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11
Nov
Weekend Diversions

Shonen Knife

Happy 11-11-11! Yesterday’s brief snow dusting, thankfully, was not Snowmagdeon part deux, so put on your puffer jackets this weekend and enjoy the rock.

We’re talking about some sweet shows including Shonen Knife’s 30th anniversary tour stop at Empty Bottle, plus Mastodon at the Riv and Panda Riot at the Burlington.

Let’s hop to it.

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21
Feb
Monday Afternoon Quick Fix

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed.

• Metal outfit MASTODON will release a live album that was recorded in 2009 at, um, the Aragon? Seriously.
• Chicagoverseunited has a new Kidz In The Hall track from their Brain Candy A.V. project.
• WindyCityRock.net reviews the latest EP from Chicago indie rockers Cains & Abels.
• The Sun-Times’ Thomas Conner reviewed last night’s Dismemberment Plan show at the Metro.
• If you want to hear our editor, Richard Giraldi, talk about Loud Loop Press, how we write reviews and our 11 Chicago Bands To Watch in 2011, here’s a link to his appearance on Vocalo’s MusicVox form a couple weeks back, which was hosted by the amazing Jesse Menendez.

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30
Dec
Ross Meyerson’s Top 10 Albums from 2000 – 2009

This week, we bring you Top 10 Albums from 2000-2009 lists as determined by Loud Loop Press editors and contributors. Today, contributor Ross Meyerson shows us his sunny side with his list for the Top 10 Albums from 2000 – 2009.

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Photo Credit: Richard Giraldi

Who knew animated characters could be this loud? The fictional metal group Dethklok from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse obliterated a sold out crowd at the Aragon Ballroom with insanely heavy, lightening fast riffs and tounge-in-cheek lyrics last Saturday night. But it was their tour mates and prog-metal gods Mastodon who gave a performance filled with more heavy hits and explosions than a Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon.

By Richard Giraldi \ 7 comments

16
Oct
Weekend Diversions

mastodon-new-850-100 Once again, a reminder that Loud Loop Radio will once again grace the intertubes tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, at 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. CST on Radio DePaul. It will be awesome as always.

Now on to our picks for this weekend’s top shows…

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29
Apr
MASTODON – Crack The Skye

When Brent Hinds sings “I’d guess they would say we could set this world ablaze” during the 13-minute epic “The Last Baron,” the lyric acts as a climax to Crack The Skye‘s purposely convoluted concept involving a paraplegic kid, wormholes, and Rasputin. But the lyric also mirrors Mastodon the band as today’s heavy metal stalwarts whom can be mentioned unabashedly in the same breathe as Metallica in terms of innovation and importance.

By Richard Giraldi \ 4 comments