David Cook carves out fresh alt-pop/rock angle at The Abbey
Four years may be an eternity to wait before releasing a new project these days, but David Cook was far from idle between 2011’s “This Loud Morning” and 2015’s [More…]
Alternative Rock
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds at Farm Aid 30
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Imagine Dragons at Farm Aid 30
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Foo Fighters rock Wrigley with classic alternative undercard
Now two decades into a consistently compelling career that’s endured beyond countless flavors of the day, the Foo Fighters could very well be considered the ultimate [More…]
Better Than Ezra on ’90s, now, Taylor Swift’s cover and Under The Sun Tour
Twenty years after “Good” topped the rock charts, Better Than Ezra is back to recording and hitting the road, all while keeping a fairly high profile thanks to several [More…]
U2 trades excess for introspection during tech-savvy journey
Coming off the most massive and highest grossing concert tour in history, U2 could’ve either repeated the formula verbatim or thrown the entire rule book out the window. [More…]
My Morning Jacket mix it up during no repeat residency
Throughout the past decade-and-a-half, My Morning Jacket has confidently claimed a progressive indie rock niche that falls somewhere in between the spacey sounds of The [More…]
“Once” makes a masterful leap from indie film to Broadway tour
What began as an independent Irish movie made with a pretty basic budget has since exploded into the Academy Award winning critical favorite “Once” turned Grammy and [More…]
“Dear John Hughes” celebrates integral ’80s scenes and songs, in spite of some rough spots
Any child of the 1980s is surely infatuated with the many movies of Chicago’s very own John Hughes, and with this year marking the 30th anniversary of the “Brat [More…]
Bush at the Riviera Theatre
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