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Troubled Hubble

September 28, 2005 by Dave!

Alas, all good things must come to an end. Troubled Hubble will be playing their last show tonight at Schuba’s. I first saw these guys over four years ago at the Hideout, and let me tell you, they are a blast. Totally infectious pop-riffs and just so much energy it’s impossible not to love them.

They are calling it quits citing personal and health reasons. Let’s hope “health reasons” means they are tired from touring and need a break and not anything more serious. If you haven’t seen these guys, go… they are a fun, up-beat band, and it’s a shame they have to call it quits. Best of luck to all of them in whatever projects come next!

[Via Chicagoist]

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Q101

July 15, 2005 by Dave!

Normally, I’m pretty strictly NPR when it comes to radio during my commute. However, during a story I don’t care about (or a pledge drive) I would normally flip over to WXRT… but lately, I’ve found myself flipping between XRT and Q101.

I used to hate Q101–I can’t stand Mancow (he’s just not funny) and the music format used to blow. But something’s changed… they switched formats or something, because in the past week I’ve caught some really great stuff. In addition to the standard new “alternative” stuff, like the White Stripes and the Postal Service, in the last week I also heard old school stuff from the Violent Femmes, the Jim Carroll Band, and Ween. It was the first time I ever hear Ween on the radio. It was cool.

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Robbie Fulks

October 16, 2004 by Dave!

You just have to love Robbie Fulks:

“Every different kind of professional entertainer is ultimately the same kind: a stripper. You rev up the fake fun machine night after night, you lay yourself before an endless, asinine parade of driveling half-wit fans, excelled in their native loathsomeness only by the crooked promoters, managerial slime, hired muscle, simpering ultramontanists, magazine writers, and miscellaneous nocturnal fauna that surround you constantly in your offstage hours, and soon the world begins to take on a dismal cast indeed. In fairness, though, it must be stipulated that going around the country as a stripper or a second-rate BTO act is not the best way to meet interesting people while preserving your idealism.”

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