Alvvays Sold Out Thalia Hall and the Crowd Bounced and Swayed
There was a lot of movement in Thalia Hall at the Alvvays show last Friday. The sold-out crowd bounced instead of head bobbing, swayed instead of standing. Having attended an […]
LCD Soundsystem Danced Everyone Clean During Their Chicago Return
You know it’s a good show when you leave a venue and your hair is three times as large due to the humidity of the sweat evaporating off people’s dancing […]
Cults Played a Mild Sunday Set at Lincoln Hall with Unchallenging New Songs
Cults frontwoman Madeline Follin joyfully said into the microphone “you guys are a rowdy crowd for a Sunday, huh?” An attentive crowd welcomed them to Lincoln Hall last week amid […]
Young Thug at The Metro, Day 1 of Red Bull’s 30 Days in Chicago
It’s November 1, the first night of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Day festival taking over Chicago. I step out of the rain and into the group of people […]
The War on Drugs Replicates Its Album Sound Live at the Aragon
As I walked into The Aragon Ballroom on Thursday night, I was curious about how The War on Drugs would interpret their songs in a live setting. Interpret is lead […]
Interview: New Percussion Concerto by Augusta Read Thomas to Premiere November 12
The Harris Theater will host the world premiere of a new work by Chicago composer Augusta Read Thomas this Sunday, November 12. Sonorous Earth is a concerto for orchestra and […]
William Patrick Corgan Plays His Beautiful Solo Work at Athenaeum Theatre
Smashing Pumpkins fans know him as Billy Corgan, but the veteran rocker is now using his full name as a solo artist. With the release of his first solo album […]
Zeds Dead Put on an Electrifying Show at Navy Pier
[soliloquy id=”20327″] It’s 43 degrees in Chicago right now. On Saturday, October 21, the day of the Zeds Dead Navy Pier takeover, it was 71. The infamous Chicago summer […]
Tera Melos Brings More Than Prog to Subterranean
When a show has a killer lineup, it’s not hard to be equally excited for every band. I feel extremely lucky to catch one or two awesome bands in one […]
Chelsea Wolfe and Youth Code Made the Metro the Spookiest Place to Be
Just in time for the Halloween season, goth queen Chelsea Wolfe brought a night of macabre and deeply somber melodies to the Metro. Her music isn’t depressing by any means, […]
PVRIS and Lights End Their Tour With a Bang
After a successful tour across North America, PVRIS and Lights concluded their tour in Chicago with a nearly sold-out show at The Riv. Throngs of fans lined up outside the […]
Moses Sumney’s Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Show at Old Town School of Folk
What kind of madman covers both Neil Young and Björk in the same show? Moses Sumney does. Sumney is the kind of artist who draws you in, and it’s not […]