It just occured to me, so I looked it up and found this:

The Chicago Sun-Times reported on April 6th that the festival would not be continuing for what would have been its third year. "'We looked at what was happening this summer, and the festival crowds of Chicago are being well served at this point,' Intonation spokesman David Singer said, citing competition from the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park on July 13-15, Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park on July 28, Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 3-5 and the combination of the Hideout Block Party and Metro's 25th anniversary celebration at Elston and Wabansia on Sept. 7-9. [Wikipedia]

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Nicole Chavas of Radio Free Chicago brings us this review of Chromeo's performance at the 2006 VICE Intonation Festival in Chicago....

Upon first hearing Chromeo's almost over-the-top blend of funky 80s-inspired dance music, I had to wonder if the musicians were serious. Once the Chromeo duo Pee Thug and Dave 1 took the stage, it was obvious there wasn't a trace of irony in the music they were making- they just wanted people to dance.

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Radio Free Chicago and Future Perfect Radio worked with me to get all of this coverage of the VICE Intonation Festival that recently happened in Chicago, and I really fell behind in getting the content up, so... sorry about that to all involved. Here are the photos of Bloc Party (who are playing NYC at the end of this month).....

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"Festival rosters are always full of safe bets – so here's to the organizers for booking Boredoms, probably the most challenging act on the roster. My guess is that not many in the audience knew what to expect from the band on one of only a handful of live American dates in the last few years.

The group wasted no time, sending a six-drumstick attack from the group's drummers to produce round after round of locked groove. Occasionally, the pounding would open up to make way for one Boredom or another to chase some weird mini-rhythm down the rabbit hole, but always returning to the previous driving rhythm. After the pause that marked the end of the first half of the set, circuit guru Yamataka Eye led the group on a more eerie path.

Every off-pattern fill from the drum corps ushered in a meltdown from Eye, and usually another palpable BPM bump. Pretty fitting then how the band's sometimes krauty moments of beat driving would change so fluidly into more giddy and freewheeling abstractions. As drummer Yoshimi Yokota (she of the Flaming Lips' namesake, yes) took to the keys to close the set, the audience had witnessed Boredoms' three-drum pile up morph into something more conventionally beautiful. A criminally short set time notwithstanding, this was a real treat from a band that continues to surprise old fans while stunning new ones."

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The VICE Intonation Music Festival happened this past weekend (June 24-25, 2006) over in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A team of Chicago-based BrooklynVegan correspondents were on hand to let us know how it was, and these four photos are where their coverage begins. If you were there, talk about it in the comments of course.

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