Reclusive noise rockers My Bloody Valentine capped an eventful holiday weekend with their show at the Aragon on Sunday night. A nice eight song playlist found it's way up on YouTube in the days that followed.Tribune Review - Greg KotBrooklyn Vegan ReviewMy Bloody ValentineAragon Ballroom, Chicago, ILNovember 3rd, 2013SometimesI Only SaidWhen You SleepNew YouYou...

The Cadillac Palace seems to be the happening place in town for intimate acoustic performances from unexpected artists. Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell treated fans to a career spanning set, which included a few choice covers. Wyatt was on hand to capture a nice video playlist which was embedded below.

If you're reading this site, and especially this post, it's likely that you're no casual music fan. It's time consuming, but not so bad being a hard-core -- we can obsess a little, we explore and poke and look for the next great thing... and sometimes we discover gold. Yes, every now and then, this...

What seems like an unlikely pairing is actually winning some acclaim on a tour this fall. British blues master Jeff Beck and Brian Wilson (with former Beach boy compadres Al Jardine and David Marks) have superstar resumes if not superstar status or "buzz", but together they make for an entertaining evening of contrasts and collaborations....

It was fifteen years ago today that Phish entered the final stretch of the unfortunately short "Neil Young Phase" of their career, which lasted a scant fifteen days, from 10/3/98's Farm Aid Benefit outside of Chicago, to playing a pair of sets at Neil's annual Bridge School Benefit at Shoreline Ampitheater in advance of their...

Australian Beatles cover band The Beatnix recorded this for an Aussie television show, The Money or The Gun, that featured a different band covering "Stairway To Heaven" each week. It's a brilliant juxtaposition of "Stairway To Heaven" lyrics over the Beatles early 60's jangle rock like "Please Please Me" and "I Want To Hold Your...

I was pretty disappointed that no significant audio or video came out of Jeff's Durty Nellie's gig in August, especially since I spent some time talking with him in advance of it. However, was pleased to find YouTuber MyTallTripod, who covers Indiana bluegrass and newgrass extensively, captured his full show at The Bluebird in Bloomington....

We do our best to bring you the best audio and video from Chicago shows of interest by great bands. Here's one that nearly slipped under our radar, not because we don't love Greenksy Bluegrass (and believe me, if there was a word stronger than love, it would definitely apply here), but because it wasn't...

This was a nice surprise with my morning coffee. YouTuber izeoftheworldphotos has uploaded the full show video from one this weekend's Chicago Soulgrass shows at Abbey Pub. This band featured half of Umphrey's McGee jamming with Bill on sax and included plenty of fusion-y goodness, some Umphrey's tunes and superb playing all around.These videos...

If Afrobeat and Led Zeppelin are the chocolate and peanut butter of music, Afro Zep is the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of cover bands. As luck would have it, they're perfect for Chicago festival season as well, and the organizers of Bash On Wabash figured that out.Our friend Wyatt was on hand to capture...