Emo != Rockstar!

15 Mar 2006 – 6:00
By adam | Posted in chicago, shows | Also tagged | Comments (0)


last night was the chicago episode of Rockstar! Taste of Chaos. that's supposed to be rockstar!, the energy drink. because, like jonah says, emo isn't supposed to have rockstars. yet there they were, band after band ...

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Seeing Stars

21 Feb 2006 – 9:33
By adam | Posted in married life, shows | Also tagged | Comments (1)

stars is the first band I found through last.fm, not by their excellent recommendation system, but because all of my 'neighbors' were listening to them, and i'd never heard of them. it's cool, because they way outside of my typical tastes. ...

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“do we look like the kind of band that takes requests?”

27 Oct 2005 – 1:43
By adam | Posted in music, shows | Also tagged | Comments (3)

the show last was absolutely amazing. i can now cross them off my list of 'bands i've always wanted to see'. even if i liked baseball, it would've been worth missing the sox win the world series. the opening bands weren't really worth mentioning, ...

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Arcade Fire @ the Riv

29 Sep 2005 – 1:00
By adam | Posted in music, shows | Also tagged | Comments (5)

current tune: coheed and cambria - welcome home
apparently competition from other epic prog emo bands has forced coheed and cambria to add strings to their music. also, due to my having my head in the sand, i have just now noticed that coheed's 3rd album is already out, ...

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jimmy’s my heeerroooo

20 Jan 2004 – 8:39
By adam | Posted in music, shows, soapboxing | Also tagged | Comments (2)

current tune: ours - sometimesso josh was right, the show last night was UNFOOKINBELEEEVABLE. yeah, it's reeeally jeff buckley-ish, but his songwriting is soooo good. and his voice is just devouring of anything else in the world. it was amazing to see somebody that talented in ...

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