Preview: Snail Mail Will Bring Their Fun Sound to Metro Tonight!
If you read any 2018 year-end best of music lists—and since you’re here I’m guessing you did—you likely noticed Snail Mail near the top of many of them. It’s name […]
Preview: Catch Charly Bliss’ Good Vibes During Their TNK Show at Lincoln Hall Tonight!
Brooklyn’s Charly Bliss are having the time of their lives. At least that’s the impression I’ve gotten every single time I’ve seen them played live. The Brooklyn quartet literally bounce […]
Review: Dover Quartet Opens the Annual Northwestern Winter Chamber Festival in a Big Way
The Dover Quartet opened the 2019 installment of the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival in a fantastic way on Friday evening with compelling performances of classical and contemporary string […]
Review: ANCHR Magazine Celebrates Second Birthday at Schubas
When OHMME’s Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart joined V.V. Lightbody on stage at Schubas last week, 2019 officially started. The Friday night was atypically mild and warm for a Chicago […]
Review: A Raw and Passionate Post Animal Connected with Their Hometown Crowd
The energy buzzing throughout the venue was palpable as fans fervently waited in anticipation to see Post Animal’s hometown performance. A Chicago fan-favorite group, the psych-rock band played in front […]
2018 in Review: What We Liked in Music
It’s been a pretty great year for music. So good in fact that a top 10, top 50, top whatever, wouldn’t have captured the magic of the year. It felt […]
Review: In Springsteen On Broadway, the Boss Tells His Life Story in Words and Music
In early 1978, Bruce Springsteen embarked on the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, in what would become a new benchmark for his brand of stadium epics. The Boss […]
Album Review: Dumbfoundead Makes a Feel Good Comeback
Last month, K-Town LA’s beloved resident rapper Dumbfoundead released his latest EP, Cafe Bleu, a follow up to last year’s Rocket Man and Foreigner EPs. Cafe Bleu EP is the […]
Preview: Red Velvet Brings Redmare to the US
When Red Velvet visited Chicago back in April for their first US fanmeet, they asked their fans if they would be willing to come to their concert if they were […]
Review: Amber Liu Goes Rogue in Her First-Ever US Solo Tour
[soliloquy id=”43503″] Upon nearing Park West, a line wrapping around the venue could easily be spotted from a few blocks down. Despite it being a rather cold December evening, energy […]
Review: Helena Deland & Gia Margaret Delivered Complex and Riveting Performances at Schubas
Upon listening to Helena Deland’s music for the first time, it was impossible for me to get her sound out of my head. Over the past couple of years she […]
Review: Joe Pug Delivers Folk Balladry, Plain and Simple at City Winery
“And I’ve come to know the wish-list of my father/I’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished/I’ve come to wish aloud/Before the overdressed crowd/Come to witness now the sinking […]