Franz Ferdinand @ Riviera 4/30/09
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RFC Interview: Joe Pug
 "The day before his senior year as a playwright student at theUniversity of North Carolina, Joe Pug sat down for a cup of coffee andhad the clearest thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here.Then came the second clearest. Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago."Quoting Joe Pug's biography, you get the impression that you've dipped into a piece of ..
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Get on the List: Ghost w/ Baby Dee @ Empty Bottle 5/5
Hey, kids! It's time for what's quickly turning into a bi-weekly tradition here at RFC: the illustrious ticket giveaway.Ghost-- the infamous sextet out of Tokyo that can do things with a Theremin which are probably illegal in Kansas-- are performing next Tuesday (5/5) at the Empty Bottle with performance artist icon Baby Dee. The Japanese experimenters have been migrating the Tokyo landscapeÂ
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RFC Interview: Mira Mira
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This Saturday at Elastic Arts, local chamber pop band Mira Mira returns to the stage to celebrate the release of their long-awaited sophomore effort, Music For Scientists. In keeping with the scientific symmetry, the album release event coincides with National DNA Day and, as an opening act, noted University of Chicago physicist Sidney Nagel will be performing physics demonstrations. (Hey, wh
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Gems from the Pitch Pile-- Superdrag
Some days really are just yelling days. And while most folks associate that wailing crash-pop feeling to the 1990s-- as if that decade was the first to invent the "is-it-really-only-3:30" urge to claw your way out of a cubicle, a basic instict that grows at the spine and will one day end with a fax machine to the window-- this is something I'm not sure is the case. That humans can take 3:3
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New Single From Skybox
This much needed dose of summer sunshine just arrived in our inbox this morning, a new single from local cult pop favorites Skybox. Their new full-length album, Morning After Cuts, drops later this year.Skybox - "In A Dream"
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