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Still Hard, Still Haiti
Concert For The Women Of Haiti Thursday, June 17th The Wilmette Theater on Central Ave. will host a Hope For Haiti benefit concert Thursday night to avert the typical dry-up of recovery funds to the earthquake-torn Caribbean nation.
Withdrawl Symptoms
June 17th-18th We searched the whole wide world just to find you these recommendations.
A Weekend From Your Weekend
The Week In Preview There’s too much going on this weekend. Yeah, we said it. Some people were downtown at 6:30 this morning for the Blackhawks’ championship parade, and that’s before hooligans can disperse to Blues Fest, the Cubs/Sox series at Wrigley, and street fests including Old Town Art Fair, Lincoln Square Ribfest, Andersonville Midsummer […]
Pleasure Or Pain?
Thursday, June 10th We have no idea what the town will look like tomorrow. Maybe we’ll be covered in the blood-red water of Daley Plaza. Maybe nervousness will be pervasive. Our heads will hurt. But the shows go on.
Blues Fest Periphery
The city’s annual celebration has never been limited to Grant Park, and often the most memorable sets happen in the surrounding venues.
Matt Pond PA reviewed!
The Dark Leaves (Altitude) Persistent chamber-pop heartthrob Matt Pond pushes his band in the other direction on this spring-released autumn album.
What Final?
Wednesday, June 10 So you’ve had a week to digest our June issue and each tasty morsel that fell in your lap. Unbowed, you rotate your head slowly each direction and drool, “More!”
Win tickets!
Freelance Whales at Schubas on Friday! Right now we have two tickets for Freelance Whales! The first person to successfully guess our favorite track from this spring’s Weathervanes (Frenchkiss) gets ’em for Friday’s (June 11th) Schubas show with Peter Wolf Crier!
Erykah Badu, N.E.R.D., Janelle Monáe live!
Chicago Theatre, Chicago Thursday, June 3, 2010 If you thought pop music had dissolved into flashy diva spectacles with lots of hooks and no soul or substance, you may have missed a few musical revelations. Specifically, Erykah Badu’s singular brand of tripped-out soul and hip-hop funk, N.E.R.D’s vivacious rock and hip-hop mélange, and Janelle Monáe’s […]
Di! Di-di-di-di-der-di-di! . . .
Jon Fratelli threatens to become this spring’s Steve Perry when the Metro hosts him Sunday, June 6th as the Blackhawks try to capture their first Stanley Cup since 1961. Bringing you up to speed, there’s this game called “hockey” invented by “Canadians.” Chicago’s top-tier entrant in the North American competition is called the Blackhawks (formerly […]
Online Exclusive: Common
Finding A Balance It’s been a long road for Common to get to the point where he is today: superimposed on billboards embracing Queen Latifah on the poster for the new film, Just Wright.
Buddy Guy’s New Legends Is Open!
It’s official: Despite what you read in our new issue today, the new Buddy Guy’s location is open with about a week to spare for Blues Fest.
What A Long, Strange Weekend It’ll Be
Memorial Day Weekend Preview If you’ve been saving up all your rockin’ in May, now’s the time to let it out. Especially because we have a new issue out Tuesday.
So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll T-shirt Designer
Lollapalooza Shirt Contest Rock ‘n’ roll is a lot like sports, in that such a small minority of artists make it — and define those words at your own peril — the failure rate doesn’t justify the numbers in pursuit.
Carole King & James Taylor live!
Allstate Arena, Rosemont Monday, May 24, 2010 Forty years ago, right on the crest of the singer/songwriter movement, Carole King and James Taylor first shared the stage at West Hollywood’s now legendary Troubadour. Though their paths have crossed on the pop and rock charts repeatedly since (and they’ve also swapped album credits), the Troubadour Reunion […]
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