Festivals, Music, Previews

Who We’re Excited to See at Pitchfork Music Festival 2018!

It’s finally here! Pitchfork Music Festival is this weekend and they’ve curated quite the show. There has always been an emphasis on music that just this side of mainstream, acting […]

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Music, Reviews

Review: Glassjaw and Quicksand Deliver A Heavy Performance at Concord Music Hall

Whenever I think of Glassjaw I think of the downpour before one of their Riot Fest performances in Chicago. Whenever I think of Quicksand I think of their lack of […]

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Music, Reviews

Review: Haley Heynderickx Breathes Fresh Air

Since the Greenwich Village folkies put the aesthetics of beat literature to music in the early ‘60s, a cavalcade of singer-songwriter successors has followed. Stylistically, little has changed. Limiting oneself to […]

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Music, Reviews

Review: Ana Tijoux Share Roja y Negra with Old Town School of Folk Music

[soliloquy id=”31859″] A few months ago, Ana Tijoux was scheduled for back to back performances at Old Town School of Folk Music on the same evening. Unfortunately, it seemed like […]

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Music, Previews

Craig Wedren Brings ‘Adult Desire’ to Beat Kitchen Saturday

Craig Wedren made his name in the influential Shudder To Think, a band whose distinctive and sometimes knotty sound still sounds fresh and new today. Over the years, though, he […]

Jim Kopeny / Tankboy /
Music, Reviews

Review: Aly & AJ Spread Nostalgia at Thalia Hall

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The evening washed over with an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia when the sister-duo Aly & AJ performed at Thalia Hall ­– their first show in Chicago in over a decade. […]

Pearl Shin /
Music, Reviews

Empty Bottle’s Strange Saturday with Shame, Corridor, and C.H.E.W.

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The Empty Bottle is a staple for amazing shows and guaranteed to be a damn good time. I approached the door to find a rope outside of the entrance, much […]

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Folk and Bluegrass, Interviews, Music, Reviews

Interview: Erin Rae on Her Dreamy Folk Music

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When Brandi Carlile recently performed at the Chicago Theater, she said that it was not long ago that she was playing Schubas. Now selling out a theater with a capacity […]

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Music, Previews, Venues

Preview: Glassjaw and Quicksand are Co-Headlining Concord Music Hall This Sunday

The perfect post-hardcore tour that consist of New York legends Glassjaw and Quicksand is coming through Chicago on Sunday July 8th, for one of 20 tour dates throughout the United […]

Brandon Smith /
Classical, Music, Previews

Preview: 30th Chicago Duo Piano Festival Opens With a Russian Flair This Sunday

The Chicago Duo Piano Festival opens this Sunday with Russian Masterpieces, a concert of Russian music performed by Russian pianists Natalia Lavrova and Vassily Primakov at Nichols Concert Hall in […]

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Festivals, Music, Reviews

Mamby on the Beach 2018: Day Two Review!

My phone was either lost in the depths of the sand or stolen in Mamby’s DJ tent during Duke Dumont; some would say this would be a hindrance to me […]

Sarah Brooks /
Music

Chicago’s Sonny Falls Have an Excellent New Album Coming Out and Here’s a Taste

Hoagie sent me the unmastered version of the album a few months ago, but the new Sonny Falls LP is finally officially coming out next month! I’ve written about the […]

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