All that aside, you probably have a little bit of party monster in you still, and here from the banks of Lake Michigan in beautiful and not actually a warzone Chicago comes a Halloween playlist put together with care by several of our staff members.

We're a little over a month away from the Black Friday edition of the vinyl community's most divisive day of the year: Record Store Day.Introduced only two years after the first Record Store Day (which is usually in April), the Black Friday variant is much smaller and attempts to cash in on the shopping season with quiet honestly a very niche lineup of releases. So before you head out next month to pick up some releases, here are my thoughts on the good, the bad, and the comp

Welcome to Blind Spot, where we take time to dig into something big in the cultural zeitgeist we might have missed. A retrospective that’s also a first time perspective. What’s old to you, is new to someone else and in the spirit of that I present to you my Cake Retrospective.

It’s the 34th year of Chicago’s very own Lollapalooza, a four day music festival that hits every summer with some of the biggest names in...

The music world (and world at large) remembers Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away today at the age of 76.

It's 10pm and something doesn't smell right but I can't put my finger on what. I take a big, deep breath through my nose, REALLY...

It's always a treat to see bands that ushered me into a completely new world of music at a young age. Both Cursive and Bright Eyes released some of their most beloved albums during my high school years, undeniably establishing themselves as bands that would become staples not just in my life but for a huge chunk of my generation.

It feels a little crazy to say that I've been listening to Basia Bulat  for over half my life, but after doing the quick math it turns...

One of the last times I came out of mosh pit retirement was for The Subhumans when they played Cobra Lounge in what I guess was 2023, but...

On first glance the pairing of Panda Bear and Toro y Moi seems a bit dissonant, but they fed off their energy excellently

About every two years or so we get something special from Soccer Mommy, the fantastic pseudonym of Sophia Regina Allison.

Last year, Lauren Mayberry stepped out from Chvrches to release her debut solo album Vicious Creatures.

Tim Heidecker has too many talents to list from his storied career and he's added musical talents to his repertoire

Chicago’s very own hometown math rock heroes Maps & Atlases played the Metro on Saturday the 18th. They played as part of the Tomorrow...

Every year around the holidays, local indie folk hero Andrew Bird hosts his Gezelligheid concert series out of the Fourth Presbyterian...

This Saturday Marc Rebillet finished a three day series of shows for his We Outside World Tour over at Thalia Hall. Playing three nights...

A few days before Halloween, The Go! Team stopped by Lincoln Hall to celebrate 20 (!) years of their debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike

Thalia Hall was originally designed and built in 1892 as an opera venue, but in 2013, was repurposed for medium crowds and the bands that...

Let's start this post off with a HUGE mistake I made and a little rant about the FOMO, hype, reseller culture that has a strangle hold on...

I've been a fan of Sleater Kinney for a very long time. Long enough that my heart was broken after The Woods (probably my favorite album...