The Reputation "The Stars of Amateur Hour" from The Reputation Live at Der Rathskeller Madison, WI Mar 5, 2005

Of all the upper midwest indie rock bands that visit Madison regularly, the Reputation really should have the best reputation of all. The Chicago band drives up I-90 a couple times a year to play free shows on campus and are really crowd-friendly onstage and off. The only problem is -- and I don't know if they bring their own sound guy along or not -- their mix is always completely fucked up, usually leaving the vocals totally washed out. Literally every time I've seen them, a couple songs have had no audible vocals, and only half the set is mixed decently. It's too bad, because they put on a pretty tight, energetic show and a lot of it just gets lost.