NOMO got a tough break when they played at Jake's Nightclub Tuesday night. Besides it being a Tuesday, and Bloomington in summer, fierce thunderstorms throughout the day had scared everyone into staying at home.
Rock critic Anthony DeCurtis started writing for The Bloomington Herald Telephone(now the Herald Times) when he was an IU grad student in the 70s.
Two new Bluebird shows announced recently! Los Campesinos with Early Day Miners & Yardwork on Friday, August 7.
After hearing Sunset Rubdown's third full-length album, Dragonslayer I couldn't help but anticipate their arrival to Bloomington. I saw them when they played at The Bluebird back in September, and although that was amazing, their was something even more fierce, emotional, and put together about their set on Thursday night. Sunset Rubdown frontman Spencer Krug at The Bluebird.
Roots were rocked last night at Russian Recording as Bloomington's own Magnolia Electric Co. were joined by San Diego time travelers The Donkeys for the kickoff of their 2009 Summer Tour.
Live Buzz will be hosting a series this summer highlighting a killer WIUX DJ we think you should tune in to. This week: Jessie Davis! WIUX Show Name and Time: peterbjornandjessie Tues 2-4 Describe your show- is there a genre or theme you stick to? New Music Tuesday kind of stuff.
Or rather mill-e-wah-que, which everybody knows is Algonquin for "the good land". My car officially traveled over 100,000 miles, according to my dash, on the trip up north from Bloomington.
Landlocked Music Top 5 Albums for the week of 6/29-7/05: 1. Wilco- Wilco (The Album) 2. Dinosaur Jr.- Farm 3.
The Crowd was hot, sweaty and loving every moment. Russian Recording was packed with old friends, relatives and a few newcomers, curious to see what the hype was all about on Friday night.
Bloomington will be one stop among many for Sunset Rubdown, a quirky quintet who is signed to local label Jagjaguwar.
Local Legends, The Impossible Shapes , have decided to called it quits after an illustrious ten-year career.
Ah, my sweet, beautiful Live Buzz. At last I (almost) return! It's been so long since I've written here that I almost forget what to do, what to say, how to act, etc.
MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S w/ The Broderick @ The Buskirk-Chumley Theater Saturday September 5th 8 p.m. $14 adv/$16 day of show Tickets on sale this Friday at Landlocked Music, the Buskirk-Chumley box office, and online at www.buskirkchumley.org. Facebook'd
Landlocked Music Top 5 For the week of 6/22-6/28/09: 1. Dinosaur Jr.- Farm 2. Deertick- Born on Flag Day 3.
The story of how I fell in love with indie-rock and snagged an interview with Sonic Youth Music: it's the one thing in life with which I am completely and irrevocably obsessed.
Hello to all, check out the line up at The Taste, located outside of City Hall (where farmer's market is held). The Ark Band 3-4 pm Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band 4:30-5:30 pm Polka Boy 6-7:30 pm Here Come the Mummies 8-9:30 pm The Dynamics *** (Don't Miss) 10-11 pm -Alex Benson
Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops' Stephen McBean answered a few questions for the IDS Arts Section before the PM show at Russian Recording on Thursday. Read the Q&A here. And check out some pix from the show here.
Landlocked Top 5 For the week of 6/8-6/14/09: 1. Sonic Youth- The Eternal 2. Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca 3.
I counted 10+ bands that played at Bonnaroo that also performed in Bloomington since my arrival in Fall 2006.
One of Bloomington's finest, DJ Action-Jackson, recently did a cover of Passion Pit's "Sleepy Head." Download it here and bump it at your next party.
