Freelance Whales

Ximena Sarinana on tour, playing free Rolling Stone show w/ Deer Tick, MNDR & Freelance Whales

Ximena Sarinana at the Parish on 11/21 (more by Tim Griffin) Dawes and Hacienda played the free Rolling Stone show today (12/6) in Openhouse Gallery’s pop-up park (201 Mulberry Street )…

The Grates, Cuckoo Chaos & other random stuff Chris saw on CMJ night 1 (pics)

The Grates played one of their many CMJ shows at Cake Shop last night. Cuckoo Chaos were at Pianos. Pictures from both those shows and more, below…

What's going on Friday?

today in Chicago * Erasure @ Congress Theater * Gypsyblood, Man/Miracle @ Hideout * Zedd, Midnight Conspiracy @ The Mid * Tapes ‘n Tapes, Howler @ Lincoln Hall * World Music Festival @ Various Venues (Day 2) * Active Child, Chad Valley, Magic Key @ Schubas * Kings Go Forth, Soul Summit DJs @ Double Door * Grouplove, Young Man, Deserters @ Subterranean * Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusements @ Eckhart Park (Day 1) * The Cell Phones, Fake Limbs, Right on Dynomite, Nightdogs @ Quenchers * The Fur Coats, Finishing School, Two Houses, Lights Over Bridgeport @ Panchos * Lucky Shot 7, The Ridgelands, Cenobites, After The Fight, Dead on TV @ Memories * Fugitive family, Salem Bitch Trials, The Ovens, The Involuntaries, KNiF…

What's going on Thursday?

Vivian Girls @ Emo’s in Austin, TX (more by Tim Griffin) today in Chicago * Marissa Nadler @ Saki * Vivian Girls @ Permanent Records * Vivian Girls, Widowspeak, Nones @ Empty Bottle * James Vincent McMorrow, Marissa Nadler @ Hideout * Paul Baribeau, Sarah Palin & The Mavericks @ The Juicer * Nightdogs, Right on Dynamite @ The Whistler (Free Show) * Ume, Elusive Parallelograms, Health & Beauty @ Beat Kitchen * Local H, AM Taxi, The Last Vegas @ Double Door (Free Show) * MC Chris, MC Lars, Mega Ran, Adam WarRock @ Subterranean * Wizardcastle, Cask, Of Wolves, Sealed in Silence @ Ultra Lounge * The Laureates, The Canoes, Blessed Feathers @ Bottom Lounge * This Magazine Is Haunted, Eiffel Tower, The Webstirs @ Panchos * Occidental Brothers Dance Band International @ Grant Park * Tommy Keene, Doug Gillard, Sally Crew and The Sudden Moves @ Schubas * Antony Ablan and The Tramps, The Soil and the Sun, Mike Golden, Jacob Bullard @ Lincoln Hall * Qwel and Maker, The Highest Low, Drunken Monkeee, State Champs, The Whoevers @ Memories Doug Gillard of Guided By Voices is in town with Tommy Keene tonight…

Freelance Whales to play free Eventbrite show on Saturday! (simultaneous events happen in NYC - SF - LA - Dallas)

Freelance Whales @ Newport Folk Festival 2011 (more by Jim Brueckner) Eventbrite‘s Concert Confidential is a simultaneous, multi-city event that consists of surpise free shows in NYC, LA, San Francisco, Dallas, and our very own Chicago this coming Saturday (9/17)…

Pepper Rabbit remixed by Freelance Whales (MP3 premiere), kicking of tour (updated dates & a ticket contest)

DOWNLOAD: Pepper Rabbit – “Rose Mary Stretch” (Freelance Whales remix) (MP3) Pepper Rabbit @ Sasquatch 2011 (more by Josh Darr) Pepper Rabbit are about to adjust to life on the road…

Newport Folk Fest 2011 - Day 1 in pics (Decemberists, Mavis Staples, Gogol Bordello, Tegan & Sara, Gillian Welch, more)

Newport Folk Festival took place in Rhode Island this past weekend (7/30-31). Day one featured performances, Delta Spirit, Gogol Bordello, Tegan and Sara, Gillian Welch, Mavis Staples (who was joined by Colin Meloy), The Decemberistsand others…

The PS 22 Chorus covered Austra, Lykke Li, Adele, MGMT, Ariel Pink & more @ Newpot Folk Fest (pics & videos)

You’ve seen the uplifting YouTube videos of the school children from Staten Island, but to witness their contagious innocent joy in-person is even more of a must…

Foals, Freelance Whales and The Naked & the Famous played Terminal 5 (pics & video)

“Foals are the epitome of organized chaos. I was fortunate enough to catch them at their sold-out show at Terminal 5 (NY) with great up-and-coming kiwi band The Naked & Famous and Brooklyn’s own Freelance Whales, and they blew my high expectations away…

What's going on Tuesday?

Foals @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2010 (more by Leia Jospe) today in Chicago * Joan of Arc @ MoCA * Lil B @ House of Blues * Foals, Freelance Whales, The Naked and Famous @ Metro * Asteroid #4, Secret Colours, The Red Plastic Buddha, Dark Fog @ Empty Bottle * Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Koo Koo Kanga Roo, Bigcolour @ Lincoln Hall What else…
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