Newcity Music
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Unsurpassed in coverage of music in Chicago, ranging from rock, hip-hop, and dance/electronic to classical and world music, with a special focus on local artists.
Newcity Music
13h ago
Johnny Manchild and The Poor Bastards are a convivial and gruff outfit, producing the sort of licentious piano rock that makes you want to dance badly and break things ..read more
Newcity Music
13h ago
With an upcoming memoir and album, Wynn will jam with the city and audience as sort of a triple threat—it will be a night of storytelling and songs—with a bit of reading and Q&A, facilitated by Chicago’s own indie-guitar hero Rick Rizzo of Eleventh Dream Day ..read more
Newcity Music
1w ago
Valli and the Four Seasons are still performing hits such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Dawn (Go Away),” “Rag Doll,” “Working My Way Back to You,” “Who Loves You,” “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You ..read more
Newcity Music
1w ago
The fact that the songs here work universally, and sound timeless even now, means the exercise of revisiting “Something To Write Home About” is just that—an opportunity to pen a letter to the past, delivered to wherever that home might be now ..read more
Newcity Music
2w ago
Air performs "Moon Safari" at the Auditorium, plus four other spectacles worth leaving home for ..read more
Newcity Music
2w ago
There’s a through-line in the Fontaines D.C. oeuvre. Their songs return time and again to the question of home: where we find it, why we leave it, who embodies it, and how it retains such a powerful psychic hold on us. Like James Joyce writing about Dublin from Paris, yet speaking to the whole world ..read more
Newcity Music
3w ago
Heyl got inspired to create Chicago’s newest festival during the pandemic. He came up with the idea of a two-day festival to bring niche, experimental artists to more listener ears ..read more
Newcity Music
3w ago
Now Mardi Gras and Carnival, with their drums and feathers and sequined dancers, are coming to Chicago—not in February—but in the picture-perfect weather of late September ..read more
Newcity Music
1M ago
“I’m not trying to start a fight, bro/But Pivot is the best rap crew in Chicago.” This is how I imagine the next full-length album from Pivot Gang begins ..read more
Newcity Music
1M ago
Dame Jane Glover brings Handel's "Water Music" to the Chicago River and speaks about Music of the Baroque's season starter—"The Creation" by Haydn ..read more