Review: Modest Mouse’s Celebrates 20 Years of Good News for People Who Love Bad News
It’s starting to feel a little crazy that albums I listened to in high school are turning 20 years old. But reality is that those bands that I grew up […]
Review: New Opera Blue Illuminates “Parenting While Black” at Lyric Opera
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Review: Survivor’s Guilt In Hell—Chat Pile at Thalia Hall on Election Night
“In their parents’ arms, the kids were falling apart/broken tiny bodies holding tiny still hearts”-“Shame”“Have you ever had ringworm? Scabies? Have you ever had to live outside?”-“Why”“There’s more screaming than […]
Review: Music and Movie Elevate the Love Story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
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Review: The Go! Team and La Sécurité Make for an Ideal Lineup at Lincoln Hall
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Review: Justice’s Hyperdrama Spectacle—A Celebration Across All Albums
On the final stop of their 2024 North America tour, Justice delivered a performance for fans, both new and old, that absolutely sealed their brilliance. You can look at this […]
Review: The Flints Fire Up Radius for a Fantastic Evening of Dancing
As a music fan that always aims to catch the opening acts of shows, I can safely say that those performers have a lot of pressure on them. Not only […]
Review: Nova Linea Musica Is a World Class Addition to Chicago’s Musical Soundscape
Chicago is the premier city for the arts. Our musical scene is to be envied. We have two wonderful orchestras that play traditional classical music and a wealth of new […]
Review: A Synth-Filled Evening with Chromeo and The Midnight
Chicago was treated to a marvelous double-featured evening last weekend with electro funk gurus Chromeo and synth-pop band The Midnight. Venturing on their soon to be legendary Chrome Nights Tour, […]
Last Minute Plans: Catch Pony at Subterranean on Friday Before They Get Huge
If you play a single Pony song, ANY song, you will immediately see why I am so head over heels with the band. I came across the band during the […]
Review: The Altar Of Drone—Boris Perform Amplifier Worship at the Ramova Theatre
25 years ago Japanese metal giants Boris released their aptly titled sophomore studio album Amplifier Worship, a landscape-terraforming ode to the power of volume and frequency. Drone, Doom, Sludge, all […]
Preview: Scott Lucas Brings LIFERS to the Music Box, Local H Brings Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles to Metro
A few years ago I wrote a piece arguing that Local H was one of the hardest working and most consistent rock bands currently in existence. This remains very true. […]