City Winery celebrated an auspicious hip-hop-iversary, the release of The Beastie Boys’ Hello Nasty album 20 years ago. The officiants were the kick-ass B-Boys tribune band She’s Crafty, formed after co-founder […]
Vacationer, comprising Kenny Vasoli, Ryan Zimmaro, Michael Mullin, Greg Altman, and their producers, Matthew Young and Grant Wheeler, brought a frill free, though colorful, performance to Lincoln Hall Thursday. The […]
If you live in Chicago long enough the annual Pitchfork Music Festival feels like one big backyard barbecue. Fortunately, unlike my last one, we didn’t see much rain and the […]
On one fateful and pretty damn hot evening, the Empty Bottle hosted Har Mar Superstar, the musical superhero that is Sean Tillman, for two shows of Sam Cooke covers. Right […]
Chicago finally got a break from the brutal heat on Friday, and the breezy, balmy evening was made extra special with a truly amazing night of music, fronted by the […]
We’re crossing our fingers and hoping the weather forecast has less scattered thunderstorms and more cloudless warm days for Pitchfork Music Festival! There are far too many amazing artists coming […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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. […]