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Ever since I discovered and interviewed Japanese new-wave quartet Polysics I’ve been looking forward to experiencing their mad love for Devo live. And last Wednesday, at the Double Door, their surges of thousand-gigawatt melodies and onslaught of sequenced rhythms re-calibrated […]
I’ve always wanted to do this. So I did it. But before I share with you Part One of a recent Live Fix Experiment, I want to thank my friend and fellow music writer Moira McCormick for giving me the chance […]
That video above is evidence that something eternal happened last night at the Saul Williams show. It was a case of my brain processing one thing while my heart processed another. During what I believe was the song “A Penny for […]
The Afro-Punk tour arrived in Chicago with poet/actor/emcee Saul Williams leading the hip hop, punk and funk tribe to the Double Door. Openers American Fangs showed tons of passion and promise, but sadly the surly upstarts failed to strike any […]
The Afro-Punk tour has arrived in Chicago. And poet/actor/emcee Saul Williams is leading the funky freak charge to the Double Door tonight. If all things go as planned, I should have a special treat for you once the show is […]
Though most of the show shifted in all the right ways and flowed to all the right places on the strength of Noonan’s smooth and soothing lyrical storytelling, a bit of tension arose between Noonan and fans who […]
On a Friday night at the Double Door in Chicago, Bell X1was more than just an Irish rock trio. They were also musical cardiac surgeons performing sonic surgery on the hearts of the gathered. Lead singer/percussionist/guitarist Paul Noonan crooned softly […]
It’s Friday! And that means it’s time for live music! Well, tonight will be quite the night (should everything go as planned) because we’ll be heading to review both Bell X1 and Miike Snow in the same night. How exactly […]