The Essex Green show at Club Cafe I was so jacked about got cancelled last night due to weather. What a buzzkill. Appears the band had a hard time getting here from their Monday night show at the Southgate House. DAMN! All dressed up, and no place to go.
Go buy some Essex Green here. Package it with some Camera Obscura for nice little deal:
Merge Records
Not wanting to waste a night on the Southside, Jess & I went to our favorite little wine & tapas joint, Ibiza. I highly recommend Ibiza. Great tapas, and a pretty extensive wine list...much of which is available by the glass or by sampling flights for different countries. We tried the Portugal flight last night, in honor of Portugal's big 2-nil victory over Brazil yesterday (see...it always comes back to futbol).
Extremely friendly & helpful waitstaff as well...they know how to treat people. Ibiza is located at the far end of the strip, right next to its father restaurant, Mallorca:
2224 E. Carson
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Back to the pop music tip:So this little band here called Office is from Chicago, and is in the running for SPIN magazine's "underground artist of the year."
Go vote now (HURRY, there's less than 48 hours to vote):
http://www.spin.com/artistoftheyear/underground/
Not only because I'm telling you to, or because they're from Chicago, or because guitarist Tom Smith is a relative of a friend of a friend of a friend (Empties Crushed is all about the 6 degrees, baby)...but for the shear fact they write some beautiful, brilliantly catchy pop songs. We like that sorta thing around here.
If you need further convincing, check out Office here:
Looks like they'll be releasing an album in the upcoming months on New Line Records, so be sure to check their web page for news and shows:
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