By The Beachwood Rolling Numbers Affairs Desk
Plus old ChicagoFest footage and where they’ll be tonight.
1. She’s really up on things.
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Posted on July 13, 2010
Live: FitzGerald’s Great American Music Festival
By The Beachwood Great American Affairs Desk
Catching up with the doings in Berwyn last week.
1. Fooling myself too long.
Posted on July 12, 2010
Live: Rush in Chicago
By The Beachwood Limelight Affairs Desk
At Northerly Island on Monday night.
1. La Villa Strangiato.
Posted on July 6, 2010
Local Hero
By The Beachwood Rock Desk
“The bassist for the band Madina Lake was badly injured and remains hospitalized after he was assaulted for reportedly intervening when he spotted a woman allegedly being beaten by her husband on a Chicago street,” CBS News reports. “Matthew Leone remains in critical condition after he was brutalized and left unconscious by the man.”
Twin brother and bandmate Nathan wrote in part on his blog Madina Swan that “A few nights ago, Matthew walked from my apt. a block and a half down the street to meet a friend for a drink. Halfway there he saw a man severely beating his wife. Being the most amazing, strong, heroic and incredible person I know, even though the guy was twice his size, Matthew intervened. He managed to subdue this guy for a second and since his wife was beat up pretty good called the cops. As he did so the guy jumped him from behind and beat him. This guy did things I can’t even type. After words, he and his beaten wife left Matthew unconscious on the street.”
Here are a few Madina Lake videos, including “One Last Kiss” from a downtown Chicago rooftop (and with more than 1.2 million views) and a mini-doc on the band:
Posted on July 2, 2010
Song of the Moment: Lawless One
By The Beachwood Bureau of Justice
This was apparently written a while ago, but then there’s been plenty of time – decades – to write about Jon Burge.
Song: Lawless One
Length: 3:28
Band: I Lost Control
Label: Unsigned
Next Show: July 6, 8 p.m., 21+/Ronny’s, 2101 N. California Ave.
Video:
Posted on June 30, 2010
The Best of 2010 So Far
By The Beachwood Music Ranking Desk
Earlier this month, the dynamic Sound Opinions duo of Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot played tracks from their favorite records of the year so far. As we are wont to do around here, we’d like to bring you the good news and add some value of our own via the good folks at YouTube. Enjoy – we did. (Hint: we thought the choices got better as the guys went along . . . )
Critic: DeRo
Record: This Is Happening/LCD Soundsystem
Critics’ Commentary: “The least of their three albums so far, however I haven’t been able to stop listening to it.”
Song: “You Wanted A Hit”
Posted on June 29, 2010
Oak Street Ramblers
By The Beachwood Bluegrass Bureau
A week ago Sunday the Oak Street Ramblers performed a hi-falutin’ set at the Beachwood Inn; while we await editing on that video we thought we’d fill the gap with some other performance video by our friends from Madison, Wisconsin, including expat Beachwood regular Will.
1. I see headlights.
Posted on June 28, 2010
Remembering Fred Anderson, Jazz Master
By The Beachwood Desk of Remembrance
“It may be impossible to fully measure saxophonist Fred Anderson’s impact on music in Chicago and around the world,” Howard Reich of the Tribune writes.
“As tenor saxophonist, he invented a rugged, craggy musical language that influenced generations of ‘free jazz’ improvisers.
As clubowner, he helped launch the careers of hundreds of players . . . And as jazz advocate, Anderson co-founded an organization the revolutioned jazz in the 1960s, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) . . .
“Anderson, a virtuoso tenorist who owned and operated the Velvet Lounge at 67 E. Cermak Rd., died Thursday, June 24, at age 81.”
Remembering Fred Anderson through his music, and a 2006 interview with Reich.
1. Timeless.
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Posted on June 25, 2010
How To Record Drums
By Gearwire
As described by Bob Popp of Chicago’s very own Gunpoint Recording Studios.
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Posted on June 24, 2010
Song of the Moment: Sunday Bloody Sunday
By The Beachwood Red Rocks Affairs Desk
“One of the most extraordinary days in the mottled history of the island of Ireland was witnessed on both sides of the border last Tuesday,” Bono writes in the New York Times.
“The much-anticipated and costly Saville report … the 12-years-in-the-making inquiry into ‘Bloody Sunday,’ a day never to be forgotten in Irish politics … was finally published.”
Reports the BBC: “The long-awaited Saville report into what happened on the streets of Londonderry one Sunday afternoon 38 years ago has exonerated the victims and delivered a damning account of the conduct of soldiers.”
U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was not just about that day in Londonderry, but it encompassed it. Let’s take a look.
Released: March 11, 1983
Length: 4:42
Label: Island
Charts: No. 7 on Billboard’s Top Tracks
Wikipedia: “Sunday Bloody Sunday” grew from a guitar riff and lyric written by The Edge in 1982. While newlyweds Bono and Ali Hewson honeymooned in Jamaica, The Edge worked in Ireland on music for the band’s upcoming album. Following an argument with his girlfriend, and a period of doubt in his own song-writing abilities, The Edge – “feeling depressed . . . channeled [his] fear and frustration and self-loathing into a piece of music.” This early draft did not yet have a title or chorus melody, but did contain a structural outline and theme. After Bono had reworked the lyrics, the band recorded the song at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin.
Posted on June 22, 2010