Weekend Shows Carried On Grand Tradition
Let’s take a look.
1. AM Taxi as the Replacements at the Double Door on Saturday night.
Posted on October 31, 2012
Local Music Notebook: Bob Dylan On Soundstage, Punk’n On Chic-A-Go-Go!
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. OFF! at the Bottom Lounge on Saturday night.
Posted on October 29, 2012
The Week in Chicago Rock
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Deftones at the Aragon on Tuesday night.
Posted on October 26, 2012
Local Music Notebook: Rare Ramones & The Spudocaster
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
A loose collection of whatnot.
1. The Ramones at Old Chicago in Bolingbrook and B’ginnings in Schaumburg in 1979. Plus, a 1978 report from WCIA-TV in Champaign including footage from the Red Lion Inn (set list here). Uploaded to YouTube this week by abigfile.
Posted on October 25, 2012
The Maxwell Street Birthday Blues Jam
100th Celebration A Sad Affair
“There was a celebration Sunday to mark the 100th birthday of Maxwell Street,” Rick Kogan said on WBEZ’s Afternoon Shift on Tuesday. “It was not a big party and not held on Maxwell Street.”
Indeed. Here’s the birthday blues jam in three parts.
Posted on October 24, 2012
Billy Corgan’s Theoretical Band Degrades Itself For “VIPs”
Premier Package Holders Get Personal Taste Of Bitter Psychosis
The latest incarnation of Billy Corgan’s fevered dream of a theoretical band starring himself and whatever flunkies he can find willing to put up with him has been playing VIP shows on its current tour to cater to obsessive, affluent and lame fans willing to watch them play without embarrassment in depressing holding rooms reeking with desperation and defensiveness.
And so it was in Rosemont on Saturday night that Corgan relayed the lesson he learned about the Pumpkins brand amidst an explanation of his singular victimhood at the hands of an indifferent music industry whose extravagant rewards dissipated when the world left his band behind. Boo hoo!
Let’s take a look at a few of the songs and the revealing Q&As from Rosemont and elsewhere.
Posted on October 23, 2012
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. The xx at the Congress on Saturday night.
Posted on October 22, 2012
The Week In Chicago Rock
Local Music Notebook: Chiraq
By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
A loose collection of whatnot.
1. Livin In Da City (Chiraq).
With crooked-ass cops.
Posted on October 16, 2012