Andy Argyrakis, Author at Chicago Concert Reviews

“Walk On” with former Boston and Orion The Hunter singer Fran Cosmo, Voices at Arcada

When Boston was at a crossroads in the early 1990s after ruling rock and roll throughout the prior two decades, Fran Cosmo, who worked with various members in the offshoot [More…]

On an Eagles break, “Guitar Slinger” Vince Gill gives Chicago Theatre a country marathon

From his breakthrough in the Pure Prairie League, to annual Christmas concerts alongside wife/fellow artist Amy Grant and accompanying the Eagles since the passing of Glenn [More…]

Voices Of Rock Radio’s John Elefante about to “Play The Game Tonight,” take Arcada to Kansas

Getting an opportunity to see former Kansas front man John Elefante sing the group’s numerous anthems or ballads would easily be enough to fill any given night, but when [More…]

Hard Rock Live stocks up on the laughs of cross-generational stage and screen star George Lopez

No stranger to the stage, movies, television or recording comedy albums for over four decades, George Lopez is a cross-generational star with a multi-cultural audience, who [More…]

Beyoncé makes more history in breathtaking opening of Soldier Field’s “Cowboy Carter” stretch

Never have Beyoncé’s instantly iconic “Texas Hold ‘Em” lines, “there’s a tornado in my city/ hit the basement, that s*** ain’t pretty,” been more fitting [More…]

“O Sun O Moon,” veteran Canadian troubadour Bruce Cockburn enlightens Old Town

Artistry and activism have always gone hand in hand for Bruce Cockburn, who for 55 straight years, has retained a rarely rivaled streak of productivity, while articulately [More…]

Industrial institution Ministry “Work For Love” throughout Riviera’s “Squirrely Years” sell out

As Chicago’s industrial rock institution Ministry sets sights on a final studio project slated for 2026, the Al Jourgensen-led band is going back to the very beginning and [More…]

The Vic turns the “Key” on four solo decades of Alison Moyet, Yaz’s iconic synth-pop “Situation”

Either co-leading Yaz throughout the early part of the 1980s or spending exactly four decades on her own, Alison Moyet’s inimitable voice and hypnotic presence is as [More…]

Fresh off her “Love & Conflict” reinvention, it was raining Martha Wash at the City Winery

She’s affectionately referred to as “The Queen Of Clubland” thanks to co-leading Two Tons O’ Fun/The Weather Girls and landing on a humongous list of house [More…]

Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison burns down the North Shore house with “Stop Making Sense”

Often considered “the greatest concert movie of all time,” Talking Heads’ Jonathan Demme-directed “Stop Making Sense” is now 40-years-old, but thanks to a 4K [More…]

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