After Tangleweed’s South Side show Saturday night, I’ll be rushing back home to Logan Square to play with my pal Bill Whitmer in the Williwaw Ensemble. Bill is the world’s foremost avant-garde ukulelist, and his ensemble shows are a trip.

The Chicago Reader’s Monica Kendrick gave Bill a nice write up in this week’s edition. (more…)

Tangleweed is playing a smoke-free show tonight (Friday, February 3) at the Charleston in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood. The Charleston is the first bar in the city to go smoke-free. It’s the kind of cozy neighborhood watering hole that Chicago doesn’t have enough of anymore, and, now that it’s smoke-free, you can have a few drinks and not come home smelling like an ashtray. http://www.charlestonchicago.com

Saturday night we’re making a rare South-Side appearance, only our second ever, when we play a music and movies event at the South Union Arts Center. Doors open at eight, with music following shortly thereafter. Our set will be followed with the first screening of a new indie rock documentary. Details follow. (more…)