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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Peaches! is the best album by @theblackkeys.bsky.social in 15 years, and their show earlier this month at the Vic felt like a return to their heyday. Don't sleep on The Animeros, an Austin psychedelic cumbia band signed to Easy Eye Sound, who opened sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8235761...

The Black Keys & The Animeros Live Show Review: 7/15, Vic Theatre, Chicago

The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach BY JORDAN MAINZER Two weeks ago at the Vic Theatre, in between ripping through "Gold on the Ceiling", a standout from The Black Keys' most Grammy-nominated album, and...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Collected my thoughts on @missmargoprice.bsky.social, Hurray for the Riff Raff, this year's @squarerootschi.bsky.social, folk tradition/@oldtownschool.bsky.social, and Alynda's stellar band at the fest and on Live Forever (@nonesuch.com) sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8230316...

Square Roots Saturday 2026: 7/11

Margo Price BY JORDAN MAINZER As the Jon Langford-designed mural of John Prine was unveiled on the north-facing wall of the Old Town School of Folk Music, I found myself reflecting on the fact that....

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Went deep with Jacob Augustine about his new album I Love You Forever (and @teamloverecords.bsky.social debut), wherein he sings about his grief in the broader context of societal ills. RIYL ANOHNI, Roy Orbison, classic country, daring songwriting. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8223899...

Jacob Augustine Interview: We All Get Wrung Through the Same Wringer

Photo by Joshua Powers BY JORDAN MAINZER When I called singer-songwriter Jacob Augustine in early May, some hours before a show in Madison, Wisconsin, he was still in Chicago, having played The...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · last mo.

Chalk’s Crystalpunk collects sounds that suggest an emotional spectrum–pained vocal turns, wincing drops of noise, giddy synth arpeggios–and lays them over pummeling beats, as if to emphasize the dance floor as the center stage for living sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8210292...

Chalk Album Review: Crystalpunk

(ALTER) BY JORDAN MAINZER According to Belfast duo Chalk, the project of vocalist and producer Ross Cullen and multi-instrumentalist Benedict Goddard, the club is where you can go to feel, work...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · last mo.

"It’s been an intense time to be a human in general. It’s important to find the joy and cry where you can, and take everything one step at a time. It feels like every step is such a leap of faith." Per usual, had a great conversation with Shannon Lay! sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8202208...

Shannon Lay Interview: Coming Up for Air

Photo by Joanna Grace Babb BY JORDAN MAINZER Each one of Shannon Lay's past few albums have coincided with a significant chapter in her career. August was the Los Angeles singer-songwriter's first.....

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The contemporary listener can take in @mandyindiana.bsky.social the same way they might opera, following a story of emotional high stakes rather than one comprised of plot or narrative structure. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8194927...

Mandy, Indiana Album Review: URGH

(Sacred Bones) BY JORDAN MAINZER You don't have to speak French to understand the urgency present within URGH, the sophomore album and Sacred Bones debut from Manchester noise rock band Mandy,...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Warm Love Cool Dreams - Sunday at @saltshedchicago.bsky.social, aka when Falcon from Being Dead asked, "Who did you come to see today?" and the entire crowd shouted, "You!" (I also came to see Moin, Nourished By Time, etc.) sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8189507...

Warm Love Cool Dreams Sunday: "Who Did You Come To See Today?"

Nourished By Time BY JORDAN MAINZER Though Warm Love Cool Dreams Sunday was headlined by artists who made some of the most beloved indie records of the 2010s, my favorite sets were primarily earlier...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Warm Love Cool Dreams - Saturday, aka "the goth day" aka the day of bands at @saltshedchicago.bsky.social who sounded like nobody else but themselves. Headlined by @themarychain.bsky.social with stellar sets by Tortoise, Smerz, YHWH Nailgun, and Kumo 99 sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8184956...

Warm Love Cool Dreams Saturday: "The Goth Day"

The Jesus and Mary Chain BY JORDAN MAINZER Before the more popular, longstanding indie rock stalwarts of the 2010s took over, the Saturday of the second Warm Love Cool Dreams festival at the Salt...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As Hen Ogledd's DISCOMBOBULATED (@dominorecordco.bsky.social) goes on, it becomes simultaneously more urgent and more hopeful. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8177738...

Hen Ogledd Album Review: DISCOMBOBULATED

(Domino) BY JORDAN MAINZER The Newcastle upon Tyne quartet really means it with the title of their fourth album. When you listen to Hen Ogledd's DISCOMBOBULATED, it seems like your schemas have been...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"'The Callous Man'" is a great focus track in juxtaposition to the two more straight forward singles that came before it. It offers a deeper look in to where the album goes if you sit with the whole thing." Thanks to Primitive Ring for premiering with me! sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8166834...

Primitive Ring Focus Track Premiere: "The Callous Man"

Primitive Ring BY JORDAN MAINZER What do you do when you're prolific musicians, working with restless virtuosos like Ty Segall and leading bands such as Hoveriii, and you have a free moment? Start a...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Opening for their label founder Mac DeMarco at @saltshedchicago.bsky.social last Thursday, Mock Media offered a preview of the disparate areas they’ll be traversing in the future. Words on and photos of their set, and photos of Mac's set, too! sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8164084...

