Majical Cloudz FREE streaming Impersonator in its entirety #freestreaming

Did you catch Majical Cloudz at Chicago's Metro last night?! Devon Welsh of MAJICAL CLOUDZ Photo Credit: Denis Nazarov In anticipation of the release of their Matador debut next Tuesday, May 21st, Majical Cloudz are streaming Impersonator in it's entirety on Pitchfork Advance. Click Here To Stream Impersonator  Comprised of Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto, Majical Cloudz have been receiving praise for their intense, vocally driven songs and their intimate, powerful live show.  New single "Bugs Don't Buzz" garnered a Best New Track from Pitchfork, who write how it's, "defined by its directness--that Devon Welsh is singing to you, or, if you present this song to a loved one, it's you singing to them. It's indeed a love song that feels like a confession of a devotion that one wouldn't feel comfortable sharing with more than one person."  Click Here To Download "Bugs Don't Buzz" In a recent interview with the duo, Stereogum write, "it’s hard to imagine that anyone will release an album this year as lovely - or as harrowingly intimate - as Majical Cloudz’s soon-to-be-released debut, Impersonator." SPIN compare the pair as a cross between James Blake and Antony Hegarty, calling "Bugs Don't Buzz" "incredibly intense." NYC Peeps Click Here For Glasslands Record Release Show Ticket Link Currently finishing a national tour with Youth Lagoon, Majical Cloudz will be playing a record release show at Brooklyn's Glasslands on May 21st with support from Gobby and unannounced surprise guests, a special live set after the duo's two sold out New York dates last week. They will also be playing select dates with Grizzly Bear this summer, as well as sets at Montreal's Osheaga Festival and later at Hopscotch Music Festival, with all dates below.  Remaining Summer Tour Dates / 5/16: Majestic Theater, Madison, WI * 5/17: Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN * 5/20: Other Music (8 PM - Free,) New York, NY 5/21: Glasslands, Brooklyn, NY # 6/18: The Fillmore at Jackie Gleason, Miami Beach, FL @ 6/19: The Ritz Ybor, Tampa, FL @ 8/02: Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC 9/07: Hopscotch Music Festival, Raleigh, NC   * with Youth Lagoon # with Gobby and Special Guests @ with Grizzly bear Quotes / "A patient, minimal sound that avoids the pitfalls of style or genre by subscribing to none at all. It's something many artists strive for but few achieve. 'Childhood's End' is one of the most compelling and singular attempts at it I've heard in some time-- calmly expressive, charged and moving."  Pitchfork "It's hard to imagine that anyone will release an album this year as lovely - or as harrowingly intimate - as Majical Cloudz' soon-to-be-released debut, Impersonator." Stereogum "James Blake meets Antony Hegarty" SPIN "The gritty lyrics fill every corner of the song, and those who weren't aware of Welsh's commanding presence soon will be."  Billboard "The track relies on little more than some methodical strings, the low rumble of percussion, and Welsh’s voice. But in the all-but-barren soundscape, Welsh’s baritone is rich with the ache of forlorn, eschewing words in some sections to transcend into pure, unfettered emotion." Consequence of Sound "Haunting debut...clear, even, rich and utterly transfixing" Village Voice "The ten torchy, moody songs on the upcoming follow-up, Impersonator, embed Welsh’s Michael Hutchence-esque tenor voice in arrangements that smooth out II’s rough, busy edges and replace them with a mannered but warm electronic minimalism. The album is sure to amplify the buzz surrounding the group by several notches at least." Chicago Reader "It's pleasing in the most elemental way possible, luxuriating in deep emotional focus as he trains his voice on melody lines that are catchy for the very reason that they're smartly simple." FADER "Welsh's deep, charismatic voice over simple, catchy and melancholic melodies makes Majical Cloudz a band worth getting excited about." Interview Magazine Impersonator Tracklisting / 01. Impersonator 02. This Is Magic 03. Childhood's End 04. I Do Sing For You 05. Mister 06. Turns Turns Turns 07. Silver Rings 08. Illusion 09. Bugs Don't Buzz 10. Notebook Press  Pitchfork Best New Track for "Bugs Don't Buzz" Majical Cloudz Video for "Childhood's End" Stereogum Interview with Majical Cloudz Pitchfork Best New Track for "Childhood's End" Spinner Feature Interview with Majical Cloudz Majical Cloudz Performs "Turns, Turns, Turns" For Yours Truly Exclusive Mixtape & Interview For FADER Interview Feature with Dazed & Confused Majical Cloudz Interview On Dummy Mag Interview Magazine Feature on Majical Cloudz Noisey Interview Feature on Majical Cloudz Live Majical Cloudz SXSW Review on Pitchfork Click Here for Majical Cloudz Biography Links / Majical Cloudz on Facebook Follow Majical Cloudz on Twitter Majical Cloudz Official Soundcloud Majical Cloudz Tumblr Matador Records Impersonator Pre-Order Link

INCOMING: Las Guitarras TONIGHT at City Winery and More

Chi, IL Live Shows on Our Radar for the End of March



TONIGHT--CITY WINERY:

Chicago’s Las Guitarras de Espana will be playing City Winery on Thursday, March 21.

