It's been way too long since I posted some new charts and graphs around here. Hoping to rectify that soon, but this post will do for now.Umphrey's McGee and STS9 kicked off their joint end-of-summer tour yesterday in Louisville and unveiled a pretty slick tour poster that looks like a 3-D Bar Chart. Very...

Words and Photos: Captain Deep-TrackThe City of Chicago was alive with the sounds of music this past weekend as the annual Lollapalooza festivities rolled into town. Tens of thousands of die hard music fans crowded Grant Park on Chicago's beautiful lakeside, as dozens of today's hottest musicians rocked several stages from midday to sunset and...

Volume Two of The Barn'sNotes From The Jazz Underground feature showcases the show broadcast on August 9th -- the 18th anniversary of Jerry Garcia's passing and the ceremonial close of Jerry Week festivities. Host Paul Abella wears his Deadhead credentials on his sleeve and this show was his tribute to Jerry's legacy as a jazz...

Some good links for you:The five characteristics of a Chicago Music Snob. Lincoln Hall is pretty dope.The Curse Of Northerly Island continues. Backstreet Boys fans outraged at Live Nation's early curfew. Seriously.Whoa! Big mixup when Terrapin Flyer took a night off from their Wednesday night Abbey Pub residency and an Insane Clown...

In my recent essay reviewing the Chicago stop on the AmericanaramA tour, one of the things I was most impressed with was how Wilco is becoming more like the Dead. No, they're not much in the way of improvisational jamming, but they are beginning to craft setlists like them. It seems the band is pulling...

Derek Trucks with a guitar right now is like Miguel Cabrera with a bat. He's doing impossibly great things as a matter of course. His solos are fluid, dynamic and packed with a mind boggling intensity.And while I believe that Derek was clearly the superstar last Wednesday night on Northerly Island, make no mistake......

Welcome to the first installment of Notes From The Jazz Underground on The Barn Presents. Mr. Paul Abella wears many hats: percussionist, bandleader, music director at WDCB 90.9 FM in Glen Ellyn, and also host of a weekly show, the titular Notes From The Jazz Underground, a two hour Friday night radio program that occupies that...

Bravo.It's the performance of a song that had its own Twitter Account within hours of its final note. I had my first listen as soon as I woke up this morning and the second listen was via this video.Without further ado, the 7/31/13 Lake Tahoe Tweezer...PRO-TIP: Use Full Screen mode. Woo!!

On the site of a former Latin music club, Chicago's newest venue -- Concord Music Hall -- will open up on Milwaukee Avenue tonight with a performance by Adam Ant.Mr. Ant doesn't get us too excited, but some of the initially announced bookings sure do. And given that the enterprise is being booked by...

I saw this soundcheck listed on phish.net setlist page and immediately did a double take. I have to say that upon listening, it's as fun as it reads. Much appreciation and many thanks to the heads-up person that captured and shared this. It made it pretty far around the Internet as a mediafire download...