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Stage Buzz Q&A: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans • Vic Theatre February 7 • Chicago

Stage Buzz Q&A: Tim Burgess of The Charlatans • Vic Theatre February 7 • Chicago

| February 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

  English band the Charlatans (aka The Charlatans U.K.) came of age with 1990’s Some Friendly. The album featured the organ-fueled alternative rock hit “The Only One I Know,” which nodded to classics by the Byrds and Deep Purple. The quintet’s sound was bundled into the era’s Madchester scene, with danceable house rhythms, R&B grooves, […]

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Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 9-November 14 • Pitchfork Music Fest London, Johnny Marr, Adult Swim Fest., Andrew McMahon, Chase Atlantic Live from the Riviera Theatre, Welcome To Rockville Festival

Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 9-November 14 • Pitchfork Music Fest London, Johnny Marr, Adult Swim Fest., Andrew McMahon, Chase Atlantic Live from the Riviera Theatre, Welcome To Rockville Festival

| November 8, 2021 | 0 Comments

  Electronic post-punk pioneers New Order performed last Saturday, November 6, to a sold-out O2 crowd in London during their livestream; you can still catch the replay until Tuesday, November 9. Get Tickets here. Flymachine presents X Ambassadors: “The Beautiful Liar Tour.”  The band will perform live from November 9 at The Truman in Kansas City.  […]

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Live Review and Photo Gallery: Johnny Marr at The Vic Theatre

Live Review and Photo Gallery: Johnny Marr at The Vic Theatre

| May 15, 2019 | 0 Comments

Johnny Marr The Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL Monday, May 13, 2019 Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr’s last appearance in Chicago was a short-but-sweet set under the afternoon sun in Douglas Park at Riot Fest. This brief blast of Eurocentric alt-pop was timed to help introduce new material from 2018’s Call the Comet, the third in […]

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Cover Story: Johnny Marr

Cover Story: Johnny Marr

| September 13, 2018 | 0 Comments

Johnny Marr just made the best record of his life. And he knows it. Dubbed Call the Comet, it’s the ex-Smith guitarist’s third, following 2013’s The Messenger and 2014’s Playland. And it finds him: Lyrically delving into grim socio-political issues that he’d often avoided; Letting his axe provide the chiming hooks in places instead of […]

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