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Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup Announcement
The time has come for our favorite festival announcement of the year. If you’ve been following us for a while, I’m sure you’ve heard us gush over the glories of the Bonnaroo music festival on more than...
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2013 Oscar Predictions: Want vs. Reality
In reality, The Oscars are just another BS award ceremony, but for some reason they are held in high regard; much more than other award ceremonies. When it comes down to it though, like most things in...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Nine Inch Nails Songs
After a hiatus of nearly 4 years, (Has it really already been four years?!) Trent Reznor announced this week that he and a new lineup of all stars will be bringing Nine Inch Nails back to life for a...
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Deep Sea Diver & Hey Marseilles Show Review
Deep Sea Diver/Hey Marseilles 3/2/2013 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR … duh! (eye roll) So today I went through my hard drive in an attempt to switch up my iPod. Good lord, I now have to rethink my...
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra with Foxygen Show Review
Unknown Mortal Orchestra with special guests Foxygen 3/7/2012 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall! Wow! Hats off to venues that can dovetail a bar, a restaurant, and concert venue in such an...
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Weak List Wednesday: The 5 Best Bowies
In honor of David Bowie’s newest release, we’ve dedicated our lists this week to the legend. David Bowie is a man who has spanned many generations with his music. In doing so, he has also taken on many...
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Top Ten Thursday: The Ten Best Songs Produced by Phil Spector
There is no question that a lot of evil is involved in the music industry. And I am not talking about the bands that mothers don’t want their kids to listen too. I am talking about the money grubbing...
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The Strokes Review: Comedown Machine
The Strokes Comedown Machine Somewhere in the flood of good music that came about as a result of The Strokes’ post-punk garage-rock revival, people began to forget about The Strokes themselves. In 2001...
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Radiohead & Wu-Tang Surprise With A New Collaboration Track … And It Is Awesome
We all know Radiohead is into changing up their sound once and again, but this may be his biggest venture from their original platform to date. The two acts are quite the combination; one masters of...
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LxListening: Punks These Days
Some think that punk music is dead, but I tend to disagree. Post punk, garage-punk, grunge-punk, pop-punk, noise-punk; whatever you want to call it, the roots are still the same. Recently I’ve noticed...
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Deerhoof Show Review
Deerhoof April 8, 2013 Lincoln Hall Chicago, IL Privileged are those who are granted with the gift of watching a band as talented as Deerhoof perform live. Back in 2007, when I was first introduced to...
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Top Ten Thursday: Best Psychedelic Albums of All Time
With the music trend increasingly shifting back to psychedelic rock lately, we decided to put our heads together to come up with our favorite psychedelic rock albums of ever. Surprisingly enough, every...
View ArticleKurt Vile Review: Wakin On A Pretty Daze
Kurt Vile Wakin On A Pretty Daze Kurt Vile left the band The War on Drugs back in 2008 after the release of his self-recorded debut album Constant Hitmaker garnered a fair amount of critical success....
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Jim James The Vic Theater Chicago, IL 4/20/2013 As Jim James took the stage last Saturday night, I was overtaken by the nostalgic feeling that one gets when seeing an old friend for the first time in a...
View ArticleAre You Daft?!: The Quiz
Do you think you know Daft Punk? You think you have what it takes to fit in with The Robots? … Bro, do you even Daft?! Let’s find out, shall we? In honor of the brilliant new Daft Punk single, we bring...
View ArticleTop Ten Thursday: Best Album Covers
Album covers are an interesting thing. Some artists choose to not put a lot of time into them and just throw any old picture of themselves on there (Bob Dylan). Others try and go for the shock factor...
View ArticleLxListening: Rapid Fire Album Reviews
With the barrage of great music 2013 has offered up thus far, we at LxL are struggling to keep up with everything we feel we should be touching on. Enter our first mid-week entry of LxListening, and a...
View ArticleVampire Weekend Review Royale: Modern Vampires of the City
Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Three albums into their career, Vampire Weekend has only progressively gotten better at their craft. In 2008 they released their self-titled debut, which...
View ArticleMetz Show Review
Metz Lincoln Hall May 12th, 2013 Chicago, IL Rarely do I get to experience a show thats memories will be so forever imprinted on my life. Even if this is because my face will now be slightly more...
View ArticleTune Test Tuesday: Album Covers
A few Thursdays back we posted our top ten favorite album covers. As this was a fun list to do, I thought it would also be fun to incorporate a quiz to go along with it. Albeit a little late, I give...
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