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L.A's Milk Carton Kids have entered the 'Promised Land'
Despite possessing a rather unassuming sound -- one built on gentle acoustic strumming and comforting harmonies -- local act the Milk Carton Kids have had a rather booming year and a half. Two self-released albums published straight-to-the-Web are said to...
Tags: Punch Brothers (music group), Danny Elfman, Bruce Springsteen, Music, Promised Land (movie)
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Friday Morning Coffee: The weekend warm-up.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Technical gremlins and some timing issues have conspired to put us a touch behind schedule this morning, so in the interest of brevity, here's a quick buffet of links to get you going. And to...... -
Kids These Days pull songs from the static
Kids These Days open their self-released debut album, “Traphouse Rock,” with the sound of several radio stations cutting in and out between static. It comes off as a brief tongue-in-cheek commentary on the Chicago septet’s style-...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Teachers Strike, Kids These Days (music group), Chicago Public Schools, Music
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Album review: Kids These Days, 'Traphouse Rock'
RedEye intern*** (out of 4) Kids these days. They spend so much time on that Internet, digesting overwhelming amounts of information, destroying their attention spans. It’s a wonder they can ever synthesize it into anything useful, am I right? Chicago’...Tags: Lil Wayne, Kids These Days (music group), SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Music, The Black Keys (music group)
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Presidential campaign song quiz
Choose whether each song is on (A) Barack Obama’s campaign Spotify playist, (B) Mitt Romney’s campaign Spotify playlist or (C) Neither. 1. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” The Soggy Bottom Boys 2. “I Won’t Back Down,&...
Tags: Tom Petty, Political Candidates, Mike Huckabee, James Buchanan, George W. Bush
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A Tribute to Woody Guthrie at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown on Oct. 26
Woody Guthrie (pictured) was America's foremost Dust Bowl troubadour. He would have turned 100 this year. Guthrie's place in popular culture is secure; idolized by a young Bob Dylan, Guthrie sired a psychedelic-era successor in son Arlo (of Alice's...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Middletown, Woody Guthrie, Billy Bragg, Music
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Album review: Wanda Jackson, 'Unfinished Business'
3 stars (out of 4) Rockabilly singer and proto-riot grrrl Wanda Jackson was revving up audiences on bills with Elvis Presley in the ‘50s, and she’s influenced several generations of rockers, including her recent producers Jack White and...
Tags: Wanda Jackson, Woody Guthrie, Elvis Presley
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Bluesy rock singer Eric Horgan takes top prize at Williamsburg's Got Talent
On Friday at the Kimball Theatre, 23-year-old William and Mary graduate Eric Horgan clinched first place in the Williamsburg's Got Talent competition by singing an impassioned version of John Prine's "Angel from Montgomery." He took home a $500 prize....
Tags: College of William and Mary, Courtland, John Prine, Music
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Midwestern lit: Plain-spoken
I recently took one of those online quizzes to test your accent, and it declared, accurately, that I come from the "Central U.S." The test said my accent is essentially no accent, the one that's employed by television news anchors, who are supposed to...
Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, University of Chicago, Music
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Top weekend shows: Riot Fest, Hideout Block Party, Handsome Family, Lightning Bolt
Riot Fest: For the first time the annual punk festival expands outdoors for two days in Humboldt Park (opening night will be indoors at the Congress Theatre), and the lineup has some of its heaviest hitters yet, including Iggy and the Stooges, Elvis...Tags: Alkaline Trio (music group), Glen Hansard, Barbara Lee, Music, The Stooges (music group)
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JC's got a brand-new bag
Ten minutes to showtime. And there was no showman. "Where is he?" asked Ben Taylor, bassist of the Chicago soul revue JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, pacing beside a golf cart ready to whisk him and his band mates to the stage. JC Brooks, their magnetic...
Tags: Uptown, Harry Potter (fictional character), Craigslist, Inc., David Bowie, Music Industry
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Local Q&A: Tom Schraeder on the month-long 'Chicago, I Love You' fest at Lilly's
RedEye special contributorWhen the Tom Schraeder & His Ego frontman started planning a release party for “Chicago, I Love You,” the latest album from his namesake band, he forgot one important detail: to complete the record itself. Instead, Schraeder left the album...Tags: Muse (music group), Joe Pug, Music Industry, Brighton, MA (music group), Music
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