The Jesus Lizard @ Metro
Culture Bully (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo coverage of the Jesus Lizard's performance at the Metro in Chicago. (Night one.)
Culture Bully (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo coverage of the Jesus Lizard's performance at the Metro in Chicago. (Night one.)
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
When your frontman has busted ribs and is confined to a chair, can a band still bring the full element of danger?
Faronheit (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... those cold months. Always wanting to end my concert-going year on a high note, I decided that The Jesus Lizard's show at the Metro this past Saturday would be my last concert until next March or April of 2010. Having seen the band make their grand return to Chicago earlier this year for the Pitchfork Music Festival, it was my understanding that the two November shows at the Metro...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
David Yow didn't allow bruised ribs suffered from an accidental fall during The Jesus Lizard's first of two sold-out weekend shows at Metro to keep him from playing the second concert. Yet the vocalist's injury, incurred while he was crowd-surfing to the closing "Wheelchair Epidemic" at Friday's unhinged 75-minute performance, significantly limited his trademark antics the following...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
As a typically manic homecoming show wound down Friday at Metro, Jesus Lizard's whirlwind singer, David Yow, put himself in harm's way again and paid the price. Yow injured himself while crowd-surfing during the encore. Medical staff had to attend to him immediately and he was taken to a local hospital for treatment. But Yow's bruised ribs won't keep him from performing a second Jesus...
Turn It Up (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
As a typically manic homecoming show wound down Friday at Metro, the Jesus Lizard’s whirlwind singer, David Yow, put himself in harm’s way again and paid the price. Yow injured himself while crowd-surfing during the encore, crashing to the floor...
Turn It Up (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The Jesus Lizard: The reunited art-punk quartet lived up to all the pent-up expectations with an explosive performance at the Pitchfork Music Festival last summer, their first hometown concert in a decade. Now they’re back in more intimate confines at...