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It was a night filled with offset guitars, otherworldly vocal harmonies and vigorous dancing. If you missed A Sunny Day In Glasgow at
Schubas on Wednesday night, then you missed quite the extravaganza.
Two hailed from the east including Brooklyn’s Acrylics and Philadelphia’s A Sunny Day In Glasgow, while Chicago’s Light Pollution opened. And the best part of the whole show? Every single band danced to their own music. Not just bobbed a little, these kids cut loose and really danced.
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GG Stanley (Gina Knapik) performs with Slutter - an all-female tribute to KISS - at Liar's Club in Chicago, Ill., on March 4, 2010.
“You wanted the breast; you got the breast,” roared the emcee at Liar’s Club just before Slutter – the all-female tribute to KISS – burst into the opening chords of the KISS classic “Strutter.”
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There are shows and then there are shows. You know what I’m taking about. Performances in which the band are just completely feeling it – the crowd, the room, their band mates. Everything in the universe aligns at that one precise moment and it’s perfect. There could be a natural disaster, earthquake, flood or, most likely in Chicago, blizzard, and it wouldn’t make you flinch for a second because the band on stage are absolutely killing it.
This was the scene last Saturday night at Lincoln Hall when Chicago’s influential post-rockers Tortoise offered an immaculate performance during which they were received as hometown heroes – and rightfully so.
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Those who braved the snow were taken on a thrill ride last Wednesday night at Double Door where Earth Program blew minds, Evil Beaver melted faces, and Polysics made us all dance like maniacs.
It’s true. We crossed more than musical borders at Double Door; we crossed cultural borders with 3-D glasses, gold pompoms and one screaming, feather encrusted bass. This unlikely line-up pulled from the four corners of the globe made for one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
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Jemina Pearl performs with her band at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 6, 2010. | Photo Credit: Audrey Leon
With one listen to Jemina Pearl’s solo debut album Break It Up, one might wonder if the ex-Be Your Own Pet vocalist had lost her gritty, punk rock edge. Yet, when Pearl climbed onto Beat Kitchen’s stage on Saturday, all doubts were erased.
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Inga Olson of The Wanton Looks | Photo Credit: Audrey Leon
Chicago’s most promising female rockers shared Lincoln Hall’s cozy stage for the Novo Arts’ Girls out of the Garage showcase on Thursday, Jan. 28, and proved why their stars have nowhere else to go but up.
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Hard rock duo Local H conjured up a special space-themed New Year’s Eve show for a sold out performance at the Double Door last Thursday.
Dubbed “2010: The Year We Break Contracts” — a play on the movie title 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s acclaimed 2001: A Space Odyssey — the show began with frontman Scott Lucas and drummer Brian St. Clair donning matching white space suits equipped with helmets. Local H ripped through such spacey rock classics as Pixies’ “Planet of Sound,” David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” and Pink Floyd’s “Eclipse” before launching into its own material.
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In what has become a Chicago tradition, Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger of Umphrey’s McGee held their annual Acoustic Holiday Concert at the Park West treating those in attendance to a great evening of carols and cover songs and reworked originals.
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