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Stage Buzz: Cage The Elephant @ The Aragon Ballroom
Bowling Green’s Cage The Elephant are arguably one of the finest live acts currently working the floorboards. The only thing predictable about lead singer Matt Shultz is his unpredictability. After four releases, including 2015’s Tell Me I’m Pretty their set lists are stocked with a seemingly endless supply of rock radio staples (“Ain’t No Rest […]
Cover Story: The Pretty Reckless
Batman had his recessed Batcave. Superman had his Arctic Fortress of Solitude. And rocker/actress/artist Taylor Momsen has her own off-the-map hideout, an idyllic place in an unspecified part of New England where she regularly goes to collect her thoughts, create new paintings and sculptures, and generally recharges her creative batteries. And going off the […]
RIP: Riot Fest Co-Founder Sean McKeough
Riot Fest Co-Founder and Cobra Lounge owner Sean P. McKeough, 42, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, November 29, the staff at Riot Fest announced today. Sean and co-founder Mike Petryshyn nurtured the punk rock festival from its beginnings as a small club event to its current incarnation as multi-day festivals in Chicago’s Douglas Park […]
Live Review: Robyn Hitchcock at City Winery
Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift Thursday, November 17, 2016 City Winery As Robyn Hitchcock’s touring partner for a number of years, Emma Swift received a warm welcome at City Winery from the headliner’s fans. The Australian transplant by way of Nashville colored tremulous guitar chords with her rich and winsome alto on songs including […]
Cover Story: Good Charlotte
For protean punk – and part-time thespian – Joel Madden, of Good Charlotte renown, there’s only one thing better than his cameo appearance last year on Lee Daniels’ hit TV series Empire, alongside his wife of six years, designer Nicole Richie. And that’s building an actual empire of his own, which he’s quietly been doing […]
Photo Gallery – Alice Cooper @ Genesee Theatre
IE’s Ed Spinelli captured the godfather of glam-rock, the legendary Alice Cooper at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan.
Cover Story: Rachael Yamagata
The truth is out there, believes Rachael Yamagata …. life-changing answers will become self-evident.
Live Review: Magnificent Coloring Day at US Cellular Field
Chance The Rapper puts the ghost of disco demolition to bed on the South Side…
Photo Gallery: ZZ Top at Rosemont Theatre
Houston’s ZZ Top played their big ’80s hits, ’70s jams, and tracks from their most recent retro sounding studio album, La Futura. Bradley Todd caught them live in Rosemont.
Live Review: Echo and the Bunnymen at Metro
Liverpool’s second most famous band return to their famous Chicago home, Metro…
Cover Story: Bastille
It was a summer ritual that British musician Dan Smith eagerly awaited every year – the Glastonbury Festival, a weekend in late June where he and his friends piled into a minivan and camped out on-site for three days of musical mayhem. And he was just as excited this year, even though he arrived in […]
File: Judge orders Double Door to vacate its current location…
Venerable Wicker Park music venue must close current location…
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