tensely arranged face-to-face, synth-to-synth, a 21st century satirical dueling pianos. Distorted hints of New Order prevailed in melancholic loops, and the faint vocals often veered off ambient […]
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For the 14 of us who are still watching music videos, those dorky dance arrangements keep things funny.
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