On his latest album, Kevin Barnes returns of Montreal to its one-man-band roots on UR FUN, yet still manages to create a Technicolor thrill ride making the most of his experience manipulating a […]
Preview: of Montreal Believes ‘UR FUN’
Preview: Sloan—One Of The Greatest Rock Bands In The World, Tonight!
Sloan is coming through Chicago to play Bottom Lounge tonight. I’ve put together this point-by-point presentation to pique your interest and then convince you to attend this evening’s concert. Sloan has had […]
Review: ionnalee Takes the Bottom Lounge on a Galactic Journey
Swedish singer and songwriter, ionnalee, brought an out of this world performance to the Bottom Lounge Sunday evening on her “Remember The Future” headlining U.S. tour. ionnalee’s dancy electropop style, very reminiscent […]
Review: Flesh World Dealers Peddling BPM – Youth Code and HEALTH At Bottom Lounge
Saturday was 4/20, the celebrated weed holiday. It is enjoyed by a fascinating mess of subcultures from stoners, to punks, to vintage store workers who look like Fleetwood Mac members, to […]
Review: Mallrat and Gnash at the Bottom Lounge Give You an Evening at the Spa
Bottom Lounge lit up Saturday night with acts Mallrat and Guardin as appetizers to its youthful audience before big-time-California-guy rapper Gnash. Mallrat shakes the stage with an undeniably cute smile, an infrequent […]
Review: Saves The Day Brings Pop Punk Nostalgia to Bottom Lounge
Going into Saves The Day’s performance at Bottom Lounge on Friday, I didn’t know what to expect. In the early 2000s, Saves The Day was a band who was integral to […]
Albert Hammond Jr. and The Marías Packed Bottom Lounge with a Passionate Crowd
Last Friday, Bottom Lounge was packed with some of the most feverishly intense fans I’ve seen in a long time. The crowd was laser focused on having a good night while letting […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 2/1 – 2/4
You’ve made it past the first month of the year and now you can start your February off with a weekend full of amazing events! Concerts, art shows, video games, and so […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/6 – 7/9
Hope everyone’s Fourth of July festivities were fun and safe! Now that we’re past the nonstop thunder of fireworks (for the most part), there are so many great events to fill up […]
Review: (Sandy) Alex G Lights Up Bottom Lounge 6/28
I always feel, like many, a certain kind of trepidation when going to see an artist I love but haven’t seen live before. This feeling intensifies when said artist is someone like (Sandy) […]
Har Mar Superstar Rose to the Occasion at Bottom Lounge
How exactly does one discover and come to appreciate a musician as ludicrously amazing as Sean Tillman’s Har Mar Superstar? For me it was through a simple lyric from one of my […]
Rock ’n’ Roll Isn’t Dead: A Giant Dog Talks to Us and Opens for Titus Andronicus Tonight at the Bottom Lounge
“I’m too old to die young,” frontwoman Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog belts out on “Sex & Drugs.” These lyrics, along with lines like “you’ve been told that drugs are gonna […]
