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Squeezing our mindgrapes for musics
Top Ten Thursday: Album Three Peats
16-May-13 By: Wes
The great Chicago music podcast “Sound Opinions” had a really good baseball themed episode about music “Grand Slams”, where a band released four excellent albums in a row. While we won’t rip them off directly, since it’s the basketball playoffs, 2/3rds of LxL is in Chicago, and MJ won 2 three-peats, we thought we [...]
Metz Show Review
16-May-13 By: Todd
Metz Lincoln Hall May 12th, 2013 Chicago, IL Rarely do I get to experience a show thats memories will be so forever imprinted on my life. Even if this is because my face will now be slightly more deformed than ever before, I still consider this a good thing. And no, I don’t say this [...]
Vampire Weekend Review Royale: Modern Vampires of the City
15-May-13 By: Todd
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Three albums into their career, Vampire Weekend has only progressively gotten better at their craft. In 2008 they released their self-titled debut, which proved to be a cerebrally focused pop-punk album that was a half hour of smart, heavily influenced fun. In the 2010 release Contra, the lyrics [...]
Heavy Deeds Review: Light Lunch EP
14-May-13 By: Austin
Heavy Deeds Light Lunch EP We get quite a few emails from bands and promoters of bands informing us of lower-profile releases. Sometimes these emails are just to inform, but often they are solicitations of sorts to see if we will review an album or EP. Often, we just ignore them, but every once in [...]
Not Fade Away: Movie Review
13-May-13 By: Wes
Not Fade Away Directed by David Chase Sopranos creator David Chase probably had the green light to make any film he wanted to with his film debut, and Chase made a surprising choice: a coming of age tale about the birth of rock ‘n’ roll. This seems like an odd choice at first glance until [...]
LxListening: I’m a Country Boy
10-May-13 By: Wes
Every year around this time of year, I find myself listening to country and country-inspired tunes. Why this is, I don’t know, but traditionally I haven’t been much for country music. I find much of it sappy and sentimental, and praising of a life I don’t identify with. However, about four years ago, I started [...]
Top Ten Thursday: Duets to Die For
09-May-13 By: Austin
We decided it was finally time to make a list concerning the combination of kindred vocals. Duets that is. A guy and a girl is the most popular concoction, but there is certainly room to wiggle with that formula on this list. For frame of reference, we attempted to stay away from two very specific [...]
LxListening: Rapid Fire Album Reviews
08-May-13 By: Todd
With the barrage of great music 2013 has offered up thus far, we at LxL are struggling to keep up with everything we feel we should be touching on. Enter our first mid-week entry of LxListening, and a new concept behind it: Rapid Fire Album Reviews. Granted, all of the albums listed below should be [...]
The Knife Review: Shaking The Habitual
07-May-13 By: Austin
The Knife Shaking the Habitual Sometimes one of my favorite artists pisses me off so much, I have to wait awhile to even talk about it. I don’t want to be overly hyperbolic and just rip them apart without sitting on my feelings for awhile. So, even though The Knife’s Shaking The Habitual came out [...]
Titus Andronicus Show Review
06-May-13 By: Wes
Titus Andronicus The Metro, Chicago, IL May 4th 2013 Last year, we wrote extensively about the career of Titus Andronicus, an anthemic, progressive punk rock band from New Jersey that finds their roots in equal parts patriotic rock hero Bruce Springsteen and anti-establishment punk acts like Minor Threat and the Clash. The band delivered a [...]
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