Night three is in the books and the all out assault on the catalog continues, with minimal repeats so far over the run.The Total Pros horn section, veterans of previous Riviera residencies, also make their first appearance for a handful of songs and the entire first encore. The crowd also was treated to alternate...

Prince made a surprise appearance at W Hollywood Hotels jazz night. Initially merely a spectator, Prince reportedly made his way to the stage for a lengthy guitar solo in the middle of the Beatles With A Little Help From My Friends" during the set by Ryan Edgar and Nikki Leonti-Edgar.Watch video of the performance (...

St. Vincent performed at Chicago Theater as WXRTs Big Holiday Concert Tuesday night.With an extremely theatric stage presence, Annie Clark and her band have easily become amongst the biggest live acts around, not to mention the release of St. Vincents impeccable self-titled album released earlier this year.The bands set featured every song from...

My Morning Jacket is currently working on two new studio albums, according to Rolling Stone. Their follow up to 2011s Circuital will be released in April 2015, with another full-length out in 2016.I just had tons of songs this time, Jim James told the magazine. We didnt even get to all of them.The interview with...

Though a setlist still hasnt surfaced from either of Thee Oh Sees recent dates at The Empty Bottle, four videos from the second night provide a glimpse of the set for those without tickets to the sold-out shows.Lasting six songs and over thirty minutes, the videos show the psychedelic trio blasting through songs with...

Old Shoe and Chicago Farmer hooked up for a number of songs together at their Black Wednesday gig at Schuba's. The collaboration included a number of Farmer tunes as well as a take on the Stones' "Loving Cup", for which a great multi-cam video has surfaced courtesy of The Fan Farm.Wednesday, November 26th -...

Chicago rapper Vic Mensa has been on the rise since the release of his excellent debut mixtape Innanetape last year.His recent performance at The Metro found him joined by fellow Chicagoan Chance The Rapper for Suitcase. The two artists are members of hip-hop collective SAVE MONEY and are both known for collaborations.Vic Mensas...

There's been lots of hay made with the various Halloween shows of 2014, but one that's been somewhat overlooked was performed by one of our favorite bands.It was a holiday of road-warrior heroics for Greensky Bluegrass -- supporting String Cheese Incident at their Hulaween Festival, then hopping a plane for a pair of Las Vegas...

Huge congratulations go to Kung Fu, who sold out this Friday night gig at Martyrs' -- sort of a coming out party in Chicago for this hard jamming fusion group.Adam Huston was on hand to capture the full set from a camera clamped by the soundboard and man does it look and sound great....

Whatchoo Talkin' 'Bout Wills Tower Jam?Words:@312mrg| Photos: Daniel Peterson courtesy of musicfestivalcentral.comIt takes two elevator combinations to get to the 99th floor of the Willis Tower. Somewhere around floor 40 of my first, I struck up conversation with a guy from Philly who had just arrived in Chicago on Saturday and was just...