You Should Be Listening to Music This Weekend
I'll have a wrap-up of Rock Camp Week 2 early next week, with a report on Session 1's final show tomorrow afternoon. For now, you must suffer through my extremely biased but un-self-righteous suggestions for how to spend your weekend listening to live music, because if you're not, what are you doing??? Get the hell out of our city.
Saturday | Pitchfork.
I'm only going on Saturday -- which I'm regretting now, because I'm realizing the cost of a one-day pass might be worth it for the Flaming Lips alone. Still, Saturday's schedule fulfills many of my summer-festival-going wet dreams, which almost makes up for Lollapalooza's lineup putting me to sleep for months. Here's where you can stalk me:
Early afternoon - I'll be hitting up the silkscreen poster fair. There are a bunch of show poster artists that don't make it out to other indie craft festivals around town, and those artists tend to bring a different aesthetic than the local imitators of the Jay Ryan/Bird Machine School of Show Posters. (Ryan's posters are still my favorite, though.)
4:15 - Final Fantasy - I know there's another full-length coming out of Owen Pallett at some point, and some of those songs have to be in set rotation at this point. He hasn't played in Chicago since Fall 2007 at Schubas, so anything that isn't on last year's EPs will be new to me.
5:15 - Yeasayer - I really didn't know anything about them until I realized the shoutey world-beat song I kept hearing on KEXP was them. Shoutey and world-beat go together like Owen Pallett and Zack Condon.
7:25 - Beirut - Speaking of Zack Condon, I'm crossing my fingers that FF and Beirut do something together at Pitchfork. The tracks they've done together end up sounding like a purposeful collaboration instead of a token guest vocal or schtick. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
8:40 - The National
I really don't get tired of seeing this band. Their last album, Boxer, is a quiet, moody rocker, which I love, but I love even more when the band reworks them into their louder incarnations. ("Squalor Victoria" being one of the most extreme examples.)
10:00 - After-Parties at Schubas and Bottom Lounge
I'm missing Plants and Animals and Cymbals Eat Guitars (respectively) at the festival itself, so I'm tempted to squeeze one more Pitchfork-related act into the day. Schubas is only $6 with a festival wristband, but Bottom Lounge is literally a 60 second walk from Union Park. Hmm.
Sunday | Boys vs. Girls
The House Theater regularly writes and mounts new rock musicals during its regular season; Boys vs. Girls is part of next year's season but is getting its first run at Northwestern this month. Andrew Bird's old buddy, Kevin O'Donnell, is the House's main composer. There's definitely some overlap in their writing styles. My expectation is that I will be rocked harder than Spring Awakening but not as hard as Hedwig, but I could be underestimating them.
Saturday | Pitchfork.
I'm only going on Saturday -- which I'm regretting now, because I'm realizing the cost of a one-day pass might be worth it for the Flaming Lips alone. Still, Saturday's schedule fulfills many of my summer-festival-going wet dreams, which almost makes up for Lollapalooza's lineup putting me to sleep for months. Here's where you can stalk me:
Early afternoon - I'll be hitting up the silkscreen poster fair. There are a bunch of show poster artists that don't make it out to other indie craft festivals around town, and those artists tend to bring a different aesthetic than the local imitators of the Jay Ryan/Bird Machine School of Show Posters. (Ryan's posters are still my favorite, though.)
4:15 - Final Fantasy - I know there's another full-length coming out of Owen Pallett at some point, and some of those songs have to be in set rotation at this point. He hasn't played in Chicago since Fall 2007 at Schubas, so anything that isn't on last year's EPs will be new to me.
5:15 - Yeasayer - I really didn't know anything about them until I realized the shoutey world-beat song I kept hearing on KEXP was them. Shoutey and world-beat go together like Owen Pallett and Zack Condon.
7:25 - Beirut - Speaking of Zack Condon, I'm crossing my fingers that FF and Beirut do something together at Pitchfork. The tracks they've done together end up sounding like a purposeful collaboration instead of a token guest vocal or schtick. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
8:40 - The National
I really don't get tired of seeing this band. Their last album, Boxer, is a quiet, moody rocker, which I love, but I love even more when the band reworks them into their louder incarnations. ("Squalor Victoria" being one of the most extreme examples.)
10:00 - After-Parties at Schubas and Bottom Lounge
I'm missing Plants and Animals and Cymbals Eat Guitars (respectively) at the festival itself, so I'm tempted to squeeze one more Pitchfork-related act into the day. Schubas is only $6 with a festival wristband, but Bottom Lounge is literally a 60 second walk from Union Park. Hmm.
Sunday | Boys vs. Girls
The House Theater regularly writes and mounts new rock musicals during its regular season; Boys vs. Girls is part of next year's season but is getting its first run at Northwestern this month. Andrew Bird's old buddy, Kevin O'Donnell, is the House's main composer. There's definitely some overlap in their writing styles. My expectation is that I will be rocked harder than Spring Awakening but not as hard as Hedwig, but I could be underestimating them.
Labels: musical theater, Pitchfork, shows
posted by Ian at 7/16/2009 11:31:00 PM
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