MUSIC

Chicago rush hour traffic can be intimidating, to say the least. This seems doubly true when your van, which reeks of body odor and food leftovers from two weeks of tour, insists on turning itself off whenever traffic slows to between five and ten miles an hour. This...

The Arcade Fire The Suburbs The Suburbs is an absolutely wonderful counterpart to the Arcade Fire’s past two releases. The wait from Neon Bible has only allowed the band to come off as even more tried and true to their methods. While The Suburbs exists primarily in a...

Gallery5 doesn't open new art exhibits during the summer months, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't stop in on them during your First Fridays wanders! It's a BIG FAT FREE music event, deejayed by Cherry Bomb's White Whine. Performances by Lord of the Yum Yum (video...

Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here (Editions Mego) Emeralds play compositions that, rather than being divided into verses and choruses, start from small, quiet ideas and build up from there. The result is somewhere between the post-rock of Tortoise and the bizarre...

Bounce is back!!! Well we have been on the road Dj'ing parties us and down the east coast from Transformus to PEX Festival its been a amazing journey. Along the way many of our close Dj friends dropped amazing sets - and I am happy to bring you one of those killer...

Ghastly City Sleep is a difficult band to pin down. Any listeners who had expected a continuation of members’ previous bands - including such turn-of-the-millenium hardcore and metal bands as Majority Rule, Pg. 99, Kilara, and City of Caterpillar - would have been in...