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Sterling Hayes
Posted inMusic

Seven more doors into Chicago in Tune

by Hannah Edgar, Joshua Minsoo Kim, Jessi Roti, Sandra Treviño and Reader staff August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Chicago in Tune is a difficult festival to describe, since it includes basically all live music happening in the city from August 19 till September 19. How that looks to you depends heavily on which shows are on your radar. The Reader has provided you with a number of assists: a show calendar spanning the […]

Posted inMusic

Goons be Gone is the most fleshed-out and lush No Age release yet

by Luca Cimarusti May 29, 2020August 18, 2021

No Age have always been great at making very little sound like a whole lot. Since they began blending influences from hardcore punk and noise rock with indie-rock catchiness 15 years ago, the Los Angeles-based duo have been on the cutting edge of cool—they’ve always seemed a step ahead of their peers in the guitar-rock […]

Posted inMusic

Beach Bunny jump straight to the championship round

by Jack Riedy February 11, 2020August 18, 2021

Lili Trifilio and her indie-punk band have climbed from Chicago’s DIY scene to stages most musicians never reach, and their first studio album, Honeymoon, comes out just this week.

Posted inMusic

Countrified rockers Possum River emerged from the breakup of the Cryan’ Shames

by Steve Krakow October 8, 2019August 18, 2021

They didn’t enjoy the success of the garage-pop band that gave them two members, but after 48 years one of their songs turned up on Stranger Things.

Posted inMusic

Why haven’t the Isley Brothers conquered the rock market?

by James Porter July 16, 2019August 18, 2021

The legendary R&B band can rock hard too, but they’ve never crossed over like Sly Stone or Prince.

Posted inMusic

Photos from Ruido Fest’s dazzling opening day

by Philip Montoro June 25, 2019August 18, 2021

Last weekend this ambitious festival brought together several generations and even more genres of Latinx music.

Posted inMusic

Chicago punks Absolutely Not release a morbid, hilarious video for the brand-new ‘Bottom of the Pit’

by Luca Cimarusti January 24, 2019August 18, 2021

“Bottom of the Pit” is the debut single from Absolutely Not’s first album as a four-piece, the forthcoming Problematic—they’ve added Chris Sutter from Meat Wave on second guitar.

Posted inMusic

If you don’t know Megon McDonough, blame the maleness of Chicago’s 70s folk scene

by Steve Krakow September 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Folk singer Megon McDonough made her 1972 debut LP while still in high school and in 1990 joined Christine Lavin’s Four Bitchin’ Babes.

Posted inMusic

Stories from Chicago’s favorite rock ’n’ roll clusterfuck

by Leor Galil January 3, 2018August 18, 2021

Underground rock festival Ian’s Party is run mostly by volunteers, which helps it feel like a community instead of a branding exercise.

Posted inMusic

Let’s put it in writing: Melkbelly are Chicago’s most exciting rock band

by Kevin Warwick October 11, 2017August 18, 2021

On the new Nothing Valley, Pilsen four-piece Melkbelly have found a tense balance between delicate melody and frantic noise.

Posted inMusic

Decades after Stumpwater put out their only single, the Aurora folk-pop group ride again

by Steve Krakow October 10, 2017August 18, 2021

Dan Berg, Dan Haligas, and Joe Gloor released two songs in 1975 and split up in ’80, but now they’re back to writing, recording, and gigging.

Posted inMusic

Seventies wizard rockers Bad Axe made their posthumous recorded debut in 2014

by Steve Krakow June 5, 2017August 18, 2021

Bad Axe got a regular gig thanks to Rahm Emanuel’s mom and a belated vinyl release thanks to Permanent Records.

Posted inBlogs

Cook County doubles down: Rap, rock, country, and DJ sets are not ‘fine arts,’ not exempt from amusement tax

by Lee V. Gaines August 22, 2016August 18, 2021

At Cook County’s latest hearing on its small-venue amusement-tax exemption, the government dealt several businesses a blow that could eventually cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece.

Posted inBlogs

Maximum Pelt and Tall Pat Records support Comfort Station with a stacked show at the Logan Square monument

by Leor Galil August 9, 2016August 18, 2021

White Mystery, Flesh Panthers, Vamos, Dumpster Babies, and others help raise money for Logan Square arts hub Comfort Station with an outdoor show next Saturday.

Posted inBlogs

A Prince and Bowie Tribute, The SpongeBob Musical, and more things to do this week in Chicago

by Marc Daalder June 27, 2016August 18, 2021

Isaac Oliver, Cash Levy, and more happenings from June 27-30

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