May 31, 2013
Regrettably, Phish has never made it Down Under. But, when I saw this awesome visual spectacle -- lighting up one of Australia's most iconic structures, The Sydney Opera House -- I thought I'd give it the soundtrack it deserves. Imagine what Chris Kuroda could do with this backdrop. Wilco has played inside this building earlier...
May 30, 2013
It's Bob Dylan's world, we're only living in it. With each passing year, I'm thrilled to see the tons of innovative tributes that pop up around his birthday. Here's a feature that belongs with the best.The folks at Slate have mined his Songbook for references to places and plotted each on on a map...
May 30, 2013
Another Summer Camp is in the books. Despite the many many festivals hosted in these parts during the summer, and and its sometimes schizophrenicbookings. it's still the closest think we have to Chicago to a major jamband festival. We'll even forgive them for taking place in the late spring. In the week since the festival...
May 30, 2013
Since the Hawks forced a Game 7, the crew had to break down the stage / production for allow Wednesday night's game at UC. Since they won that one in overtime, they'll need to do it again after Friday night's show. We'll be reporting live from that gig on our twitter feed.The StreamDownload Entire Show (minus...
May 15, 2013
If you walked in to the Abbey Pub for Terrapin Flyer's Wednesday night jam on May 8th, you may have noticed something strange after the first couple of songs. If you stuck around for the second set, and were well-versed in Grateful Dead history, you surely would have put the pieces together and realized that...
May 14, 2013
After hosting for over a decade at Vasa Park in Elgin, Mr. Blotto shocked fans by moving their 2012 festival to the Illinois-Iowas border. The Iron Horse Campground in Sabula, IA was the scene for the band's most recent full album cover encore, The Allman Brothers Band's Eat A Peach, as well as other cover and...
May 13, 2013
We had a ball at last year's Whippersnap Festival, a fine mid-summer destination which married great regional talent with an emphasis on improv with some top notch national headliners. The festival is back in 2013, though moving closer to Chicago, at HideAway Lakes campground in Yorkville, IL. The lineup was released over the weekend on their...
May 13, 2013
This is the second edition of the The Barns These Are Your Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams check out our entire My Jams series.1. There are some interesting trends in this installment, including lots of different takes on the singer-songwriter and moving that...
May 13, 2013
Esteemed members of our 5 Bands That Should Be Bigger List, Snarky Puppy, played a pair of shows at Reggie's over the weekend. We so regret not being able to swing either show, but luckily, some of the magic of Saturday's shows was captured on video and uploaded to youtube.The first contains some advanced audience...
May 13, 2013
UPDATE (7/18/13):It's almost here! Here is aFAQ for everything you need to know about the venue. And aguide for those who want to get the most out of a visit to the city.We've been tracking the evolution at Northerly Island since before it was even a project. Now, in addition to the cool artists...