The projector screen ascends. All lights turn off. A dark midnight blue color glows on the stage with smoke rising into the air. The curtain opens, and four men from Kettering, Northamptonshire […]
Staples of alt-rock, Death Cab for Cutie are well-known for hits like Black Sun and Soul Meets Body, as well as the unique voice of frontman Ben Gibbard. This past Sunday I […]
Upon entering Schubas for this quick two act bill, I instantly felt a sense of deja vu. A few years a ago I was lucky enough to see Jorja Smith perform on […]
Tomorrow Never Knows always brings some of the best shows to Chicago and this year’s edition of the winter festival certainly delivered. One of the best evening of the fest was thanks […]
“Let’s have a party, Chicago!” From the moment people trickled into the House of Vans Warehouse upon opening, Chaz Bundick greeted fans with a smile and his charismatic presence. The skate park […]
The GRAMMY Awards will be aired Sunday night on the CBS television network, and Chicago’s classical music fans have a major rooting interest. Winged Creatures, a locally produced album, is one […]
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam returned to the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival on Sunday evening with a program of music from France, with a work by the Austrian Franz Joseph Haydn thrown in. […]
Cherry Glazerr performed a dynamic set at the first show of their two-night performance at Lincoln Hall. Despite it being a chilly evening, the band got everyone’s blood pumping and adrenaline rushing […]
Le Vent du Nord, which translates to North Wind, brought the rollicking traditional music of Quebec to the Windy City on January 8. In kicking off the Old Town School of Folk […]
Undertale came out of nowhere in 2015, and became a cult hit. Sure, there were those aware of Toby Fox’s previous work on the web comic Homestuck, but no one could have […]
American Football seemed like a long shot during the decade and a half between their first and second self-titled albums. So many of the band members were doing their own thing, whether […]
As we move forward from the ‘10s (is that what we called them?) and into the ‘20s, there’s been a lot of looking back at some of the best things that […]
