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  Musings

  03.23.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  How's this for a lineup? Silversun Pickups opening for Muse at the United Center! This was a show I was not about to miss. Silversun played their set in front of Muse's elaborate stage with no extras of their own. The crowd was mostly unfamiliar with their material, apart from the major radio hits, but [...]

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  Minnesota Thome

  01.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  As the world's biggest Jim Thome fan, the months since the end of the MLB season have been filled with anxiety and speculation as to when and where Big Jim would sign coming off free agency. Relegated to a DH role, Jim would have to return to the AL after his bizarre trip west to [...]

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  Whip It

  11.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This will be a little on the short side considering the Thanksgiving holiday and all, but two weeks ago I caught Devo before a loud, boisterous crowd at The Vic. The band is playing double shows in a few cities in support of the reissues of their two best albums, Are We Not Men? We [...]

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  BHGBKMFDM

  10.28.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is going to be quick as the Yankees have my attention this week, but about a month ago (I'm really awful at this updating thing, I know) I caught two shows back to back that were just fantastic. Beach House opened for Grizzly Bear at the Metro during a downpour, playing tunes pulled mostly [...]

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  Lisztomania

  10.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I'm only two weeks late on this one!

  As even a cursory search on this blog would show, I've been particularly high on Phoenix since their release of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix earlier this year. This was my first chance to see them live since I discovered them (let's just ignore their first two or three albums [...]

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STEREOROBO is a personal smörgåsbord of gaming, music, and illustration blended into a pithy mush by Stephen Hack, a Chicago based arcade game developer and erstwhile polymath.

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