This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to witness a performance by the one and only Tom Waits. From the venue (the deliciously gaudy art-deco miasma known as the Ohio Theater) to the merchandise stand (CDs, a pamphlet containing Waits’s interview with himself, and T-Shirts made from “real oil-slick photographs taken by Tom […]
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Listening In Live: Tom Waits in Columbus, 6/28/08
June 30th, 2008 by Mykola Bilokonsky · No Comments
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Listening In Live: The Return Of Return To Forever
June 23rd, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
Formative jazz-rock fusion group Return To Forever took the stage Saturday night at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Sterling Heights, Michigan. About midway through the first set, Lenny White took a turn at the mic and addressed the crowd: “In an era of boy bands, this here’s a man band.”
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Listening In Live: Tim Fite at the Troubadour
May 22nd, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison · No Comments
The stage was set with a faux boom-box, a projection screen, a table and two mics. The showroom of the Troubadour was beginning to fill up and people had already staked out the area in front and center of the stage. Lights began flashing here and there, the smoke machine created a subtle cloud and […]
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Listening In Live to Via Audio and The Secret Life of Sofia: 4/21/08
April 22nd, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
With 2001’s Is This It, The Strokes ushered in a mainstream music fad of stripped down, lo-fi production and straightforward presentation that spread to seemingly countless bands in the ensuing months. A scarce three years later, however, a small Canadian band by the name of Arcade Fire (among others) rose to challenge these sparse constructions, […]
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Listening In Live to Presto Descanto
April 1st, 2008 by stolte-sawa · No Comments
When the time came for him to go on, most of the crowd had dissolved. It was well after midnight in Bucktown and the bar was dead, so Presto Descanto performed his new album in its entirety from start to finish for twenty people while the rest of the world really missed out.
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Listening In Live to Tilly and the Wall: 3/21/2008
March 25th, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
Since the moment they decided to use Jamie Williams‘ tap-dancing feet for percussion instead of drums, Tilly and the Wall has been a band unafraid of taking chances with its music. This fondness for experimentation was once again clear from the six brand new songs that were on exhibit during the group’s latest stop at […]
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