Woo. Fun but completely unproductive weekend. Friday night, I went to go see the Reputation at the Axiom. Also playing were We Ragazzi and 90 Day Men. Both were pretty good; I had never heard them before. It was a big Chicago lovefest. Anyway, the sound was pretty terrible at the venue, but the show was fun. Got a chance to hang out with some of the members of the band, and also got to hear the new song, "Cartography."

Saturday night, the crew went out to see DJ Krush. That man is amazing. He played to a full house (~250 people?). It was very cool. Actually, when I got there, I wandered through the crowd to see who was there, and as I passed through the back of the crowd, I realized that DJ Krush was standing there. No one else had seemed to notice him, so I turned to a friend and asked him under my breath, "isn't that Krush?" We both freaked out. His translator tried to communicate our gratitude and awe to him. Yes, the headliner was just back there, hanging out, checking out the opening DJ.

Krush came out, dropped an ill experimental set for about an hour or so, and then brought out a local Texas musician and a Texan MC (Bavu Blakes). Bavu freestyled, the musician riffed (bass guitar, snare drum, hi-hat, keyboard), and DJ Krush tied it together with beats, samples, and scratches. After all that, he spun for a little while longer, took a photo with the crowd, and actually got called back to do not one, but two encores. The second encore was a DJ Shadow tribute set, apparently, with two or three songs from "Endtroducing..." cut and recut. All in all, one of the best shows I've seen in a long, long time...