Post-hardcore

Album Reviews

Review: Capsule – No Ghost (2011)

We’ve all put our music players on shuffle even though we know we want a specific kind of song or

Album Reviews

Review: The Felix Culpa – Sever Your Roots (2010)

Back in 2002, you knew this group knew how to make music. It’s not picking up a guitar, writing a

Castevet Summer Fences
Album Reviews

Review: Castevet – Summer Fences (2009)

Chicago’s Castevet has undergone musical changes, tilting the light upon vocals and away from the musical landscapes crafted in Summer Fences. I had

Concert Photos

PHOTOGRAPHY: JAGUAR LOVE AND POLYSICS IN CHICAGO

The Abbey Pub on Grace and Elston is a smaller venue that hosts acts on the verge. A few years ago,

Album Reviews

REVIEW: THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES – TAIL SWALLOWER AND DOVE (2008)

Lead Beater, the eighth track on Tail Swallower and Dove (Suicide Squeeze Records, 2008) lands with such a foreboding bass it’s difficult

Album Reviews

REVIEW: PAST LIVES – STRANGE SYMMETRY (2008)

Strange symmetry. An awkward correspondence. Although you wouldn’t label the music awkward in the common sense, but as unconventional or

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Now & Then: Past Lives and The Blood Brothers

Earlier this week I had to justify why Gogol Bordello put on the best show I had ever seen out of the