Review: Clairo Kicked Off Her Immunity Tour Over the Weekend
A moody Sunday evening was more than fitting for rising bedroom-pop sensation Clairo to perform her lo-fi tunes. The Metro floor filled up quickly with eager fans for the second […]
A moody Sunday evening was more than fitting for rising bedroom-pop sensation Clairo to perform her lo-fi tunes. The Metro floor filled up quickly with eager fans for the second […]
Violinist Robert Chen and pianist Matthew Hagle kicked off the Music Institute of Chicago’s 2019-2020 concert season on Sunday afternoon with a delightful performance of music from the 18th and […]
Metal can be an intimidating genre of music to dabble in for most. On the surface level, metal bands can be seen as intense, loud, and maybe something geared towards […]
The Lyric Opera of Chicago will have plenty for those who like their operas dark and deep and full of danger. The season that opened Saturday night (September 28) will […]
As I stood inside the photo pit, waiting for Dodie to come on, I heard a girl behind me say that she’d never been this excited for a show before. […]
There’s a noticeably chiller vibe when I show up to Douglas Park for day 3 of Riot Fest 2019. If Friday was like the final moments of the last day […]
I’ve been a Dashboard Confessional fan since I was 12, listening to their albums in my room as a moody teenager, door shut, scribbling their sad girl lyrics onto notebooks […]
The Mass in b-minor is often described as Johann Sebastian Bach’s valedictory masterpiece. It certainly received a masterly treatment by the Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, whose season-opening […]
If he didn’t have family back east, Joe Pug would live with us in the Windy City. “They’re fucking up shit in the rest of the country. Chicago’s still got […]
These days, psychedelia has crept back into music like it never left the ‘60s and ‘70s. We have Tame Impala playing arenas. We have Drugdealer sounding best on vinyl. We […]
My second day at Riot Fest was another one of firsts—first time that I used the port-o-potty at the festival, first time I rode a divvy bike into oncoming traffic, […]
I’ll get this out of the way up front. I’m a Riot Fest virgin. In fact I have only been to one festival in my life, when I covered Pitchfork […]