May 2009
3 posts
A closer look at... Vintage Vinyl
This article ran on April 2nd, 2009, in The Weekly. The full version can be found here.
Vintage Vinyl owner Steve Kay looks like a record collector. He wears average glasses (no square frames a la alt-bro music store clerks), wears his hair long like a character in Dazed and Confused but with a lot more gray, and looks serious enough to be in record collecting for the long haul. You know the type...
Man on the Beat: Kelsey Wild
This interview ran on May 7th, 2009, in The Weekly. The full version can be found here.
Kelsey Wild is not just another college singer-songwriter-pianist - she’s a college singer-songwriter-pianist at your school. Marvel at how her soft-spoken voice transforms into a strong, assertive alto devoid of jejune collegiate aloofness once she’s on stage at Evanston venues, such as...
The $50,000 Joint
This article ran on April 3rd, 2009, in The Weekly. The extended version can be found here.
After a couple of months of dealing pot out of his room in Bobb-McCulloch Hall, Simon was getting a little paranoid. His clientele, which at first had just been a small circle of friends, had expanded to include friends of friends, kids down the hall he didn’t know, and sometimes, visitors from...
March 2009
5 posts
A Crash Course in The Replacements
This article ran on May 5th, 2008, on North by Northwestern. The full version can be found here.
You’re a kid in the ‘80s. You’ve just come home from a shitty day at school, gotten yelled at by your mom because you got caught smoking dope under the bleachers at school, and you think your girl might be cheating on you with your best friend. Everything, to put it politely, is fucked.
But you’re...
A Thing or 182 I Don't Know About Blink
This ran in the February 19th, 2009, issue of the Daily Northwestern’s culture section, The Weekly. The full version can be found here.
01. I’ve gotten hungry, real hungry for my youth because the job market sucks, school is a bummer and, even though it’s infantile, sometimes I wonder what it would be like to spend a day when I was 10, 14 or 18, when I had “not a care in the world” and...
Love Delivery
This article ran in the August 19th, 2008, issue of New City. It can be found here.
If you’ve walked around in Wicker Park during July and August, you might have noticed something other than the thick-bearded hipster set: pink-clad bikers riding around, some dressed in full-body white jump suits. Ensconced in the basement of St. Paul’s Community Church for the last month has been Pink, a courier...
Public (Enemy) Speaking
This article ran in the July 22nd, 2008, edition of New City. It can be found here.
Surprisingly, no one bum-rushes the show; in fact, at this panel starring Chuck D of Public Enemy, Hank and Keith Shocklee of the Bomb Squad and “Media Assassin” Harry Allen at the Chicago Cultural Center, rushing the stage seems out of the question for the mostly white, mostly beard-wearing, mostly hipster...
The Brow
The following music blurbs have run in The Daily Northwestern between 2008 and 2009. The limit for each review was 150 words.
Lykke Li @ Metro, 2/7
Ah, Lykke Li, breaker of alt-bro hearts; your precociously sweet-sounding-yet-sinister love songs are made even better when you flagellate yourself on stage, pounding your shoulder with a tight fist and dancing madly in the spotlight, a brazen look...