How about this show: Bright Eyes, The Felice Brothers and Nik Freitas. At the shows Nik will be selling his tour only ep called Shoe Bee Doo Bop. “Sun Down” is a song that examines all the frailties of the world, the environment and life as we know it on planet earth. This is really what I hoped the new Ben Lee and the new Josh Ritter would sound like. I was disappointed by both of those but thankfully now have room for more stuff like this.
Bonus song from Shoe Bee Doo Bop:
From Nik’s 2006 release Voicing The Hammers
P.S. I wrote up a couple songs from a new cd from Chicagoan Daniel Knox on Transmission. He fit’s the circus/cabaret/lounge rock of previous songs:Illinois posts. Also Swedesplease has a great pop song from Slow Motion Club.