Lil Wayne and more: Summerfest at Henry Maier Festival Park
For a list of upcoming concerts at Summerfest, visit Summerfest.com. [Show [More…]
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Tears For Fears: “The Tipping Point” Tour at Hollywood Casino Amp
Click here for a review of Tears For Fears at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre. For additional information on Tears For Fears, visit TearsForFears.com. Upcoming concert [More…]
Tears For Fears shouts, lets “The Tipping Point” out, guests Garbage as great
In the painstaking 17-year wait between actual albums, Tears For Fears started and stopped recording on several occasions when music business pressures clashed with their [More…]
New Kids On The Block make a tremendous “MixTape” for Fiserv Forum, Allstate ahead
Many might assume New Kids On The Block wouldn’t start a show they were headlining, but that was just one of a multitude of surprises when the now legendary boy band [More…]
Iconic Heart singer Ann Wilson finds “Fierce Bliss,” revs up for Illinois double headers
As the iconic voice of Heart behind the humungous “Magic Man,” “Crazy On You,” “Barracuda,” “What About Love” and “Alone,” plus interpreting anyone she [More…]
Australian activists Midnight Oil scream goodbye, but not before a galvanizing call to “Resist”
So many acts coast exclusively on nostalgia when it’s time to retire from the road, but Midnight Oil isn’t just any band, especially one that would ever rely on past [More…]
A bluesy, rootsy Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Raise The Roof,” plus a little Led Zeppelin
Individually, England’s Robert Plant and Illinois’ own Alison Krauss have kept as busy as ever with recordings and travels, but collectively speaking, it’s been [More…]
Germany’s “robot pop” pioneers Kraftwerk take a “3-D” ride on the “Trans-Europe Express”
As pioneers of the entire electronic music movement dating back to the early 1970s, Kraftwerk’s importance is off the charts and it was laughably ludicrous that it took [More…]
“Beds Are Burning” and Midnight Oil will tour no more after “Resist” comes to the Riviera
For a band that’s always boasted the battle cry, “it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees,” it’s only fitting that Midnight Oil’s farewell to [More…]
Curt Smith reveals how Tinley Park-prepping Tears For Fears reached “The Tipping Point”
Given the constant presence of synth-pop and alternative architects Tears For Fears, either with the ageless singles “Shout,” “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” [More…]