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Photo Gallery: Remembering Shawn Smith of Brad
IE’s Ed Spinelli befriended the late Shawn Smith of Brad (who passed away tragically April 6th) during his days photographing Seattle’s emerging grunge scene in the ’90s, which included Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. In the following gallery, Spinelli captured one of the band’s greatest gigs, including a headlining performance from Brad, a reunited Mother Love […]
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Stage Buzz: Uli Jon Roth at The Forge of Joliet and The Arcada Theatre [with added Photo Gallery]
German guitar maestro Uli Jon Roth’s 50th-anniversary tour – where he’ll be performing selected highlights from his entire musical career – comes to Chicagoland Friday and Saturday. Roth’s arrival in Chicagoland commences Friday, April 12 at The Forge in Joliet and concludes on Saturday, April 13 at the Arcada Theater in St. Charles. The concert’s […]
Photo Gallery: Spiritualized at The Vic Theatre
It would not be an overstatement to say that Jason Pierce creates music at a glacial pace. His three-decades old project Spiritualized has produced a mere eight albums in that time. So it’s no surprise that word of him hitting the road to support is 2018’s And Nothing Hurt caused a stir after a six […]
Live Review: The Musical Box at Arcada Theatre
. The Musical Box Saturday, March 30, 2019 Arcada Theatre, St. Charles If you’ve ever wondered what traveling back in time would feel like, you would only have to go as far as the Arcada Theatre on the evening that The Musical Box and their current show, entitled A Genesis Extravaganza, arrived there. This […]
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets at Chicago Theatre
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets Chicago Theatre, Chicago April 4, 2019 Thursday’s concert by Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets was a dream come true for fans of early Pink Floyd and psychedelic rock. Focused exclusively on material released prior to 1973’s epic Dark Side of the Moon, Mason and his cohort of four musicians delved […]
Stage Buzz: Record Store Day 2019
Record Store Day celebrates its eleventh birthday on April 13th, and it has become entrenched as a must-have shopping day for vinyl freaks. As the RSD curators state “this is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the […]
Stage Buzz: Citizen Cope at House of Blues Chicago
It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments that might sound callous — even a little cruel — in the retelling. But rest assured, it was neither of those things. It was a reckoning. Late afternoon a few years ago at a hip San Francisco nightclub — the universal hour for an artist’s pre-show soundcheck. Tonight, […]
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Andrew Bird at Green Mill
Andrew Bird Green Mill, Chicago April 2, 2019 On a brief introductory jaunt for his new album My Finest Work Yet, Andrew Bird returned to his old stomping grounds for the first of two intimate shows at Uptown’s 160-capacity Green Mill. Befitting his surroundings in the venerable jazz room, Bird began with the 1944 Jule […]
Photo Gallery: Baroness and Deafheaven at The Riviera Theater
And on the day of rest, a Metal Militia was sent to Uptown! This past weekend, Chicago’s venerable Riviera Theater played host to an incredibly loud Seventh day. San Francisco’s Deafheaven all but pummeled those attending into submission with their brand of scream-o heaviness. Sharing a co-headlining spot with them on this tour was Savanah, […]
Photo Gallery: Mumford & Sons at The Chicago Theatre
London quartet Mumford & Sons have pulled off some impressive feats during their decade-long career. Friday night at Chicago’s United Center they continued that winning streak. They managed to make a cavernous sports arena feel intimate and inviting. The fact that they sold it out in mere moments was equally impressive. Touring behind their fourth […]
Media: April 2019
If you listen to the veterans of the radio world, you begin to hear a few common themes. One is that there is a dearth of young talent. Another is that the young talent that has emerged doesn’t know and appreciate radio history, and are therefore unappreciative of what radio was and what it can […]
Cover Story: Gary Clark Jr.
The Chosen One. The Future of the Blues Guitar. The Next Stevie Ray Vaughan. Savior of the Blues. At only 35-years of age, Gary Clark Jr. has carried a lot of pressure on his slim shoulders. But from the time he was a teen, blasting away his elders at Austin nightclubs, a grand destiny […]
Photo Gallery: Experience Hendrix at the The Riverside Theater
The caravan of Experience Hendrix rolled into Milwaukee Thursday, featuring Billy Cox (from Jimi Hendrix Experience / Band Of Gypsys), Joe Satriani, Dave Mustaine (from Megadeth), Zakk Wylde (from Black Label Society / Ozzy Osbourne), Jonny Lang, Dweezil Zappa, Eric Johnson, Doyle Bramhall II, dUg Pinnick (from King’s X), Chris Layton (from Stevie Ray Vaughan […]
Photo Gallery: Metric/Zoe at Aragon Ballroom
A huge portion of North America was represented this past Friday night in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, and the good ole’ U.S. of A. was not on the bill. The historic Aragon Ballroom played host to the co-headlining tour “Metric & Zoe,” which is comprised of the Canadian indie-rock band and the psychedelic rock band from […]
Live Review and Gallery: Michael Bublé at Allstate Arena
Michael BublĂ© Allstate Arena, Rosemont Sunday, March 17, 2019 A six-year gap in between tours for a post-2000s artist may as well be a lifetime, but in the case of Michael BublĂ©, it didn’t come at the hands of a laborious creative pursuit or some self-indulgent exile. Instead, his infant son was dealt an extremely […]
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