Elizabeth Rhodes
Articles by Elizabeth Rhodes
Battle in Seattle
Issue #35
Directed by Stuart Townsend
Ingrid Michaelson
Issue #34
After a little help from Grey’s Anatomy and a number of label offers, the singer-songwriter decides to self-release her latest album
The Donnas
Issue #34
The quartet has come a long way from its humble high school beginnings to its Bitchin’ present
Smashing Pumpkins
Zeitgeist (Martha’s Music/Reprise)
The Bound Stems
Chicagoans may have to share their beloved indie band with the rest of us
Plague Songs
Issue #30
Various Artists (4AD)
The Sweatshop of Love
How Allyson Dykhuizen avoided the post-graduate blues by opening a Chicago knitting school
Ani DiFranco
Issue #29
Reprieve (Righteous Babe)
Caught in the act
Now a three-day, one-stop Chicago festival, 15-year-old Lollapalooza is packing a more uplifting punch
Aqualung rocks out
Singer-songwriter Matt Hales storms the Chicago Metro on March 4, 2006
Magneta Lane
Dancing With Daggers (Paper Bag)
Magneta Lane
Issue #27
Dancing With Daggers (Paper Bag)
Recreating Rubber Soul
The Donnas, Ben Harper, the Cowboy Junkies, and other stellar artists cover the Beatles’ 1965 masterpiece
Sigur Ros at the Chicago Theater (September 21, 2005)
Chicago rocked 'til it cried to this ethereal Icelandic quartet
The Greenhornes
Issue #25
East Grand Blues EP (Prize Brigade/V2)
Barbez
The women of Brooklyn’s cabaret-punk band talk about bizarre gigs, theremins, and their album, 'Insignificance'
'The Aristocrats' review
More than 100 comedians discuss and deliver the dirtiest joke ever told
Beth Custer
The San Francisco musician and label owner talks about grants, writing film scores, and preaching Respect As a Religion
Boise, Idaho
Not just a sack of potatoes
