Schubas

Sam Amidon

Concert Photos: Sam Amidon @ Schubas (Chicago, IL)

For our final installment in coverage of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, we present photos from traditional folk revivalist Sam Amidon‘s recent headlining show at Schubas.

With support from Once‘s Marketa Irglova and Minneapolis-based pop artist Jeremy Messersmith, the Vermont-born songwriter played tracks from his fourth solo album, I See the Sign (Bedroom Community, 4/13/10), which was recorded and produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson (Björk, CocoRosie, Ben Frost) and features contributions from Nico Muhly and Beth Orton. Check out Sam Amidon in action with photos taken by ALARM contributors Sanchez + Kitahara.

Sam Amidon

Freddie Gibbs

Concert Photos: Freddie Gibbs, Shad, Rita J @ Metro (Chicago, IL)

Gary, Indiana’s gangster-rap phenom Freddie Gibbs, Canadian indie rapper Shad, and Chicago-based ALARM favorite Rita J joined forces for a recent show at Metro in Chicago. The trio of hip-hop performances was part of the annual Tomorrow Never Knows festival hosted by Schubas, Lincoln Hall, and, as of this year, Metro. (See ALARM’s TNK coverage of Twin Shadow and The Helio Sequence.) And below, take a gander at the lovely shots that photographer Logan M. Futej captured images of all three lyrical luminaries.

Rita J

NOMO

Concert Photos: NOMO, In Tall Buildings @ Schubas

NOMO: “Invisible Cities” (Invisible Cities, Ubiquity, 5/5/10)

NOMO: “Invisible Cities”

Contributing photographer David Sampson shot these photos at the recent NOMO show at Schubas. NOMO’s inventive Afro-jazz-rock sound spans so many styles and eras that it belies its contemporary Ann Arbor, MI origins. Meanwhile, opener In Tall Buildings (Chicago’s Erik Hall, also a member of NOMO) warmed the crowd up with his brand of stripped-down folk rock.

In Tall Buildings