6pm doors/8pm start

all ages
$15-$20

This performance, with opening act Los Hombres Perdidos, will feature traditional and newly composed pieces with elements of Cuban, Indian and Spanish music as well as flamenco dance. Guest artists will include Sara Ranganthan (Indian veena), Wendy Clinard (flamenco dancer) and Andrew Bird collaborator Colin Bunn (Tres guitar).

Click here for tickets and show details.

http://www.lasguitarrasrocks.com/

http://www.carlobasilespanishguitarist.com/#!/home

HARD ROCK CAFE:

Common Shiner will share a bill with Cobalt & the Hired Guns, A Band Called Catch and The Empty Pockets at Hard Rock Café on Friday, April 12.   Show starts at 8:30pm.

Click here for more info and their full line up of shows. 





METRO: 

Jackpot Donnie will celebrate the release of their new EP, Mayday!, with a show at Metro on Friday, March 29. The band will be direct support for The Future Laureates and Molehill and The Scissors will open the show. (18+) $14 advance tickets.   Show starts at 8:30/8pm doors. 

Click here for tickets and full schedule. 



House of Blues:  
Badfish 

Saturday, March 30th  

We've shot this Sublime cover band numerous times, and their live shows are a rockin' good time.   Highly recommended!   Check back with ChiIL Live shows like we vote in Chi, IL...early and often.   We'll have a big photo and video feature on Badfish from their last Chicago appearance at Cubby Bear (including an on stage wedding proposal!!) before the 3/30 show.

Click here for HOB show details

INCOMING: Django Django & Night Moves at Metro

Night Moves Supporting Django Django In Chicago  On March 15th! 'Colored Emotions' Out Now On Domino Domino signings Night Moves have been announced as the support for Django Django's upcoming US tour.  They're playing The Metro in Chicago on March 15th.  Bullett just did a great interview with them from the last time they toured, check it out here. Praise for Night Moves: “They’re wonderfully weird and experimental -- the slow-grooving songs on Colored Emotions have rich layers of twanging guitars and shuffling, pounding drums. The result is a blend of psychedelic Americana and 2010s indie pop, and the album gets richer with each listen thanks to the unexpected song structures and tight musicianship." -- KEXP (Night Moves) plays countrified rock with a freak-folk vocal style, and their organ and string arrangements spin their songs into mini-epics.” - New Yorker “a warm and intimate, wonderfully expansive gem” - SPIN (Album Premiere) “hook-laden psychedelic rock, lush instrumentation and richly textured production” - NPR Music “Colored Emotions demands to be listened to in its entirety: It’s full of moving parts and the type of effortless transitions between songs that makes the album much more than the sum of its parts." -- Consequence of Sound "single ‘Headlights’ (is) a psychedelic country gem awash in vocalist John Pelant's golden yowl.” - Pitchfork "I finally got around to listening to Night Moves' debut LP Colored Emotions, and it's just about the best thing I've heard from the Twin Cities since Prince hung up his assless purple pants and became a Jehovah's Witness." - Speakers In Code Links: Artist Facebook Artist Twitter Label Website TOUR DATES WITH DJANGO DJANGO: March 06 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall Of Williamsburg March 07 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall Of Williamsburg March 08 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer March 09 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club March 11 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club March 12 Toronto, ON - Opera House March 13 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall March 15 Chicago, IL - Metro March 16 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue March 19 Seattle, WA - Neptune March 20 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge March 22 San Francisco, CA - Public Works March 23 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre Night Moves is John Pelant (guitars/vocals), Micky Alfano (bass) and Mark Ritsema (multi-instrumentalist) and will be joined by drummer Jared Isabella for the tour. The band has been named “Best New Band” by Minneapolis City Pages and received praise from the likes of NPR Music, SPIN, Bullett, Magnet, Minneapolis Star Tribune and more. They’ve also been getting steady airplay on public radio’s most esteemed stations including KCRW (Los Angeles), KEXP (Seattle), The Current (Minneapolis) and WXPN (Philadelphia). 'Colored Emotions' Tracklisting:   1. Headlights 2. Country Queen 3. In The Rounds 4. Only A Child 5. Family Tongues 6. Old Friends 7. Put Out Your Shoulder 8. Horses 9. Classical Hearts 10. Colored Emotions Copyright © 2011 Tell All Your Friends.

