REGRET NIGHT with Caramel Carmela • SkyFox • Places 11.27.10 | Summit Music Hall Regret Night headlined the Summit Music Hall on Saturday night after sets by Places, SkyFox and Caramel Carmela. The show didn’t exactly bring out the biggest crowd, but with the holidays just passing, followed by Black…
This past Saturday, we stopped by the Backyard Bang, which stretched between Lincoln and Sherman on 12th. We noticed the riders all had headphones in, so being all about the music, we asked them what they were listening to during their respective drops, rail slides and whatnot in the scary-as-hell…
MAC LETHAL with JDirty • Input • F. Stokes 11.20.10 | Marquis Theater Mac Lethal’s “Keep It Irish Tour” descended upon the Marquis Theater last night and brought a friendly crew of poets and rappers with it. The Midwest rapper obviously harboring a serious grudge against his ex-wife made it…
SWOLLEN MEMBERS With Saigon • City Real • Prime Element 11.10.10 | Marquis Theatre Originally scheduled to take place the Summit Music Hall, last night’s Swollen Members show was moved to the Marquis Theater. The dichotomy of confused Christian rock fans hoping to see Red and the vodka-drunk, skull-faced soldiers…
Since the dawn of live music, artists have canceled shows for various reasons. Gigs have been called for sickness, deaths in the family, dog ate the set-list, etc, etc, blah blah blah. Crypton Future Media based out of Sapporo, Japan, has finally found a way to remedy this situation with…
HEY MONDAY With We Are The In Crowd • the Ready Set • Cartel • This Century 11.12.10 | Marquis Theater If there was any question as to whether this show was sold out, the line snaking past the Gin Mill just before 7 p.m. dispelled any doubts. Each of…
ALOE BLACC AND THE GRAND SCHEME With Air Dubai • Maya Jupiter • Foodchain 11.10.10 | City Hall Amphitheater I’d been seeing posters all over town advertising Aloe Blacc and the Grande Scheme’s show at City Hall with Air Dubai and FoodChain. What those posters failed to mention — and…
STEVE AOKI With J Flash • Lond Dungeon • DJ Shares • DJ Mada 11.04.10 | Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom Another hit-or-miss Thursday night and another total hit. Steve Aoki, aka Kid Millionaire, shut down Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom last night closing just after the enforced cut-off time for booze service. Braving…
THE COOL KIDS With Air Dubai • DJ Wushu • Shor-T • CobraConda 10.30.10 | Bar Standard On Saturday night, Bar Standard hosted a parade of ghouls, Gagas, rock stars and Cool Kids — er, make that The Cool Kids. The doors opened at Bar Standard just as the line…
Halloween is almost upon us. Have you decided what you’re dressing up as yet this weekend? No? What the heck are you waiting for? Better get on the stick. Clock’s ticking. All the good costumes have most likely been snapped up by now. Lucky for you, we’ve come up with…
FUTURE SIMPLE PROJECT With Shiba, Marcus Whaley, Omega 10.28.10 | The Other Side Typically, Thursday night shows tend to be hit-or-miss. Sometimes you get so-so acts that are not quite ready to headline on the weekend, and sometimes you get lucky and catch a show like the one last night…
THE BLOODY BEETROOTS With Boyhollow 10.26.10 | Ogden Theatre Despite freezing temperatures and a biting wind, fans lined up outside the Ogden for Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77. Instead of scaring people off, the cold weather kept everyone inside and dancing for the entirety of the concert…
In a audacious move yesterday, T.I. intervened and helped convince a suicidal man from leaping off a 22-story building in Atlanta that houses radio station V103. The, rapper also known as Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr., reportedly caught wind of the situation on the radio and phoned in to offer his…
RE: DEFINITION – NIGHT ONE MiMosa • Two Fresh • Brothers Past • Raw Russ, Sacred Science 10.08.10 | Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom Last night Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom hosted a night of dub-stepping, electronic, jam band and drum and bass-infused mayhem with headliners MiMosa and Two Fresh selling out the newly…
