Photos: Adam Miszewski (Adjomi Creative)[Update 7/12] Added full show stream and download below.People may say many things about Alpine Valley, but one thing that that can't be denied is that it is an extremely photogenic place, especially on a beautiful night like Saturday, the first of two nights of Dead & Company.The...

[fblile]By: Aaron Stein (@neddyo) | Photos: Rene Huemer (via @phish_ftr)There are few things greater in the Phish arsenal than the build/release jam. The anticipatory tension that can only be resolved satisfactorily with an epic climax, the moment when all four musicians (and usually the lighting director, too) hit their mark at...

Update 3/17/17 - Yesterday, MyWalworthCounty.com reported that Alpine Valley will not host concerts during the 2017 season.  Jon Reens, Live Nation VP of marketing in the Midwest was quoted several times in the article:"Its an unusual year in that a lot of artists weve traditionally hosted are playing in other buildings or not playing...

By: Alex Wood Paul Simon- Stranger To Stranger [6/3]Paul Simons 13th album may be the singers last. If his claim to retirement is true, Simon is certainly going out with a bang. Though slightly more lighthearted than classics like Graceland, the songwriting on Stranger To Stranger is still of a quality so elevated that...

 I was born in 1973. The Grateful Dead had already been an entity for 8 years, having travelled thousands of literal, and millions of psychic, miles by the time Id breathed my first.By the time I first saw Jerry Garcia he'd already faced down a diabetic coma, written just about all of his most impressive...

This edition of Notes From The Jazz Underground was culled from the June 17th  & June 24th broadcasts.Ever since we launched Tomorrow's Verse, we've been playing catch-up with these NFTJU posts, so let's combine two of them into a huge Jazz Underground DOUBLE SHOT for your listening pleasure and get us up...

Words: Robin Zimmerman | Photos: Howard Greenblatt (imaginepictures.net)Over 500,000 people recently flocked to Grant Park for the 33rd Chicago Blues Festival. Behind the beautiful backdrop of the citys high-profile skyline, fans enjoyed blues from a variety of traditional and contemporary artists.  This years festival ran from June 10th through June 13th....

By: @WeirScrewedIn a busy Chicago live music scene, timing can be everything. Every single night in this city offers a ton of possibilities, but often terrestrial responsibilities can stop weeknight plans in their tracks.  But timing counts, so when Steve Gunn announced a show at Schubas on the eve of two Phish...

By: Aaron Stein (@neddyo)We are in the golden age of guitar players.Thats something Ive been saying/writing/tweeting for several years now, but its as true now as its ever been. For me, the first six months of 2016 has been a perfect distillation of this golden age: a steady flow of albums...

By: Dave Weckstein | Photos: Norman SandsFans of Old Shoe got a special treat earlier this month with the release of a solo album from the lead guitarist of one of Chicago's foremost jam bands. Paul Priest sat with me on a sunny June afternoon to talk about what inspired the third solo...