Your chance to win front row tickets to Pavement at Millennium Park
Pavement’s Sunday appearance at Pitchfork is completely sold out, but just yesterday, the band announced that they will be adding four more dates to their 2010 tour, and Chicago has been added to the list! Tickets for Pavement’s show at Millennium Park on September 13 don’t go on sale to the general public until this Saturday at 11AM, but CHIRP and Jam Productions are giving you the chance to win a pair of front row seats before anyone can buy them! Anyone who makes a gift of $35 or more to CHIRP between now and Saturday at 10AM will be entered in a drawing to win these tickets. The winner will be announced on the air at CHIRP Radio at 10:30AM on Saturday, a half an hour before they go on sale to the general public.
Make your gift today and enter to win.
Gifts must be received before 10AM on Saturday, June 19 to be eligible for the drawing.
Hands down my favorite album of 2009. Weird. Trippy. Delicious. Not to mention I’m a sucker for great vocal harmonies. I always have to listen to this album with headphones on so that I can capture and dig inside each little blip and bleep of sound.
It took me a long time to get into this album because I was being impatient and trying to listen to it on the commute to work, and you just can’t listen to this album in that environment. It’s too quiet and soft. Once I finally gave it a fair listen with a cup of coffee in hand in a moment of peace, it became magical to me.
Their Rick Rubin produced, major label debut may be a lot smoother and more polished than their previous efforts, but maybe the brothers are just growing up. It’s sing-songy and catchy so I don’t mind.
A pretty instrumental album that I love putting on when just sitting and watching the sites go by on the train. I imagine it as the soundtrack to a lonely travel scene from a movie.
My brother claims he hates Andrew Bird because he feels like he needs a dictionary on hand in order to listen to his albums, but that’s precisely why I love Andrew Bird! That and I’m super envious of his whistlin’ skills.
I can get completely lost in his dark, rich voice. Swoon.
Neko Case always seems to put out an album when I’m in the middle of a break-up, so her albums have become like therapy to me. “I want the pharaohs, but there’s only men.” Exactly.
Some of these songs hit me in the gut with their perfect melancholy. It makes me want to get drunk on whiskey and make out with strangers, and I mean that in the best possible way.
This album reminds me of when I was 16 and listened to a ton of Pink Floyd. It has those moments of weirdness blended with moments of sheer beauty that just make your jaw drop in awe.
I love folk and brass and this is the best of both worlds in one place. I read this described as “New Orleans funeral music” somewhere, and if that’s true, then send me to Louisiana right before I die.
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