Concert Review: Danzig Legacy at the Congress Theater (Chicago)
Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest contributor coming at us from Frontier Psychiatrist, a site devoted to “urban life, music, food, drink, and culture.” Peter Lil
Review: Lana Del Rey – Video Games EP (2011)
She’s not authentic. No contest on that, nor debate. The hipsters going to arms over this are, as Gawker remarked, fighting a losing battle. The facts: She’s Lizzy Grant,
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: DESSA AND HINDI ZAHRA AT LINCOLN HALL (CHICAGO)
Dessa (Minneapolis, MN) and Hindi Zahra (France/Morocco)October 11th, 2011Lincoln Hall in Chicago, Illinois Sometime during the late summer, not so far away from now actually a
REVIEW: ICONA POP – NIGHTS LIKE THIS EP (2011)
Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo are two Swedish DJs that met by happenstance. They’ve been spending the better half of the year down in London working with Patrik Berger, releasing
Review: Dessa – Castor, the Twin (2011)
What usually follows an album nowadays is something called a deluxe edition. The original plus added “incentives”, usually b-sides or live recordings haphazardly tacked on ofte
Review: Joakim – Nothing Gold (2011)
Joakim came into my existence in 2008 through a ridiculous, quirky and addictive trip of a remix for Late of the Pier. Seven minutes long, it was an ambitious track with
REVIEW: ICEAGE – NEW BRIGADE (2011)
Post-punk is indecipherable in my experience. It’s that bridge between punk and alternative (or grunge) where people were trying to break free from certain methodological constra
APP REVIEW: GROOVEBUG
Evanston is the near north suburb of Chicago. It’s far from the rush and drunkenly misplaced phone prototypes of Silicon Valley, preferring a more low-key lifestyle enhanced
REVIEW: MÉLANIE LAURENT – EN T’ATTENDANT (2011)
Wind first came in bearing word of Mélanie Laurent‘s singing this spring during SXSW. Quite honestly the possibility of musical talent was far from mind given the Parisienn