Sep 30, 2016
Photos: Adam Miszewski | Video: Melodie Yvonnemoe. kicked off their fall tour last weekend in Chicago. First playing in the city for 20 years ago, and making an Illinois stop yearly at Summer Camp, the moe. love is running strong here, and both band and audience made sure that was abundantly clear.Adam Miszewski was...
May 12, 2015
RAQ had an affectionate Midwest following in the 2000s, playing some key Chicago gigs during their reign as a buzzy next generation jamband.While Chicagoans were as disappointed as any when the band suddenly called in quits in the latter part of the decade, we haven't had the pleasure of one of their sporadic "reunion"...
May 6, 2015
One of the more intriguing -- and mysterious -- storylines of the Fare Thee Well Chicago Weekend involves an event known as the Acoustic Acid Test. Sometimes referred to as 50th Anniversary of the Acid Test or AT50, it certainly appears that something big is in the works, but what exactly it is takes a...
Apr 30, 2014
"Jambands are dead! Long live jambands!" That's a bit of wordplay that my friends and I have been tossing around since sometime in the early 2000s.There is a roughly 15 year stretch -- from "Touch Of Grey" being released as a single in 1987 to the inaugural Bonnaroo in 2002 -- that represents the last era ofpeak...
Dec 3, 2013
Just when I thought I was on top of every last jamband out there, YouTuber izeoftheworldphotos posted this video of The Werks' Chicago set at Bottom Lounge from the Thanksgiving weekend. Admittedly, the band's name had been on my radar (primarily because of their Werk Out Festival), but although I'm a jamband aficionado, I...