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This has been the week for sludgy post-metal. Plenty of bands have jumped into the build-explode-repeat, wall-of-sound, and crushing riffs of the genre this year, but the two best albums of the scene came out this week.
Burst has been moving slowly deeper into the genre, from what were crust/hardcore roots. In Coveting Ways was their [...]
NWOAHM
The New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a broken term. It’s anachronistic, refering back to the NWOBHM, introduced by an author, who willfully ignored genre divisions, including punk-based bands, and diminishing his own term by including bands from the late 80’s/early 90’s metal heyday.
Wikipedia’s article follows straight into the same failures, by depending more [...]
We weren’t in town for 3 days before we saw our first show in austin, Rilo Kiley at Stubb’s. Jenny Lewis was amazing, both vocally, and on guitar (and hot). We were also hot, but Austin hot is not quite as sticky and sweaty as Chicago hot. It was a great show, and it reminded [...]
Tomorrow, the city council votes on an ordinance requiring anyone organizing a concert of any scale, at any (already) licensed venue, to be a licensed promoter. This is very dangerous to Chicago’s rich music scene, and to the arts in Chicago in general.
The definition of “event promoter†is so loosely defined it could apply [...]
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