Sat 13 Aug – Northalsted Market Days

I went to see Darren Criss perform at the Northalsted Market Days today. I’ve been a pretty big fan of A Very Potter Musical and Sequel since I was introduced to it about a year ago, and I’ve also been listening to The Warblers CD from Glee Cast since Darren Criss is on it (although I don’t really watch the show). As a free show besides the suggested donation to enter the fair, it was definitely worth it to go!

My friend and I got there at around 4:10pm, and a bunch of…

Since my last update was in September 2010, I guess this is an update on the past school year in music!

Concerts:

Jimmy Eat World, Oct. 7 2010 - Review: http://www.last.fm/user/kalsonberry/journal/2010/10/08/3ysvzm_jimmy_eat_world_concert_review_-_1072010

Panic! At The Disco / fun., June 8 2011 - Review:
http://www.last.fm/user/kalsonberry/journal/2011/06/13/4flm7r_panic%21_at_the_disco_concert_review_-_682011

Dillo Day, May 28 2011:
The New Pornographers - They were alright, I think I would have liked their set more if I had listened to it beforehand. And I have to say their name turns me off a bit…
Peter Bjorn and John - I listened to some of their music beforehand, and I…

Wed 8 Jun – Panic! At the Disco, fun., Funeral Party

I haven’t written a note on here in forever!

Anyway, I went to see Panic! At The Disco, fun., and Funeral Party on June 8, 2011 at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. It was on the evening after I had two finals in the afternoon so it was definitely a good break, although I actually had to pull an all-nighter the next night to finish one more take-home final…haha.

My friend and I took the subway down and arrived at around 6:40pm, and found a good spot…

Thu 7 Oct – Jimmy Eat World, We Were Promised Jetpacks

Well, writing a review seems to be the best way that I relive concerts, so I’m writing one now. It was amazing, Jimmy Eat World is probably my favorite band so there’s not a lot of things better than seeing them in concert for the first time. :D

I went with two of my good friends this time, and after eating dinner at Noodles and Co. we took the L down to the Lawrence stop. I really liked the location as it’s closer to us than downtown Chicago, and…

For the first time in maybe about 4 years, Yellowcard has been dethroned and now Jimmy Eat World is my #1 artist on Last.fm. This also happened to occur on the day that I'm going to see Jimmy Eat World in concert. :D
Yellowcard is supposed to come out with something new soon which I'm really excited about, but with Invented I think Jimmy Eat World is here to stay!

Well, this is long overdue. I was meaning to write a half-year review but I couldn’t find the time, and even now I don’t really feel like I have time but school starts in a couple days so I thought I better write one before that. Life is busy!

Anyway, this year in music started off with a few great new releases by some of my favorites, and then there was a pretty large gap where there wasn’t really any new albums to check out. So I checked out a good number of older albums from the library this summer,…

Wed 7 Apr – Motion City Soundtrack

This concert was awesome! It was the third concert that I've sought out to go to, and it's definitely up there with the Mae concert I went to last year.

My friend and I decided to risk it again this time and not buy tickets beforehand, and we got very lucky…again! They only had a few tickets left, so we ended up getting box seats on the top floor. Being in the box has its pros and cons…you don't get to join in on all the excitement that goes on the ground floor,…

Hello there! Well, since I began seriously listening to music, I'd say this is my second-favorite year in music after 2007. There were a lot of very solid albums, and particularly in the last couple of months 4 of my top favorite bands have released new albums. There was a little lull for me in new music in the middle of the year, but there were a lot of great releases in the beginning and the end of the year, some by new bands I liked, and others by old favorites. Overall, a great year! And I am running out…

Sat 31 Oct – The Cheap Date Tour

Well, this concert was the second one that I went to that I found out about myself, the first one being Mae/Person L/Barcelona/Tokyo last spring. I didn't enjoy it as much as that concert, but it was still a lot of fun nonetheless.

My friend and I arrived at the House of Blues Chicago at around 4:35 pm, and at this point we were a little unhappy because we realized the ticket prices were $18 instead of $13 and then I had to pay an extra $5 to check in my camera.…

Step 1: Put your media player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play.
Step 3: Cross out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own!

1. “I’m not a perfect person, there’s many things I wish I didn’t do”
2. “Am I alone in this? Never a night where I can sleep myself ‘til day”
3. “It’s too late baby, there’s no turning around, got my…