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live-music
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09.11.09Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys: Sunday in Schaumburg
You can catch Dr. Stanley this Sunday in the Chicago suburbs. More information and some great video clips at The Reader’s The Blog. I shot this at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 2003.
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07.23.09
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07.20.09David Yow at Pitchfork
Premier photo-retoucher, film actor, and comedian David Yow has reunited with The Jesus Lizard; at Pitchfork Music Festival last Friday they reminded us what rock sounds like. They’ll be back in November for a show or two at Metro.
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06.03.09Josh Berman: “Old Idea” record release
Chicago cornetist Josh Berman‘s got a new record out on Delmark, and he’s playing two record release shows: one tonight at the Hideout, and another this Sunday, June 7th at the Hungry Brain. I photographed Berman in front of and inside the venerable Old Town Ale House for today’s Reader.
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05.01.09Keiji Haino: you don’t write, you don’t call, you don’t send flowers…
Oh crap–I just discovered that Keiji Haino had a rare Chicago gig last Tuesday. Anyone have a time travel machine I could borrow? Speaking of time travel, here’s a shot I took at the sorely missed Lounge Ax, for a 1997 Reader review:
Keiji Haino performing with Fushitsusha at Lounge Ax, 5/20/97
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03.13.09Happy Birthday Fred Anderson!
Legendary Chicago tenor-sax player Fred Anderson turns 80 later this month, and to celebrate, there will be a festival of concerts starting this Sunday, March 15th, at Fred’s own Velvet Lounge (there’ll be a show at The Hideout as well). More details, including artist lineup and dates, at Umbrella Music.
Fred Anderson photographed for Thrill Jockey by Jim Newberry
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12.26.08My Morning Jacket in Chicago this weekend (12/27 & 28)
MMJ takes the stage at the Chicago Theatre tomorrow and Sunday night. Here are two pictures I shot of the band–both for Magnet–the top in 2001 and the other in ’07.
My Morning Jacket, 2001. Photo: Jim Newberry
My Morning Jacket in 2007. Photo: Jim Newberry
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12.22.08Monks documentary
“Monks–The Transatlantic Feedback,” will be showing at the Gene Siskel Film Center from Friday until Tuesday (12/26 to 12/30). Thirty years before alternative became a retarded marketing buzzword; decades before mopey indie rock became the anthem of Jetta commercials; years ahead of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols and Sonic Youth; there was the Monks: a gang of American GIs who shaved their heads like monks and devised their own abrasive, rhythmic, anti-pop sound, making ingenious use of banjo, electric organ, and unhinged vocals with lyrics like:
Well I hate you baby with a passion, yeah, you know I do
(But call me!)
Oh, you know my hate’s everlasting baby yeah, yeah, yeah
(But call me!)Here’s a picture of front-Monk Gary Burger performing with the Goblins (yes, that masked longhair is none other than The Phantom Creeper) in 2006.
Gary Burger of the Monks performing with the Goblins (The Phantom Creeper in background)
Update: Do you know what GI stands for–as in GI Joe? Galvanized iron, according to many Internet sources. Anyone out there have a real source for that?
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12.13.08Country Calendar Show tonight
You’d be a fool to miss Chris Ligon and Heather McAdam’s Country Calendar show at Fitzgerald’s tonight. Here are some pics from the 2006 CCS.
Country Calendar Show 2006 at Fitzgerald's. Photo: Jim Newberry
Your hosts Chris Ligon and Heather McAdams bring you the 2009 country Calendar Show. The Lineup includes: Jon Langford, Robbie and Donna Fulks, The Polkaholics, Nora O’Connor, The Long Gone Lonesome Boys, The Western Elstons, Jane Baxter Miller and Kent Kessler, Devil In A Woodpile, Vernon Tonges and Stacey Earley, The Joel Paterson Trio, The Lawrence Peters Outfit, and Patty Elvis.
Also 16mm Films of Country Music Legends projected on the big screen!
