A Cause For Attention
Causes for attention keep calling, and this holiday brings out the best in many.
This Thanksgiving: Against Me!, the Harvest of Hope Foundation, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
Happy Thanksgiving, HEAVE readers, and here's hoping that your list of things to give thanks for is at an all time high this year.
Thanksgiving night, a special Against Me! acoustic show, with Sage Francis, World Inferno Friendship Society and Cobra Skulls, will begin at 6PM at Metro (3730 N...
Posted by Leen Morrissey on Nov 22, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Across The Pond
Peter Saville, The Kooks, Oasis and Spiritualized in this week's Across The Pond
Peter Saville, album art designer for many popular Factory Records offerings, recently spoke of Joy Dision/New Order's inter-band bickering and sometimes indifference when it came to album artwork...
"Complete liberty...Strangely out of disinterest. It was New Order's disinterest and agreed policy of disagreement that allowed it. When Ian died, the natural hierarchy which would have naturally formed in Joy Division.....Posted by Joe Roth on Nov 21, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Takin' You Back
Takin' You Back goes progressive.
What makes up a progressive rock band? Horns? Eight minute songs? Jazz-like music? Is it just highly technical? These are actually rhetorical questions because I don't have an answer. I simply know what bands are prog, which aren't and which might be. For those of you who are completely unfamiliar with progressive rock - Steely Dan is the most cited example. Rush is said to be prog-rock (although I think I disagree). Listen to these tracks and I guarantee you will have a better understanding of this genre...
Posted by Greg Herald on Nov 21, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Windy City Watch
Oh Chicago, you give us our home, and many great bands. HEAVE gives thanks in this week's Watch.
I've got Thanksgiving on the brain. As I poured through bands in the Chicagoland area that deserve a worthy note, I started to think of the local acts I'm thankful for in my life. It started on a small scale, thinking about new bands that I'm proud of and excited for. Then I thought of the the bigger picture; bands that I'm thankful for who broke out of Chicago, and went on to do bigger and better things. The bands who have influenced the musical taste and sonic road map of my own life...
Posted by Lisa White on Nov 20, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Commercially Aware
You can call them sellouts, but HEAVE calls them career moves.
This week's "Commercially Aware" focuses on the obsessive indie-love crush of every man on the planet: Chan Marshall. She performs under the name Cat Power, but she could call herself Dog Doo in a Ziplock Bag and it wouldn't matter a bit. In her early days, she experimented with free-form jazz fusion and blues work, but didn't gain a true fan base, outside of other musicians, until she began recording and releasing work of sparse minimalism-usually highlighting a single guitar and her lush voice.
Corporate America seems to have caught on to her appeal, as Cat Power music has steadily infused itself into a number of commercial campaigns. My personal favorite is the Cingular Wireless ad where a strapping young fellow waits for days for a call from a girl. For as much as Cingular's service sucks, the commercial is fantastic: the Cat Power cover of a Nerves song perfectly fits the mood and every guy on the planet can sympathize with the sentiment.
More people with probably recognize Marshall from the De Beers diamond commercial entitled "Morning Surprises" (which sounds dirtier than it actually is). The ad features a Cat Power cover of the Cat Stevens song "How Can I Tell You." I have a more difficult time liking this commercial, because the likelihood that some child in Africa lost a limb to mine the diamond featured in the commercial is pretty high; still, it is a beautiful cover by Marshall.
Cat Power and Cingular Wireless
Posted by Ryan Peters on Nov 20, 2007 @ 12:00 am