Dreamy indie pop quartet, The Sundays, had a uncanny knack for crafting charming, innocent and introspective tunes in the early 1990s. The band was formed in London in 1987 by mutual friends and partners, Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin at the University in Bristol. The Sundays were heavily influenced by The Smiths and The Cocteau Twins with Wheeler's airy, school-girl vocals and tender pros
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Free admission, and free booze...for reals?? The Wednesday, November 25th edition of Cinema 16 is being held at one of Chicago's most unique and intimate independent venues, Wicker Park's Chopin Theatre. Admission and cocktails will be complimentary, courtesy of Drambuie, the fabled Scottish spiced whiskey. Chandeliers, a Chicago-based musical collective that has garnered much critical acclaim,.
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This Old World - OLA PODRIDA from Zellner Bros. on Vimeo.Texas folkie Ola Podrida has just released his sophomore album, Belly of the Lion, and to commemorate, Podirda's put together a video for the disc's closing track, the understated, lo-fi "This Old World". Tour dates are sure to come soon, so do your homework on Ola Podrida before he makes his way to the Midwest.
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Radio Free Chicago is no stranger to Capgun Coup, having posted their song "Bad Bands" earlier in the fall. Now that the Omaha native's sophomore effort has finally hit the shelves, the band's wasted no time in hitting the road and getting more tracks on to the internet for mass consumption. Following the raw, fun track "Bad Bands", Capgun Coup has brought us "Sitting on the Sidewalk", which t...
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Together now for nearly two decades, experimental jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Woodcontinue to push the boundaries of their collective sound in surprisingnew directions. Renowned for their improvisational dexterity andexpansive musical vocabulary, the band's exploratory live performanceshave always been central to their creative process. For their latestproject, The Radiolarian Series, the ba...
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Hopeless romantics the House of Love (HOL) formed in London in 1986, quickly garnered praise from legendary Creation Records and released three singles and a self-titled debut album. The band named after Anais Nin's 1954 novel, A Spy in the House of Love, which depicted a tormented adulteress coming to grips with her tempestuous relations. HOL showcased a bittersweet Brit-pop sound reminisce
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Rising from the ashes of the currently on hiatus Longwave comes Hurricane Bells, the project of Longwave singer Steve Schlitz. Hurricane Bells just released their first album, Tonight is the Ghost, hot on the heels of their inclusion on the buzz worthy soundtrack to the second Twilight movie, New Moon. Going for a less obvious, more alt-country influenced sound than we heard with Longwave, Hur...
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Despite the Spanish name, El Perro Del Mar is actually a girl named Sara Assbring from Sweden. First gaining attention with her self titled album during the great Swedish revival of 2006 that brought Peter, Bjorn and John's "Young Folks" to muzak everywhere.After last years From The Valley To The Stars, El Perro Del Mar is back with Love Is Not Pop, a relaxed and melodic collection of songs th...
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California sunshine popsters, The Merry-Go-Round, endured a wild, dizzy ride of short fame in the late 1960's. Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and musical golden boy, Emitt Rhodes in 1966, the band featured former members of Grass Roots and the Gene Clark Group. With two members still in high school, The Merry-Go-Round managed to reach the Top Ten with their first single, "Live" on radio sta
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Over the summer, I was sitting outside of Reggie's Music Joint drinking a beer and talking with a friend about the new music that we'd respectively been spinning. I'd been rattling off my summer favorites Bad Veins and Dawes when he asked if I'd heard of Timber Timbre. I hadn't, so he extracted his iPod from his bag and played me "Demon Host", the first track off of the band's just released se...
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Had a chance to check out Chicago's newest music venue yet? No? Would it help if we snuck you in for free? Today we've got your hook-up for free admission to see White Rabbits open for The Walkmen next Thursday at Lincoln Hall. Just drop us a line at radiofreechicago(at)gmail.com with "Chasing Rabbits" in the subject line for your chance to get on the list with a +1. Good luck! White Rabbits -..
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With all the talk of vampires, werewolves and the New Moon soundtrack these days, the Whistler daringly gave their bar over to a group of undead to liven up the evening. From the land of 28 Days Later, Leeds' Sky Larkin and Londoners Peggy Sue treated the small cocktail bar to a mixed concoction of indie and folk not yet seen in Chicago. Granted only a few people got bloodied up, lost a limb ...
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Before Schubas, Wax Tailor's music came to attention to me while sitting at a microbrewery café years ago with soulful cuts crafting a smooth trip-hop and hip-hop combination not heard of since Madlib's Blue Note foray. While one is established, the other is rising with his unique blend, evoking a sound reminiscent more of Portishead than any other hip-hop producer. Utilizing jazz instrumental.
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Noah and the Whale's sophomore release The First Days of Spring indicated a departure in tone from a mere year earlier, when their single "5 Years Time" garnered a Saturn commercial and was a radio hit in the United Kingdom. Gone was the brightly colored folk, replaced instead by orchestrated melancholy. With this sophomore sea change in mind as well as their prior Chicago appearance last autu...
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Chances are you haven't heard of Koji. I hadn't heard of Koji until I bumped into two gentlemen at Kevin Devine's Metro gig on the 22nd who I got to chatting with. Ends up they were pals of this Koji fellow and they encouraged me to hit up Koji's house show at Summer Camp if I didn't have anything going on on the 24th. I told them I didn't and after hearing their description of Koji (A Hawaiia...
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Countrified dream pop duo, Mazzy Star was formed from the ashes of Opal in Santa Monica, CA in 1989. Following in the footsteps of the California Paisley Underground movement of the 1980s, the band was heavily influenced by the psychedelic stylings of The Doors and The Velvet Underground. Mazzy Star's debut album, She Hangs Brightly, was released by Rough Trade in 1990 and sounds like a holl
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Earlier in the week, the new video from Sea Wolf hit the web and it's timing couldn't be more perfect. Featuring vaudevillian ghosts, skeletons, some sort of big-foot-astronaut hybrid and the babe-tastic Shannyn Sossamon, the spooky effort is perfect viewing for Halloween.
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One of the musicians that has impacted my life the most is doubtlessly David Bazan, who I first discovered about ten years ago after the release of Pedro The Lion's It's Hard To Find a Friend. Most of the musicians that have impacted my life for as long as Bazan has have either died or disbanded so when it was announced earlier in the summer that Bazan's headlining tour would bring him to Chic...
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