TONIGHT-Emilie Autumn at Metro (all ages) #originalshowshots

ChiIL Live Shows original shots-Emilie Autumn at House of Blues, Chicago.   Click here for our full review of that show.

There are still a few tickets left for 
An Evening with...

EMILIE AUTUMN

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Friday February 15

Rescheduled (All Tickets for 10/31 Will Be Honored)

• $18 adv - $21 day of
• Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM-10PM
• All Ages 

We've been promoting Emilie Autumn's Metro appearance for months, before and after her Halloween show was postponed.   But today is finally the day!  Click here for some of our past coverage.

World-class violinist. Fashion icon. Famously bipolar. The list goes on, but one thing is certain: We're talking about Emilie Autumn. With world tours, glossy magazine covers, and guest spots on the albums of such artists as Courtney Love (with whom she performed on Leno and Letterman), Otep, Billy Corgan, and TV's 'Metalocalypse' under her corset strings, Emilie Autumn's devilishly dark lyrics, metal-shredding violin solos, 





pink-glittered pasties, and industrial-strength voice reinvent "gothic" for the masses, and goths have never had so much fun.






More akin to a Broadway musical than a standard rock performance, the Los Angeles-born starlet's highly theatrical stage show is a sexy circus of glam-rock burlesque, backed by a scantily-clad girl band known to EA's devoted fans as the Bloody Crumpets.





 

Featuring EA's signature electric violin pyrotechnics, heartbreakingly lush orchestrations, hard-core beats, and menacing lyrics growled with enough intensity to make your hair stand on end, the resulting noise is a harpsichord-heavy romp through Victorian asylums where screaming is allowed and girls always get revenge.    

Nick Waterhouse Photo Recap #originalshowshots #R&B

ChiIL Live Shows caught Nick Waterhouse LIVE at Lincoln Hall 10/10/12 above and again at Metro on Valentine's Day 2013.

Nick Waterhouse is old school R & B with a modern twist, and he puts on an excellent, memorable live show.  We especially dug the dual saxaphones with the keyboard player doubling on the 2nd sax.   The whole band knows how to bring it.  

We bought tickets to the Metro show instead of working Valentine's Day, so I didn't shoot last night.   But we have our 10/10 shots from Lincoln Hall for you.

 

Both shows were too sweet to ignore, and we highly recommend you keep an ear out for their next swing through town.





His debut is my husband's absolute favorite 2012 release and pretty high on my own list as well, despite the wide variety of genres we review and enjoy personally.   Nick Waterhouse is truly one to watch.

Check out his main site here.

Everything about Nick Waterhouse started with a single 45. Nick Waterhouse, who signs his own name across a righteous and exhilarating part of American music with this debut LP, snapped together from sessions traded for rent money and desperate favors and succeeding through strange luck, particular personality and a vision that would not crack. 



When he made that first 45 by himself, he was hoping less to launch a musical career than to bury the possibility with dignity. In his suburban hometown, there’d never been music like this, and when he moved to the big city for school, no one could be bothered to care about music like this, so he recorded his song simply to prove that he could record his song. 

That “Some Place” 45 on his own label Pres—put together with something barely more than a pick-up band of 20-something kids sold half its press in a single night in the winter of 2010, and so made itself known to the people who needed to know, in that quiet nighttime way certain records have done for decades.

By mid-2011, he was signed to a label and after three more swoops through engineer Mike McHugh’s studio the Distillery, where of course powerful spirits are made, he’d found Time’s All Gone.

Amazon says:   Nick Waterhouse is the New Breed - An R&B fanatic who combines an uncanny old-school sensibility and with a charged, contemporary style. Having just turned 25, he joins the ranks of similar acts and producers of recent times - Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones, Mayer Hawthorne, Aloe Blacc et al -- that are all moving forward into the past, yet all quite different. 

For Waterhouse, his muse is the over-modulated sound of vintage '50s R&B and Rebel Rock n' Roll. His take on such a time-honored tradition evokes the back-alley thrill of New Orleans, Detroit and Memphis in their heyday. He combines an astute attention to detail recording on all vintage equipment with an honest desire to match the emotional impact of the music that inspires him.              

HELP LOCALLY: Sons of the Silent Age Play David Bowie to Combat Kids' Cancer 1/11

Sons of the Silent Age will headline a benefit for the Pablove Foundation, an organization dedicated to funding pediatric cancer research and to the empowerment of the families of cancer victims, at Metro Chicago, 3730 N. Clark, on Friday, January 11, 2013 (all ages show).

Check out all the details and get your tickets here at Metro's main site.

