[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBvZLehlNs] “I’m too old to die young,” frontwoman Sabrina Ellis of A Giant Dog belts out on “Sex & Drugs.” These lyrics, along with lines like “you’ve been told […]
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 […]
Robotic voices, arena rock guitar lines, and keyboard bleeps à la Beck’s Midnite Vultures: this is Of Montreal’s 14th album release in a nutshell. On Innocence Reaches, Kevin Barnes returned to the high-sugar […]
Celebrating the rich musical heritage of Latin America and Spain, the 11th installment of Chicago’s Latino Music Festival kicks off with the violin and guitar Duo Belcorde performing music from […]
Nest lead vocalist Stephanie Maieritsch walked over to me, wearing the friendliest smile I’ve ever seen, as I waited in the Old Town School of Folk Music lobby at Lincoln […]
We are one week away from Summer’s Last Stand, the North Coast Music Festival! Since 2010, the festival has called Union Park home and brought a wide array of musical […]
Labor Day weekend is rapidly approaching and that means the North Coast Music Festival, Summer’s Last Stand, is just around the corner. The music festival that takes a healthy dose […]
Freaky Deaky started off as a Halloween party in 2009 at the Congress Theater, booking bands like Crystal Castles until various building code violations, neighbor complaints and the termination of […]
I thought I was listening to a song from the soundtrack of Sophia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” upon first hearing “Don’t Want to Be Your Friend,” a track off Cassettes on […]
Have you ever felt like popular music has gotten too complex? Are you a bit tired of seeing a band with 9 members, two of which are on the xylophone […]
You want to check out Lolla but suddenly remember that it’s supposed to be hot and gross as hell this weekend. You don’t want to deal with that. Luckily, Lollapalooza […]
In a city that is nearly saturated with street festivals–not a bad problem to have–July’s Wicker Park Fest is set to be one to prioritize. The two-day festival will take […]