Author: Anders Smith Lindall
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #68 Mar-Apr 2007
Low – Drums And Guns
Low is trapped. Because the trio is still defined by its slow, spare, stately style of a decade ago, each of its last five discs has been called a departure. In truth, Low’s sound never underwent a radical shift. As guitarist Alan Sparhawk, drummer Mimi Parker and bassist Zak Sally grew more confident, their approach [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #64 July-Aug 2006
Golden Smog – Another Fine Day
Nostalgia, like beer goggles, has a powerful distorting effect: Who wasn’t a little hipper, more fun and better-looking in the halcyon haze of our embellished memories? Nobody, that’s who. So consider this a caveat: Maybe Golden Smog wasn’t really all that great. They were just a bunch of guys goofing off, swapping songs and mugging. [...]
Screen Door - Last Page Essay from Issue #62 Mar-Apr 2006
Sing One for Schepers
“For every Jeff Tweedy or Kelly Hogan,” Bloodshot Records founder Rob Miller says, “there are two or three people behind them who you don’t see. They’re the ones helping this community to survive.” Miller was explaining the importance of sound engineer and musician Gary Schepers. An essential member of the Chicago scene’s supporting cast for [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Edith Frost – Launching her lovebeams
Edith Frost has done a lot of things in life with little pause for deliberation. A couple years out of college, she moved from Austin, Texas, to New York with a boyfriend, mostly because she’d come into a small amount of money and the city sounded like fun. Six years later, she relocated again on [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Richard Buckner & Jon Langford – Sir Dark Invader vs The Fanglord
Jon Langford and Richard Buckner aren’t such polar opposites as, say, Jay-Z and the Beatles, but this joint venture has some of the same left-field appeal of an unexpected pop mash-up: It’s most interesting for the ways in which each player’s talents connect, collide, or combine to create something unexpected or altogether new. The more [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Honeyboy Edwards With Devil In A Woodpile – Hideout Inn (Chicago, IL)
If you dropped by Chicago’s Hideout Inn any Tuesday evening in the past eight years, you were likely to find acoustic blues revivalists Devil In A Woodpile playing for tips in the homey joint’s little wood-paneled front bar. If you were especially lucky, you might have picked a night when the band was joined by [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Bellwether – Seven And Six / Missing Numbers – Self-Titled
Minneapolis folk-rockers Bellwether say they haven’t split, preferring instead the term “hiatus”. Regardless, it’s hard not to hear Seven And Six as their last gasp. Recorded nearly two years ago and self-released as an afterthought, the band’s fourth disc finds Eric Luoma’s wistful, sleepy tenor set mostly to downtempo tunes, the mellow mood recalling the [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Kristin Hersh / Ben Weaver – Schubas (Chicago, IL)
Given identical tools — two hands, one voice and one acoustic guitar — it’s hard to conjure a pair of performers less alike than Kristin Hersh and Ben Weaver. She’s an alt-rock survivor with a girlish lilt who thrums urgent rhythms and scoffs at the men in her wake; he’s a young folk singer whose [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Richard Buckner – Dents And Shells
Richard Buckner’s finest albums, 1997′s Devotion + Doubt and its 1998 follow-up Since, arose from similar circumstances: He holed up alone to write the songs, then immersed himself with musicians from a particular local scene to record them. The pattern is repeated on the new Dents And Shells, this time not with Tucson musicians (as [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Various Artists – Sunday Bloodshot Sunday – Hideout Block Party (Chicago, Il)
Under a purple evening sky, Bloodshot Records founders Nan Warshaw and Rob Miller took to the temporary stage that filled the street outside Chicago bar the Hideout. Capping a day-long celebration of their label’s tenth anniversary, the pair thanked a decade’s worth of supporters who have helped a onetime barroom lark grow into a viable [...]
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