Julian Ramirez

I think I’m sick. I have a little cough, my joints hurt, and my stomach is a little uneasy. I have post-Lollapalooza exhaustion. The yearly festival of excess and drunken […]

If you haven’t heard. this weekend is the 25th anniversary of Lollapalooza. The festival that has called Grant Park home since 2005 is a huge, over the top spectacle that […]

Hope everyone’s previous weekend was as fun as mine. Fellow 3CR writer Colin Smith and I had the chance to review the Pitchfork Music Festival and it was a blast. […]

Pokémon Go. It’s literally everywhere, hell it’s right here in this post. Over the weekend the game seemed to infiltrate every aspect of my life. Friends, family, strangers were walking […]

I hope everyone had a fun and safe pre-fourth of July weekend. I’m still recovering from the holiday. Not so much from partying (of which there was a fair bit) […]

So, between writing the intros of this and last week’s Curated Weekend, Brexit happened. I won’t pretend to be educated on all the details of referendum and the eventual consequences. […]

[soliloquy id=”5602″]All photos by Julian Ramirez James McCartney has a lot riding on him. You would too if your dad was Paul McCartney. Where most would coast on their family […]

No use in hiding it folks, I’m not Zach. You’re stuck with me, Julian Ramirez. I’ll be taking over your Chicago Curated Weekend for a little while and hopefully continue […]

[soliloquy id=”5498″] It’s not a good year until the Graveface Roadshow rolls through town. Graveface Records, formally located in Chicago and now stationed in Savanah Ga., puts out the most […]

[soliloquy id=”5311″] Despite having been imbued with music his entire life, James McCartney didn’t start performing his own songs live until his thirties. He performed on albums by his parents […]

[soliloquy id=”4959″]   Joan of Arc is one of those bands cemented into the history of Chicago’s music scene. Formed after the demise of Capn’ Jazz (another Chicago music staple), […]

While The Fiery Furnaces has been on hiatus for half a decade, Eleanor Friedberger has been amassing quite the impressive solo work. With Last Summer and Personal Record, Friedberger turned […]