Boot & Saddle

This June NY experimental outfit Gang Gang Dance released their first album in seven years.  Kazuashita (which roughly translates to “Peace Tomorrow”), is the follow-up to 2011’s critically acclaimed Eye Contact (both brought to us by 4AD).  Although the band are best known for their improvisational techniques, Kazuashita has...

Tonight, our very favorite nearly-Center City venue, Boot & Saddle, is hosting a stellar lineup.  Opening the evening is local, post-riot grrrl rocker extraordinaire, Madalean Gauze, and headlining is ineffably quirky Chicago noise poppers, Ohmme.  However, we may be most excited (but not by a lot) for Renata Zeiguer,...

Last month Seattle trio Wimps, hailed by The Stranger as, “Almost-catchier-than-the-Beatles,” released their third LP, Garbage People, likely the best punk album of the year.  The album, which dropped courtesy of Kill Rock Stars, resembles many of the label’s most legendary accomplishments (perhaps none more so than Bratmobile), in...

It’s been nearly a year to the day since the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection last saw indie poppers Now, Now.  Last July the Minneapolis duo went on tour and played a super-duper-sold-out show at Boot & Saddle, after a hiatus that lasted nearly half-a-decade.  Fans lined...

Irish folk singer/songwriter Ciaran Lavery is set to kick off his latest US tour this Wednesday, June 20th, at our very own Boot & Saddle, when he double-headlines our favorite former-honky-tonk with duo Cicada Rhythm.  This April Ciaran released his third album, Sweet Decay, arguably his most accomplished yet. ...

So, although most of the major problems with Ticketfly and the ability to actually use the tickets that you paid for have been resolved, I realize that most venue’s still have websites that are pretty fucked up and not particularly welcoming or likely-to-be-good-at convincing to get you out to...

We’ve always been big fans (and we’d like to think “friends”) of Nashville singer/songwriter Tristen Gaspadarek (although usually known simply as “Tristen”).  We fell in love with 2011’s Charlatans At The Garden Gate, one of the best Americana albums of the century, and we were equally as charmed with...

Although North Carolina Americana quartet Mipso have just been making music together for a little more than half a decade, April 6th saw the release of their fourth full-length studio album, quite a feat in the age of iTunes and digital-only EPs.  The album is Edges Run, which would...

S. Carey is undoubtedly best known as the drummer for Bon Ivar, he should perhaps be equally acknowledged for having exceptionally excellent taste in support acts. The last time he was in town, April of 2014 at Boot & Saddle, he brought with him ineffably delectable art pop chanteuse...