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Lenses Alien bears traces of Modest Mouse, Superchunk, Cap'n Jazz, Slint, and others, but the songs exude a craftsmanship that simple re-appropriation couldn't achieve. The band may be trying too hard to emphasize that by opening the album with an epic track, but the point isn't lost.

Back in 2009, Mike Kinsella (of Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owen) took on the task of organizing a fundraiser for Girls Rock! Chicago. He gathered a handful of musician friends and together they performed a Morrissey cover show, bringing in a healthy sum of money for the non-profit organization. This Thursday, the group will reunite for another GR!C benefit show - except this time they’re taking on ...

Lest you think the Midwest's tradition of jazzy, proggy, emotive rock is dead, Yourself and the Air will carry the torch Thursday at The Basement. The youthful Chicago quartet is steeped in a lineage including the likes of Cap'n Jazz and Aloha, bands that refused to choose between forgoing a punk aesthetic or letting those music theory classes go to waste.

So difficult to keep track of the incestuous post-punk Chicago scene that is the Cap’n Jazz fallout: Owls, Make Believe, The Promise Ring, American Football, Ghosts and Vodka, Owen, Love of Everything, so on and so on and so on… So when devoted fans of this specific sound and faction heard Tim Kinsella-led Joan of Arc was taking stage at Mercury Lounge last night, fan boy boners rose faster than ...

Image of Cap'n Jazz from Pooneh Ghana Before performing the last of their reunion shows to a bunch of post-hardcore kids Saturday afternoon at Fun Fun Fun fest, drummer Mike Kinsella and guitarist Victor Villareal of Cap'n'Jazz talked about the old days, bad press, and Tim Kinsella's reluctance to give interviews (although Austinist's Alex Daniel spoke with him last week). When did Cap'n Jazz ...

Fellow Chicago-native Thax Douglas emerged on the Orange Stage to introduce Cap'n Jazz with one of his dark, unique poems as the screamo five-piece took the stage. The excited crowd seemed as though they could have literally been waiting fifteen years for this performance as fans stretched through Waterloo Park. Of course this was a highly anticipated, epic reunion and a historical showcase that ...

Joan of Arc on MySpace Joan of Arc at the Mohawk Saturday, November 6 Mohawk ( 912 Red River Street ) $10 ($5 with F3F wristband), 9pm [ info ] When Cap’n Jazz plays Fun Fun Fun Fest today on the Orange Stage at 6pm, that will be it. What came together last summer as a one-off reunion show spawned a tour and a slew of media coverage, and it all ends here in Austin. For most of the band members ...

When second-wave emo legends Cap’n Jazz reunited earlier this year , music critics and fans rejoiced. It all seemed a little unexpected: After years of Warped-Tour banishment, emo was being celebrated again.

Slam Dancers and Skankers. Moshers and Drunks. What do they have in common? They were all at this year's annual Riot Fest in Chicago, in conjunction with Red Oktober Fest, featuring bands such as Cap'n Jazz, Less than Jake, Bouncing Souls, and many more.

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News "My horoscope today said I would feel an outpouring of love," Cap'n Jazz singer Tim Kinsella announced as he and the rest of his bandmates -- Mike Kinsella, Sam Zurick, Victor Villareal and Davey von Bohlen -- took the stage at the Metro on Saturday night to play the band's last Chicago reunion show of the year. Kinsella's horoscope proved to be true, as ...

CapnJazz on Facebook When you talk about seminal bands like Cap’n Jazz, you usually refer to that key moment when they “exploded onto the scene.” But Cap’n Jazz never really had one of those moments. The Chicagoans who made up the band—Tim Kinsella, Mike Kinsella, Davey Von Bohlen, Victor Villareal, and Sam Zurick—came together in the early ‘90s as young teens; blazed through a bunch of spastic ...