Report: Liz Phair Performs Exile in Guyville [Chicago, IL; 06/24/08]

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 Report: Liz Phair Performs Exile in Guyville [Chicago, IL; 06/24/08]
Exile in Guyville [Chicago, IL; 06/24/08] Photos by Kirstie Shanley ; text by Amy Phillips Well, that was anti-climactic. But what did I expect from Liz Phair 's hometown run through her 1993 breakthrough Exile in Guyville ? Some sort of epiphany about how to live my life as a twentysomething woman navigating the Chicago indie rock scene, from someone who lived that life (albeit with ... [link]

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Liz Phair Unveils New Song, Leaves Critics Unimpressed At Chicago Guyville Show
Published 6/25/2008 by Stereogum at Stereogum
... with a (no kidding) lyric about "ding dong, the witch is dead" -- it was over, just another car wreck/hit and run in a live career that has never offered anything else. I believe the technical term for what just happened is OH SNAP. Jim wasn't alone in dismissing the gig, but before we get there, start here with that Obama banter and that "ding dong"ing new song: So that happened. Now it wasn't just guys who get paid to write about music that were down on last night's Guyville ; P4K 's Amy Phillips, while admitting that asking for "an epiphany about how to live my life as a ...

On the Scene: Liz Phair performs 'Exile in Guyville' in NYC
Published 6/27/2008 by Samantha Xu at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... On the fourth and final night of her multi-city sold-out Exile in Guyville performances, Liz Phair exuded cool effervescence through her skintight vest and tousled hair. Quietly confident, amid reactions from critics that her recent string of shows were anti-climactic and ...

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Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Liz Phair’s 1993 album, Exile in Guyville , was a feminist manifesto of sorts — a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street on which the not-so-perfectly voiced Phair ...
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