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Author Archives: Kirsten Lambert

a young person with long hair sitting in a brick architectural window-like opening feature at the Chicago Botanic Garden; the subject is staring down at a DSLR camera with their face obscured by hair
Posted inCity Life

Summer in the city: youth edition

by Kirsten Lambert July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

Ah, summer vacation: the time of year when Chicago’s youth are free from the confines of school—but aren’t allowed to be in Millennium Park after six at night on weekends […]

The musician Aimee Mann, seated and wearing a mint green dress
Posted inMusic

Aimee Mann poignantly confronts mental illness on Queens of the Summer Hotel

by Kirsten Lambert November 2, 2021November 24, 2021

Aimee Mann pairs her exquisitely crafted lyrics with unforgettable melodies, but her tunes often aren’t what you’d call light romps. The singer-songwriter started her musical career in the 80s as […]

Garbage
Posted inMusic

Garbage indicts social injustices on No Gods No Masters

by Kirsten Lambert June 17, 2021August 18, 2021

When Garbage broke out with their self-titled debut album in 1995, their alluring but abrasive sound—dark power-pop melodies topped by Shirley Manson’s alternately growled and whispered vocals—enticed listeners like sweet […]

Michael Martin
Posted inArts & Culture

Remembering Michael Martin

by Kirsten Lambert May 5, 2021August 18, 2021

From Chicago to New Orleans, the performer, playwright, director, producer, and raconteur created deep connections.

Posted inMusic

Tank & the Bangas embrace connection and the wacky side of isolation on Friend Goals

by Kirsten Lambert November 25, 2020August 18, 2021

When New Orleans band Tank & the Bangas invited their friends and family to help them cover Hal David and Burt Bacharach’s pop classic “What the World Needs Now Is […]

Posted inMusic

Fantastic Negrito merges rootsy sounds on his new Have You Lost Your Mind?

by Kirsten Lambert August 26, 2020August 18, 2021

Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Xavier Dphrepaulezz, better known as Fantastic Negrito, takes us on a trip through his consciousness on his latest album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking […]

Posted inMusic

Twenty One Pilots get conceptual on Trench

by Kirsten Lambert December 5, 2019August 18, 2021

Beyoncé has her Beyhive and Taylor Swift fans call themselves Swifties, but no current pop fandom rocks ski masks or face paint quite like the Skeleton Clique—the devotees of Twenty […]

Posted inMusic

Day of the Dowd 2 aims to stock the shelves at Pilsen food pantry

by Kirsten Lambert November 1, 2019August 18, 2021

When Chicago drummer Gerald Dowd released his first full-length album, Home Now, in 2014, he threw a daylong release party with the tongue-in-cheek name Day of the Dowd. Over the […]

Posted inMusic

Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard puts her soul into Jaime

by Kirsten Lambert September 12, 2019August 18, 2021

The thought of publicly airing painful events from your past may make you cringe, but soul baring can also be cathartic or even necessary. Brittany Howard, the guitarist and front […]

Posted inMusic

UK singer-songwriter Barns Courtney explores existential themes on 404

by Kirsten Lambert August 22, 2019August 18, 2021

After Dave Grohl broke his leg early in the Foo Fighters’ 2015 tour, he performed the rest of the dates with his leg in a cast, sitting on a throne […]

Posted inMusic

Genre-crossing musician Gary Clark Jr. shows his versatility on This Land

by Kirsten Lambert July 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Good luck slapping a label on Gary Clark Jr. The Austin native won a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance in 2013, but his music cuts across genres, including blues, […]

Posted inMusic

With All Blues, Peter Frampton honors classics amid his own loss

by Kirsten Lambert July 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Peter Frampton’s got a right to sing the blues. The versatile guitarist recently revealed he has a degenerative muscle disorder called inclusion body myositis, which means his fingers might eventually […]

Posted inMusic

‘Diamond’ Diana Ross marks a half century of ruling the stage

by Kirsten Lambert June 28, 2019August 18, 2021

This year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival seemed beset by bad juju: the Rolling Stones begged off due to Mick Jagger’s heart surgery, and Bob Seger bowed out, blaming […]

Posted inMusic

Rock and baseball greats team up for the annual Hot Stove Cool Music benefit

by Kirsten Lambert May 31, 2019August 18, 2021

You never know who might show up at Hot Stove Cool Music Chicago, an annual benefit concert that brings the city’s baseball and music communities together to support nonprofits helping […]

Posted inMusic

Sebadoh cranks out timeless yet timely tunes on Act Surprised

by Kirsten Lambert May 17, 2019August 18, 2021

Listening to some of the tracks on the new Act Surprised (Dangerbird/Fire), Sebadoh’s ninth studio album, you could almost imagine yourself back in 1992. But though the band’s signature lo-fi […]

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