When There’s A Will, There’s A Wussy
It’s 2 p.m. on a chilly Friday afternoon in Chicago. The sky is gray and in the middle of making a crucial weather decision for its fussy weekenders. There’s a […]
It’s 2 p.m. on a chilly Friday afternoon in Chicago. The sky is gray and in the middle of making a crucial weather decision for its fussy weekenders. There’s a […]
At some point on Monday, between my morning coffee and heading off to run errands, Ty Segall and the Muggers descended on WGN Morning News. The loud screeches of a […]
A determined man with voluminous, curly hair made his way through the crowd Saturday night in the middle of a Molehill performance at Martyrs’. Even in darkness, it only took […]
This week Empty Bottle Presents & The Reverberation Appreciation Society are putting on the second annual Levitation Chicago musical festival from March 10-12 at the beautiful Thalia Hall, 1807 S […]
The rebellious words, “You can’t kill us/we’re already dead,” welcome you to the newest Waco Brothers album and journey, “Going Down in History.” Before listening to it, I anticipated a […]
Making your living as an artist has never been an easy path, but it was particularly difficult in America from the late 1940s to the early 1960s during the Second […]
In an imaginative whim of programming, Jane Glover and the Music of the Baroque orchestra mined Haydn’s very early career and Mozart’s maturing phase to cobble together “From Dawn to […]
The Elbo Room has one last chance at helping boost your confidence. With low attendance at its live shows and insufficient funds, The Elbo Room asks that you donate a […]
Tucked away in the seemingly top secret, instrument adorned “music room” of Soho House Chicago, Eryn Allen Kane hosted an after show following her first ever solo and, might I […]
The blues are an inherently paradoxical art form when they make a public appearance—misery with the travails of life transmuted into joyful music. Last night at Rosa’s Lounge, Lil’ Ed […]
It’s been quite a while since The Fiery Furnaces released an album, but that hasn’t slowed down Eleanor Friedberger’s musical output. Since she and her brother Mathew put the project […]
They say the best cure for cold is moving around. If that’s the case, the Diet Cig show last night at Subterranean was probably the healthiest thing that’s happened in […]