Sleeping at Last live
Chicagoans were treated to a special Sleeping at Last show this past Thursday. The band brought out the strings and bulked up their already massive sound with a quartet of talented ladies. But there was more, the band played brand new songs, never before heard in public until Thursday. And guess what. They’re good. If […]
2007 Music Industry Review
I originally planned on starting a weekly blog at the beginning of the year. It didn’t happen, not even once. Thankfully Dylan Peterson picked up the slack and has been well representing the music section in my absence.
Now that the year is almost over I thought I’d crawl out from under my rock […]
A Christmas List For Good
This morning, I was able to have breakfast with Tom Larson, one of the founders and the current director of Healing Waters International. These guys are doing important work, setting up sustainable water purification systems in impoverished (mostly urban) parts of the world. Why do outfits with such noble purposes ever lack for money […]
Seeing the Gospel in The New Amsterdams
Apart from the string of punk-themed tattoos running down his right arm, there isn’t anything about Matthew Pryor that screams “music icon.” In his late 20’s, Pryor leans against the back wall of Schuba’s, a hipster bar on the north side of Chicago, waiting for the opening act (an odd conglomeration of two keyboards, […]
New Amsterdams and Terrible Two’s
Does anybody remember the Get Up Kids? If not, that’s okay. Because Matt Pryor (the voice behind that classic emo band), is working as hard as ever. While his current projects aren’t as culturally impacting as his former, The New Amsterdams and Terrible Two’s are excellent representations of a musician who can keep sincere about […]
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