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...