It's the end of the line in our pre-coverage of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival, which can only mean one thing: you're well-prepared for the weekend rockness. The Walkmen keep throwing it back to the original foundations of rock music: gravel-coated riffs, fuzzy ballads, and lots and lots of sweat on stage. While they have yet to come up with anything as strutting, ballsy, and soul shaking as 2004's Bows and Arrows (and especially first......

Skidoo sounds like something we made up at 3 AM while at some party: Groucho Marx (in his last movie) plays a gangster named God, Jackie Gleason trips on acid while in jail, Carol Channing plays the most sane character in the whole thing, there's a musical number known as the Garbage Can Ballet, and every credit to the movie is sung. It's an actual movie from 1968 and it was directed by Otto......

The Teitur (pronounced tigh-tur) concert at Schuba’s tonight is sold out. This is a shame for you but good for Teitur as it means his blend of James Taylor-esque guitar, Paul Simon-like lyrics and Harry Nilsson wistfulness can’t be far away from reaching critical mass. Though his male singer-songwriter contemporaries are John Mayer and Ben Harper, the Danish Teitur (nee Teitur Lassen) has more in common with old-schoolers Donovan or Cat Stevens. Chicagoist first became......