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
3d ago
Whatever age you and other members of the audience are, be prepared (and don’t forget) to dance and remember to bounce and take care of each other on the dance floor ..read more
Newcity Music
1w ago
An LCD Soundsystem concert is like an LCD Soundsystem album, which is really one long LCD Soundsystem song. There’s a universality to everything that this group does that somehow is always still feeling inventive ..read more
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1w ago
Jason and Alison are back together, although they say they haven’t really been apart as long as it seems ..read more
Newcity Music
2w ago
For forty-three years or so, Echo & the Bunnymen have presented as much a feeling as a sound. Fashioned out of the Liverpool punk scene, their psychedelic, chilling, haunting and often propulsive sounds have served a decades-long soundtrack ..read more
Newcity Music
2w ago
While they may have mellowed a tad on their most recent three records, that may be for the best. It’s a fool’s errand to attempt to recreate lightning in a bottle or some such string of clichés. Ride phase two, amazingly enough, has been together longer than their original incarnation, and I for one am looking forward to seeing who else they will leave behind this time ..read more
Newcity Music
3w ago
Heralded as a “rising star in jazz” by none other than Wynton Marsalis, prodigy jazz pianist Christian Sands incorporates musical and cultural diversity into his original compositions in Grammy-nominated “Be Water ..read more
Newcity Music
3w ago
Music of the Baroque closes their 2023/2024 season with “Heaven and Earth,” a cornucopia of compositions that celebrate both earthly delight and spiritual enlightenment and span almost a century’s worth of music ..read more
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1M ago
If music assumed a human form that specialized in breaking skateboards and eating Marlboro sandwiches for breakfast, he would look like Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol ..read more
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1M ago
Some blasts from the past, as well as the future, in this last month before festival mania ..read more
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1M ago
Laufey, (pronounced LaweeVay) has taken the “jazz” world by storm. Whether it is London, Berlin, Sidney or Chicago, her concerts sell out within hours. Laufey defies all stereotypes ..read more