TAG: pop music

Sep14

FRIENDLY FIRES: Post-Hardcore High School Band to Indie-Pop Darlings

Interview with Friendly Fires 

Friendly Fires have been making music since they were teenagers. Ed, Edd and Eddy–just kidding, the third member’s name is Jack–met in high school and formed a post-hardcore band, First Day Back. However, they evolved into a pop band shortly after leaving university and began to take inspiration in their music from Kompakt, Carl Craig and Prince, leaving their hard-rock beginnings behind. Always having been listeners of many genres, the Fires understand and appreciate music to the fullest, so it was only natural for a conversation to go on a tangent about pop music before they were swiftly scooped up by their publicist for another interview.

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Sep02

Interview + Lykke Li (Video)

Lykke Li is not happy. Not in the sense that she is depressed, but in the sense that she is frustrated with her life presently. The 23-year old sweedish singer responsible for underground-gone-mainstream hits such as “Little Bit”, “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Let It Fall”, has been touring for what seems like ages, and she is tired of it. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t still in good spirits. I meet her in one of the only shady areas of Grant Park (home of Lollapalooza) that day, the media tent. This has to be one of the hottest days of the year, but Lykke doesn’t seem to be phased at all. Looking quite fashionable and calm, she sits down in the lawn chair across from me. But the biggest suprise about Lykke Li is that she could care less about …

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Sep02

Lykke Li Interview

Lykke Li is not happy. Not in the sense that she is depressed, but in the sense that she is frustrated with her life presently. The 23-year old sweedish singer responsible for underground-gone-mainstream hits such as “Little Bit”, “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Let It Fall”, has been touring for what seems like ages, and she is tired of it. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t still in good spirits. I meet her in one of the only shady areas of Grant Park (home of Lollapalooza) that day, the media tent. This has to be one of the hottest days of the year, but Lykke doesn’t seem to be phased at all. Looking quite fashionable and calm, she sits down in the lawn chair across from me. But the biggest suprise about Lykke Li is that she …

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Aug28

Interview + Friendly Fires (Video)

Friendly Fires have been making music since they were teenagers. Ed, Edd and Eddy- just kidding, the third member’s name is Jack- met in high school and formed a post-hardcore band called First Day Back. However, they evolved into a pop band shortly after leaving University and began to take inspiration in their music from Kompakt, Carl Craig and Prince, leaving their hard-rock beginnings behind. Always having been listeners of all genres, the Fires understand and appreciate music to the fullest, so it was only natural for a conversation to go on a tangent about pop music before they were swiftly scooped up by their publicist for another interview.

Have you guys been here in Chicago before?

FF:We have been to Chicago. We played at the Double Door-Well done Double Door, and especially well-done Earwax …

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Aug25

Interview + Donald of The Virgins (Video)

If the Virgins aren’t a pop band by nature, they do a damn good job of pretending. With their surprise hit “Rich Girls” appearing everywhere from Rolling Stone’s “Best Songs Of 2008” to hoity-toity teen dramadies such as Gossip Girl, lead singer Donald Cumming & Co. are making big waves in the world of pop music.

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Jun11

Kanye West Performs For Nerds

We keed! We keed!

Kids from several different Chicago Public Schools cluttered into the tightly packed Chicago Theatre to catch the first of two Kanye West concerts. Mr. West played one of his more impromptu gigs for the high schoolers, who attended the concert as a reward for either improving their grades or maintaining steady ones (Maybe if Kanye West would performed every time I got good grades I wouldn’t be failing Math).

Starting the concert by simply asking the crowd “What do you want me to play?”, Kanye went through a string of hits- “Jesus Walks”, “Good Life”, “Amazin”—reminding Chicago why he’s been at the forefront of pop culture for almost a decade. Yeezy was in true form this Thursday afternoon, jumping into every song with the same energy, aggressiveness and visible effort he displayed during …

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