Review: Day Two of Warm Love Cool Dreams Keeps the Party Going
While the tempos weren’t THAT much warmer than the first day of Warm Love Cool Dreams, day two certainly felt a little more palatable. The day lent itself more toward […]
Review: Day One of Warm Love Cool Dreams Is a Refreshing Take on a Festival
While Memorial Day weekend was chock full of big festivals, tons of street festivals, and more things that anyone could handle in one weekend, Warm Love Cool Dreams stood above […]
Interview: Reva K Puts a Modern Spin on ’90s Rock
The Revalution has begun. Chicago-based singer-songwriter Reva K is celebrating the release of her self-produced debut album, Welcome to 20 Something, a short but sweet, indomitable blend of fresh and […]
Preview: Riot Fest Reveals Big 2026 Lineup Featuring Tool, Alanis Morissette, and More
The Internet has been ablaze with anticipation and speculation for months on when the Riot Fest lineup would drop and who exactly would be on it. A little bit of […]
Photos: Warm Love Cool Dreams Makes the Salt Shed Feel Special
This past weekend Warm Love Cool Dreams took over the entire Salt Shed campus for two days of incredible music. The festival, whose first edition took place back in 2024, […]
Preview: Inside Conrad Tao’s Expanding Musical World
There is an old home video of Conrad Tao that captures the modest beginnings of a prodigy. In the footage, a very young Tao sits at the piano, pawing out […]
Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Concludes Their Season with Music from France and France Adjacent
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center ended their season at the Harris Theater on Wednesday evening with music from “France or France Adjacent,” as violist and Chicago native Matthew […]
TCR Mixtape No. 49: Warm Love Cool Dreams 2026 Day Two at the Salt Shed
We’re inching closer and closer to the Memorial Day weekend and we couldn’t be more excited for Warm Love Cool Dreams! The May 23-24 festival is back at the Salt […]
TCR Mixtape No. 48: Warm Love Cool Dreams 2026 Day One at the Salt Shed
It may be a little chilling up to this weekend up but fret not! The weekend looks like it’ll be perfectly pleasant for an amazing festival as Warm Love Cool […]
Review: Evgeny Kissin Brings His Extraordinary Playing Back to Symphony Center
For the third time in a month, pianist extraordinaire Evgeny Kissin graced the stage at Symphony Center with his powerful and dramatic technique on Sunday. The first two times he […]
Review: Distance and Discovery Frame the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians Finale
For their final program of the 2025–26 season, the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians—drawn from the Lyric Opera Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—offered a thoughtful look at how geographic displacement can […]
Review: Ivy’s Traces of You Tour Comes to Park West
After last year’s release of Traces of You, a brand-new record based around abandoned song fragments from their archives, the thought of Ivy playing live in 2026 seemed too fanciful […]