colin, book your tickets to chicago
Likely to not be of interest to many, but…
Touch and Go Records is having their 25th Anniversary Celebration. All the online peoples (for instance) are having themselves a fit because Steve Albini’s band Big Black will be playing and they just skim by other bands, including the underrecognized Seam (which doesn’t even have a wikipedia page). Seam hasn’t played in a while and might as well be broken up.
The T&G celebration includes a bunch of great acts, in addition to that, including Ted Leo, Black Heart Procession, Pinback, Man…or Astroman?, Shellac, Calexico, etc.
It’s pretty cheap too ($35 for the weekend). Maybe I should fly to Chicago.