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JRAD Delivers at Miracle in Mundelein
One of a kind cannabis-friendly concert rocks. Ask the fans on any Grateful Dead forum who their favorite Dead cover band is. The responses will include Dark Star Orchestra, Uncle John’s Band, Better Off Dead, and the one name that is always mentioned–Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. JRAD hails from Brooklyn, New York and was started…
Concert Review: King Gizzard at the Salt Shed – Chicago
A three-night psyche-rock extravaganza on the Chicago riverside venue. After finishing a monstrous North America tour last fall, King Gizzard announced a new, conceptual tour, dubbed The Residency Tour, in which they would play several days in single locations without repeating songs between sets. Shows were set for The Caverns in Tennessee, Red Rocks in…
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Concert Review – Tennis at the Riviera Chicago
The venerable old performance venue did not suddenly start to host a sporting event. The band Tennis, a Colorado-based indie-pop duo performed a well-received show on Friday night in support of their new album Pollen. Alaina Moore, whose high-pitched vocals reminded me of Bjork or Kate Bush told the enthusiastic crowd that the last time…
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Concert Review – The Beths at Thalia Hall
Eric Leventhal also contributed to this story. New Zealand quartet The Beths played two sold-out shows at Chicago’s Thalia Hall this weekend. The second show was added due to overwhelming demand. We arrived at the venue shortly before doors opened, and the line was around the block. The Beths are comprised of Elizabeth Stokes on…
John Fogerty Interview
courtesy: JohnFogerty.com The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman is doing what a a number of popular musicians have been doing lately, that is headline a residency in one of the many performance venues in Las Vegas. That was what led to an opportunity to interview Fogerty. The offer was too good to pass up, and…
40,000 Headmen Fifth Anniversary Show
Five years ago I saw these guys as part of a double bill with Terrapin Flyer, one of the Chicago area Grateful Dead cover bands. The various musicians who make up 40,000 Headmen are part of numerous Chicago area jam bands. Packy Lundholm – Keys, Guitar and Vocals; Scott Tipping – Guitar, Organ and Vocals;…
Eleven of the Best Rock Concerts I Have Attended
I have been fortunate to go to a lot of rock concerts in my lifetime. Considering what tickets cost today, those old ducats from the seventies and eighties turned out to be pretty good deals. Most of those ticket prices were under twenty bucks. The late seventies concerts were all under ten dollars. Compared to…
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Concert Review: Steve Hackett 2019 Tour at the Copernicus Center
Two shows, two nights, and they could have been more different. Three Dog Night at the Genesee Theatre was a memorable greatest hits show, while Steve Hackett and his 2019 Genesis Revisited tour was a journey into the wonderful depths of the prog rock stratosphere. You wouldn’t know most of the songs played unless you…
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