84-year-old Wallace Horn slips on his earphones and swivels his well-worn chair toward a bank of meters and dials. As the band runs through “Little Old Log Cabin” and “He Will Set Your Fields On Fire”, he tweaks the levels […]
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There’s a cinematic quality to Dust Bowl Revival, the debut album from Ox, so it’s no surprise that singer-guitarist Mark Browning was obsessed with movies during the recording process. Given the album’s title, one might guess that the sandy-haired 34-year-old […]
IN 1965, Robyn Hitchcock, age 12, became infatuated with the literature of science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells. Duly inspired by such classics as The Invisible Man, The War Of The Worlds, and particularly The Time Machine, the British adolescent set […]
The last notes of “You Are My Sunshine” hang in the piney air like beads of dew on a spiderweb. Out of the corner of my eye I see my new pal Jenna wipe her cheek. Since our acquaintance is […]
When Laurie Stirratt launched her new life in 2002, it was like going home. Chicago welcomed her like a prodigal daughter, she got a job at the Hideout (a favorite watering hole among Chicago music scenesters), and she began writing […]
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