You! Me! Los Campesinos! Dancing at the Metro!
The band Los Campesinos! became important to me during a particularly unremarkable part of my life. Due to a critical lack of ambition on my part, the summer after my […]
The band Los Campesinos! became important to me during a particularly unremarkable part of my life. Due to a critical lack of ambition on my part, the summer after my […]
Pitchfork has decided to end your working week with a big Pitchfork Music Festival announcement! Last week they unveiled the stellar headliners with a live feed of artist Shelby Rodeffer […]
Festival lineup announcements have been starting to come in and they are looking good! This week it’s Mamby On The Beach’s turn and they have added a very impressive lineup […]
[soliloquy id=”10033″]“Save me your laughter and your religion…” sang Nick Gunty of Chicago-based folk duo Frances Luke Accord. Gunty and bandmate Brian Powers played their sonically meticulous, poetry-infused folk-rock to […]
A little over a decade ago, Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque introduced herself to the world. Levesque – who shortened her name to JoJo – revealed pieces of herself and her talent through her […]
Swedish indie group The Radio Dept. let its instruments and minimal backdrop speak for itself at Thalia Hall Saturday. As someone who suffers from synesthesia, the four sets of striped […]
The Newberry Consort, an early music ensemble, dedicated its current performances to Queen Christina of Sweden in an evening of music and story about the distinctive royal figure. The Queen: […]
Chicago’s own Wilco is touring in support of their tenth studio album “Schmilco,” the 2016 follow up to “Star Wars,” performing shows and joining festivals in the US and Canada, […]
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland has turned the 1940 Argentine novel into his fifth opera that’s a mix of island dwellers like Dr. Moreau and Gilligan’s Professor, while extending Bill […]
[soliloquy id=”10056″] Sinkane, the main musical outlet of Ahmed Gallab, is a band of the world. His music evokes sounds from every corner of the earth, blending them together with […]
Last week, Pitchfork teased announcement for their annual Pitchfork Music Festival, which has been taking over Union Park since 2006 with some of the most unique and interesting lineups of […]
The Walkmen never blew up in the same way as their garage-rock contemporaries did. Most of us remember the Saturn commercial with the Ion driving past the highway signs that […]