Chicago singer-songwriter Chris Connelly regularly releases an album of new material on his November birthday. For his latest record, Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music and Mystique of Nico, he hit that annual deadline with the digital version on Bandcamp, but the physical edition (a deluxe double CD) didn’t ship till early December. […]
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When he’s not backing big-time rockers, Chicago guitarist Steve Gerlach surfs the stratosphere with Outronaut
Outronaut bandleader and guitarist Steve Gerlach probably reaches more ears as a sideman than he does with his own outfit. For nearly a decade he’s played in Sons of the Silent Age, Matt Walker and Chris Connelly’s nine-member David Bowie tribute group; that gig got Gerlach work on Connelly’s solo material. In a 2021 interview […]
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David Bowie tribute project Sons of the Silent Age play two of the artist’s most iconic albums
This dedicated, lushly meticulous David Bowie tribute band debuted at Metro in 2013 as a benefit for a cancer charity. They’ve carried that tradition forward (albeit with different charities) into each subsequent performance at the venue, as well as expanding their scope into other fund-raising events and special shows—including a few full-album sets and a […]
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Twista celebrates (more than) 25 years in hip-hop
Twista celebrates (more than) 25 years in hip-hop, Well Yells drop a new tape of creepy, crawling postgoth, and more.
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Sons of the Silent Age honored David Bowie’s life and death by playing his Berlin trilogy
Saturday at Metro, actor Michael Shannon joined Sons of the Silent Age for yet another demonstration of the lasting impact of Bowie’s work.
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Sons of the Silent Age revive the music of David Bowie’s Berlin trilogy
After David Bowie decamped from Los Angeles to the then-divided city of Berlin in the mid-70s, he recorded Low, “Heroes,” and Lodger. The three albums, known as the Berlin Trilogy, contain some of the most challenging music of his career, and he paid the price for it; to this day, none of them has gone […]
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Sons of the Silent Age drummer Matt Walker talks Bowie, Ava Cherry, and playing for a cause
Local David Bowie cover band Sons of the Silent Age play a concert at Metro benefitting cancer research at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 9/23: Bowie Day, Joe Swanberg, and Whirr
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, September 23
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Gossip Wolf: Sons of the Silent Age do Bowie at a Pablove benefit
Sons of the Silent Age do Bowie for pediatric cancer research, and more