It’s is a little after midnight on Friday, August 20. The Bears of Blue River, followed by Canasta – both extremely talented Chicago bands – just finish a pair of inspired sets at Lincoln Avenue’s finest cheese-and-noodle-serving musical establishment, Lincoln Hall.
Now, with four horn-playing musicians crammed onto stage left and four additional violin-clad musicians in reserve, things are about to get serious. Two guys with music composition degrees from Eastern Illinois University and two other rhythmically-inclined gentlemen who comprise the Champaign-Urbana-based headliner, Elsinore, position themselves on stage to celebrate the release of their new record Yes, Yes, Yes. Three powerful songs into the set , Ryan Groff, the band’s front man, lays down a most unlikely and awesome line to a crowd of about 350:
“We love you guys like the Beastie Boys loved their fans in the 90s.”
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By Jason Shough \ 1 comment
Common Loom
Three bananas-don’t-ripen-in-this-apartment-they-just-go-from-green-to-gray reasons to wash that hair for once and get on over to the
Empty Bottle tonight…
1. Look, it’s Champaign’s own
Common Loon. You may remember me gushing over their debut,
The Long Dream Of Birds, and the feelings have not changed. I’m pretty sure you hang on my every word so you too are excited to see that these guys are back in town.
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By Ross Meyerson \ comments
We really try to keep things hyperlocal to Chicago here on LoudLoopPress.com, but occasionally there are cool happenings two and a half hours south of our fair city.
UPDATE: Keep on growing, it does. Today, the Pygmalion Music Festival have confirmed additions of Of Montreal, Janelle Monae, Cut Chemist, Plastician, Turbo Fruits, Darren Hanlon, Chicago indie psych outfit Light Pollution, Why I Like Robins, New Ruins, 217 Mafia DJs: Mertz, Belly, Positive Vibr8tions, Community College, Revolt Revolt, The Poison Control Center, DISCOTECH DJs: Famicom, Space Police, White Rabbit. And yet, according to their Facebook page, this may not even be the final round of acts anounced for this year’s Fest. So better keep an eye on 2010.pygmalionmusicfestival.com for anymore additions.
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By Richard Giraldi \ 1 comment
Tickets for the 5th annual Pygmalion Music Festival set for September 16 – 19 in Champaign-Urbana are going fast. Festival passes are sold out as is the headlining performance from Iron and Wine.
If you still want to catch a few of the acts such as RJD2, Lucero, YACHT, The Antlers, Japandroids, Headlights, Wavves, Autolux and Low in some of Champaign-Urbana’s more intimate venues, then act now. Only a small number of single show tickets are still available.
You can find an updated schedule – changes include addition of Saturday’s day parties and adjustments due to cancellation of Solid Gold – after the jump:
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By Richard Giraldi \ comments