Mock Media Live Show Review & Mac DeMarco Photo Gallery: 5/8, The Salt Shed, Chicago

Mock Media BY JORDAN MAINZER Very few bands making music in 2026 sound like Mock Media. This is probably because very few have such strong irreverence for the type of propriety that would prevent...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"My favorite music is music you don’t know what direction it’s gonna go in…and it surprises you." Spoke to Selwyn Birchwood about Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues (out now via @alligator1971.bsky.social) sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8145091...

Selwyn Birchwood Interview: An Arrival of Sorts

Photo by Laura Carbone BY JORDAN MAINZER Often, it takes a musician handing over the controls to a second set of ears to sonically manifest their aims. The opposite was the case for Selwyn Birchwood...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Have found myself returning all year to Tragic Magic, LP1 from Lattimore x Barwick, made in partnership with @infinemusic.bsky.social and the @philharmonie.bsky.social. Wrote a review! sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8131503...

Mary Lattimore & Juliana Barwick Album Review: Tragic Magic

(InFiné) BY JORDAN MAINZER The type of music that harpist Mary Lattimore and singer/producer Julianna Barwick play is transformational. Beautiful and sometimes droning, it lulls you into hypnosis,.....

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Foo Fighters’ 'Big Me' video is iconic, so I didn’t try to compete with it. I went in the opposite direction and kept things really personal." sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8127915...

Bosh Rothman Song Premiere: "Big Me"

Photo by Megan Anton BY JORDAN MAINZER Introducing a new side of yourself to the public often feels vulnerable, even when that introduction is mostly via covers of well-known songs. For drummer Bosh...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On Saturday at Lincoln Hall, Cass McCombs stretched out even the most taut and punchy songs from his latest album Interior Live Oak (@dominorecordco.bsky.social), while Danny Arakaki reined in his compositions, reducing them to their bare elements. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8127877...

Cass McCombs & Danny Arakaki Live Show Review: 3/28, Lincoln Hall, Chicago

Cass McCombs BY JORDAN MAINZER One's a playful singer-songwriter and the other's a certain Deadhead, but on their tour, Cass McCombs and Danny Arakaki have switched places. On Saturday at Lincoln...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Had a great chat with Carlos Niño around his new album Bubble Bath for Giants and releasing music consistent with his values sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8125172...

Carlos Niño Interview: The Infinite of our Souls and Spirits

Carlos Niño BY JORDAN MAINZER When I first listen to a Carlos Niño & Friends record, I dive right in without reading too much about it. The sounds seem endless, a spectrum from the human voice to...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out my interview with Cass McCombs about Interior Live Oak (@dominorecordco.bsky.social) and the "flimsy" way he and his band play live. Catch him Saturday at Lincoln Hall! sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8120607...

Cass McCombs Interview: Songs Aren't Sounds, They're Something More Ethereal

Photo by Silvia Grav BY JORDAN MAINZER For almost 25 years, NYC-via-California singer-songwriter Cass McCombs has shared gentle, sparse, impressionistic songs and albums that combine Dylan-esque...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Did Michael Shannon and @jasonnarducy.bsky.social know that their tribute to one of the finest rock bands of all time would somewhat follow the evolution of @remhq.bsky.social themselves? My review of their @metrochicago.com show on Friday. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8115232...

Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy: (Go Back to) Metro

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy and Friends BY JORDAN MAINZER When actor Michael Shannon and prolific local hero/musician Jason Narducy teamed up to play R.E.M.'s classic debut Murmur in full at.....

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"I feel like the live versions naturally evolved from the recorded versions because we all bring our own sensibilities to them...That’s the beauty of the alchemy of a band." @softcult.band speaks to me about touring When A Flower Doesn't Grow. sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8103455...

Softcult Interview: Being the Change, Making the Change

Photo by Kaylene Widdoes BY JORDAN MAINZER The benefits of leaving a smothering situation might not be immediately apparent, but they're almost always fruitful. Twin siblings Mercedes and Phoenix...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Max Clarke of Cut Worms told me his upcoming album Transmitter (@jagjaguwar.bsky.social) is "a product of being alive for longer." Maybe he'll discuss it with Jeff Tweedy (who produced it) tonight at @oldtownschool.bsky.social? sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8102566...

Cut Worms Interview: A Different Kind of Substance

Cut Worms BY JORDAN MAINZER These days, Max Clarke explores the elusive. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, who records as Cut Worms, has made a name for himself writing classic-sounding rock and...

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Jordan Mainzer/Since I Left You@jmainzer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"That’s...what I’m trying to do with this album: do a more rock and roll album, something that will make you dance and move and inspire you to have fun with the social commentary." Spoke to @lowcutconnie.bsky.social about the upcoming Livin in the USA sinceileftyoublog.tumblr.com/post/8100879...

Low Cut Connie Interview: Pennies in the Jar

Photo by Danny Clinch BY JORDAN MAINZER Adam Weiner, the founder and sole constant member of the project Low Cut Connie, operates with steadfast principles. From his continually self-released music,...

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