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.

Update: He's done it again! Check out the poster / setlists from the NYC run.Phil Lesh indicated that he'd try something interesting for his fall tour with Phil & Friends. He promised to weave certain themes, including a focus on great albums, into both his sets as well as those of the opener American Jubilee....

When the Black Crowes do a tour, they DO A TOUR. The weekend after Halloween marked the fourth and fifth time they've played in Chicago in 2013, offering a slightly different look at each stop. It was more intimate at the pair of shows in April at the Vic, and a straight up party during the...

Looks like his first theme of this run is The Band's Music From Big Pink. Setlist & Photos via philzone.orgPhil Lesh & Friends Capitol Theatre Portchester, NY 10/31/13 Set 1: Big Railroad Blues^ Caledonia Mission^ Walkin Blues^ The Weight^* Brown Eyed Women^ And It Stoned Me^ Deal Set 2 Who do you love (AO) > Not Fade Away (all) We...

Phish broke from the costume part of their costume album tradition on Halloween 2013. Rather than dress up as another band for their second set, they debuted 12 new songs under the banner of Wingsuit, "an album from the future."Much more information can be found in the program distributed to attendees at Halloweens since 1996, a cheeky...

Photos: Adam McCall PhotographyIt's been almost fifteen years since I first saw Yonder Mountain String Band perform at their first ever Chicago area show, huddled around a single microphone at Abbey Pub for no more than about two dozen people. Billing themselves at the time as "Colorado's Nakedest Bluegrass", this intriguing (yet meaningless) tagline, along...

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....

Silver Wrapper brought East Coast prog-funk-fusion masters Kung Fu to town for a hump day showcase at Schubas. An enthusiastic Chicago crowd greeted the visiting team and were treated to an hour and forty-five minutes of thick grooves and instrumental mastery, including a cover of "Drop Dead Legs" (yup... a Van Halen deep cut). Here's...

Words & Photos by @WeirScrewedFrank Zappa is one of the most polarizing musicians in the history of rock music. It's not uncommon to see, depending on what part of his songbook a critic is familiar with, to find points of view ranging from dismissive to reverential. It's true that tunes like "Valley Girl" or "Bobby Brown"...