Just Announced

Great lineup, horrible setting:
8 PM  |  9 PM  |  $8.00Tue Mar 03

ARBOURETUM (record release show!!):
JAMES BLACKSHAW (Young God Records)




MEG BAIRD (Espers)

Talking Head.


This show will be ruined if there's anything going on at Sonar next door that night. :(

sounds hot!  anyone else going?

BookerT wrote:
anyone post this one yet?

Mon Jan 19- Hideout/ Chicago & Interchange Present: The Big Shoulders Inauguration Ball w/ ANDREW BIRD, TORTOISE, WACO BROTHERS, ELEVENTH DREAM DAY, JON LANGFORD, SALLY TIMMS, DAVID "HONEYBOY" EDWARDS, KEN VANDERMARK, FREAKWATER, ICY DEMONS and JUDSON CLAIBORNE, plus special guests. $50 Mainstage 7:00

chances that tweedy shows up at this one? 65-70%?

It'll most likely be our last chance to see Honeyboy Edwards given that he's 93.

I wonder how long each set will be? Some rushed thing with each act doing 3-4 songs would be kinda lame. But they will be allowed to stay open as long as they want so there should be no need to rush. If the BC decides to use that ruling to their advantage, I'll go.

Wed Mar 4- THE WHIGS $12 Mainstage 8:00 (on sale Jan 2)

azaghal1981 wrote:
Maybe it's the NASA as in the lo-fi noise-rock band who put out that Bummer Daze cassette on Not Not Fun a few months ago?

That'd be pretty awesome.

Edit: nope, definitely not that NASA.

It's a Brazilian producer/skateboarder and Spike Jonze's brother.
They're kinda like One Giant Leap with just a few more guest artists…
The album has Tom Waits, David Byrne, George Clinton, Seu Jorge, M.I.A., Santo Gold, almost all of Wu Tang Clan including ODB's last recording, most of Pharcyde, Chuck D, Cee-Lo, Karen O and Nick from Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Cool Kids, Nina Persson, Spank Rock, Osama Bin Laden, my cat, and more.
http://www.myspace.com/nasa

Can't see them being good live without the guests unless they're just DJ'ing.

Yeah, bands like that are usually a huge disappointment without the guests. Album sounds intriguing, though.

coolio :)

azaghal1981 wrote:
Wed Mar 4- THE WHIGS $12 Mainstage 8:00 (on sale Jan 2)

The Damned is canceled due to illness AND Clutch is sold out. What a bummer.

I guess I'll stay home…unless there's someone with a Clutch extra ticket? :)

wanderlust wrote:
The Damned is canceled due to illness AND Clutch is sold out. What a bummer.

crap crap crap.  >:(

Well…fuck.

I'm a little surprised Clutch sold out at $25, honestly.

ugh.  i was looking forward to that damned show for so long.  still never seen them.  :(

am i the only one who follows the sites that sell tickets and the others that tell you when bands will be touring, so to look out for those tickets, and then go online to buy them when they go on sale or as close as possible . . . so i don't go "man, i really wanted to see that show, i can't believe it is sold out!"?

walkonby wrote:
am i the only one who follows the sites that sell tickets and the others that tell you when bands will be touring, so to look out for those tickets, and then go online to buy them when they go on sale or as close as possible . . . so i don't go "man, i really wanted to see that show, i can't believe it is sold out!"?

yes walkies, you're the only one.  once again, you're all alone.

walkonby wrote:
am i the only one who follows the sites that sell tickets and the others that tell you when bands will be touring, so to look out for those tickets, and then go online to buy them when they go on sale or as close as possible . . . so i don't go "man, i really wanted to see that show, i can't believe it is sold out!"?

My "well…fuck" was to the damned being cancelled. The Clutch thing was just a response to it selling out. I had planned to go to the damned but Clutch would've been a nice back-up plan.

sweetcell wrote:

walkonby wrote:
am i the only one who follows the sites that sell tickets and the others that tell you when bands will be touring, so to look out for those tickets, and then go online to buy them when they go on sale or as close as possible . . . so i don't go "man, i really wanted to see that show, i can't believe it is sold out!"?

yes walkies, you're the only one.  once again, you're all alone.

somehow i feel like a celine dion song.

Didn't see this mentioned: Live Nation venues now sell their tickets thru LiveNation.com and not Ticketmaster, as of 1-1-09.  I got an e-mail, but am sure there is info on their site.

robert randolph sort of looks like ll cool j.

jetelo wrote:
Didn't see this mentioned: Live Nation venues now sell their tickets thru LiveNation.com and not Ticketmaster, as of 1-1-09.  I got an e-mail, but am sure there is info on their site.

Many venues will continue with TicketMaster, per contracts.  But more and more of LiveNation events will be on a new, separate ticketing system via LiveNation Ticketing.    2009 will see lots of transition.    Blockbuster stores are the official outlet network in-person sales sites.  The online site reportedly has a pick-your-seat concept similar to the seating diagrams of airlines.  (Don't know how that'd work for busy onsale times, but sounds like fun during leisure buying.)   

And since this big new addition to the ticketing world will most likely bring about more discussion, a separate thread should be started, if not done already, by whomever chimes in next…

you know why i like live nation.  they send me weekly emails about bands and albums, tour dates, specific venues that i go to and what will be playing there.  ticketmaster just sits there and dreams up new ways to auction tickets at a 1000x markup.

walkonby wrote:
you know why i like live nation.  they send me weekly emails about bands and albums, tour dates, specific venues that i go to and what will be playing there. 

now if only the 930 club figured out how to do that consistently, maybe it could take on the big boys… :P