What’s going on in Chicago this coming week? Almost too much for one imaginary tree-climbing pachyderm to blog. But here are a few highlights: On Monday night, the world’s best acoustic pop-punk outfit, John Pierson’s band Even in Blackouts, will be playing a basement concert in John’s own basement! It’s at [address redacted now that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Music'
In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show · Chicago, Culture, Fringe, Music, Neo-Futurists, News, Performance, Poetry, The Partly Dave Show
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Music: Split Enz & Sparks
March 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogroll, Blogs, Culture, Music, New Wave, Performance
Ooh, I think it’s high time for another musical interlude, before Ocelopotamus goes into New Wave withdrawal. We don’t want the Ocelopotamus getting antsy, hissing and splashing around in some kind of hypo-wave-onic panic and scaring the crocodiles. In fact, let’s start off with a welcoming doff of the cap to all of Ocelopotamus’s new […]
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News: The Hidden Cost of Margarine
March 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Adobe, Climate Change, Comics, Culture, Internet, Media, Music, News, Performance, Politics, Science, Software, Tech
• Orangutans may be extinct within five years, thanks to a soaring demand for palm oil leading to the destruction of their forest habitat. This situation needs to be addressed in product labeling somehow, so consumers can know that they’re buying sustainable, “orangutan and rainforest-safe” palm oil. Via this DKos diary. • Here’s a fascinating […]
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The Waterboys: Mike Scott in The Guardian, and new album Book of Lightning
March 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Books, Culture, History, Journal, Lit, Music, Mythology, Neo-Futurists, News, Performance, Poetry, Travel
Mike Scott, singer, songwriter, and bandleader of The Waterboys, has a thoughtful and entertaining piece in The Guardian recounting his experiences trying to correct errors in the band’s entry on Wikipedia. Meanwhile, the Waterboys have a new album coming out in April! It’s called Book of Lightning and you can hear samples of a couple […]
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Music: The Best Kind of Madness
March 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Culture, iTunes, Music, New Wave, News
Madness has a new single out! Released on their own label, Lucky Seven Records. The new song is called “Sorry,” and the even better news is that there’s a full album on the way this summer. Amazon has the CD single with four versions of the song available now. Or you can download it from […]
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News: The Pleasure of the Preznit
March 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogroll, Blogs, Books, Business, Chicago, Culture, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Music, News, Politics, Science
• Preznit Bush is stonewalling and hurling threats of a constitutional showdown over subpoenas. Ocelopotamus say: Call. His. Bluff. If he refuses to obey the rule of law, commence the impeachication. Meanwhile, over at Crooks and Liars, we read this: President Bush kept making the point over and over that allowing his staff members (i.e. […]
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Music: Roddy Frame, Western Skies
March 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Music
you can get them online. Here’s a video of Roddy performing the album’s title track live in a small club. It looks like a video someone shot on their phone, so the sound quality is dodgy and sometimes you can hear the audience talking over the music. But it’s good to enough for you to […]
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News: Wear Sunscreen
March 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on News: Wear Sunscreen · Apple, Books, Climate Change, Culture, Internet, iTunes, Language, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science, Tech, TV
Worldwide, the winter of 2006-2007 has been the warmest since record keeping began in 1880, according to a new government report. A variety of desperate schemes to save the planet from global warming are being considered by NASA and other organizations — including a man-made volcano that spews sulfur into the atmosphere; a “sun shade” […]
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Music: The B-52’s (Again) and The Church
March 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: The B-52’s (Again) and The Church · Music, New Wave, News
When I posted that fantabulous B-52’s video yesterday I was intending to mention an actual tidbit of 2’s news, and then I got distracted by the wigs and the dancing and .. Keith … and I plum forgot. So here it is — good news. The B-52’s have a new album on the way! From […]
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Music: “True Colors,” Patti Smith, & The B-52’s
March 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Comedy, LGBT, Music, New Wave, News
It’s every gay boy of a certain age’s dream. The big buzz this week is the “True Colors” tour: Cyndi Lauper traveling to 15 cities this summer with Deborah Harry, Erasure, and Margaret Cho, all in support of the Human Rights Campaign. It’s like ice cream with ice cream on top. “This tour is basically […]
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Police in My Back Yard
March 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on Police in My Back Yard · Chicago, Journal, Music, New Wave, News
There are very few circumstances in which I can imagine a lifelong sports-hating pansy like myself setting foot in Wrigley Field. But a Police concert is, well, in the ballpark. Via Gaper’s Block, it looks like The Police are coming to Wrigley Field: Sting and the Police will headline a pair of nighttime concerts at […]
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