The Chicago Sun-Times’ blog recently published an interesting piece by noted music critic Jim DeRogatis, in which he attempts to prove that ‘90s Alternative Nation darlings (and specifically Chicago acts Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Liz Phair and Smashing Pumpkins) resemble the baby-boomer acts they once railed against. DeRogatis says that although it seemed implausible that these groups would become like “the artistically stilted, cash-hungry or pathetically reactionary dinosaurs that prec
Setlist and words from Shae Moseley. Can anyone help with the question marks? Photos by Todd Owyoung.Slide ShowPink Floyd's "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" has been a setlist staple on this fall's Smashing Pumpkins
20th Anniversary Tour. But Floyd's influence was actually quite easy to
spot throughout Billy Corgan and Co.'s tinnitus-inducing 25-song set at
the Fox Theatre last night in St. Louis. The show was awash in epic
'70s-glam-prog eccentricities, including the use of at least
Calvin Engel
"This is how we know we're back in Missouri -- they don't do that shit out west. They don't stomp," Brian Roberts, lead singer of straight-out-of-the-Ozarks band Ha Ha Tonka, said last night as the crowd in cowboy boots and flip-flops alike dug their heels in to Off Broadway's wooden dance floor.
Ha Ha Tonka sounds like America Right Now. Listeners will draw references to current acts Kings of Leon and the Avett Brothers (who in turn reference the Band and the Allman Brothe
