Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. The Soft Moon at Thalia Hall on Tuesday night.
Posted on February 12, 2016
The Revolutionary Sounds Of Chicago Cratedigger Kanye West
By Liam Viney/The Conversation
Kanye West’s new album Waves is due out this week, and there’s a palpable excitement building in the media. Kanye recently tweeted it would not be “the album of the year, but the album of the life,” only to later clarify that it would in fact only be “ONE of the greatest, not the greatest.” Meanwhile, Rolling Stone is speculating it could be a dud at the same time as producer Swizz Beatz declares it one of the best West albums he’s heard.
Posted on February 9, 2016
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Walrus Attack! at Beat Kitchen on Sunday night.
Posted on February 8, 2016
The Week In Chicago Rock
Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Queensryche at the Concord on Sunday night.
Posted on February 5, 2016
Local Music Notebook: Blue Ridge, Chicago
Blues, Jazz, Indie, Bluegrass Meet In the Middle
“The richly detailed ensemble acting in Dominic Cooke’s revival does glowing justice to the masterly mix of hurt and humur in this 1984 play by August Wilson,” Paul Taylor writes for the Independent.
“We’re in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where the real-life Ma Rainey, the ‘Mother of the Blues,’ and her band of musicians have gathered to lay down some tracks. The play homes in on the contradictory status of black artists in a white-controlled recording industry. Sharon D Clarke’s wittily redoubtable Rainey, with her implacable diva demands, knows that’s she a big shot on sufferance in a restricted arena. When she walks out of the studio, she can’t even hail a cab on the streets of Chicago. Once she stops making money for the whites, she’ll go back to being ‘just a dog in the alley’ to them.”
Posted on February 3, 2016
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Melomaniac at the Cobra Lounge on Friday night.
Posted on February 1, 2016
The Week In Chicago Rock
Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Tommy Stinson at the Double Door on Sunday night.
Tommy covering Alex. My only recording from Chicago’s Double Door. Focus is off, but the audio works.
Posted by René Greblo on Sunday, January 24, 2016
Posted on January 29, 2016
Local Music Notebook: Radioheadliners?
Let’s have a look-see.
Out On Redmoon Records
Some of the material on Tortoise’s new record, The Catastrophist, was commissioned by the City of Chicago “to help celebrate that town’s musical history.”
Prairie State Freakout
“For [The Redemptions’] debut record, Broken Hearts and Shattered Glass . . . [Anthony] Fama has focused the lyrical content on his follies in love. While he doesn’t shy away from his other mistakes, like flipping out on drugs at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and having a whole wing shut down due to his behavior.”
Posted on January 27, 2016
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
You shoulda been there.
1. Seet at Moe’s Tavern on Friday night.
Posted on January 25, 2016
The Week In Chicago Rock
You shoulda been there.
1. Bruce Springsteen on the West Side on Tuesday night.
Posted on January 22, 2016