I am a rather short woman. Fellow writer John Schlotfelt is a rather tall man. Not only is he tall, but he chooses to wear his frizzed hair in a huge orange afro. I always thought of him as “that jackass who blocks the stage” at concerts. That was the case until the Fruit Bats [...]

Totally forgot to put this in as I’ve been totally hectic this week. Thanks to Heather McKeag for writing up this preview, her debut on Mission Freak. Look for more from her in coming weeks. Via Audio will be headlining a show at The Mill on Thursday, March 11th with opening acts Pattern is Movement [...]

A really intriguing experimental show is taking place tomorrow night upstairs at the Blue Moose Taphouse. Once the domain largely of the Picador, shows like this – featuring avant garde music such as noise, ambient, drone, and electronic – are being forced into new domains as the venue where so many great shows like this [...]

Pieta Brown is many things. She is a beautiful woman with mesmerizing lips from nowhere, Iowa. She is Greg Brown’s daughter, Bo Ramsey’s wife, a rising singer-songwriter, and a new member of Red House Records. BBC called her a Folk Goddess, a title she certainly deserves — she is comfortable with herself and familiar with [...]

People have been talking about them for weeks, and now they’re here. Trampled By Turtles is playing tonight at the Yacht Club with opening act, The Boomchucks. Trampled By Turtles has the classic bluegrass sound where you wonder if sparks will fly from the fiddle or if the banjo and mandolin players’ fingers will ignite, [...]

Tonight, Minneapolis dance duo Lookbook play Public Space ONE, alongside local acts Beast Wars and School of Flyentology. To get you stoked for the affair, we’re offering up a new track from their recent album, Wild At Heart. Lookbook make bedroom-dance music, not entirely lo-fi but certainly a part of a growing group of self-produced [...]

The Hood Internet are a 2000s curiosity, something that could only have gained “mainstream” recognition in that decade of piracy, mash-ups, and instant aquirability (matched with equal disposability). If you don’t know: the Hood Internet are a couple dudes from Chicago who have brains that play musical Tetris. They fit songs together so seamlessly, and [...]

For this preview of tonight’s show, we turn to regular contributor Brian Johannessen. It is hard for a musician to develop his or her own sound as the offspring of a revered musician. Take Sean Lennon for example. Dude has to live in the shadow of his parents. [Ed. note: Sean Lennon's last album, Friendly [...]

In an ongoing series previewing 2010 Mission Creek performing artists, we turn to Brian Johannessen for a personal take on Headlights. I graduated from high school in 2006, while the vast majority of my high school friends graduated in 2005. Being from the western Chicago suburbs, many of my friends and classmates funneled into either [...]

Another Tuesday, another great free show at the Mill for those of you who haven’t got tickets to that other big show tomorrow night – or even for those that do, the Blue Moose is opening it’s doors early and you’ll be able to get over to the Mill after and catch most of this [...]