Last night (4/23/08) my bro and I headed over to Schuba’s Tavern (Belmont and Southport Aves, Chicago) to see Damien Dempsey and Jess Klein. Schuba’s is in my humble opinion one of Chicago’s best venues – a North side bar with a really intimate stage. I’ve seen a handful of shows there over the years, [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time on AmieStreet.com, which is one of the coolest online music communities I have ever seen. Way cooler, in my opinion, than iTunes. That’s not to bash Apple, though – iTunes serves an important purpose. Being a musician myself, however, and often dreaming of leaving it all behind for [...]

To Hell or Barbados by Damien Dempsey, one of Dublin’s finest: I have been listening to this album indefinitely. Dempsey is the kind of guy you’d expect to see in a Guy Ritchie film like Snatch or Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. He has a commanding, epic voice with a solid North Dublin accent, [...]