Review: No Fear Here; Franz Ferdinand’s Live Show Was Fearless and Jubilant
Franz Ferdinand has had a career with growing gaps between new albums for a couple of years now, which might lead one to expect they are running low on ideas. […]
Review: Filter and Jerry Cantrell Eclipse ’90s Nostalgia at the Vic
Acclaimed ’90s rockers Jerry Cantrell and Richard Patrick have every reason to rest on their laurels. On Sunday night at the Vic Theatre, they chose not to. Cantrell, best known […]
Review: Parquet Courts Made The Vic Wide Awake
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 […]
Review: Khruangbin Doesn’t Need Words to Sell Out the Vic
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 […]
Review: DeVotchKa, Music of the Street at Vic Theatre
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 […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/10 – 5/13
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 […]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Vic Was an Artistic Masterpiece
[soliloquy id=”27100″] 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 […]
Mac DeMarco Gets Weird and Invites Us to Get Weird, Too
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 […]
Real Estate Keeps it Mellow @ the Vic
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 […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 4/20 – 4/23
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 […]
Foxygen Promises Spectacle, But Delivers Karaoke
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 […]
Christine and the Queens at the Vic Theatre: Héloïse Letissier Boasts Her Inner Man
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 […]