A "stream of consciousness" observation on music and how we relate to it. How we purchase, listen to and enjoy music is changing. What does it mean to be a music fan in a world where every song, performance and video is literally at your fingertips? I hope to be a guide to this new world of musical experience. Featuring tunes and comments about artists, old and new in nearly every genre.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
International Pop Overthrow at PJ's Lager House April 4-6
PJ's Lager House in Corktown will be hosting the International Pop Overthrow, the music festival created and run by the one and only David Bash, rock music writer and theoretician par excellance! IPO, as it's called by it's many fans, comes to a new venue this year, with a $10.00 cover charge and 26, count 'em, 26 great local bands providing the rockin' backbeat from 7:30 Thursday to the wee small hours of Sunday morning(taking time out only to comply with local liquor laws and to change the kegs). A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Appropriately, the IPO starts the weekend the AL Champ Detroit Tigers open their season. The Tigers are the team that has bedeviled David's beloved New York Yankees the last few playoff runs. I hope David doesn't mind that I will be showing up after the Opening Day game, wearing my Tigers regalia.
I am gonna throw some links out to David's website, where you can read a lot of David's writings, reviews, top ten lists and the like. David writes very well. On his worst day about a 100 times better than I can write on my best day. And he doesn't have many bad days.
I also threw up a link to "Kim The Waitress" by the band Material Issue, who's seminal "International Pop Overthrow" release lent it's name to the whole enterprise. You can find more Material Issue on my Spotify "Chadwick's Listening Room" playlist. This great album, originally issued in 1991, is being reissued on the cool Hip-O Select label, with about an extra cd worth of bonus tracks. Material Issue main man Jim Ellison sadly killed himself in 1996, before there ever was an IPO festival, so the band never got to play IPO during his lifetime. Poignantly, the remaining members did play Chicago's IPO in April 2011 with recording artist Phil Angiotti taking Ellison's place. They played their most famous album from start to finish, along with some other fan favorites.
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