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Stage Buzz: Whitney,  Macabre, Michael McDermott, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Chante Moore

Stage Buzz: Whitney, Macabre, Michael McDermott, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Chante Moore

| December 19, 2022 | 0 Comments

  Award-winning singer/songwriter Chante Moore has always shared her personal journey through her soul-baring songs. Now, you can join her journey live when she brings “An Evening with Chante Moore” to a sold-out crowd at City Winery on Tuesday, December 20. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Acclaimed Chicago-based singer/songwriter Michael McDermott brings his mini-residency to […]

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Live Review and Photo Gallery: Andrew Bird with My Brightest Diamond at Fourth Presbyterian Church • Chicago

Live Review and Photo Gallery: Andrew Bird with My Brightest Diamond at Fourth Presbyterian Church • Chicago

| December 15, 2022 | 0 Comments

Andrew Bird with special guest My Brightest Diamond Gezelligheid concert at Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Review and photos by Jeff Elbel Absent since 2019, Andrew Bird’s seasonal Gezelligheid concerts returned in grand style this year. The homecoming event sold out a series of seven nights at the stately setting of […]

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Feature: From Bauhaus to Love And Rockets, and the new Night Crickets, David J always delivers

Feature: From Bauhaus to Love And Rockets, and the new Night Crickets, David J always delivers

| December 13, 2022 | 0 Comments

Man of many bands, David J, is no stranger to iconic songwriting and inventive bass parts, dating all the way back to post-punk/gothic architects Bauhaus, continuing with alternative rockers Love And Rockets and now starting an entirely new chapter fronting the Night Crickets, all while juggling a slew of solo and passion projects. Along with […]

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Live Review and Photo Gallery: The Claudettes at SPACE • Evanston

Live Review and Photo Gallery: The Claudettes at SPACE • Evanston

| December 13, 2022 | 0 Comments

The Claudettes SPACE, Evanston, IL Saturday, December 10, 2022 Review by Jeff Elbel. Photos by Timothy Hiatt. Chicago’s genre-hurdling quartet The Claudettes concluded a busy year of touring with a show at Evanston’s SPACE on Saturday. The air of a special event drifted through the evening from beginning to end. Before welcoming his bandmates onto […]

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Stage Buzz: Enforced, Freddie Gibbs, Stephen Pearcy, Psychostick

Stage Buzz: Enforced, Freddie Gibbs, Stephen Pearcy, Psychostick

| December 13, 2022

  Richmond, Virginia’s Enforced quickly become the next metal band to watch thanks to their 2021 album Kill Grid, which blends classic thrash/crossover metal with punk, death metal, and hardcore for their own volatile sound. Now, you can catch them at Beat Kitchen supporting Undeath and 200 Stab Wound’s co-headlining tour alongside Phobophilic on Thursday, December […]

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Feature: X-Mas Tidings with Exene Cervenka

Feature: X-Mas Tidings with Exene Cervenka

| December 10, 2022

It’s not like Exene Cervenka has suddenly been transformed — through the charming stop-motion animation process of Rankin-Bass — into a warm, fuzzy feel-good protagonist this year. But the formerly feisty X firebrand has chilled out, post-pandemic, and actually become one Humble new Bumble as her four-decade-old combo heads out on its annual X-Mas Tour […]

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Stage Buzz: The Soft Moon, Jack White, The 1975

Stage Buzz: The Soft Moon, Jack White, The 1975

| December 7, 2022

  Luis Vasquez’s project, The Soft Moon, started as an outlet for him to work through personal issues and learn more about himself, which never meant seeing the light of day. 12 years later, his music connects millions of people around the world. Touring in support of his latest album, Exister, The Soft Moon will […]

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ELP Legacy at Arcada Theatre • St. Charles

ELP Legacy at Arcada Theatre • St. Charles

| December 5, 2022

ELP Legacy Arcada Theatre Thursday, December 1, 2022 St. Charles, IL Ed Spinelli captured Carl Palmer’s version of ELP at Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, complete with footage of Greg Lake and Keith Emerson in tow. The audience enjoyed a classic night of ELP and a worthy dedication to Palmer’s former bandmates.  

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Live Review and Photo Gallery: The Smile at the Riviera Theatre • Chicago

Live Review and Photo Gallery: The Smile at the Riviera Theatre • Chicago

| December 4, 2022

The Smile Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL Thursday, December 1, 2022 Review by Jeff Elbel, photos by Curt Baran The Smile has earned praise as the most satisfying among Radiohead’s side projects by many fans, a status that benefits from inclusion of Radiohead’s creative engine. Singer Thom Yorke is joined by multi-instrumentalists Jonny Greenwood and Sons […]

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Advertiser Message: Taylor Guitars Find Your Fit at Tobias Music • Downers Grove

Advertiser Message: Taylor Guitars Find Your Fit at Tobias Music • Downers Grove

| December 1, 2022

It’s back! Taylor Guitars Find Your Fit returns to Tobias Music Friday, December 2nd, from 7-9 pm – if you’re in the market for a quality acoustic guitar, don’t miss this event. Special once-a-year pricing will be offered…an all-day Find Your Fit event follows on Saturday… Taylor Guitars Holiday ‘Find Your Fit’ Sales Event Weekend. […]

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Cover Story: 40 Years of W.A.S.P.

Cover Story: 40 Years of W.A.S.P.

| December 1, 2022

    When you’ve been consistently composing rabble-rousing metal anthems for several decades — like brainy W.A.S.P. bandleader Blackie Lawless has, to the point where he’s currently on a prestigious 40th Anniversary Tour — it helps to set your standards impeccably high. Which, for this Staten-Island-bred shock-rocker — who’s not claiming his method would work […]

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Media : December 2022 • Baby Onions – It’s Chuck Swirsky

Media : December 2022 • Baby Onions – It’s Chuck Swirsky

| December 1, 2022

  Chuck Swirsky is in the midst of his 25th season as an NBA play-by-play man, and his 15th year doing radio play-by-play for the Bulls. Next month he’ll do his 2000th game. “If everything goes according to plan,” he says, “it will happen on January 13, a Friday night, against Oklahoma City.” That’s a […]

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