Suite Dreams: A Preview of Tedeschi Trucks Band at RiverEdge Park
Each of the four albums comprising “I Am the Moon”—released sequentially over the course of the summer—has its own distinctive character.
Blue On Blue : An Ode to Pat Dailey, the Barroom Troubadour of the Great Lakes
Dailey was celebrated around the Great Lakes region for his comedy music performances that took place during the summertime.
The Perfect Cure: Your Recommended Dosage of Cheekface
Cheekface will provide the perfect cure, or at least alleviate the symptoms of today’s human frailty.
Music Top 5: July 2022
These unmissable events are heating up an already sizzling summer.
Band Leaders: A Review of New Albums by Chris Greene Quartet and Bowmanville
It’s interesting to compare the versions of “Caravan.” Chris Greene Quartet both wallows in and comments on the exoticism; Bowmanville goes all-out eastern.
Range Rovers: A Review of New Albums by Dan Dougherty and Matt Gold
Two local singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalists drop sophomore albums—to very different, but equally dazzling, effects.
Sibling Revivalry: The Aluminum Group Heads Back to the Lounge
The tunes are breezy, melodic and infectious, and the lyrics startlingly wry and witty—with occasional undercurrents of darkness.
Music Top 5: June 2022
The first must-see music events of Summer are here.
From Biddy’s to Billions: How a Pakistani Immigrant Turned Lessons Learned Owning a Once-Iconic Chicago Music Club into a Real Estate Empire
Anyone who wandered into Biddy’s between the mid-1970s and 1992 has their own unique memories. In recent months I wondered what happened to Andy Lakha—a young immigrant from Pakistan who owned this blues-and-rock club with an Irish name in predominantly Jewish Rogers Park. Lakha’s story is an important celebration of a New America.
Wednesday’s Child: A Preview of Orville Peck at Riviera Theatre
Peck taps into and amplifies the campiness that has long powdered the nose and dyed the hair of country-western music.
