Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Sunday
Sunday brought Billy Bragg, Superchunk, Naked Raygun, Lucero, My Gold Mask, Patti Smith, Primus, Weezer, and more beautiful weather. Fueled on discarded Red Bulls and beer, the bees buzzed around Humboldt Park looking to start fights with me wherever I went. The machine kills fascists: Billy Bragg Superchunk: Naked Raygun: This is the look of […]
Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Saturday (NSFW)
Saturday: The Buzzcocks, Television, The Afghan Whigs, (burlesque dancers), Wu-Tang Clan, The Flaming Lips, The National The Buzzcocks still have it. Old school Brit punk at its best. Talked with Steve Diggle (white shirt) about how Simon Cowell is ruining music, his love of rock ‘n’ roll, and the importance of music festivals. […]
Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Friday
I woke up to find that the temperature had fallen twenty degrees overnight and that maggots were dripping from the ceiling. It could only mean one thing: Riot Fest. This is the tenth anniversary and Riot Fest found ten bands to play one of their iconic albums in its entirety. And GWAR brought cake for everyone […]
Longing for Loneliness: Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Blue begins in abstraction. Swells of thick sound, punctuated by moments of gasping air, ride alongside a tire pushing against pavement. Hands out of a car window, grasping bright blue foil blowing in the wind. Faces washed over by headlights. A young man’s face, waiting eagerly for the next car’s potential ride, framed against thick fog. […]
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