Oh to be young, a music fan and live in Chicago; for the next three weeks there are more bands,...

Last Thursday night one of the best tours of the summer kicked off in Madison, WI at Willow Park. The...

Having a wide and eclectic taste in music sometimes pulls you all over the map in terms of who and...

With strobe lights blaring and the drone physically pushing the crowd away from the stage, The Black Angels owned the...

About a month ago, we filled everyone in on the short list of Ratatat dates and I was totally bummed...

As I've mentioned before, the country is laden with some incredible street festivals and neighborhood parties. Of all the wonderful...

Anyone with access to the Sundance Channel should point their remotes there this week as they premier Dean Budnick's documentary...

Almost every live music fan I know has one or two venues that hold some sort of special importance to...

Last November, the good people of UW-Madison put on another edition of Madison Pop Festival with the likes of Bon...

Everyone who has ever played a song on the guitar has probably played a Weezer song at some point in...

With the abundance of larger festivals, one of the overlooked niches of the scene these days are the abundance of...

While we just posted the recently released schedule for Lollapalooza, there is more news coming out of Perry Farrell's office....

Posting a Bonnaroo preview is a daunting task. Six years ago when I attended it was arduous to see all...

A few days back Sam wrote up a post on the pro's -- and some con's -- of living in...

The remix, break-beat rock 'n roll masters Ratatat announced a small summer tour in support of their new album LP3,...

Two Friday's ago, Pnuma Trio played The Lakeshore Theater here in Chicago and the superb Eliot Lipp opened the show...

Though less than half of the year has passed, I can say that The Helio Sequence's Keep Your Eyes Ahead...

Rarely do you get to see an artist who is perched on the brink of stardom. Two Fridays ago, I...

After dropping their third LP, Made in the Dark, this past February, putting out two of the best videos I've...

Last Wednesday night the Abbey Pub packed the house with eager and energetic fans ready for one thing and one...