Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 4/6 – 4/9
The beginning of this month has been a little rainy and overcast, but don’t let that stop you from enjoying our wonderful city! This curated weekend is huge and chock […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/9 – 3/12
Happy weekend before St. Patrick’s Day! As you likely know, a few of Chicago’s big festivities will take place this weekend since St. Patrick’s Day proper falls on a Friday […]
Preview: The Lemon Twigs at the Empty Bottle, 1/26
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4nqnVOfMo] Elton John’s favorite new band is coming to town this weekend. Two brothers in Long Island formed The Lemon Twigs based on a shared love for sanguine, sheen pop and gritty, […]
Preview: Cymbals Eat Guitars this Tuesday (10/11) at the Empty Bottle
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAQe5brCjc] Cymbals Eat Guitars has been around for nearly a decade. And it might just be me, but the time between 1996 and 2006 seems like a longer time […]
Rhapsody in Normcore: A Review of Mild High Club at the Empty Bottle
[soliloquy id=”6844″] It’s as if a hazy cloud filled the Empty Bottle last Friday. 12-string guitars, crystalized synthesizers, and vocals that floated softly above the band all created a relaxed […]
Preview: Mild High Club this Friday (9/16) at the Empty Bottle
Thanks to Mac DeMarco, his disheveled friends can happily explore the many A-sides and B-sides of ’70s AM rock tunes in a puff of hazy smoke. And due to Mac’s […]
Waffles and Hip Hop and Huber! Oh My!
On Saturday, March 5, the Empty Bottle and the Waffle Gang present Waffle Fest, a waffle and hip-hop showcase hosted by Awdazcate and featuring the stylings of Jeremiah Jae, 7oddz, […]
Your Curated Chicago Weekend: 2/25-28
We start off this week’s edition of Your Chicago Curated Weekend with a concert that’s not happening. Ke$ha was scheduled to play at Loyola University on Friday. But yesterday, she canceled […]
Your Curated Chicago Weekend 2/18-2/21
Damn, that three-day weekend already seems like a lifetime ago. I guess time flies when you spend an entire day marathoning a TV show and an entire other day listening […]
Eleanor Friedberger Bringing a New View to Empty Bottle
It’s been quite a while since The Fiery Furnaces released an album, but that hasn’t slowed down Eleanor Friedberger’s musical output. Since she and her brother Mathew put the project […]
Your Curated Chicago Weekend, 1/28-1/31
I’d like to start this off with a glimpse of perhaps the stupidest idea Uber has ever concocted. You may have heard about a couple of recent high-profile assaults carried […]