The Poison Tree Give a Haunting Introduction To Their Debut Album

With the onset of winter and the dwindling days left of 2010, we’re all taking the time to reflect back on this year and wonder “how did it go by so fast?”.  For me though, I’m thinking ahead to what the next year will bring.  I was recently given a hauntingly beautiful [...]

Tim Kasher Live at Schuba’s in Chicago 11/20

With the release of his first solo album last month, Tim Kasher has embarked on one of the longest tours of his career thus far and I had the chance to check out Tim and company at Schuba’s in Chicago on November 20th.  A sold-out crowd packed the tiny venue in anticipation.  With only [...]

Azure Ray Returns with a New Album and Tour

It has been seven years since the ladies in Azure Ray have released new music, but in September with their release of Drawing Down the Moon, it’s clear they haven’t lost their touch.  Both Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor have released solo work in the years they’ve spent on hiatus from Azure Ray but [...]

Planet Verge TV (Guerilla Style): Adam Haworth Stephens (of Two Gallants) Interview & Performance

(Guerilla Style episodes are filmed without a crew, some spur of the moment, because we never leave home without a camera!)

Adam Haworth Stephens came through Chicago a couple of weeks ago and PV girl Karen had a chance to do some guerrilla filming with him on the streets outside of The Empty Bottle venue.  Performing [...]

Tim Kasher’s The Game of Monogamy

Tim Kasher has been around the scene for awhile now.  Fronting the indie-mainstay Cursive for over a decade, Kasher’s branched off on his own, starting solo-project turned band The Good Life that has garnered the same cult following as Cursive and produced the same notable and inspired albums like Album of the Year and Black [...]

The Villagers’ Conor O’Brien Live at Schuba’s

Conor O’Brien of the The Villagers stood solo, a 3/4 guitar named Lola hung across his chest.  Apparently Delta Airlines had lost her on his transatlantic from Dublin, his hometown, a few days earlier at the start of the tour.  Chicago’s Schuba’s was lucky to see guitar and O’Brien reunited for the first [...]

Land of Talk take Chicago, 9/21/10

Land of Talk’s lead singer Liz Powell really loves her guitar.  It was obvious the moment she stepped foot onstage at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, September 21st.  As she stood alone for the first song before the packed crowd, she took to her guitar like a close friend.  With fellow Land of Talk [...]

Travis’ Fran Healy Debuts Solo Album Wreckorder 10/5

Most know Fran Healy as the lead singer of Scottish rockers Travis, but he is on his own for the first time, debuting his solo album Wreckorder out October 5th on Ryko.
There is a strength in the sound of Wreckorder that proves Healy’s previous fame in Travis was no fluke.  With a complex [...]

GET INVOLVED! Concert for Equality in Omaha, NE.

Downtown Benson in Omaha is a bit vintage, a bit industrial, and a vibrant part of what makes Omaha’s indie scene.  With venues like The Waiting Room, it’s easy to get intimate with the local musicians and hear great music without having to fight through the masses. It was here [...]

Laura Burhenn On What Makes The Mynabirds

After two days of playing shows at Chicago’s Do Division Street Festival and the Empty Bottle at the beginning of June, I had the chance to sit down with singer/songwriter Laura Burhenn and talk about her new solo work with the Mynabirds and how their first tour has been thus far.  [...]

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