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Cover Story: Del Amitri • “In The Flesh”
Over the years, Justin Currie seems to have survived the turbulent music industry on his shrewd wits alone. And he does not suffer any less street-savvy fools gladly. Take, for example, when the Del Amitri frontman was padding his income a few years ago, working part-time as a bartender in his native Glasgow. If […]
The Lockdown Interviews: Foxes
Phoning from her native England recently, Louisa Rose Allen admitted that over a year of on-again, off-again pandemic lockdown had essentially ground her life to a screeching halt. “It’s like a rollercoaster that’s just not moving, isn’t it?” she asked rhetorically, adding a wry chuckle for punctuation. Because the existential irony certainly is not lost […]
Media: April 2021
It’s hard to describe everything Jon Hansen brings to Chicago media. He’s really a Jon-of-all-trades, able to shift from television to radio to just about anything else that requires a microphone. First and foremost, he’s one of the stars of the nightly gabfest (6-7 pm), The Jam on WCIU-TV. “It’s your Twitter feed on […]
CinemaScopes: April 2021
New film releases are finally starting to pick up, with more cinemas opening around the country (specifically on the West Coast). The backlog of film debuts begins this month as we lead up to the summer season. Here are some top picks for April. Concrete CowboyDirected by Ricky StaubRated RApril 2nd on Netflix Inspired by […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz March 30th – April 4th
Pandora celebrates Women’s History Month with the “Pandora Live Powered By Women” stream featuring Gwen Stefani and Jazmine Sullivan. Tune in Tuesday, March 30th at 8 PM. Watch for free on Pandora Live. Maroon 5 headlines the “American Express 2021 UNSTAGED” concert this Tuesday, March 30th. The band will take fans on a “visually […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz March 25 – March 28
Julien Baker performs an intimate set at Analog in Nashville as part of Audiotree’s “STAGED” livestream series. Watch the show Thursday, March 25th at 8 PM. Find tickets here. Bandsintown Plus presents an exclusive set from Peach Pit this Thursday, March 25th, at 8 PM. Subscribe to watch. U2 kick off their new “U2: The Virtual […]
Stage Buzz Review and Photo Gallery: Todd Rundgren Clearly Human Livestream from Chicago
Todd Rundgren Clearly Human Virtual Tour Private Venue, Chicago, IL Friday, February 26, 2021 Review by Jeff Elbel Photos by Jim Snyder Celebrated innovator and musical polymath Todd Rundgren is conducting his 25-date “Clearly Human” tour entirely from an unnamed theater in Chicago. Each show has featured all of the songs from 1989’s Nearly […]
Media: March 2021
Bob Sirott has been part of the Chicago media landscape now for a half-century. “Geez, don’t remind me,” he says. “Yeah, that’s true. 1971 was the first year on the air at WBBM-FM. First, it was just doing weekends, and fill-ins, and summer stuff, and at the end of the summer, they either rewarded […]
Cover Story: The Pretty Reckless
You’ve got to hand it to perfectionist Pretty Reckless anchor Taylor Momsen. Aesthetically, the 27-year-old knows exactly what she wants, down to the smallest accent — the minute, meticulous attention to detail you rarely experience these haphazard, slapdash days. To summarize her quartet’s mortality-themed new album (now #1 on Billboard‘s Album Chart) Death By Rock and […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz February 23rd – February 28th
Todd Rundgren continues his virtual tour, “Clearly Human,” playing his 1989 album Nearly Human in full, along with choice cuts from his catalog. This week includes shows from Detroit (Feb. 23), Indiana (Feb. 25), Chicago (Feb. 26), Milwaukee (Feb. 28), and Minneapolis (Mar. 1). Buy tickets here. Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen’s side project and the […]
The Lockdown Interviews: Steven Van Zandt
As anyone familiar with his anecdote-spiked DJ sets on his retro-rocking Underground Garage Sirius XM station can attest, Little Steve — AKA E Street Band and Asbury Jukes guitarist Miami Steve Van Zandt — has got stories. LOTS of serpentining stories, probably more than Aesop, Uncle Remus, and Grandpa Simpson combined. So naturally, all the […]
Featured: Most Anticipated New Albums of 2021
After what has proven to be a pandemic-induced drought for new music around the holidays, we finally have some new music coming from some of the industry’s biggest names. Here are the most anticipated new albums for 2021: Pale Waves – Who Am I? (February 12) One of the most buzz-worthy bands of 2018 and this […]
Cover Story – Pale Waves
If anyone didn’t know it when she first got into showbiz as a wide-eyed, small-town British naif, they know it now — Pale Waves front-vixen Heather Baron-Gracie pulls no punches, suffers no fools gladly, and always shoots straight from the hip. She’s justifiably proud of her newfound industry acumen, and she’s even developed an alter […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 28th – January 31st
iHeartRadio’s “ALTer EGO 2021 Festival” airs this Thursday with new performances by Billie Eilish and Foo Fighters, along with previous performances from Beck, Blink-182, Cage the Elephant, Coldplay, The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Weezer, The Killers, Muse, and Twenty One Pilots. Tune in on January 28th at 8 PM on LiveXLive. Music Feeds will […]
The Lockdown Interviews • Hen Ogledd
Given the turbulent, truly batshit-crazy year that we’ve all just staggered through, it was easy to overlook a lot of great, often idiosyncratic albums that continued to be released, pandemic be damned. And we’d like to pause, catch our mask-in-place breath, and bring you up to speed on a few obscure aural delights you might […]
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