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Our Live Life, Vol. 4: April Concerts in Chicago

BY PETER LILLIS & JORDAN MAINZER Today, Peter and Jordan continue their monthly roundup of the shows they saw in the last month. As seen below, April includes two of their favorite sets of the year. These 16 additions put our collective concert tally at 47 for the year, not including our coverage of SXSW...

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Nothing Ever Stays the Same: Yo La Tengo @ The Vic Theater

BY JORDAN MAINZER It was a big day coming. On Friday, February 1st, at the Vic Theater in Chicago, Yo La Tengo treated an eager audience to about two and a half hours of material spanning their almost thirty-year-old career. Playing most of their excellent new album Fade and a variety of cuts from some...

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#Lolla: Music, Food, and Ads at Lollapalooza 2012

Whenever I cover a music festival, I ask myself: what’s the point? In 2012 (or 2011 or 2010…) people who want to find out what they missed at a festival can go on Twitter, search the #lolla hashtag, and consume millions of snippets to create a full impression. Or they can go to Facebook to...

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For A Minute There, We Lost Ourselves: Bonnaroo 2012 Recap

Bonnaroo may not be real life, but that doesn’t make it any less stressful. Every year, 80,000 (approx.) crazies rage or mosey their way down to the farm in Manchester, Tennessee for an assumed relaxing period of both chill and weird. While it is a welcome vacation from commuter trains, twitter (sorry, boss), landlords and...

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The 13 Best Concerts of 2011

As we’ve reported over the last few weeks, 2011 saw the release of plenty of great music. Luckily, in a year with so many great releases, we also had the opportunity to see plenty of great shows. From arena blow outs to dive bar ragers, the following are the 13 best live performances I saw over the...

Lust for Live: Six Shows In Four Weeks

My recent arrival in Chicago has been beneficial for two reasons: 1) I have a fulfilling job, and 2) I get to a shit ton of rock shows. For example, over the course of the four weeks of October, I made it to six shows. No two shows were alike: I welcomed fresh-faced James Blake...

Two Brief Highlights: Bon Iver at Prospect Park

Last night, Justin Vernon and his eight best friends played an epic show for a crowd of people in plastic-frame glasses as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn series in Prospect Park. We wish we could re-create the entire performance for you, but, in lieu of that, please enjoy the two highlights below: a Vernon solo...

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Your Live Life vol. 3 – Summer Concerts in DC

With the majority of the Mason-Dixon Line above us, DC can and should be lumped with other large Southern metropolises. We know it’s getting to be summer when the Republicans start breaking out their seersucker. As almost a two year resident of Washington, the heat of summer has become something I both long for and...

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