Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. The Dutchess and the Duke at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday night.
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2. Sleep at Thalia Hall on Thursday night.
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3. Arcade Fire with Mavis Staples on the West Side on Wednesday night.
Kot: “Even when Regine Chassagne was singing about ‘dead shopping malls’ and punching clocks as a worker drone, balloons descended, streamers waved, and dancers twerked in skeleton suits.
“Arcade Fire is a major indie-rock success story and improbable album-of-the-year Grammy winners in 2013 that occasionally flirts with self-importance. But a giant dance party broke out Tuesday in the first of two concerts at the United Center, with the Montreal band leading the frivolity.”
Guarino: “When Staples showed up, the band launched into two versions of ‘This May Be the Last Time,’ a gospel song recorded by her family band in 1954 and later, the Rolling Stones song released a decade later that borrowed the title. For the bookends – the first slow and swampy, the second a rock rave-up – Staples growled through her vocals, leading the band the entire way. ‘ want to go to that church,’ Butler said upon her exit.”
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4. Joe Ely at City Winery on Thursday night.
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5. PS I Love You at Schubas on Wednesday night.
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6. SickTanicK at Mojoes in Joliet last Saturday night.
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7. Howard Jones at Ravinia on Wednesday night.
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8. Alejandro Escovedo at City Winery on Thursday night.
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9. China Crisis at Ravinia on Wednesday night.
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10. The Chicken Fat Klezmer Orchestra at Martyrs’ last Saturday night.
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11. Razakel at Mojoes in Joliet last Saturday night.
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12. The Temptations at Ravinia on Tuesday night.
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13. ONO at the Empty Bottle on Monday night.
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14. Mazurek/Abrams/Drake at the Hideout on Wednesday night.
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15. Spires That In The Sunset Rise at the Empty Bottle on Monday night.
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16. DEVO on the West Side on Tuesday night.
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17. Tom Bailey at Ravinia on Wednesday night.
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18. Midge Ure at Ravinia on Wednesday night.
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Comments welcome.
Posted on August 29, 2014