Your Guide to Record Store Day 2025 in Chicago and Beyond
While it may feel a little early, make no mistake, record collectors’ most divisive holiday is here! Record Store Day this Saturday, April 12, is the time where record shops […]
While it may feel a little early, make no mistake, record collectors’ most divisive holiday is here! Record Store Day this Saturday, April 12, is the time where record shops […]
One could say I’ve been practicing listening to Free Range for quite some time.… So much so that the release of their sophomore album Lost & Found this year may […]
Anyone who thinks that 2025 does not offer the appropriate musical landscape for a gritty garage rock hybrid of early Nirvana, Weezer, and the Smiths hasn’t heard California’s Archer Oh. […]
Before returning to their homes in Berlin, the Leonkoro Quartet finished their North American tour with an entertaining concert at Logan Center in Hyde Park on Friday night. Formed in […]
The vastly talented Colombian singer, songwriter and producer Ela Minus sold out Chicago’s iconic Schubas Tavern last week as one of her only stops on her U.S. tour. Supporting her […]
Chicago A Cappella performed A Cappella Jazz on Saturday, March 29, at the Gannon Concert Hall in the Holtschneider Performance Center on the campus of DePaul University. This concert began […]
They were the most English of British Invasion bands. While other English musicians adopted American styles and turned their backs on their own musical traditions, the Kinks doubled down, writing […]
Yes, I couldn’t come up with anything clever enough for the title of this review, so instead, I just decided to be as upfront with my opinion on the album […]
Last April, Chicago-based Disaster Kid retreated to a Wisconsin cabin and recorded half a dozen songs in just five days. From that session emerges the reflective Rare Bird EP, humbly […]
Hannah Frey and I share a Chicago timeline. I first discovered her on a weekend home from college listening to NPR on my mom’s speakers utterly transfixed by her song […]
This article was written by Wendy Davis. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of R.E.M.’s acclaimed 1985 album, Fables of Reconstruction, Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and Friends hit the road again […]
A whole year after the release of her 2024 studio album, Underdressed at the Symphony, the beloved singer-songwriter and Atlanta native Faye Webster returned to Chicago for two back-to-back impressively […]