Review: Vertical Horizon Stops and Rocks in Skokie!
In one of ten stops on their summer tour, Vertical Horizon closed Saturday evening off at Skokie’s Back Lot Bash…
Review: Sacred Rose Fest Bloomed This Weekend, But Not Without Its Thorns
By guest aurhor Valerie Nikolas Reflecting on this weekend as I attempt to re-integrate to post-fest normalcy, I’m still trying…
Review: Grant Park Festival Closes with a Great Performance of Haydn’s The Creation
There are few pieces of music that satisfy me more thoroughly than Franz Josef Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation. Grant Park…
Review: The Salt Shed Hits a New High with Courtney Barnett’s Here and There Festival
The past couple of weeks the Salt Shed has been hitting on all cylinders. They attracted a phenomenal lineup of…
Review: A Dreamy Night with Iron & Wine and Andrew Bird
The hits just keep on coming at the Salt Shed. This past Friday the venue’s outdoor stage welcomed a sold-out…
Review: The Wild Hearts Tour Gets the Salt Shed Emotional
It had been a little over a week of shows at the Salt Shed when the Wild Hearts tour came…
Review: Fleet Foxes and Uwade Delight a Packed Salt Shed
Anticipation has been growing for months for Chicago’s newest venue, The Salt Shed. Last week that eagerness was finally satiated…
Review: Now Stars, Brandi Carlile and Her Band Renew Their Chicago Bonds
When Brandi Carlile and her band last played Chicago in June 2019, they were riding a breakthrough high. Carlile and…
Review: IDLES Stomps Through Metro
By guest author Aviv Hart Attempting to categorize British rock band IDLES into a genre is an exercise in semantics.…
Wicker Park Fest 2022 in Review
By guest author Aviv Hart Wicker Park Fest has been my favorite weekend of the summer for about a decade…
Pitchfork Music Festival 2022: Day 3 in Review
The final day of Pitchfork Music Festival was a blast! With the weather behaving for the most part (save for…
Pitchfork Music Festival 2022: Day 2 in Review
Weather wise, day two of Pitchfork Music Festival got off to a much better start than day one. There were…
