Jan 23, 2015
By Brian Brinkman - @sufferingjukeIts been a weird year for me with music. Between traveling through SE Asia & India, throwing myself into a complete career shift, and ultimately moving to the East Coast for the first time in my life, I havent had a ton of time to sit and reflect on music like...
Jan 19, 2015
By: @WeirScrewedBy being both versatile and creative in a multitude of musical modalities, Jackie Greene is Americanas version of a Swiss army knife.Whether he is fronting a permutation of Phil and Friends, playing lead guitar for the recently defunct Black Crowes, or playing a subdued acoustic show, Greene can wear many different hats and...
Jan 16, 2015
The Leftover Salmon boys set up shop at Chicago's Vic Theater for two shows over New Year's Eve. There were plenty of reason to be excited with Keller Williams sharing the stage, but it it turned out the party planners had a big more up their sleeves....The NYE show also happened to coincide with...
Jan 16, 2015
Karl D and his boys played Chicago on New Year's Eve for the third consecutive year. While last year, they shared the stage with Robert Randolph, this year there was a bigger twist -- transforming themselves into a RUNDMC cover band for the holiday. Yeah, I'm calling in KarlDMC,There they are above decked out...
Jan 16, 2015
One of Chicago's best kept secrets is Blotto / Helping Phriendly Orchestra guitarist Mark Hague, so it's always a treat when he gets a chance to shine with a national touring act.Assembly Of Dust gave him that opportunity on the second night of their two night run in Chicago on January 9th & 10th. ...
Jan 16, 2015
I've recently expounded on the top ten shows of the year that I've seen personally, but as I try to put an punctation on our 2014 coverage, I just HAVE to call this one out as one of the most under-rated jams of the year. No, I wasn't there, but man was I caught off guard...
Jan 16, 2015
In years past, I've done my yearly round ups as a mixture of best "things" -- shows, albums, concepts -- that made in impact that year.In 2014, I had such a diversity of show experience that I would consider in the top echelon, that I decided to go shows only. It also gives me a...
Jan 14, 2015
[1/16 Update. It's On]There's been chatter about something -- anything -- to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead since the 49th anniversary was just a month old. Bob Weir speculated as such in a Rolling Stone magazine interview last January ("we owe it to the songs").But that was a Furthur break-up,...
Jan 8, 2015
Photos: Heidi Peters | Reporting: KC DriscollThe Psychedelic Furs completed a sold out three night stand at City Winery and Heidi and KC were on hand for Sunday night's gig to report for The Barn.Richard Butler, clad in a black three-piece suit, white shirt, black tie and fashionable black glasses, sported the look of a...
Jan 7, 2015
Frequent contributor Alex Wood has assembled his list of the top 150 albums of the year.1. Jack White- LazarettoLazaretto is an instant classic, an album that successfully combines the sounds of Jack Whites past work and influences to create something wholly his own. A record free of crazy effects and using no compression in the production...