It is always a good sign to find myself perspiring in the middle of a performance in a venue with a working air conditioner. This is exactly what happened during […]
Music of the Baroque finished their 2021-22 season at Harris Theater on Monday with The Brothers Haydn, a program centered on Joseph Haydn and his younger brother Michael. The older […]
Chicago’s classical music label Cedille Records has continued to release compelling CDs highlighting our city’s deep musical talent, both performers and composers. Two recent Cedille releases include compositions inspired by […]
Last year, a nice collection of like-minded labels (Ghostly International, Chicago’s very own Numero Group and indie behemoth Secretly Group, which includes Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian) got together […]
It’s a little hard to believe, but we’re well into two decades, nearly approaching the third, of Spoon. The band first came together in 1993 and released their first tracks […]
If you grew up watching Disney channel in the mid 2000s, chances are you know who Aly & AJ are. After a long 10-year musical hiatus, sisters Aly & AJ […]
It’s always a great sign when I exit a concert mumbling “wonderful,” but that’s what I was saying Wednesday night after cellist Oliver Herbert and Pianist Xiaohui Yang finished their […]
The Music of the Baroque concert this week at the Harris Theater, with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Easter Oratorio as its featured piece, was excellent—I’ve never seen the ensemble give a […]
Cellist Oliver Herbert and Pianist Xiaohui Yang offered lively and engrossing performances of two of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sonatas for cello and piano last night at Guarneri Hall. It was […]
To this music aficionado, few things are more disappointing than going to a performance, expecting to be blown away, wanting to be blown away–but ending up walking away and thinking, […]
It’s pretty easy to determine whether there will be moshing at a concert before you arrive depending on the music genre. In Sasami’s case, her shift from soft shoegaze indie-rock […]
After having to take 2020 off, Out of Space (put on by the wonderful Evanston SPACE organizers) reignited it’s outdoor festival for an amazing outing. The fest featured a great […]