Preview: The Ark/Schubas
RECOMMENDED What a great, weird excursion in sass and swagger this is. The Swedish five-piece that is The Ark, and its long-haired leader Ola Salo, finds its most recent record, “State of the Ark,”...
View ArticlePreview: The Ark/Schubas
RECOMMENDED The Swedish five-piece that is The Ark, and its long-haired leader Ola Salo, finds its most recent record, “State of the Ark,” bouncing between pop and dance, electronic bleeps and...
View ArticlePreview: Bobby Conn
RECOMMENDED Bobby Conn brings his glammed-out, eye-shadowed freak flag to Schubas to jump-start the Tomorrow Never Knows festival. The Thrill Jockey rocker describes his new album, “King for a Day,” as...
View ArticlePreview: Dark Wave Disco: Jeremy Dawson (Shiny Toy Guns)
RECOMMENDED Shiny Toy Guns is one of the handful of indie electro-glam bands that actually makes wearing silver lame leggings look cool. Though they clearly have a fierce hold on 1980s fashion and emo...
View ArticleDoll House: Predecessors of punk New York Dolls resurrect the glam
By Brad Knutson These days it seems like a month doesn’t go by without hearing of yet another rock band from the 1960s or 1970s reuniting and embarking on a grand North American tour of nostalgia. The...
View ArticlePreview: Louis XIV
RECOMMENDED Louis XIV just wants to sex you up. Continuing its steadfast diet of double entendres and filthy, tongue-in-cheek sexual imagery, the So-Cal glam rockers’ sophomore album “Slick Dogs and...
View ArticlePreview: Electric Six
The flamboyant Detroit disco-arena rockers Electric Six understandably draw the same reaction from listeners as the now-defunct glam-rock act The Darkness: “Is this a joke?” This is what you get when...
View ArticleDressing Pretty: UK’s The Long Blondes are more than just clothes
By Tom Lynch Glamour is what you make of it. Not only did they offer a refreshing debut record that amped up the fun in danceable Brit pop, five-piece Sheffield group The Long Blondes looked really...
View ArticleSo Crazy: Too pretty for punk, too ugly for glam, Mickey might just be...
By Brian Costello It’s one of the first warm nights of spring, and tonight’s show, after having its location changed two-to-three times due to landlord hassles and police concerns in the past week...
View ArticlePreview: Queen + Adam Lambert/United Center
RECOMMENDED It took more than two decades for Queen to tour the United States following the backlash over the “I Want to Break Free” video, in which the members appeared in drag. (It was homage to the...
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