For all those living in Chicago, I would recommend going to see Jakob (http://www.jakob.co.nz/) live, in June. The dates are

02 Jul 2004
The Bottom Lounge

03 Jul 2004
The Fireside Bowl

05 Jul 2004
Subterranean Lounge

Jakob are an amazing New Zealand rock band. Here's a description I pulled off a music site:

"In the fine tradition of bands such as Sonic Youth, Slint and Flying Nun's HDU, Napier (NZ) three-piece Jakob make deliciously expansive and frequently intense dissonant rock music, that given the right volume and listener's perception is quite spell bounding."

Anyway, just a heads-up for those interested. I wish they would come back to NZ soon and do some touring here again.


-Hendy