City Winery has made a habit of pairing their excellent wines with musical tributes to some of their favorite artists.When it came time to paying tribute to Phish, beverage director RachelDriver Speckan decided to leave the wine in the casks and introduce fans to the hand crafted brews of Ale Syndicate.Chicago's finest Phish...

We're staring down the best musical weekend in Chicago in recent memory. To celebrate, we want to get you out to as many shows as possible and are giving away a ton of tickets to some of our top picks.Fill out this simple form or drop us an email at info @ thebarnpesents.com with...

Billy Corgan, former Zwan frontman, teahouse entrepreneur and outspoken Clark The Cub supporter, refuses to stop creating.With a Highland Park teashop-cum-performance-pace (Madame ZuZu's) at his disposal, apparently there is no stopping his ability to share his creations with the world. As eager audience members lined-up and were ushered in throughout the day on Friday,...

Fact: there is outstanding music every weekend in Chicago.But sometimes you just have to shake your head, sigh, and realize how lucky we are to have this city as our playground.What's more, the highlights of this weekend's cavalcade of stars feature that are right smack in our wheelhouse. the jambands, supergroups, heavy funk,...

Phil Lesh assembled his friends for another four-nighter at Grate Room of Terrapin Crossroads over the weekend. There was a decided North Mississippi flavor with the Dickinson brothers on hand, but Jackie Greene and Jason Crosby also brought their unique approach to Grateful Dead music.Interspersed between GD classics were covers of Allman Brothers, The...

Words: @WeirScrewedPhotos: Tom HarmonTodd Snider and the Hard Working Americans wrapped up their first ever tour Saturday night at the Park West. From the opening notes of "Blackland Farmer", the band extended most of the tunes from their self-titled debut into lush jammy landscapes. After exploring "Farmer" a bit, the band settled into a "New...

Words / Photos: Alex WoodLucius has everything it takes to be a hip indie band: matching outfits, two female singers, percussion instruments scattered on stage before a mod, faux-psychedelic backdrop, and plenty of wordless sing-along melodies.Yet despite the carefully planned approach, the bands music proved to be anything but formulaic.Part of the Free Sample...

There's some pretty interesting math that went into creating this map, so definitely check it out in its original context at musicmachinery.com. Using days analysis, the author is trying to identify an artist that is popular in one state, that doesn't get as much love elsewhere.  A few states that I had...

David Byrne and other like-minded artists performed at a benefit for the Content Creators Coalition at New York City's Le Poisson Rouge last night and the nature of the event called for something just a bit different than a typical Byrne performance. He is calling attention to the fact that in the US, unlike many...

Great bands play in great bars and clubs every weekend -- hell, every day -- in Chicago. What has always intrigued me is how you take such a routine occurrence and and turn it into an EVENT.Old Shoe has succeeded in doing just that. Saturday, February 15th at the Volcano Room at Bottom Lounge...