Japandroids
Adios, 2010. You were a cool year. I liked when you did cool stuff like make the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup, repealed DADT and got the Reader to vote us Best Local Music Blog. You weren’t so cool when you made the Cubs crappy or made earthquakes and oil spills happen. Still not sure if you were cool for Brett Favre or Ke$ha, but it’s all good. Here’s to you, 2010.
Oh, and be sure to spend you end of 2010 or beginning of 2011 seeing music. There’s plenty of great shows tonight like Japandroids at Schubas, Local H at the Bottom Lounge, CAVE at the Hideout and more.
Let’s get to it, shall we?
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Atoms For Peace
A bit chilly today, but we can make it through this, Chicago. Nice warm up tomorrow and then clear sailing to sunny 80-degree days next week. Wait a second. When did this become the weather report? There could be a blizzard outside and that wouldn’t stop the fact that there’s tons of live music to be heard.
This weekend is packed with great shows from Mission of Burma, Japandroids, Thom Yorke’s new group Atoms For Pace and so much more.
Lets get to it, shall we?
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Photo Credit: Carrie Musgrave - livebabylive.com
It’s that time again, we’ve looked ahead and started filling in our calendars with all of the awesome upcoming shows headed to Chicago in the next few months. Being the good guys and gals that we are, we’re sharing our favorites with you, all of which will surely be not-to-miss performances of artists from around the globe that includes an impressive line-up of local acts. Check out below what we think are the hot Winter/Early Spring concerts, local acts are BOLD for easy access, and let us know in the comments what we may have missed.
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One of the knocks against two-piece bands is that they lack variety in their sound, and that the music can become samey and repetitive. It’s true that duos are often forced to work with a smaller set of sounds and sometimes the music can suffer. However, recent years have seen talented two person acts step up and make great records. Dodos, High Places, No Age and others have overcome their small lineups and created awesome music and it’s time to add Vancouver’s Japandroids (made up of Brian King on guitar and David Prowse on drums, which each handling vocal duties) to that list.
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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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I know what you’re thinking. “Uh, wasn’t PItchfork like a week ago?” Why, yes. Yes, it was. Better late than never, I suppose.
We went ahead and posted a review of the main event, The Flaming Lips, which you can read here. But now we’ve compiled a number of contributor reviews for a better overall look at last weekend’s highlight performances, which you can read after the jump…
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