Excited about Neko Case Or Young The Giant, but didn't want to pull the trigger on a two-day (Friday, Sep. 6-Saturday, Sep. 7) A.V. Fest/Hideout Block Party pass? Your time is now, friend. We've just put single-day tickets on sale, so get 'em while they last. Friday's show—Neko Case, Mavis Staples, Trampled By Turtles, and Nude Beach—will cost you a mere $35. Saturday's—Young The Giant, The Hold Steady, Superchunk, The Walkmen, The Both (Ted Leo & Aimee Mann), Jon Langford, Girl Group Chicago, and Guitarkestra—is $40. A limited number of two-day ...
- 8/6/2013
- avclub.com
Now it can be told: The second-annual A.V. Fest/Hideout Block Party combo platter, which will take place in Chicago September 6-7, 2013, will feature the following acts in a miasma of awesomeness: Young The Giant, Neko Case, Mavis Staples, The Hold Steady, Superchunk, The Walkmen, Trampled By Turtles, The Both (Aimee Mann and Ted Leo), Nude Beach, Jon Langford, Girl Group Chicago, and Vision Celestial Guitarkestra. We've got a little microsite going right here, too. Go buy tickets right now. Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I don't think they'll last all that long. Two-day ...
- 5/28/2013
- avclub.com
The key to any voyage into the twangy depths of this weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is planning.
San Francisco's annual free celebration of bluegrass (and also not bluegrass) in Golden Gate Park, now in its 12th consecutive year, has gotten so popular that shuttling between stages to see all of your favorite bands can prove virtually impossible. Instead, the best idea is often just to get there early, pick a spot near the stage you're most interested in and stay there for the long haul.
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While the lineup was announced months ago, the actual full schedule, complete with set times, was only released recently. Essential planning's gotta all be done Right This Very Second.
Our top recommendations are Ben Kweller, Buddy Miller, Robert Earl Keen, The Dirty Three, the Heartless Bastards, Son Volt and Les Claypool's Duo De Twang. If you're curious as to why this is exciting,...
San Francisco's annual free celebration of bluegrass (and also not bluegrass) in Golden Gate Park, now in its 12th consecutive year, has gotten so popular that shuttling between stages to see all of your favorite bands can prove virtually impossible. Instead, the best idea is often just to get there early, pick a spot near the stage you're most interested in and stay there for the long haul.
(Scroll Down For Playlist And Lineup)
While the lineup was announced months ago, the actual full schedule, complete with set times, was only released recently. Essential planning's gotta all be done Right This Very Second.
Our top recommendations are Ben Kweller, Buddy Miller, Robert Earl Keen, The Dirty Three, the Heartless Bastards, Son Volt and Les Claypool's Duo De Twang. If you're curious as to why this is exciting,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Aaron Sankin
- Huffington Post
With Hogan, “Pain” worth the wait When Kelly Hogan’s last solo record was released, Ground Zero was still smoldering in Manhattan. More than a decade has slipped by since then, but in the meantime Hogan hasn’t suffered from lack of work. Moving from Atlanta to Chicago in the late ‘90s after formative stints with underground bands The Jody Grind and The Rock*A*Teens, she’s kept busy playing solo singer/songwriter gigs, fronting jazz bands and singing live and on records with Will Oldham, Jon Langford, Neko Case and many more. For a while there, it seemed legendary producer Steve Albini had...
- 6/6/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Last month Wxrt’s Eclectic Company held a live taping at Metro, hosted by noted Chicago musicians Jon Langford and Nicholas Tremulis. The first-ever Eclectic Company Live Concert Special featured special guests Eleventh Dream Day, Robbie Fulks, The M’s, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Cliff Johnson, the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra and Metro owner Joe Shanahan spinning between sets. The taping broadcasts on 93.1 FM at 10 p.m. tomorrow, but for a visual expose of what you’ll be hearing, Paste:Local attended the live taping. Looking for an added sneak peak? Eleventh Dream Day premiered a couple songs from their forthcoming album, including “Satellite,” due out next year. There are also a couple surprising collaborations. And we won’t say whom, but someone does a really cool cover of The Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored.” For the rest, you’ll have to tune in tomorrow night.
- 12/8/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
Jon Langford and Katrin Bornfeld (a.k.a. Kat Ex) have been friends and musical compatriots for years, thanks to their shared roots in the '70s European anarcho-art-punk scene as, respectively, leader and songwriter of Britain's The Mekons and drummer for Dutch band The Ex. Their sporadic collaborations solidified into a full-fledged project, KatJonBand, at an impromptu live show in 2004, and the off-the-cuff energy continues on KatJonBand's self-titled debut. Fans of Langford and Ex's main bands shouldn't be surprised or displeased by what they come up with here, since the two already have so many stylistic and philosophical points in common, including a thoughtful, uncompromising left-wing outlook and an interest in augmenting punk's furious howl with elements from traditional folk and world music. Though KatJonBand leaves some room for languid relationships-on-the-rocks material like "Hey You Don't Love Me," the album is at its best when the duo steps up.
- 9/23/2008
- by Christopher Bahn
- avclub.com
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