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People have been talking about them for weeks, and now they’re here. Trampled By Turtles is playing tonight at the Yacht Club with opening act, The Boomchucks. Trampled By Turtles has the classic bluegrass sound where you wonder if sparks will fly from the fiddle or if the banjo and mandolin players’ fingers will ignite, […]

Tonight, Minneapolis dance duo Lookbook play Public Space ONE, alongside local acts Beast Wars and School of Flyentology. To get you stoked for the affair, we’re offering up a new track from their recent album, Wild At Heart. Lookbook make bedroom-dance music, not entirely lo-fi but certainly a part of a growing group of self-produced […]

Still awaiting official word on the saga of the Picador. What we know so far is this: the Picador has been sold, will undergo a management change, and revert to the name Gabe’s. According to Facebook, the Pic closes tonight with a bang, one last massive early metal/hardcore show and then a final Physical Challenge […]

The Hood Internet are a 2000s curiosity, something that could only have gained “mainstream” recognition in that decade of piracy, mash-ups, and instant aquirability (matched with equal disposability). If you don’t know: the Hood Internet are a couple dudes from Chicago who have brains that play musical Tetris. They fit songs together so seamlessly, and […]

For this preview of tonight’s show, we turn to regular contributor Brian Johannessen. It is hard for a musician to develop his or her own sound as the offspring of a revered musician. Take Sean Lennon for example. Dude has to live in the shadow of his parents. [Ed. note: Sean Lennon’s last album, Friendly […]

The Daredevil Christopher Wright will likely be one of those surprising new finds for many Mission Creek attendees this year. Driving but a handful of hours to Iowa City from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the band has an enlightened sound without the frills of familiarity. Perhaps that last statement is false. The Daredevil Christopher Wright became […]

Where have I been? Your mother’s house. Kidding…ehhh. This is what 2010 sounds like. I hope. The nu-disco sound has been popular with summer-loving DJs for a couple years, but the real breakthrough came with last year’s breakout Duck Sauce. Composed of electro legend Armand Van Helden and superstar DJ A-Trak, their single aNYthing took […]

There are those that would detract from the NBA, saying that the regular season is pointless to watch and that the playoffs are all that matters. It is especially funny when baseball fans (I am a baseball fan, too) say this, as an aside. But for those who watch the NBA, today is a particularly […]

In an ongoing series previewing 2010 Mission Creek performing artists, we turn to Brian Johannessen for a personal take on Headlights. I graduated from high school in 2006, while the vast majority of my high school friends graduated in 2005. Being from the western Chicago suburbs, many of my friends and classmates funneled into either […]

Another Tuesday, another great free show at the Mill for those of you who haven’t got tickets to that other big show tomorrow night - or even for those that do, the Blue Moose is opening it’s doors early and you’ll be able to get over to the Mill after and catch most of this […]