In what many publications are calling one of the year’s best records, Parquet Courts channeled angst into optimism on their fifth full-length album, Wide Awake. Their recent record almost reads like a […]
Khruangbin isn’t a band that puts out singles. They don’t have a singer. Most of their songs can’t be distinguished from each other. They are hardly any words to sing along to […]
Instruments speak for themselves. That’s in a performance by DeVotchKa, featuring a revolving door of voices at Vic Theatre Thursday in Chicago. Devotchka is renowned for its multitude of sounds and cultural […]
The curated weekend is here and it’s a big one! So big in fact that there are quite a few events in the calendar that just couldn’t fit into this list. So […]
Photos by Elif Geris A bombastic bass and soaring guitar riffs, along with a blinding color wheel of lights, accompanied Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Vic Theatre Thursday night. Frontman and guitarist […]
To say that Mac DeMarco is eccentric is putting it lightly; but that’s honestly why I, and his ever-growing legion of fans, love him in the first place. After seeing him previously […]
I’d seen Real Estate in concert before—at Pitchfork Music Festival, as the sun started to descend. It was the perfect forum for such breezy tunes. Cut to this past Friday night, when […]
This weekend is nuts. Below as always are my curated picks, but no joke folks, there are so many great events going this weekend that if I were to stuff all my […]
When Foxygen’s Sam France walked on The Vic’s old vaudeville stage, it was like Tim Curry waltzing within Rocky Horror’s castle: he looked tall, pale, and unkempt. Amid a full torrent of brass […]
A Tuesday night at the Vic Theatre, not quite packed, but close enough, and Christine and the Queens is beginning its conquest of the United States with this Chicago stop, and with group choreography. […]
