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Christy & Emily Create a Sparse Environmentnew
Hook-heavy yet delicately assembled, Christy Edwards' clean electric guitar is knitted with Emily Manzo's piano and keyboard work for a sound that, predictably, combines indie sensibility with classical-like piano-jogging.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Christy & Emily, Gueen's Head
Texas' James McMurtry Takes it Personallynew
"The popularity of a song has more to do with the listener than the writer," he says. "People have to identify. A bunch of people identified with this, which is good for me, but kind of scary for the rest of the country."
Chicago Newcity |
K. Tighe |
12-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: James McMurtry
Off to the Gallonew
RRIICCEE is a full four-piece outfit, but in typical Vincent Gallo fashion, all traditional notions of a touring band have been thrown out the window. No songs have been written, recorded or rehearsed prior to the tour and no pre-written music will be performed on stage.
Chicago Newcity |
Brad Knutson |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: RRIICCEE
Anatomy of Popnew
Ingrid Michaelson and her Girls and Boys.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girls and Boys, Ingrid Michaelson
Cheb I Sabbah's Worldly Electronicanew
Throughout his career, which has taken him around the world, he has seen and experienced lots of change since he began DJing in Paris as a teenager in the 1960s.
Chicago Newcity |
Zeb Resman |
11-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cheb I Sabbah
Caribou's Dan Snaith and His 'Andorra'new
Undoubtedly inspired by the work of the Beach Boys, Snaith uses more vocals than ever to create bubbly, but somewhat vast, sweet tarts, each more memorable than the last.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Sean Hayes Codenew
A staple in the Bay Area's tightly knit syndicate of songwriters, Hayes hits the road in support of his latest release, Flowering Spade.
Chicago Newcity |
K. Tighe |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Flowering Spade, Sean Hayes
The New Pornographers Get Wise & Maturenew
"I'd rather have people pissed off at us for changing than be pissed off at us for not changing," says chief Pornographer Carl Newman.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Sings a New Chicago Soundnew
It's an exhilarating time for Chicago music -- more specifically for bands that are about to burst on to the international scene with a vengeance like the Choir.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sweden's Jose Gonzalez Looks 'In Our Nature'new
While the pieces surely add up on paper, it's difficult to categorize Jose Gonzalez simply as a singer-songwriter.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: In Our Nature, Jose Gonzalez
Aliens Head to the Outer Limitsnew
Members of The Beta Band create a new other-worldly band.
Chicago Newcity |
Duke Shin |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: aliens
Iron & Wine Pets 'The Shepherd's Dog'new
Living essentially in the middle of nowhere seems to serve a songwriter like Sam Beam quite well.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Iron & Wine
Simian Mobile Disco is On the Movenew
After the demise of the British band Simian, James Ford and James Shaw regroup as a roving DJ/production duo, moving effortlessly through rave bonanzas, electro ballads and energetic rump-shakers.
Chicago Newcity |
Steve Mizek |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dan Deacon Leads the Future Shock Scenenew
Deacon and his Baltimore cohorts create kaleidoscopic works of rainbow-colored, ADD-addled brilliance, taking the last twenty years of pop culture and mutating it into something wonderfully familiar and yet decidedly new.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
Stereo Total's Quirky Pop Aestheticnew
Francoise Cactus and Brezel Goring have been exploring trans-European sound for over a decade now.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
08-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stereo Total
