Organized by the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), the 15th annual Takin’ It the Streets Fest in Chicago is one of the few celebrations where music takes a definitive backseat to social politics. Across the [...]
The pure definition of an acquired taste, CocoRosie, aka sisters Bianca and Sierra Casady, have spent the best part of a decade taking great delight in perplexing audiences with their avant-garde freak-folk sound. Their fifth [...]
Having already collaborated on three separate projects, including an appearance on each other’s respective solo albums, Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson - together known as The Uncluded - make collaborations between bombastic rappers and soft spoken singer-songwriters [...]
Local favorites The Cave Singers ended their 31-date tour with Philly grunge-gaze outfit Bleeding Rainbow at Seattle’s own Showbox at the Market, and the welcome couldn’t have been much warmer. After the openers’ finished their set by unceremoniously [...]
Watching Austinite Shakey Graves (a.k.a. Alejandro Rose-Garcia) saunter up to a mic thumbing his suspenders and proceed to set up his makeshift suitcase-kickdrum rig, the 25-years-young singer-songwriter clearly has crafted a Bert-hobo folk schtick he [...]
Despite being a baby-faced starlet barely old enough to drink Lady Lamb the Beekeeper approaches her songwriting with gutsy professionalism. Her debut album, Ripely Pine, illustrates those abilities in broad strokes, never wavering and full of courage. [...]
Having drawn inspiration from Lynd Ward’s 83-year-old novel, God’s Man, Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) decided that the best way to create fodder for his full-length debut was to fully embrace his growing spirituality. [...]
As one of the openers for Tomorrow Never Knows, it was a concern as to whether or not King Dude would actually have enough time to settle into his set. Just a few months ago the new gen man-in-black headlined a show at Chicago’s [...]
A stiff, unforgiving breeze pierced through Chicago the same night as Chelsea Wolfe‘s set at Schubas Tavern on Chicago’s Northside, a show in conjunction with the annual Tomorrow Never Knows Festival. The wind, much more menacing [...]
After recovering from 2011′s, “migraine“-inducing Going Out in Style, Dropkick Murphys decided to go all in on unrestrained, fun singalongs, as they put it; no over-thinking, no grandiose concepts, just throw-an-arm-around-your-fellow-man stuff. They hit their [...]
