Something is pretty awesome in the state of Denmark. This ham-fisted MacBeth reference is doubly pertinent for the city of Aalborg, the nation’s fourth largest city (after Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) and, according to Professor Wikipedia, the one designated as “The Paris of the North.” There are a lot of other facts I could include [...]

We’ve been enjoying the holidays here at Citizen Dick, tending to the homefires and (for the most part) neglecting the blogosphere.  You, faithful reader, probably have been doing the same, making the jaunt from hearth to hearth, exchanging the gifts, roasting the Yule log and so forth.  Tomorrow, we kick our Best of 2009 retrospective [...]

I’m going to start off the day by jumping right into a quick review of The Drones show at Schubas Tavern that I mentioned last week in this space. In the interest of full disclosure, I went to the bar this past Tuesday woefully unprepared. Though I was fully aware that The Drones have been [...]

To begin this review, it’s important to make our apologies for getting this review up nearly a month after the show took place.  This isn’t our normal operating procedure, and folks, we feel terrible about it.  Of all of the shows this summer, these two early August gems were among the best we’ve seen all [...]

All of us here at Citizen Dick are very excited to bring you an amazing opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the Eulogies show here in Chicago at the beautiful Lakeshore Theatre, where they will be playing with The Dears and Great Northern on Wednesday, May 13th.  In case you missed it, we [...]

Spring Break came with impeccable timing this year. Brian and I both filled our briefcases full of student homework, shuffled out of the school doors and entered break with a little Dr. Dog and Golden Boots on the brain. Fate was on our top album list in 2008, and Winter of our Discotheque was one [...]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, we are involved with a very special show coming up this week that we are excited to tell you about.  Citizen Dick has teamed up with Beachland Tavern and Misra Records to help bring you Southeast [...]

Heading to Ronny’s tonight for the Eulogies show, I must admit I was a bit apprehensive having never been there before and basing my expectations on the less than favorable Yelp! reviews I had read.  Needless to say, I was not all that surprised when I walked in.  The main area of Ronny’s Bar is [...]

Music Saves is a perfect little record shop. The side walls are lined with the latest new releases on vinyl, and I can get lost digging through albums and arguing with Brian about the merits of this or that. The bright neon sign outside the shop, along with the neon of The Beachland, are beacons in [...]

We know you’ve been on the edge of your seat, waiting expectantly for Citizen Dick’s first road show, covering Blitzen Trapper from Chicago to Detroit.  We pulled out all the stops on this one, with pictures, commentary, set lists, and even a few words from the Trappers themselves to share with you today.  So sit [...]