Contributed by: Chris Murtaugh The stage was small and the mushrooms were large at Evanston’s SPACE on St. Patrick’s Day.  My first time at the suburban venue, I wondered if the prop mushrooms were always on stage at this intimate facility, or if they were a Todd Snider thing. Minutes before he came out for [...]

My buddy Rich went to JB’s Hannah’s Buddies Benefit at the House Of Blues Orlando tonight and sent me a nice report with some pretty detailed notes…. JB was all about telling stories about each song; pretty cool. He is very relaxed and having fun. I tried adding some of what JB was saying prior [...]

[Update 5/13 - some photos from construction at the site are available here] [Update 5/1 - more artists renderings from inside the ampitheater via Charter One Pavilion facebook included below (final two images)] For a Chicagoan and die hard Phish fan, this winter has proved to be quite a roller coaster. After weeks of will [...]

Contributed by @WeirScrewed The songs of some artists are snug like a warm blanket. Todd Snider is a prime example. He has worn the role of  traveling stoner troubadour quite well over the years and the packed house at SPACE on Saturday night attested to this. Judging by how much of the crowd was singing [...]

Night two is in the books.  Audience requests, dedications and covers all made their way back into the song list on Thursday for Jeff’s set at the Vic. There’s a six song video playlist below… the version of Casino Queen and the hilarious Q&A beforehand are must hears. Jeff Tweedy March 14, 2013 Vic Theater, [...]

Jeff Tweedy returned to the Vic for the first of two mid-week solo shows.  According to reports, this was an extremely “loose” show and from the setlist below (sourced from viachicago.com), you can tell he mixed it up with interesting covers, “spoken word” versions of tunes and other interesting touches (dedication to Pope Francis!). We’ll [...]

Doug Hagman and his Grateful Dead project Terrapin Flyer find themselves near the center of a Chicagoland Deadhead community that spills over into the greater music scene.  You can always expect new and exciting faces performing at their weekly Wednesday Dead  Jam at The Abbey Pub (we’ll try to update lineups as they become available [...]

Glorious! Add three nights of Phish to an extended Chicago weekend (July 19-21) that already includes the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Pearl Jam at Wrigley Field (Friday), and Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake at Soldier Field (Monday). Some details that are known are included below, but the venue layout and capacity are just a few items [...]

Australian psych rockers returned to Chicago for second time since November, and for the second time I’ve had a ticket but couldn’t attend (this time thanks to the air travel gods).  Here’s the setlist for a show which was described to me as “Fackin’ awesome, psychedelic to the extreme”. Tame Impala Vic Theatre March 6th, [...]

Update 3/12: Yes they wil! Check out our post and full summer tour dates here Yay! Fake tour date season is in full swing.  It can be maddening but, face it, the rumored dates that pop up in these tense days prior to an announcement do often bear a resemblance to how itineraries actually shape [...]