By Sarah on July 9, 2011
Chicago Folk & Roots Festival, Saturday and Sunday The Old Town School of Music returns to curate its 14th annual Folk & Roots Festival in Lincoln Square’s Welles Park (Montrose & Lincoln).  In addition to the Main Stage, there are also areas for dane instruction, kids’ music and activities, world music, group jam sessions, and […]
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By Sarah on June 7, 2010
This Week in Great Music: 6/7 – 6/13
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By Sarah on May 17, 2010
Why hello there, quiet week.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged 22-20s, alberta cross, alexisonfire, bear in heaven, blah blah blah, chicago clarinet conglomerate, congress theater, dan bern, dexateens, diane birch, evanston space, five for fighting, futurebirds, geese, heather lynne horton, helen money, hideout, hollows, imogen heap, jc brooks & the uptown sound, jessica lea mayfield, jim dewan, justin roth, lasers and fast and shit, lincoln hall, martyrs', mckensie toma, metric, metro, mike mangione and the union, mono, musikanto, park west, patrick watson, paul oakenfold, paul van dyk, peg simone, robbie fulks, schubas, sharon jones and the dap kings, susan voelz, suzy bogguss, the aragon, the heavy, the riviera, the twilight sad, the velvet lounge, the vic, them crooked vultures, todd kessler and the new folk, voxtrot, willy porter
By Sarah on March 17, 2010
A note to the city of Chicago: I don’t care what kind of ridiculous budget cuts you have to make in the future. Please never, ever let go of Michael Orlove. This guy has done a whole lot to energize downtown Chicago with music of all genres. And best of all, it’s free.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged bomba estereo, budos band, caribou, disappears, great lake swimmers, hollows, hum, huntsville, kid sister, konono no. 1, millennium park, naomi shelton, nels cline, on fillmore, she & him, the besnard lakes, the books, the ponys, the thermals, tony allen, via tania, volcano!
By Sarah on March 8, 2010
The entire world is gearing up for SXSW. I’m gearing up for reading tons of great blog posts about SXSW.
Posted in Upcoming Events | Tagged beat kitchen, ben sollee, blane fonda, bottom lounge, califone, copeland, daniel martin moore, efterklang, empty bottle, evanston space, gaelic storm, harris theater, hideout, hockey, hollows, house of blues, howie day, jc brooks & the uptown sound, jeff tweedy, lincoln hall, love of everything, metro, mickey, mittens on strings, muse, pattern is movement, plastic crimewave sound, schubas, silversun pickups, sonos, ted leo and the pharmacists, the constellations, the hood internet, the life during wartime djs, the magnetic fields, the vic, the waco brothers, tom schraeder, tyler jon tyler, united center, vetiver, via audio, via tania, volcano!, we were promised jetpacks, zola jesus
By Sarah on January 15, 2010
It’s slow at work, there’s nothing going on on the internet… I don’t know what to do with myself today. Of course, dominating the news (and rightly so) are the disaster relief efforts that are ongoing (and which will be going on for a long while) in Haiti. Google has a great list of reputable […]
Posted in News & Links | Tagged beat kitchen, chirp, dawn landes, empty bottle, hollows, my brightest diamond, my morning jacket, rabble rabble, rufus wainwright, the mountain goats, the xx, yolks