In the 1990s, eccentric heavy-rock four-piece Clutch created a side project and “alter-ego” blues/jam band called The Bakerton Group.
One of the greatest crowd-pleasing pieces of music in burlesque is “Night Train.” I’ve had people who’ve just attended their first burlesque show come up to me after a show and say, “I’ve always wanted to see someone dance to that song live! Thank you!”
Louis Armstrong was a: jazz legend, marijuana supporter (he smoked every day), slang inventor (he is cited as the first to use the terms cats, chops, daddy, jive, mellow, pops, scat, solid), actor (he appeared in over thirty films), writer, barrier-crosser, and, as author Steven Brower points out in the introduction to Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong (Abrams, 256 pages, $35), a talented and dedicated collagist.
Begrudgingly, online editor Scott Morrow has joined this decade with the purchase (not by him, mind you) of his first iPod.
Woodhands is a synthesized electro-rock duo, but unlike many of its contemporaries, the members actually play instruments onstage instead of hiding behind laptops. Its recent album, Heart Attack, is cold and inviting, sexy and nerdy, and the assured arrival of a new player on the electro-pop scene.
It’s a rough week for independent music as Touch and Go cuts manufacturing and distribution services for 20 labels, Daptone‘s studio is robbed, and An Albatross still needs a touring guitarist.
In better news, Sunn O))) and Dave Douglas announce new albums, Farmers Market will perform with a symphony, and Ed Gein is playing together again.
As we make our rounds this weekend, we plan to catch soulful folk crooner William Elliot Whitmore, multi-genre rapper Serengeti, rock/jazz/electronic quintet Zing!, and a local festival (Chicago Soundmap 2009) that asks selected composers to balance improvisation and composition.
Seattle multi-media artist Tyler Cufley returns to San Francisco’s Baer Ridgway Exhibitions this weekend for another solo display.
Titled Tell Everyone that You’re Smiling, the exhibit runs from February 21 to March 28 and will feature Cufley’s paintings, sculptures, photographs, and crossover pieces.
Preferring to let the music speak for itself, Koushik weaves choirs of strings and choruses in and out of down-tempo, old-school hip hop beats.
When Gene Ween announced his January 31 Schubas show in Chicago several weeks ago, tickets sold out within several hours.
Billed as an evening with Gene Ween, the night was one of two weekend performances in which the diminutive lead vocalist and co-founder of Ween graced Chicago with rare solo and acoustic sets, and they came roughly a month after he had a four-day stay in the hospital due to pneumonia.
Prior to the closing reception at his group exhibit at Rivet Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, camera specialist Wayne Martin Belger will lecture at Columbus College of Art and Design.