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Photo Gallery: Joe Perry Project at Arcada Theatre • St. Charles
Joe Perry Project Arcada Theatre St. Charles, IL 4/21/2023 Recap and Photos by Edward Spinelli With Aerosmith still on break (but rumored to announce a tour at any moment), guitarist Joe Perry hit the road for a very limited number of “intimate” dates in support of the guitar hero’s latest album, Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII. Chicago-area […]
Photo Gallery: Depeche Mode at United Center • Chicago
Depeche Mode United Center Chicago, IL April 5, 2023 Recap and photos by Curt Baran Considering that he wasn’t even in the room, Andy Fletcher’s (“Fletch”) posthumous presence loomed large at Chicago’s United Center on Wednesday night. The longtime Depeche Mode keyboardist passed away suddenly in May of 2022. For four decades, he was part […]
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Rise Against (Residency) at Metro • Chicago
Rise Against March 30, 31 and April 1 Metro Chicago, IL Review by Jaime de’Medici; Photos by Curt Baran Over the past year, the Metro has welcomed a number of Chicago superstars as part of the venue’s ongoing 40th anniversary celebration. Among them have been The Smashing Pumpkins and Fall Out Boy, with Wilco even […]
Media: April 2023 • Leading on the Score
Mitch Rosen is Operations Manager and Brand Manager for AM 670 The Score and has been in that role for nearly twenty years. “February of ’05 is when I started at the Score,” he explains. “Paul Agase was the station manager and reached out to me and asked me to come back to the […]
Photo Gallery: Maya Hawke at Metro • Chicago
Maya Hawke Metro Chicago, IL March 18, 2023 Recap and photos by Curt Baran Maya Hawke is well on her way to becoming multi-hyphenated. She’s best known for her acting roles, specifically her character Robin on the hugely successful Netflix television series Stranger Things. As the daughter of actors Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, one […]
Live Review & Photo Gallery: Winery Dogs at Arcada Theatre • St. Charles`
The Winery Dogs The Arcada Theatre, St. Charles, IL Friday, March 10, 2023 Review by Jeff Elbel. Photos by Ed Spinelli. On Friday night, the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles welcomed a full house of faithful hard rockers. Fans were on their feet from the moment that supergroup The Winery Dogs walked onstage. The celebratory […]
Media: March 2023 • Sky Daniels Remembers The Loop FM98
Sky Daniels was one of the biggest stars at the Loop in their first heyday (1979-1981), and although he has gone on to an incredibly successful career in the record and radio business and is now retired and living in California, he still has very fond memories of his time in Chicago. But […]
Live Review: Remain In Light : Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew at The Vic Theatre • Chicago
The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL Saturday, February 25, 2023 Review and photos by Jeff Elbel Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and the band’s veteran sideman Adrian Belew brought a tour celebrating their work on 1980’s influential Remain in Light album to Chicago’s Vic Theatre on Saturday. The pair were accompanied by seven-piece funk/jam/rock band Cool Cool Cool, […]
Photo Gallery: Viagra Boys at The Salt Shed • Chicago
Viagra Boys Salt Shed Chicago, IL February 24, 2023 Recap and photos by Curt Baran “He says he don’t believe in science/He thinks that all the news is fake/And late at night he sits at his computer/And writes about the things he hates.” If you need a sense as to where the left-leaning Viagra Boys […]
Media: February 2023 • Waking Up with Q101’s Brian and Justin
Brian Haddad and Justin Nettlebeck have been doing mornings at Q-101 for the last four years, but there have been a few changes in the last few months. First, long-time co-host Ali Mattacola left the show in November. As of this writing, they are still looking for the right person to fill that slot. But […]
Hello My Name is Ian Broudie of The Lightning Seeds
On the surface, it’s difficult to believe that 13 long years have crept by since brainy producer/multi-instrumentalist Ian Broudie released Four Winds, his last picture-perfect pop album as The Lightning Seeds, a dormant period the Brit is finally breaking with the shimmering new See You in the Stars, out last month. And when he […]
January 2023: Media • In Memoriam
As we enter a new year, we do so without a talented group of broadcasters we lost in 2022. I won’t be able to name all of them, but here are a few that passed away from the world of radio and television. It became clear that 2022 wasn’t going to be a great […]
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Andrew Bird with My Brightest Diamond at Fourth Presbyterian Church • Chicago
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 […]
Media : December 2022 • Baby Onions – It’s Chuck Swirsky
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 […]
Live Review and Photo Gallery: Suede and Manic Street Preachers at Auditorium Theatre • Chicago
Suede and Manic Street Preachers Wednesday, November 16, 2022 Auditorium Theatre Chicago, Il Review by Jeff Elbel. Photos by Curt Baran. Despite careers spanning decades and ample respect among music fans in the know, British glam-rock innovators Suede and sociopolitical firebrands Manic Street Preachers are not household names in the United States. These facts were […]
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