You Should Hear: Cal Scruby
Cal Scruby is an intellectual — a true hip-hop artist who offers his views on the world in a furry of witty concepts, brilliant turns of phrase and poignant cultural references. Scruby’s debut mixtape Best Foot Forward draws inspiration from some of his favorite lyrical “word-players” in the rap game, Wale and Drake. And over the course of 13 tracks,...
Dr. Dog at the Bluebird 10.26.11
Last Friday night at The Bluebird Dr. Dog displayed the three essential components for creating loveable, high quality indie rock music: Sock hats, harmonies and sunglasses. Well, on second thought, maybe four. A stage design that looked like a mix between a 1970′s living room and a one-off Conan O’Brien set doesn’t hurt either. Allow...
New Records To Brighten Black Friday
Vinyl enthusiasts can wash down all of their Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes with a heavy helping of new releases from some of the biggest names in music. An array of never before heard tracks, remastered box sets, special demos and live cuts will be released on vinyl November 26th to independent record stores...
GLOWfest 2011: UPDATE
UPDATE: Deadmau5 will be performing a special late night show at The Bluebird tonight. At 8:15 p.m. The Bluebird announced the show on Facebook: “ANNOUNCEMENT: TONIGHT’S SHOW WILL BE HONORING GLOWFEST TICKETS FIRST!! DOORS WILL OPEN AT 9PM!! LE CASTLE VANIA- 10PM I FEED ME- 11PM I DEADMAU5- 12:30AM!!!” The Bluebird also announced that the...
Ryan Adams – ‘Ashes & Fire’
After a two-year retirement from music, Ryan Adams returns to form with Ashes & Fire, the sweetest, most soulful record of his career. In 2009, the prolific American songwriter stepped away from music altogether as a result of an onset debilitating inner ear-disease, known as Meniere’s disease. But after overcoming a battle with drug addiction,...
Wilco – The Whole Love
By: Daniel Brown At the end of Wilco’s groundbreaking 2002 release, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy emotes, “I’ve got reservations, about so many things, but not about you.” And in the following decade, Wilco has resided in upper echelon of American rock music. Wilco’s 2004 record, A Ghost is Born, was a revered follow-up to...
Slideshow: Concert Catch Up Aug-Sept 2011
A number of big name acts have already stopped through Bloomington this semester; Gardens & Villa, Unknown Mortal Ochestra, Toro y Moi, An Horse and tUne-yArDs all played in town before Oct. 1. But fear not if you missed out on any of the action. We were there, camera in hand, and today we’re catching...
Midwest Underground Launches Episode 3
This summer, Bloomington natives Kevin Winkler and Andie Bergie founded Midwest Underground, a monthly public access TV/web series that gives you a glimpse inside Bloomington’s underground music scene (yes, we’re talking basement shows here, folks). Winkler, a professional videographer, and Bergie, a sound engineer who plays drums in The Calumet Reel and You’re a Liar,...
SXSW 2011
One brave blogger ventured through SXSW to bring you the best coverage, read about it here...
Hello Walls
With twangy guitar riffs, twelve-bar piano blues and soaring pedal steel notes, Hello Walls is breaking into the Bloomington, Ind. music scene with a folk rock Americana sound. Front man Tim George, bassist Todd Rush and lead guitarist Tyler Polk have been playing music together for the last few years and began crafting their writing...
James Blake – James Blake
By: Daniel Brown An album that uses relentless electronic enhancement and auto-tuned vocals runs the risks of coming off shallow, uninspired or computer generated. But London’s acclaimed dub/grime producer James Blake masterfully sidesteps this stereotype in his debut album. His use of multiple layered vocal effects, reverbed synthesizers and European influenced beats paint an intriguing,...
Slideshow: We Are Hex, Medusa, Beast in the Field At The Bishop
Pictures from the Bishop Show 2.10.11
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