93XRT Welcomes…
A Benefit for Pablove Foundation/Rock For Kids…
SONS OF THE SILENT AGE: playing the music of David Bowie, featuring SHIRLEY MANSON, MATT WALKER, CHRIS CONNELLY and more
WACO BROTHERS: playing T.REX
DEATH ON THE AUTOBAHN: playing KRAFTWERK

Tickets:
$20 in advance or $25 day of
Show date: Friday, January 11, 2013
Doors: 6:30PM | Show: 7:30PM
This is an all ages show

Tickets and venue: Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., Chicago

Learn more about Sons of the Silent Age 

Sons of the Silent Age was formed by vocalist Chris Connelly (Ministry) and drummer Matt Walker (Morrissey's band) and will be joined by guest vocalist Shirley Manson of Garbage fame to celebrate the music and aesthetic of the iconic David Bowie during the week of his 66th year on earth.

Artificial Madness

On Relapse Records, released November 8, 2011

Buy: Relapse Records, iTunes (Deluxe edition), Amazon.com

Press: Track-by-track overview, Review (Subba-Cultcha), Review (Blogcritics)

Listen: "Wait for Amateur", "Compatibility"

CHI, IL LIVE SHOWS ON OUR RADAR: Metro Chicago, Bogarts Cincinnati & Afghan Whigs Free Download

Metro is rockin' this week:

Hey Chi-Town--there are a ton of great shows going on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights at Metro.   Why pace yourself?!   

Check out their full calendar here.   First up tonight is Heartless Bastards, originally from Cincinnati.   Grimes is amazing...and sold out.   ChiIL Live Shows has done a ton of past Grimes coverage on our Facebook Page.   Like and follow us there so you don't miss out on free downloads, tour news, our original video and photo filled features and more.   The Afghan Whigs are highly recommended, too.   Saturday is sold out, but a 2nd show on Friday was added due to demand and there are still tixs to that one. 

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93XRT Welcomes...
HEARTLESS BASTARDS

FUTUREBIRDS
DANA FALCONBERRY

The recently expanded Heartless Bastards’ line-up has brought additional color and dynamism to the band’s already colorfully dynamic rock ‘n’ roll. With their sound honed to a razor’s edge...

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GRIMES

ELITE GYMNASTICS
MYTHS

Difficult to categorize, Grimes music has been described by Tastemaker Magazine as an “alien love-child of Aphex Twin and ABBA.” Grimes herself – born Claire Boucher – explains how she mak...

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93XRT Welcomes... A Metro 30th Anniversary Event...
THE AFGHAN WHIGS

WUSSY
SECOND SHOW ADDED DUE TO DEMAND!

TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE FOR FRIDAY SHOW ONLY!!!

The recent reformation of The Afghan Whigs, neatly timed to hit 25 years after their first live show in 1987, promises to be a most unpredic...
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93XRT Welcomes... A Metro 30th Anniversary Event...
THE AFGHAN WHIGS

Tickets are sold out for this show, but still available for Friday's show! 

WUSSY

  

THE AFGHAN WHIGS ON TOUR

10/24/12

Detroit

St. Andrew's Hall

SOLD OUT

10/25/12

Cincinnati

Bogart's

SOLD OUT

10/26/12

Chicago

Metro

[tickets]

10/27/12

Chicago

Metro

SOLD OUT

10/28/12

Minneapolis

Varsity Theatre

SOLD OUT

10/30/12

Denver

Ogden Theatre

[tickets]

11/02/12

Portland

Wonder Ballroom

[tickets]

11/03/12

Seattle

Showbox

SOLD OUT

11/07/12

San Francisco

The Fillmore

SOLD OUT

11/08/12

San Francisco

The Fillmore

[tickets]

11/09/12

Los Angeles

The Fonda

SOLD OUT

11/10/12

Los Angeles

The Fonda

[tickets]

12/31/12

Cincinnati

Bogart's

[tickets]

Cin-City Shows:  Afghan Whigs New Years Show 

Cincinnati peeps, don't whig out if you slacked off and didn't get tickets to this Thursday night's sold out Afghan Whigs show at Bogarts.   They'll be back again for New Years Eve.   Click here to order your tickets before they sell out again!

NEW YEAR'S EVE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT

The Afghan Whigs are pleased to announce the addition of a special New Year's Eve performance to their upcoming tour schedule. The band will return to Bogart's in Cincinnati on Monday, December 31st with special guest Scrawl.

ChiIL Live Shows also has a free "Lovecrimes" download for you.

Sure the bulk of our band video interviews, original footage, and pit photos are in Chicago--We're Chi, IL Live Shows after all.   However, we do have a national and even international following and sometimes we take it on the road to bring you the inside look at unique venues out of Chi, IL.

Our give aways are always nationwide and our free downloads and tour dates apply world wide.