Light Pollution

Fiona Apple @ MHOW Friday (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in NYC * Whiplash @ UCB * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Kimbra @ Mercury Lounge * Hot Tub @ Littlefield * Larry Ochs, Kihnoua @ Roulette * Tribes, Big Scary @ Mercury Lounge * New Music Observatory @ The Stone * Fiona Apple, Blake Mills @ Bowery Ballroom * Everest Cale, Robin Bacior @ Cameo Gallery * Peter Evans, John Hebert, Kassa Overall @ Zebulon * Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool * Backwords, Radical Dads, Dear Lions, Vassals @ Glasslands * DJ Premier, Bumpy Knuckles @ Highline Ballroom * Greg Fox, C…

today in Chicago * Jeff Tweedy @ the Vic * National Record Store Day! * Royal Bangs, ANR, Dream Teens @ Empty Bottle * Light Pollution, Suns, Secret Colours, Hollows @ Bottom Lounge * Ha Ha Tonka, Spring Standards, Jerome Holloway @ Subterranean * My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Luc Van Acker @ Metro (Wax Trax Anniversary) What else…

FRIDAY Jeff Tweedy is playing both tonight, and tomorrow night at the Vic. Head over to Empty Bottle to catch Zola Jesus, and Cult of Youth…

Jeff Tweedy @ Maxwell’s in 2010 (more by Chris Gersbeck) today in Chicago * Jeff Tweedy @ the Vic * Zola Jesus, Cult of Youth @ Empty Bottle * Chandeliers, On You, Windbreaker @ Hideout * John Wesley Harding @ Lincoln Hall (Early Show) * Tobacco, Beans, Shapers @ Lincoln Hall (Late Show) * Mike Watt & The Missingmen @ Schubas (Late Show) * The Damnwells, Harper Blynn, Howard Jennings @ SPACE * Loudon Wainwright III, Kim Richey @ Old Town School of Folk Music * Front 242, En Esch, Guenter Schulz @ Metro (Wax Trax Anniversary) * We Jam Econo: The Story Of The Minutemen Screening @ Schubas (Early Show) * Light Pollution, RYAT, Panda Riot, Joywheels, Billy Crystal Meth @ The Observatory Record Store Day 2011 is tomorrow…

Cold War Kids @ Terminal 5 1/29/2010 (more by Bao Nguyen) today in Chicago * Diplo, Willy Joy @ The Mid * Jonathan Richman @ Metro * Cold War Kids, A Lull @ the Riv * Richard Shindell @ SPACE (Early Show) * Dick Prall, Rachele Eve @ SPACE (Late Show) * Human Eye, Drugs Dragons, Birth @ Empty Bottle * Suns, Bailiff, The Mutts, The Field Auxiliary @ Beat Kitchen * Maps & Atlases, Light Pollution, Gypsyblood @ Lincoln Hall * The Get Up Kids, Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz @ Bottom Lounge * Flogging Molly, Moneybrother, The Drowning Men @ Congress Theater * Hüsker Düdes, Econoline, SSt DJs Bobby Burg & Matt Holland @ Hideout * The Future Laureates, Kingsley Flood, How Far to Austin, Nelken @ Mayne Stage What else…

The Get Up Kids @ Webster Hall 3/2/2011 (more by Andrew St. Clair) Alright Chicago, ahead of us is a weekend packed with amazing shows. This is the last weekend before SXSW, and it’s almost overwhelming what we have going on in just three short nights…

As the holiday season rapidly approaches, last summer feels more and more like a distant memory. So, how can a collection of bands whose music felt topical a few months ago sustain interest in the late fall and winter…

DOWNLOAD: Weekend – Coma Summer (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Weekend – End Times (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Young Prisms – Sugar (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Acrylics – Nightwatch (MP3) This will be a shorter column than usual (please hold your applause till the end) as I’m heading across the Canadian border to attend this year’s M for Montreal festival where I’ll be seeing the likes of The Dears, PS I Love You, Valleys and a bunch of bands who sing in French…

After Chris left the BV Loft Party all the way back on Friday, October 22nd, he headed over to Music Hall of Williamsburg for the Blue Flowers-presented CMJ showcase for a lineup of mostly UK bands including Chapel Club, Everything Everything, and Blood Red Shoes (who toured North America with Sky Larkin in October)…

DOWNLOAD: Prince Rama – “Lightening Fossil” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Light Pollution – “Witchcraft” (MP3) “Just got back from it. Didn’t stick around for the cowboys & indians dance party, though I probably should have…