Chicago has been a hotspot all summer long, hosting the Pitchfork Music Festival and Wicker Park Fest recently, and now Lollapalooza this very weekend. However, Chicago’s own instrumental masterminds, Pelican, take a break from the windy city to play Emo’s Inside on Saturday night. Pelican’s detailed arrangements and song structures feature a shift towards more melodic soundscapes than before on their latest effort, City Of Echoes. According to guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, "City of Echoes stands for the feeling of sameness brought on by globalization. It's visiting countries and seeing slight differences through the window, only to end up at the club and feel like you didn't see anything at all." (As per the band’s label site.) Most interesting! more ›