May 6, 2016
This edition ofNotes From The Jazz Underground was culled from the April 29thbroadcast.The broadcast version fellon Duke Ellington's birthday. But just like everything else NFTJU, host Paul Abella doesn't play it straight. Offeringequal parts Ellington oddities, oddball covers and a straight-up jazz history lesson this week. He offers a bunch of notes from this...
Apr 8, 2016
One thing that was notably left out of the routinely mind-blowing, pre-2016 live sets by White Denim: covers.Suspiciously, in the run up to the recently released Stiff (see our review here), the newly configured bandstarted dropping cover songs via Soundcloud -- and meaty stuff, too: Zeppelin, Traffic and Mickey Newbury (via Kenny Rogers).And...
Aug 20, 2013
I don't end up writing about every show I see on the blog. Case in point: on August 1st, I caught Steely Dan at Highland Park's Ravinia Festival. It was my first time "seeing" the band, but given that the lawn experience at Ravinia doesn't much feel like being at a show (more like being "...
Mar 20, 2013
Ravinia Festival may not be a festival in the way the most readers think of it -- in fact, its cornerstone has always been a fine program of classical music, a genre that has yet to infiltrate any other festivals that I've been to (except the Clifford Ball).However, if you're looking for a more...
Sep 16, 2011
In a nice interview with the Montreal Gazette, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy reveals a deep appreciation for Canada's most famous power trio.Tweedy: (Laughs) Yeah, I love Rush and I have a deep appreciation of them as people and as a band, more so now than when I was growing up, being a punk rock fan...