Tag: Riviera Theatre

Photo Gallery: Sleater-Kinney with Black Belt Eagle Scout at Riviera Theatre • Chicago

Brassneck | March 23, 2024 | 0 Comments

Sleater-Kinney Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL March 21, 2024 Recap and gallery by Curt Baran Loss loomed large during Sleater-Kinney’s performance at the Riviera Theatre in Uptown Thursday night. The Olympia, Washington duo (expanded into a quintet for touring purposes) are out promoting their tenth studio album (Little Road) and grief certainly seems to be riding […]

Stage Buzz: English Beat, Chi-Town Blues Festival, Slowthai, Maxwell, Clutch

Brassneck | April 3, 2022

Code Orange with special guests Loathe, Vended, and Dying Wish plays Metro this Monday, April 4 at 7 PM. Tickets are available here. The Flaming Lips’ “American Head American Tour” swings by The Riviera Theatre on Wednesday, April 6 at 8 PM. You can still get tickets here. We Were Promised Jetpacks and Weakend Friends […]

Stage Buzz: Sparks, Flogging Molly, Ween, Napalm Death, Knuckle Puck

Brassneck | March 13, 2022

Drug Church brings “The Hygiene Tour” featuring One Step Closer, Soul Blind, and Lurk to Beat Kitchen on Wednesday, March 16 at 7:30 PM. Sorry, this one is sold out! Celebrate St. Patty’s Day with a live performance from Flogging Molly streamed from the Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, March 17 at 11 PM. Find […]

Stage Buzz: Local and Livestreams • March 2 – March 5 • Gang of Four, Slash with Myles Kennedy, Tibet House Benefit, Lion Trod

Brassneck | March 2, 2022

British post-punk legends Gang of Four are carrying on without their co-founder, the late Andy Gill, and will appear at Bottom Lounge on Wednesday, March 2. Original members John King and Hugo Burnham concentrate on a setlist from the classic 1977-1984 period. David Pajo guests on guitar with Sara Lee on bass. Tickets are available […]

Photo Gallery: Idles at Riviera Theatre

Brassneck | October 9, 2021 | 0 Comments

Idles Friday, October 8 Riviera Theatre Chicago, IL Recap and photos by Curt Baran When Idles released their Ultra Mono record in September 2020, the British quintet was already riding a wave of both critical and commercial success. Of course, by then, the world had stopped as did their momentum. Not satisfied to remain…um, idle, the […]

Cover Story: Ministry • “My House is My Art”

Brassneck | August 31, 2021 | 0 Comments

Any other modern bandleader would be a tad nervous, if not downright filled with floor pacing anxiety. But not calm, cool, and collected Svengali Al Jourgensen. Sure, his notorious, pioneering industrial outfit Ministry is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year by — gulp! — heading out on post-lockdown, but mid-Delta-variant tour, which hits Chicago […]

Cover Story: Grace Potter [with added Photo Gallery from Riviera Theatre]

Brassneck | February 8, 2020 | 0 Comments

In the DC Comics universe, Superman always had his Fortress of Solitude, a secluded palace on the frozen Arctic tundra where he could go to muse on his complex relationships with villains, the Justice League, and indeed his planetary protectorate, humankind itself. Not bad, as exotic getaways go. Vermont-bred folk-rocker Grace Potter, on the other […]

Live Review and Gallery: Robert Plant at Riviera Theatre

Brassneck | February 22, 2018 | 0 Comments

Riviera Theatre, Chicago Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Leave it to Robert Plant, arguably rock n’ roll’s most famous and ferocious front man of all time, to keep his eyes focused primarily on recent interests rather than recycling his glories of yesteryear. The man who turned down more cash than could ever be counted to reunite […]

Photo Gallery: Patti Smith at the Riviera Theatre

ilentertainer | January 2, 2017 | 0 Comments

Photographing one of his most anticipated shows to close 2016, IE’s Ed Spinelli captured the poet of punk, Patti Smith Friday at the Riviera. On her birthday, performing her groundbreaking debut album Horses. Whoa. We’re going to need her wisdom more than ever in 2017. Here’s what he captured on night one of her two-night […]