Chicago – The Saturday evening of Thanksgiving weekend, together PANGEA, White Reaper, and the Flesh Panthers packed an all-ages sold-out show at Subterranean with excited fans from all over the Midwest, as well as friends from the Chicago music scene, including Twin Peaks’ Clay Frankel and The Orwells’ Henry Brinner and Mario Cuomo. Though more impressively, they had fans rocking
Los Angeles – There’s no way the five members of Foals do not feel on top of the world right now. First of all, their last album, Holy Fire, produced an out-of-left-field modern rock radio hit in “Inhaler”. Then the band spent the summer headlining ever-larger music festivals, and they just released what could truly
Chicago – Lights and co-headliners The Mowgli’s performed for a packed House of Blues, having sold out the downtown venue. While fans, young and old, excitedly waited for the show to begin, I found myself questioning if I should be there, knowing just blocks away Chicago youth were protesting the murder cover-up of Laquan McDonald, who
London – Somehow, a strong whiff of marijuana doesn’t feature too highly in the list of things you expect to encounter at a gig by teen-friendly indie band The Vaccines. Sure, you could locate other shows in London’s 2015 diary where the combination might feel more jarring – Catfish & The Bottlemen, S Club 7,
San Francisco – It seems like everyone has been getting sick lately. I’ve been ill on-and-off for the past few weeks, the professors at my school have been canceling classes left and right, even my cat seems a little under the weather. But a cold couldn’t hold back Trevor Powers and his project Youth Lagoon,
Chicago - Wednesday evening kicked off the start of AudioDamn!’s U.S. tour in collaboration with Communion Music. The trio put on one hell of a performance at Schubas, leaving the Chicago audience in a bit of shock, with plenty of chins on the floor. What they witnessed was an insanely talented band set for fame and ready to take
Chicago – And just like that, the JR JR tour is gone. See what I did there? JR JR (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.) played their final show of the JR JR American Fall Tour, in support of the Detroit duo’s third album JR JR. Fans from all over the Midwest, but especially Michigan, filled the ground floor
Los Angeles – Every time Elmhurst, IL-based garage rock band The Orwells take the stage, they leave a trail of dropped jaws and sweat-soaked shirts. And it this point, those jaws are finally not hanging due to the band members’ eye-popping youthfulness. In a move typically reserved for savant-level athletes or academics, the five band
Los Angeles – Historic Filipinotown’s Bootleg Theater has consistently drawn some big names in underground music to this quiet neighborhood wedged between the 101 and Downtown LA. Despite boasting these strong bills, the venue remains one of the city’s best-kept secrets for music fans looking to watch well-known bands perform in an intimate setting. With
San Francisco – “I’m kind of obsessed with Kurt Cobain,” laughed Aleksandra Denton, the gentle, cooing presence behind Shura, the newest Manchester export that virtually takes the physical form of the future of music. Shura graced the stage of San Francisco’s Independent to share with the enthusiastic audience a blast of tracks from her short