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The Adventures of Stickboy
1. "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Gay"
2. "Please, Please, Please"
3. "I'm Pretty Sure I Can't Go On Vacation with My Parents Anymore"
4. "Kiss Me on the LRV"
5. "It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands"
6. "I'm Pretty Sure I Want to be a Famous Comic Book Artist"
7. "Brushes with Greatness"
8. "Exterminate the Brutes!"
9. "Kill Cat Stevens"
10. "Strip Club Strip"
11. "O' Come Again, Terrible Summer"
12. "En El Fondo: Pages from an (Anti) Depression"
13. "The $100K Bowl of Shit"
Shawn Brown
The Trews: Canadian Riff Rock With Indie Sprit and a Pimps' Heart
Quit Sellin' Amos Lee Short
Carousel Roundup
February 2011: Have a Heart (It's So Tasty)
November 2010: I See Dead Things
October 2010: I'm Running Away to Join the Circus
September 2010: Almost Strictly Instrumental
August 2010: The Booze Tour
July 2010: Sisters of Mercy
June 2010: Groovy Singer-Songwriters
Composition Breakdown
Brian Vander Ark
Thomas Cooney:
"Another Thing!" (March 2012)
"Another Thing!" (January 2012)
"Another Thing!" (October 2011)
"Another Thing!" (August 2011)
"Another Thing!" (June 2011)
"Another Thing!" (April 2011)
"Another Thing!" (February 2011)
"Another Thing!" (January 2011)
"Another Thing!" (November 2010)
"Another Thing!" (October 2010)
"Another Thing!" (September 2010)
"10 Years of Swing Out Sister's Somewhere Deep In The Night"
"The Twenty-Five Year Seduction: Bryan Ferry’s Boys and Girls"
"Decade in Review"
"The Deep Night Of Day"
The Cyprus Chronicles:
"Life Itself"
A Desert Island Scenario
Risa Nye - Stardust
Katrina Geco:
"Daydreamer's Holiday - The Clarks and the Sounds of Pittsburgh"
Kevin Griffin:
"The Bass Man"
Kelly Haigh:
"Stage Fright at the Railway Club"
New Crush/Old Crush
Vampire Weekend
War Elephant
Theresa Moorehouse
Kaya Oakes' Miscellany:
"Dylan: He's Just Like Us"
Recess
March 2012
The Roberge Report:
"Just for Openers"
"Jay Walter Bennett"
"Closet Classics"
"Urinal Tour Diary; A Week on the Road with the most Punctual and Polite Band in Punk"
"Room #8, Joshua Tree Inn"
Studio Musician Gossip:
"We Need A Public Option Radio Station"
"Make Out/Make Over"
"Re-Make, Re-Model"
Wildflowers
Philip Stevenson on Arthur Doyle
Book Reviews
Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth
Got No Secrets by Danila Botha
All You Get Is Me, by Yvonne Prinz
Getting in Tune, by Roger Trott
Hew, Screw + Glue: How Stuff is Made, by James Innes-Smith
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James And The Shondells , by Tommy James
Mingering Mike, by Dori Hadar
New York Dolls, by Bob Gruen
Red Album of Asbury Park, by Alex Austin
Satchmo: The Wonderful World And Art Of Louis Armstrong, by Steven Brower
Stalker Girl, by Rosemary Graham
Stone Roses, by Alex Green
Three Wishes: An Intimate Look At Jazz Greats, by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz
DVD Reviews
Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Live Reviews
2011
2011 - The Kills
2011 - Lost Lander
2011 - Bryan Ferry
2011 - Joana and the Wolf
2011 - Jasmine Minks
2011 - Gardens & Villa
2011 - Mike Watt & the Minutemen
2011 - The Royal Bangs
2011 - Dropkick Murphys
2011 - The Decemberists
2010
2010 - English Beat
2010 - Toadies
2010 - Sick Puppies
2010 - Jennie DeVoe
2009
2009 - Forever Young Dylan Tribute
The Meat Puppets
Bob Mould with Juliana Hatfield
Pet Shop Boys
Pixies
Bonnie Whitmore
2008
2008 - The Kooks
The Subways
2007
Big Star
Coachella
English Beat
Sondre Lerche
Placebo
Sonic Youth
Best Of:
Best of 2010
Best of 2009
Best of 2008
Dropkick Murphys
February 26, 2011
Congress Theater, Chicago
With the war over worker’s rights raging in neighboring Wisconsin, the quintessential working class band The Dropkick Murphys took the stage at Chicago’s Congress Theater on February 26. A crowd of 4,000 boisterous fans roared as the band tore into “Hang ‘Em High” from their new album Going Out in Style.
This was just the beginning of an amazing 90-minute show in which DKM once again showed us all how Celtic punk is done. Coming on stage to Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town”, the boys (along with a few girls—The Parkington Sisters backed them with strings and accordion) began their high energy and highly interactive performance in front of an enormous backdrop of the cover art for their new chart-topping album. Periodically throughout the concert the backdrop would be changed; for example, at one point it became a pirate flag during the crowd favorite “Shipping Up to Boston.”
Vocalist Al Barr was energetic and engaging throughout, frequently crashing the barrier and going into the audience, which instantly swarmed him. That energy ramped up even further when the band launched into “The Gang’s All Here”, from their 1999 album of the same name. This is the essence of a Dropkick Murphys concert; it’s really a party with their fans—an incredibly loud and exuberant party, at that. The party atmosphere carried on and was once again ratcheted up when the band launched into “Going Out In Style” midway through. With the energy at this level, bass player and vocalist Ken Casey spoke briefly about the protestors in Wisconsin before charging into “Take ‘Em Down” and “Workers Song” in support of those fighting for their rights in the state’s capital.
The regular set ended with the incredibly popular “Shipping Up To Boston”—a song which had the already raucous crowd dancing and jumping so enthusiastically I could feel the floor shake. This led into the encore, which kicked off with “Kiss Me, I’m Shitfaced” while a bevy of female audience members joined the band onstage for a sing-along. Throughout the three-song encore, more and more audience members came up on stage; so much so that by the end it was hard to tell where the stage ended and the audience began. The energy and enthusiasm had merged into one big celebration.
And that’s exactly how a Dropkick Murphys show should end.
—Pamela Obenchain
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