Best of Friday:
Dr. Dog with The Head and The Heart. $15. 8 p.m. doors. 9:30 Club. SOLD OUT.
With 10 years of recording and touring to its credit, Dr. Dog is not a band still in search its "sound." I mean, mull over this rather damning, back-handed compliment from a review of the band's 2010 album, Shame [...]
Who knows how you got here, but you'd better make the best of it. You've been walking down a dusty road for days, and you'll be damned if you don't get a drink soon. You've got to make the right impression as you walk into the bar—you don't want to come off too soft or [...]
The Moderate's track "Small Pills" off the recent album The Rest is Up to You starts all alt-country song before a chorus of jolting, uptempo power chords. While the song was originally written as a ballad about a disintegrating relationship, singer Jim Dempsey used the band's new lineup switch last year to make the song [...]
"This is Africa music," vocalist Kofi Cromwell proclaimed last night, moments after taking DC9's stage with the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International. There was something didactic, maybe even ambassadorial, about the Chicago quintet's hour-long set—the singer often shared nuggets about his band's songs and their Ghanaian roots—but mostly, Cromwell and Co. just wanted the small [...]
