Results tagged “intonationfest”

The Stills return to Chicago this week, and Chicagoist wants you to be there. A brief perusal of the music articles here would reveal a definite bias toward shoegazer pop. We’ve reviewed The Stills in the past and enjoyed their run at the sub-genre thanks to their introspective songs laced with barrelhouse piano, warm horns and the twin threat of the singer/guitarist duo of Tim Fletcher and Dave Hamelin. The band last graced the city...

This week marks the return of Adventures in Modern Music at the Empty Bottle. Arriving on the heels of the World Music Festival, the five-day event celebrates experimental music like the mash-up dance rock of Brazil’s Tetine, blessed-out head trips of France’s Colleen and Trapist’s space rock. A full lineup is available at the Bottle’s website, but don’t forget to see You’re Gonna Miss Me, a documentary at the Siskel Film Center on the fall...

. . . and we're spent. Though many were scared off by the early rains, Day Two of Intonation Fest 2006 rocked thanks to a lack of predicted thunderstorms (in your face, Skilling!) and a solid bill with tight segues. We were most impressed by Tyrades, Rhymefest, Jon Brion, and Dead Prez (though we gave thumbs up to almost everyone). As rain fell on the crowd watching Bloc Party, the vibe we'd been missing really...

When we ran our first Intonation Fest giveaway a few weeks ago, we received more entries for it than any other giveaway we’ve ever run on this site. So when the organizers tossed another set of tickets at us, we decided to up the stakes a little and make you get a little literary. We asked you to send in a brief essay that detailed why you should receive the passes and no one else....

Just a reminder that our Intonation Giveaway: The Words and Stuff Version will run through the weekend. So you’ve got two full days to come up with a compelling reason why you should get two weekend passes to Intonation Fest in Union Park on June 24th and 25th. At this point, we’ve been getting some clever entries. We’ve been so entertained by them that we’ve decided to post the winner’s entry once we choose it...

Chicagoist is giving away two more weekend passes to Intonation, but this time you’re going to have to work for it. Even though some people broke the rules and uttered The Words That Must Never Be Spoken in comments, we decided to give away two more passes anyway. Because we love you. What intrigued us most about the last giveaway was that a couple of you believed you should be awarded the passes as a...

Don’t forget: you have until the end of the day to enter our Intonation Fest giveaway. We’re throwing you two weekend passes to the Union Park festivities on June 24th and 25th featuring a lineup that includes The Streets, Ghostface Killah, Lady Sovereign, Bloc Party, Robert Pollard, Blue Cheer, Roky Erickson, Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest, Annie, Tyrades, and a host of other acts spanning several music genres. Click here to enter or click here to buy...

Yesterday, Intonation Fest organizers announced the final addition to the lineup for this summer’s two-day rock party in Union Park from June 24th through the 25th. And Chicagoist wants to give you tickets to see him. Former Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah will perform on Saturday in support of his new album Fishscale, which, like Wu-Tang, ain’t nothin’ to fuck wit. As reported here and elsewhere, Austin psych-rock legend Roky Erickson will also make a...

We’re not sure if you noticed, but Greg Kot was a busy guy at the end of last week. On Friday, Kot reported that the Smashing Pumpkins will not be reuniting at Coachella this April. Over the last couple weeks, published reports created a veritable Hokey Pokey of information: you had your Pumpkins in, you had your Pumpkins out. Whether Corgan backed out or was never in it to begin with remains a cause for...

The little indie fest that could is all growed up and coming back to Union Park in Chicago on July 29-30. Pitchfork Media has decided that their name needs to be hyped more, but expect the same independent music. Last summer 30,000 people stood in long lines at Intonation Fest for water and were generally nice to one another while hearing from the likes of The Decemberists, Out Hud, The Go! Team and many...

Today’s Daily Northwestern delves a bit into the man, the myth and the poetry of Chicago’s own Thax Douglas. Known to almost everyone who’s ever set foot in a Chicago rock club, Thax can be found reading his poetry before the start of shows throughout the city. The piece explores how Thax’s poetry readings took off at the dearly departed Lounge Ax, though Thax himself said in an interview at Glorious Noise that the first...

Remix albums are often a very bad idea riding the back of the easy cash-in cow. There have been exceptions, as with Massive Attack’s Mad Professor mauled No Protection or even The Space Monkeyz Vs. Gorrilaz collab Laika Come Home, but usually they just end up more like P-Diddly-doo’s We Invented the Remix. Recently Vice Records gave us a re-tooling of this year’s Bloc Party debut in remix form and that arguably could be filed...

Covered in dust from Intonation Fest, Chicagoist headed over to Rock Around The Block to see the band we're most likely to stalk - the Old 97s.

While many say Intonation Fest was a victory for the local music scene, it can't quite make up for the loss suffered last week with the murder of three local musicians. Michael Dahlquist from Silkworm, John Glick from The Returnables and Doug Meis from The Dials and Exo were killed in a car accident on Thursday afternoon. Police say Jeanette Sliwinski tried to kill herself by intentionally crashing her car into the vehicle occupied by the three men. Prosecutors say she may face the death penalty. A statement released by her lawyer on Saturday said she was sorry and asked for forgiveness. Well, fuck you Jeanette.

Much print will be spilled here over the next few days on the Intonation Fest but that seems only fair. Really, the folks over at Pitchfork did a great job. We’ve already given you an overview and enough photos to keep you busy through your lunch hour but now we reckon we’ll give you a sampling of our personal highlights from each day.

It’s no secret July is going to be a huge month for live music in Chicago with Intonation Fest next weekend and Lollapalooza the week after that. Yet the whole idea of fests like these is to get exposed to music you’ve never heard before. So anyone who’s REALLY into music would be a fool to miss this weekend’s Eight Annual Folk and Roots Festival sponsored by the Old Town School of Folk Music. If...

As Gaper's Block blogged yesterday, some details about the Intonation Fest have changed. Most importantly, tickets will not be sold onsite but rather online. Tickets go onsale at noon today at the Intonation Fest website. Also, tickets are now $15 a day (up from $10) and a two-day pass will run you $22. In addition, the fest will be held at Union Park instead of the smaller Pulaski Park. And instead of Intonation Fest, the...