Another Chicago related post as Pink Floyd Week resumes after a day off. We step into the time machine and emerge in 1972 at Chicago’s impressive Auditorium Theater.  This “liberated bootleg” has circulated in many forms for many years and for my money, this is the best sounding copy out there.  Working out the material [...]

Jerry Week (aka The Eight Day Week aka The Days Between), the period between the celebration of Jerry Garcia’s birthday (8/1)  and the contemplation and memorialization of the anniversary of his death (8/9), hit the blogosphere this year with a ton of activity, a flurry of sharing of music and memories.  Since the 1st of [...]

It’s Blues Fest Friday here in Chicago.  Here’s a Retro Jamming feature that will take you back aways.  We’re going way back to Blues Fest 1985 to hang with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Just a reminder of the top shelf talent that will be on display this weekend and every June on the [...]

Big Red returns to Chicago on Sunday with the Trey Anastasio Band.  Although he brought this very same band to the Riv last year, the last time he played here in the acoustic / electric format that he’s touring with this winter was actually the first time he branched out from Phish and did a [...]

Every Tuesday in January, The Barn will offer another feature about the incredible music and career of Talking Heads. In addition to a healthy legacy of groundbreaking studio recordings, Talking Heads were a band that, at least in the early part of their career, offered audiences contrasting interpretations of their catalog on stage.  Fortunately, these [...]

Retro Jamming is a new feature in our Audiovisual section.  While many of the shows we offer focus on local streams and downloads of recent vintage, these shows reach back to pick some choice recordings from classic Chicago area shows of old. Medeski, Martin & Wood is a band that doesn’t make it around these [...]